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The Soros Arts Fellowship supports innovative mid-career artists and cultural producers advancing social change around the world. The fellowship provides artists with the resources to develop a large-scale project on their own terms in their own local contexts.
The Soros Arts Fellowship is a nomination-based award and does not currently receive unsolicited applications.
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Alex Rivera
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Amanda Abi Khalil
2019Amanda Abi Khalil will organize a curatorial project on the theme of hospitality and the complex histories of migrations—voluntary and forced—between the Arab world and Brazil. -
Bouchra Khalili
2019Bouchra Khalili will work on a video installation that takes as its starting point a forgotten part of the struggle for equal rights for immigrants in France. -
Cristina Ibarra
2019Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera will produce and tour a theatrical version of their film The Infiltrators, a documentary thriller that tells the true story of a group of young immigrants who intentionally got themselves detained. -
Firelei Báez
2019Firelei Báez will create a series of paintings, sculptures, and architectural objects engaging with the story of Marie Louise Coidavid, the first Queen of Haiti, and her exile. -
Guadalupe Maravilla
2019Guadalupe Maravilla will organize a series of healing workshops, mental health resources, and performance classes for young Central American and Latinx immigrants in New York to help heal traumas of migration. -
Kaneza Schaal
2019Kaneza Schaal will stage a theatre production in Kigali, Rwanda, centered on stories of internal displacement and organize performance workshops throughout the country for youth living in housing for refugees and internally displaced people. -
Nontsikelelo Mutiti
2019Nontsikelelo Mutiti will explore African hair braiding practices as subject and as a metaphor for the braiding together of multiple streams of content through field work, archiving, design, and publishing. -
Regina José Galindo
2019Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, Guatemala) will collaborate with deportees in Guatemala to create platforms that tell their stories, provide mental health resources, and create avenues for social and economic empowerment in the country. -
Tania El Khoury
2019Tania El Khoury will create a site-specific interactive installation along Lebanon’s northern border with Syria (Akkar) that explores the militarization of natural borders, relationships across rivers, and the daily practices of border resistance. -
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
2019Tinashe Mushakavanhu will explore African hair braiding practices as subject and as a metaphor for the braiding together of multiple streams of content through field work, archiving, design, and publishing.
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Bilia Bah
2023Bilia Bah will produce a collaborative and participatory theater production to launch public dialogue around climate change, urbanization, and the impacts of unregulated water drilling across Conakry, Guinea. -
Cannupa Hanska Luger
2023Cannupa Hanska Luger will publish a work centering Indigenous knowledge and survival practices related to land, climate, and the environment—and asserting how Indigenous technologies are critical to sustaining humanity worldwide. -
Carolina Caycedo
2023Carolina Caycedo will bring together ancestral and embodied approaches to the natural world as alternatives to the global climate crisis. -
Chemi Rosado-Seijo
2023Chemi Rosado-Seijo will work with residents of El Cerro, Puerto Rico to transform the community into a “Green Barriada,” a self-sustaining and environmentally resilient community. -
Dalton Paula
2023Dalton Paula will organize an arts and education project that supports Afro-Brazilian artists through artistic residencies and training. -
Deborah Jack
2023Deborah Jack will link cultural memory preservation in St. Maarten with climate justice through an archive of oral histories. -
Fehras Publishing Practices: Kenan Darwich
2023As part of Fehras Publishing Practices, Kenan Darwich will create a multi-format project that aims to reclaim forgotten collective memory in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region. -
Fehras Publishing Practices: Sami Rustom
2023As part of Fehras Publishing Practices, Sami Rustom will create a multiformat project that aims to reclaim forgotten collective memory in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region. -
Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl
2023Ixchel Tonāntzin Xōchitlzihuatl will organize a multi-tribal art and land rematriation project in the Ecuadorian Amazon. -
Jordan Weber
2023Jordan Weber will organize a regenerative ecologies project in East Detroit that will revitalize a square acre of forest. -
Martha Atienza
2023Martha Atienza will organize collaborative artworks and actions with fisherfolk and farmer communities on Bantayan Island and its group of islets in the Philippines. -
Molemo Moiloa
2023Molemo Moiloa will produce a series of art and community engaged works under the framework of the “house of ungovernability,” an informal center for sharing and co-developing tactics for sustaining in times of uncertainty. -
Mónica de Miranda
2023Mónica de Miranda will work with African migrant communities in Lisbon to document stories of migration and land ecologies, bringing together artists, activists, and ecologists to reimagine more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable public spaces. -
Nida Sinnokrot
2023Nida Sinnokrot will produce a series of collaborative and site-specific sculptures that uplift indigenous practices and reclaim cultural memory. -
Omar Berrada
2023Omar Berrada will examine anti-Black racism in North Africa and propose poetic re-articulations of Moroccan identity, reclaiming marginalized narratives and invoking histories of pan-African solidarity. -
Rijin Sahakian
2023Through images and text, Rijin Sahakian will trace the legacies of war-making on the physical, cultural, and psychic landscapes between Iraq and America, centering the Iraqi experience. -
Sari Dennise
2023Sari Dennise will organize a collective, multidisciplinary and archival project with communities in the Basin of the Valley of Mexico. -
Yto Barrada
2023Yto Barrada will expand botanical literacy to disseminate radical ways of making and thinking with a collaborative, multidisciplinary, transgenerational, and educational textile project in Tangier, Morocco.