Call for Nominations: Artadia Awards (United States)

Each year, an open-call application is made available in each of the seven active partner cities. Supporting artists equitably is a critical part of the Artadia Award process: they consider the unique populations of each community and are proud to reflect the country’s diversity with an Awardee pool that is over 50 percent female and over 40 percent persons of color.

In addition to financial support, Awardees can participate in the Artadia Network to receive structured opportunities for valuable new connections and resource sharing as well as receive a dedicated webpage on Artadia’s online Artist Registry. Connections fostered by Artadia have facilitated major steps in Awardees’ careers, such as inclusion in prominent exhibitions (e.g. six Awardees are featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, and seven Awardees in Prospect.6 New Orleans).

Funding Information

• Following the studio visits, the second round jury will designate three Awardees to receive unrestricted funds of $15,000, as well as access to the Artadia Network. Awardees are determined based on the sole discretion of the jury. Marciano Artadia Awardee receives unrestricted funds of $25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be a contemporary visual artist, making artwork for presentation in a contemporary art context: museum, galleries, arts non-profit, the public art realm, etc. Artadia does not fund filmmakers making films for distribution in cinematic venues, or those working in choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context.
• Applicants must be currently living and working within the city’s eligible counties and resided there for at least two years prior to the application deadline.
• Not currently be enrolled in an art-related degree program, nor be planning to attend an art-related degree program in the coming year.
• Not be related to Artadia staff or directors in any way.
• Have never received an award from Artadia or from The Art Council (Artadia’s former name) for or above the sum of $10,000. Please note that former finalists are eligible to apply.
• If you are enrolled in a long-term artist residency program, please note you are only eligible to apply in the Award city where you permanently reside. Additionally, you must make yourself available to meet with jurors for a 45 minute virtual studio visit should you be chosen as a Finalist.
• Unless applying as a collaborative, you must be the sole conceptual author of the artwork submitted in the application; if there are collaborators that share authorship of submitted work they must be clearly identified and credited.

Review Criteria

• A jury of three curators assembled by Artadia, including one locally based curator, reviews all applications and determines a short list of six Finalists.

Application Requirements

• Within your Image Details, please use practical terms to describe medium. Elaborate specific materials rather than listing “mixed media.”
• Please be straightforward and clear, the more specific you are, the more a juror will be able to understand about your work.
• Work Details: Title, year, medium, dimensions for images and/or video submitted
• C.V.: An artist’s resume containing exhibition history and bibliography
• Artist Statement: 200 words or less. Describe your work (medium, process, form, content, subject, themes, etc.)
• Artadia does not accept physical application materials. Please do not send publications, promotional material or any other supporting documentation.
• Collaborations:
  • Collaboratives are welcome to apply within a single application.
  • One person from the collaborative should be listed as the contact person for that application.
  • In the address field, please enter “c/o contact name” before street address.
  • If you are both a member of a collective and an individual artist, you may only apply once per awards cycle.
  • All members of the collaborative must agree to apply for the Artadia Award and approve the use of all application materials.
  • All members of a collaborative team must reside in the corresponding city and meet all other eligibility requirements.
• Media Files:
  • Image Files:
    • You must submit eight images if submitting images as part of your application
    • All images must be formatted as .jpg files
    • File names may be numbered in order from 01 to 08 followed by _ (underscore), and the title of the work
    • The maximum file size for each image is 2 MB
    • Images should be in RGB colorspace (sRGB preferred)
    • File names must include the “.jpg” extension
• Time-Based Media Files:
  • Video submissions are limited to video art, animation, and performance documentation
  • If submitting a combination of images and video: submissions can only be up to 3 minutes total
  • If only submitting video or time-based work (no images): submit up to 6 minutes of material. We accept only direct uploads of video work, no links
  • Dance or choreography presented outside of a contemporary art context are not eligible
  • Feature-length commercial films and documentaries, music videos, and commercial music projects are not eligible
  • Please do not send documentation of sculpture or other works as video. If time-based media is not your primary medium, do not use this option
  • If you choose to upload multiple videos within one file rather than one singular project, please provide timecode markers in your Image Details for each unique clip. For instance, “Video A” begins at 00:00, “Video B” begins at 02:30

For more information, visit Artadia.