Fifteen US-based artists will each receive $60,000 over the five-year span of the program, which also provides learning, peer engagement, and network-building opportunities.
NEW YORK, NY – August 13, 2025 – The Joan Mitchell Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellowships: 15 US-based artists working in the evolving fields of painting and sculpture. The artists, who hail from 11 states and range in age from 30 to 74, will each receive $60,000 in direct funding, distributed over five years alongside professional development, peer engagement, and network-building programs. This year’s Fellows announcement coincides with the Foundation’s year-long celebration of Joan Mitchell’s centennial year and a major exhibition, on view for the month of August, marking 10 years of the Joan Mitchell Center residency program in New Orleans. The Fellowship awards represent a $900,000 monetary commitment to the 15 artists, augmented by more than $400,000 in non-monetary services offered over the five years of the program.
The 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellows are:
Gerald Clarke, Anza, CA
Cathy Della Lucia, Boston, MA
Bob Dilworth, Providence, RI
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Lincoln, NE
Sahar Khoury, Oakland, CA
Sammy Seung-min Lee, Denver, CO
Brenda Mallory, Portland, OR
Suchitra Mattai, Los Angeles, CA
Troy Montes Michie, Los Angeles, CA
Sara Rahbar, Great Neck, NY
Eric-Paul Riege, Gallup, NM
Juvana Soliven, Honolulu, HI
Linda Rotua Sormin, New York, NY
Lan Tuazon, Chicago, IL
Anthony White, Seattle, WA
Gerald Clarke (b. 1967, lives in Anza, CA), an enrolled citizen of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, draws on his community’s everyday experience to create conceptual artworks that exist within a spectrum of Indigenous expression that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary.
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