These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation named 223 recipients for its 2026 Guggenheim Fellowships, including 76 artists and other visual-arts practitioners such as Sheida Soleimani, Leeza Meksin, American Artist, Kenneth Tam, Alina Tenser, and Sonya Clark. The cohort spans 55 disciplines and was selected from about 5,000 applicants; the foundation said applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities rose 50% this year, with total applicants up by nearly 2,000 from 2024. Recipients come from 10 countries and 33 US states, with ages ranging from 28 to 76, and most are affiliated with a college or university. The foundation does not disclose a standard award amount, noting that grant sizes vary by year’s budget, and it highlighted past fellowship-supported works including Robert Frank’s 1958 book The Americans and Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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