Paul Chan, Tavares Strachan, and Amanda Williams are among the artists awarded 2022 MacArthur 'Genius' Grants:
Paul Chan, Tavares Strachan, and Amanda Williams Are Among the Artists Awarded 2022 MacArthur ‘Genius’ GrantsFrom left: Paul Chan, Sky Hopinka, Tavares Strachan, Amanda Williams, and Martha Gonzalez. Photos courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Artists Paul Chan, Sky Hopinka, Tavares Strachan, Martha Gonzalez, and Amanda Williams are among the 25 fellows announced today as the newest awardees of the so-called MacArthur “Genius” grant. One of the country’s most prestigious awards, the 2022 cohort is receiving a no-strings-attached grant of $800,000 each, to be awarded over the course of five years, an increase from the previous stipend of $625,000.
In addition to the visual artists, the class also features an astrodynamacist, a plant ecologist, a mathematician, a health justice lawyer, and a historical demographer, a group of individuals that MacArthur director Marlies Carruth described as “excavators uncovering what has been overlooked, undervalued, or poorly understood.”
, a conceptual and visual artist whose work has drawn inspiration from the September 11 attacks, Samuel Beckett’s, numerous philosophical treatises, and beyond, will have a solo exhibition, titled “Breathers” at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in November, which will then travel to the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.. Photo: Jurate Veceraite. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.
Multi-disciplinary artist Tavares Strachan has traveled to the Arctic and worked in collaboration with scientists from MIT, the Yuri Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, and established the Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center. From these studies, Strachan has created installations of neon and collage that are both intimate and universal, rooted in local communities and the cosmos.