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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named its 2018 fellows. Some 175 scholars, artists, and writers working in a variety of disciplines were selected; notable recipients in the arts-related categories include Branden W. Joseph, Hank Willis Thomas, Janet Biggs, Teju Cole, Peter Burr, Amy Feldman, and Anthony Hernandez.
The foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications for the fellowship each year. Since its founding in 1925 to memorialize John Simon Guggenheim’s son, who died several years earlier, the foundation has granted over $350 million to more than 18,000 individuals who demonstrate excellence in their field.
The full list of 2018 fellows can be found on the foundation’s website. The creative arts winners are listed below.
Choreography
- Nora Chipaumire
- John Heginbotham
- Heather Kravas
- Aparna Ramaswamy
- Ranee Ramaswamy
- Jen Rosenblit
- Kota Yamazaki
Drama & Performance Art
- Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
- Annie Dorsen
- Robin Frohardt
- Dohee Lee
- David Levine
Fiction
- Rachel Cusk
- Andrew Sean Greer
- Lauren Groff
- Jennifer Haigh
- Min Jin Lee
- China Miéville
- Deb Olin Unferth
Film-Video
- Gina Petra Abatemarco
- Marsia Alexander-Clarke
- Peter Burr
- William D. Caballero
- Alexandra Cuesta
- Carol Dysinger
- Eliza Hittman
- Shevaun Mizrahi
- Nicolás Pereda
- Lee Anne Schmitt
- Parvez Sharma
- Nandini Sikand
- Brett Story
Fine Arts
- Dennis Adams
- Mequitta Ahuja
- Dave Hullfish Bailey
- Janet Biggs
- Phillip Chen
- Julia Christensen
- Esperanza Cortés
- Craig Drennen
- Amy Feldman
- Richard Fleischner
- Kate Gilmore
- Todd Gray
- Hiroyuki Hamada
- Dave Hardy
- Stephen Hayes
- Lies Kraal
- Elizabeth LaPensée
- Chris Larson
- Robert L. Lobe
- Nicole Miller
- Amy Pleasant
- Annabeth Rosen
- Margo Sawyer
- David Schutter
- Charles Yuen
General Nonfiction
- Nicholson Baker
- Teju Cole
- Robert Finch
- Roxane Gay
- Jane Kamensky
- John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Lily Tuck
Music Composition
- Eugene Birman
- Du Yun
- Michael Harrison
- Edward Jacobs
- Tonia Ko
- Eric Lyon
- Farangis Nurulla
- Yoshiaki Onishi
- Mika Pelo
- Felipe Salles
- Carl Schimmel
- Anna Webber
Photography
- Tsar Fedorsky
- Lukas Felzmann
- Anthony Hernandez
- David Maisel
- Pradip Malde
- Rania Matar
- Nicholas Muellner
- Kristine Potter
- Meghann Riepenhoff
- Nadia Sablin
- Hank Willis Thomas
- Ian van Coller
Poetry
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Amy Gerstler
- Tyehimba Jess
- Ilya Kaminsky
- Joan Naviyuk Kane
- Dunya Mikhail
- Srikanth Reddy
- Anya Krugovoy Silver
- Monica Youn