Nameless Was a Girl, a grant-making group that gives funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed 15 artists who will obtain $50,000 grants this yr.
These artists embody Candida Alvarez, a painter who was not too long ago the topic of an El Museo del Barrio retrospective in New York; Park McArthur, an artist who earlier this yr staged an formidable survey that passed off concurrently at museums in Vienna and Mönchengladbach, Germany; and Lola Flash, a photographer whose work is now on view on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork.
Additionally on this yr’s class are photographer Kunié Sugiura, who had a San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork present within the spring, and sculptor Sonya Kelliher-Combs, whose work is at the moment included in “An Indigenous Current,” a present survey of Indigenous modern artwork on the Institute of Modern Artwork Boston.
“Annually jogs my memory why this work issues,” Nameless Was a Girl founder Susan Unterberg informed ARTnews in an e-mail. “In a interval when each creative freedom and ladies’s rights are more and more weak, I’m extra impressed than ever by this yr’s recipients. Their imaginative and prescient, rigor, and originality remind us what’s at stake and gasoline our mission to face behind artists pursuing their work with conviction and creativeness.”
Unterberg based the Nameless Was a Girl in 1996, naming the group so as a result of she initially hid the truth that she was its benefactor. She solely revealed herself as its creator in 2018. By that point, the group had supplied funding to numerous artists, from Joan Jonas to Simone Leigh, throughout the years.
The group is thought primarily for its $50,000 grants, which go to artists over the age of 40. However lately, Nameless Was a Girl has additionally expanded its initiatives to incorporate funding for environmentally minded tasks.
The total record of the 2025 Nameless Was a Girl Award recipients follows beneath.
Candida Alvarez
Ambreen Butt
JoAnne Carson
Cecelia Condit
Lola Flash
Sonya Kelliher-Combs
Michelle Marcuse
Park McArthur
Nicole Miller
Narcissister
Dhara Rivera
Linda Stark
Kunié Sugiura
Hong-An Truong
Paula Wilson
