Grant Program

Art Matters considers applications by invitation only. Through our current program, Art Matters provides 7,500 USD fellowships to individual artists and collective teams working in contemporary art and performance. Priority is given to artists working with social issues and experimenting with form.

Our funds can be used for any and all aspects of artistic practice – from early research and development of ideas, to travel costs, to production and presentation expenses, to day-to-day material or space needs.

Viewing names beginning with: “p”

Name	Year	Description	Keywords
Black Salt Collective	2016	Support for the ongoing performance and archiving work of this Black, Brown and Indigenous women artist collective.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting / Drawing, Performance
Free Black Dirt	2017	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance
High Performance Magazine	1987	Organizational support.
Highways Performance Space	1989	Organizational support.
Jump-Start Performance Co.	1988	Organizational support.
Victor Pacheco	2017	Fellowship.	Installation, Research
Trevor Paglen	2008	Research and travel support towards the creation of a new body of work entitled Hasenfus, involving a1986 CIA plane crash in Nicaragua, which led to the exposure of the “Iran-Contra Scandal”.	Travel
Maia Cruz Palileo	2019	Fellowship.	Painting/Drawing
Maia Cruz Palileo	2019	Relevant Links:Eve Tuck, Suspending Damagehttps://pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_web/ES-114A/Week%204/TuckHEdR79-3.pdfGood Ancestor Ep 049: Dr. Rocío Rosales Meza on Spiritual and Decolonial Healinghttp://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast/ep049-dr-rocio-rosales-meza
Marc Pally	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Esther Parada	1994	Fellowship.
Nicky Paraiso	1987	Fellowship.
Jennifer Parker	1992	Fellowship.
Suzan-Lori Parks	1990	Fellowship.
John Parris	1990	Fellowship.
Phil Patiris	1997	Fellowship.
Izhar Patkin	1986	Fellowship.	Installation, Painting/Drawing
Vesna Pavlović	2012	Support for ongoing work.
Malcolm Peacock	2021	Fellowship.
Alix Pearlstein	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Linda Peckham	1987	Fellowship.
Cory Peeke	1992	Fellowship.
Claire Pentecost	1996 , 1995 , 1990 , 1989	Fellowship.
Sheila Pepe	2011	Support for Common Sense Athens, an iteration of the artist’s ongoing installation and performance involving a large-scale crocheted drawing, which audience participants dismantle, unravel, and repurpose.
José Álvaro Perdices	2010	Support for travel to the Ahmed Zabana National Museum in Oran, Algeria for a photo and video project Zabana Inshallah, documenting the dismantling of certain colonial collections there.	Film & Video, Photography, Travel
Gilles Peress	1990	Fellowship.
Performing Statistics	2020	Relief grant for mutual-aid support.	Film & Video, Installation, Painting/Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary, Multimedia
Sondra Perry	2016	Support for video work involving the NCAA’s use of the artist’s twin brother’s likeness.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance
Gilda Pervin	1988	Fellowship.
Daniel Peterman	1990 , 1987	Fellowship.
Mary Ann Peters	2013	Researching the Lebanese diaspora at the Arab World Institute in Paris and the Centro Libanés in Mexico City, towards the artist’s ongoing painting, drawing, and print work.	Painting/Drawing, Travel
Antonio Petracca	1993	Fellowship.
Renee Petropoulos	1994	Fellowship.
Dawit Lejam Petros	2007	Support for a return to his native country of Eritrea to retrace the route that his family followed when fleeing the war in the 1970s, constructing temporary traditional housing structures along the way and staging a 27 mile walk to the sea. The artist will also research professional mourners from the Bilen and Tigrinya tribes for two upcoming exhibitions.	Travel
Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty	2020	Fellowship.	Performance
Zeke Peña	2019	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Painting/Drawing
Zeke Peña	2019	Fellowship.
Paul Pfeiffer	1994	Fellowship.
Paul Pfeiffer	2012	Support for the film Vitruvian Figure (2014), documenting the production process of the artist’s warehouse-sized architectural model of the Philippine Arena mega-church currently under construction in the outskirts of Manila.	Film & Video, Travel
Kelvin Phillips	1990	Fellowship.
Cyrille Phipps	1992	Fellowship.
Sasha Phyars-Burgess	2021	Fellowship.
Steven Pico	1990	Fellowship.
Jack Pierson	1992	Fellowship.
Irene Pijoan	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Laurie Pike	1993	Fellowship.
Omar Pimienta	2017	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Installation, Performance, Photography, Research, Travel, Printmaking
Adrian Piper	1987	Fellowship.
Nguyen-Duy Pipo	1996 , 1995	Fellowship.
Lari Pittman	1986	Fellowship.
Dixon Place	1988	Fellowship.
Richard Plant	1992	Fellowship.
Wang Po	1994	Fellowship.
Sherry Pocknett	2022	Fellowship.
Patti Podesta	1990 , 1986	Fellowship.
Rona Pondick	1988	Fellowship.
Carl Pope	1992	Fellowship.
William Pope	1992 , 1990	Fellowship.
Carl Pope	2015	Support for ongoing work.	Installation, Research, Travel
Gala Porras Kim	2019	Relevant Links:The British Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Book, Dan Hicks, 2020https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Brutish_Museums.html?id=hMoHzgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_descriptionThe Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome, Patrick R. Crowley, 2019https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Phantom_Image.html?id=MMG9DwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description
Gala Porras-Kim	2019	Fellowship.	Painting/Drawing, Research, Sculpture
Claire Porter	1990	Fellowship.
Deirdre Portnoy	2007	Support to create programs for PhotoStory, a participatory photography project thus far conducted in six countries, now taking place in South Africa and Mali.	Photography
Endi Poskovic	1994	Fellowship.
Marty Pottenger	1988	Fellowship.
Alyson Pou	1993 , 1987	Fellowship.
Sunita Prasad	2013	Support for ongoing work.	Performance
Sreshta Rit Premnath	2011	Support for travel to Bangalore, India for photo/video documentation of the architecture of M. S. Ramaiah, migrant laborers, and the utopian imagery of development.	Film & Video, Photography, Travel
Mark Prent	1993 , 1988 , 1987	Fellowship.
Richard Press	1993	Fellowship.
Nancy Pressley	1992	Fellowship.
Charles Preston	2018	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Performance, Research
Charles A. Preston	2020	Fellowship.	Film & Video, Research, Transdisciplinary/Interdisciplinary
Travis Preston, et al.	1989	Fellowship.
Thomas Price	1993	Fellowship.
James Pridgeon	1988 , 1985	Fellowship.
Creation Production Co.	1987 , 1985	Fellowship.
Illusion Productions	1992	Fellowship.
Robert Pruitt	2009	Support for travel to Mali to research the intersection of Hip Hop and traditional Dogon culture in Bamako and the annual festival on the Niger in Ségou.	Travel
Ernesto Pujol	2008	Support for INGRAINED—working with the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico to develop a new site-specific installation that examines undocumented histories of people and land in Puerto Rico.

Grant Program

Viewing names beginning with: “p”

Black Salt Collective

2016

Free Black Dirt

2017

High Performance Magazine

1987

Highways Performance Space

1989

Jump-Start Performance Co.

1988

Victor Pacheco

2017

Trevor Paglen

2008

Maia Cruz Palileo

2019

Maia Cruz Palileo

2019

Marc Pally

1996

1995

Esther Parada

1994

Nicky Paraiso

1987

Jennifer Parker

1992

Suzan-Lori Parks

1990

John Parris

1990

Phil Patiris

1997

Izhar Patkin

1986

Vesna Pavlović

2012

Malcolm Peacock

2021

Alix Pearlstein

1996

1995

Linda Peckham

1987

Cory Peeke

1992

Claire Pentecost

1996

1995

1990

1989

Sheila Pepe

2011

José Álvaro Perdices

2010

Gilles Peress

1990

Performing Statistics

2020

Sondra Perry

2016

Gilda Pervin

1988

Daniel Peterman

1990

1987

Mary Ann Peters

2013

Antonio Petracca

1993

Renee Petropoulos

1994

Dawit Lejam Petros

2007

Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty

2020

Zeke Peña

2019