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The Rema Hort Mann Fund Emerging Artists Fellowship provides direct financial support to emerging New York City–based visual artists.

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About the grant

The Rema Hort Mann Fund Emerging Artists Fellowship provides direct financial support to emerging New York City–based visual artists.

Over the past two decades, the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program has evolved into a symbol of distinction, identifying artists at pivotal moments in their careers who continue to produce remarkable work. Our esteemed alumni, including luminaries like Sarah Sze (1997), Sanford Biggers (2001), Dana Schutz (2002), David Altmejd (2002), Mickalene Thomas (2007), Lisa Oppenheim (2008), Rashaad Newsome (2009), Deanna Lawson (2010), Virginia Overton (2011), Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2012), Aliza Nisenbaum (2013), Kenny Rivero (2015), Christina Quarles (2017), and Patrisse Cullors (2020), exemplify the profound impact of the Rema Hort Mann Fund on the global art scene.

"The Rema Hort Mann Foundation has given support to emerging artists for decades and helped generations of powerful artists."

Sarah Sze

"The global fight against racism has been exhausting, and deeply traumatic. My performance piece, "Fuck White Supremacy, Let’s Get Free" gives space to people who are tired of the structures of white supremacy and the impact on our bodies. This grant supported the development and implementation of this piece at the Hammer Museum.”

Patrisse Cullors

"The Rema Hort Mann Foundation has given support to emerging artists for decades and helped generations of powerful artists."

Sarah Sze

Patrisse Cullors

"The Rema Hort Mann Foundation has given support to emerging artists for decades and helped generations of powerful artists."

Sarah Sze

Patrisse Cullors

2025 Emerging artists

The Rema Hort Mann Fund is proud to announce the 2025 Emerging Artists. Selected through a blind jury process and reviewed by a panel of external art industry professionals, this year’s nine outstanding grantees represent a dynamic range of voices and practices in contemporary art.

Aiza Ahmed

Giorgia Alliata di Montereale

Daniel Castro

Taína Cruz

Rachel Handlin

Kristy Hughes

Sidian Liu

Haejin Park

Antonio Vidal de Lascurain

Elzie Williams III

Eligibility

We welcome supporters that are dedicated to uplifting artists and cancer patients through variety of giving opportunities.

Artists must:

Be based and primarily working in the greater NY area.
Be emerging. Artists should be at an early stage in their career, demonstrate a serious commitment to an art practice in a contemporary dialogue, and have great potential, though they may be under-recognized in their field.
Nominated artists cannot be enrolled as full-time students.
Nominated artists cannot have exhibited in a one-person show, in a for profit, or commercial gallery in the NY area.

Application Portal Opens: July 13, 2026
Application Deadline: September 8, 2026
Notification of Decisions: October 1, 2026

During the open application window; nominated artists are invited to submit an application.

All submitted applications are reviewed by our panel of jurors consisting of art world professionals.
Panelists individually select a number of applications, then meet in person to discuss finalists and select 10 artists to receive the award.

Checks are issued to winning artists at a reception ceremony in the RHMF Space in Tribeca. (2026 date forthcoming)
Grants are no-strings-attached, artists are free to use the funds however they feel is best in a way that will best support their practice.

RHMF alumni are engaged in future programming such as artist talks, exhibitions, and panel discussions. Artist alumni frequently have work shown in the RHMF Space.

Selection Process

The grant selection process this involves nominations from more than 70 curators, artists, and arts professionals, resulting in over 100 invited applicants whom are then evaluated by a distinguished independent jury.

After applications are received from invited artists, RHMF’s team of 5 distinguished jurors review all received applications individually - before meeting in person to determine which 10 artists will receive the award.

Jurors are publicly listed along with the announcement of the winners. In 2025, the jury consist of Augusto Arbizo (Visual Artist, Gallerist, Art Advisor, and 2000 Emerging Artist Grant Recipient), Matthew Higgs (Director and Chief Curator of White Columns), Jamie Hort (Art Consultant and Rema Hort Mann Fund Board Member), Marcus Jahmal (New York-based Artist with roots in Brooklyn, Puerto Rico, and the American South) and Amy Smith-Stewart (Diana Bowes Chief Curator at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum).