Graham Foundation Awards $451,000 in Grants to 45 Organizations Expanding Architectural Discourse
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, located in Chicago, revealed a second round of grants for 2026, amounting to $451,000, awarded to 45 organizations globally, such as museums, nonprofits, and academic institutions. Funded projects encompass exhibitions, installations, publications, and podcasts designed to engage the public with architecture and design. Highlights include Cooper Hewitt's 'Regenerative Futures' exhibition, LACMA's exploration of Paul R. Williams, and the 25th Pavilion by LANZA atelier at Serpentine Galleries. Additional recipients include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's survey of Amanda Williams and the inaugural publication from the Pan-African Biennale. The foundation also backs films and student-operated journals. The full list of recipients can be found on the Graham Foundation's website.
Key facts
- The Graham Foundation announced $451,000 in grants to 45 organizations.
- Grants support exhibitions, publications, films, podcasts, and student-led journals.
- A previous round in June awarded 54 Grants to Individuals.
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is among the grantees for 'Regenerative Futures'.
- LACMA will present a major survey of Paul R. Williams in Fall 2026.
- Serpentine Galleries receives a grant for the 25th Serpentine Pavilion by LANZA atelier.
- The Pan-African Biennale in Nairobi is documented in a new publication.
- The Getty Foundation announced funding for 5 historic modern sites under Conserving Black Modernism.
- The World Monuments Fund listed ten heritage places for the U.S. 250th anniversary.
- The Charles & Ray Eames Foundation was established as a nonprofit after the Eames House reopened.
Entities
Artists
- Norman Jaffe
- Raimund Abraham
- Alice Bucknell
- Leticia Pardo
- Enrique Murillo
- Clarissa Tossin
- Kubra Khademi
- Tarrah Krajnak
- Eiko Otake
- Paul R. Williams
- Jody Pinto
- Amanda Williams
- Tonika Lewis Johnson
- Joseph Conradi
- Eric Ellingsen
- Erika Allen
- D. Graham Burnett
- Jen Colten
- Kevin Harris
- Lynne Smith
- Howard van Doren Shaw
- Patrick Geske
- Cody Miner
- Isabel Abascal
- Alessandro Arienzo
- Iwan Baan
- Alia Farid
- Anna Halprin
- Lawrence Halprin
- Simone Forti
- A.A. Leath
- Warner Jepson
- Alastair Gordon
- Anne Rieselbach
- Fernanda Canales
- Gabriel De La Mora
- Beatrice Galilee
- Phyllis Lambert
- Albert Ferré
- Martien de Vletter
- Sarosh Anklesaria
- Stefan Gruber
- Tuliza Sindi
- Florencia Rodriguez
- Santiago Bogani
- Igo Kommers Wender
- Isabella Moretti
- Madelon Vriesendorp
- Laura Anderson Barbata
- Philip Ursprung
- Nicholas Adams
- Tairan An
- Kurt W. Forster
- Diane Simpson
- Nairy Baghramian
- Judith Clark
- Josiah McElheny
- Vincent Fecteau
- Jessi Reaves
- Mark Wigley
- Michael Asher
- Gregory Wessner
- Julian Rose
- Abigail Rotich
- Omar Degan
- Meriam Sehimi
- Zachariah A. Michielli
- Cathelijne Nuijsink
- Ashley Schafer
- Aaron Tobey
- Elizabeth Diller
- Peter Eisenman
- Rem Koolhaas
- Bernard Tschumi
- Thomas Loof
- Fritz Haeg
- Stacy Wakefield Forted
- Wladimiro Acosta
- Fernando Schapochnik
- Michael Sorkin
- Shumi Bose
- Federica Zambeletti
- Antonia Piñeiro
- LANZA atelier
Institutions
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
- A83
- Barkow Leibinger
- PIN–UP
- modem
- Smout Allen
- MOS
- Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL)
- Citygroup
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Turenscape
- Practice Landscape
- Yerrabingin + AKIN
- Unit15X
- SWA Group
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art—Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
- Counterpublic
- Hyde Park Art Center
- LIGA–Space for Architecture
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Los Angeles Nomadic Division
- Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
- National Building Arts Center
- Ragdale
- Serpentine Galleries
- LANZA atelier
- Storefront for Art and Architecture
- Tamalpa Institute
- Further Triennial
- Minnesota Street Project
- Van Alen Institute
- Space Between
- Wandering Eye Studios
- The Architectural League of New York
- Deem Journal
- Lampo
- MIT Press
- Space.City
- The World Around
- Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA)
- Carnegie Mellon University—Remaking Cities Institute
- Chicago Architecture Biennial
- Park Books
- The Cosmic House
- LA ESCUELA___
- Ciudad Abierta
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
- Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño y de la Escuela de Cine de la Universidad de Valparaíso
- Set Margins'
- ETH Zurich—Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta)
- Lars Müller Publishers
- mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- Walther König
- MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST
- National Academy of Design
- Pan-African Biennale
- Salmon Creek Arts
- Timber Press/Hachette Book Group
- Universidad Torcuato Di Tella—School of Architecture and Urban Studies
- Editorial Di Tella Arquitectura
- Urban Design Forum
- Urban Omnibus
- Marywood University—School of Architecture
- Paprika! Magazine
- Yale University
- University of California, Los Angeles—Department of Architecture and Urban Design
- University of Florida—Graduate School of Architecture
- University of Oklahoma—Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
- The Getty Foundation
- World Monuments Fund
- Charles & Ray Eames Foundation
- Graham Foundation
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College
- KoozArch
- Canadian Centre for Architecture
- mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
- PRAXIS
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- Mexico
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- London
- United Kingdom
- San Rafael
- Marin County
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- Varese
- Italy
- Milford
- Massachusetts
- Seattle
- Montreal
- Canada
- Pittsburgh
- Zurich
- Switzerland
- Vienna
- Austria
- Frankfurt
- Germany
- Nairobi
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- Albion
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- Oklahoma
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- Dunmore
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- Hamptons
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- Dar es Salaam
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- Mendocino coast
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