The United States Artists (USA) Fellowship is a program that celebrates the work of artists and their "essential role in society." Across ten disciplines ranging from architecture and design (A&D) to craft, media, and film, 63 artists were inducted into this year's fellowship cohort.
The 2022 USA Fellows representing the discipline of architecture and design are Tom Carruthers and Jennifer Newsom of Dream The Combine, Germane Barnes of Studio Barnes, Nina Cooke John of Studio Cooke John, Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy of Design Earth, and Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO – IL.
Each design practice has produced notable works and made important contributions to the architecture and design community. From academia to the arts, civic engagement, and professional practice, this year's selected winners represent the future of industry changemakers. This group of 2022 Fellows joins the likes of past A&D fellows such as Theaster Gates, Jennifer Bonner, Walter Hood, Olalekan Jeyifous, Mabel O. Wilson, and many others. Each fellow will receive unrestricted $50,000 cash awards that allow the recipients to choose how to utilize the funding best.
View this year's A&D category winners below.
"Dream The Combine is the creative practice of artists and architects Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, based in Minneapolis, MN and Ithaca, NY. Partners in work and life, they create site-specific installations exploring metaphor, imaginary environments, and perceptual uncertainties that cast doubt on their known understanding of the world. They are winners of the 2021 McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, the 2020–2021 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the 2018 Art Omi Architecture Residency, and the 2017 FSP/Jerome Foundation Fellowship. They were also recently named co-curators of the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis, MO."
"Germane Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity. Mining architecture’s social and political agency, Barnes examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. He is winner of the 2021 Wheelwright Prize from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a 2022 Rome Prize fellow, and a 2021 recipient of the Architectural League Prize. His design and research contributions have been published in and exhibited at several international institutions, most notably, the Museum of Modern Art, PIN-UP Magazine, the Graham Foundation, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, Design Miami/Basel, the Swiss Institute, Metropolis, Curbed, and the National Museum of African American History, where Barnes was identified as a future designer on the rise."
"Nina Cooke John is the founding principal of Studio Cooke John, a multidisciplinary architecture and design studio that values placemaking as a way to transform relationships between people and the built environment. Born and raised in Kingston, she responds to the crisis of identity in moving from one world into another. Her studio’s installation Point of Action was on view at the Flatiron Public Plazas in the winter of 2020–21, while its winning design for the Harriet Tubman monument in Newark, New Jersey, Shadow of a Face, will be unveiled in the summer of 2022."
"Founded in 2010 by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, Design Earth is a research practice that engages the medium of the speculative architectural project to make public the climate crisis. It is a recipient of the League Prize for young architects and designers from the Architectural League of New York (2016) and two ACSA Faculty Design Awards (2014, 2017). Exhibited internationally, Design Earth has completed commissioned projects for Glasgow Science Centre (2021), Bauhaus Museum Dessau (2021), the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016, 2018, 2021), and the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2017), among others."
"SO – IL is a New York-based architectural design firm founded in 2008 by Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg. Jing Liu has been practicing for more than fifteen years, both in the United States and abroad. Liu has led SO – IL in its engagement with the sociopolitical issues of contemporary cities through building practice and interdisciplinary research projects such as the Artist Lofts on Lake Street in Omaha and the Martin Luther King, Jr. branch library in Cleveland. Florian Idenburg is an internationally renowned architect with more than two decades of professional experience. Idenburg founded SO – IL in New York with Liu after learning the ropes in Amsterdam and Tokyo. He has a particularly strong background in institutional spaces, leading the office on projects such as Kukje Gallery in Seoul, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, and the Amant art campus in Brooklyn."
Congratulations to this year's winners! To view the complete list of 2022 USA Fellows click here.
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