Application Guidelines (DEADLINE HAS PASSED)
Overview
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce its inaugural Artist Fellowship. Four selected winners will receive an award of $5000 each at the AHL Foundation’s Annual Award & Gala Ceremony. Selected winners will also have the opportunity to showcase their works at a group exhibition in Chelsea, NY in Spring 2020.
AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship was possible to be established with a generous contribution of Dow Kim Family Foundation. The unrestricted Artist Fellowship will be awarded to exceptional but under-resourced Korean American artists to support their creative activities during key moments in the development of their careers in order to help propel their careers to the next level.
Please read the application guidelines carefully before starting your online application. We recommend having all your information ready to input and upload before starting the online application since applicants must finish the application in one sitting.
**Fellowship recipient must attend the Benefit Gala & Awards Ceremony to receive the award**
Application Period: May 1, 2019 – July 31, 2019
Winner’s Announcement: September 2019
Eligibility
- Visual artists of Korean heritage based in the U.S. (Commercial photographers, filmmakers, and dancers are not eligible for this fellowship. However, fine art photographers, video artists, interdisciplinary artists and performance artists may apply.)
Awards
- $5000 Award to each selected winner
- Group Exhibition in New York City
Application Requirement
- Artist Statement
- Work Samples from the past 5 years (Up to 10 work sample images or 3 video links. If you wish to submit both, please upload up to 5 images and 2 video links.) *** Please Do Not upload video clips of exhibition views.
- Full curriculum vitae of education, professional experience, honors, awards, and publications
About the Jurors
Joel Carreiro
New York City based artist Joel Carreiro has shown his work nationally and abroad – at the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Richmond Museum, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Alternative Museum of New York, and MoMA PS1, and in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, England, Germany, Korea and Ireland..
He has taught at Hunter College since 1986 and directed the M.F.A. Program for almost twenty years.
Carreiro has been a visiting artist at numerous colleges and universities nationally and abroad.
He has been an artist in residence at The Anderson Ranch in Colorado, the Haystack School in Maine, Artpark in Lewiston, New York, Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, the Latvian Art Academy in Riga and at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ballinskelligs, Ireland.
He has received grants from the City University of New York, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
As an independent curator, he has organized exhibitions at the Marshall Arts Gallery in Memphis, Columbus State University in Georgia, the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, the Rotunda Gallery and Cluster Gallery in Brooklyn, the Hopper House Art Center and the Rockland Center for the Arts in Nyack, New York, and the Intar Gallery and the Lab Gallery in New York City.
He is currently publishing six volumes of pages from his drawing/collage journals from 1975 to present as well as preparing for a solo exhibition with catalog for Westchester Community College in 2020.
Bill Carroll
Bill Carroll has been involved in the New York Art World for over thirty years. He was the Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery in Soho; and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea. Bill also worked in non-profit at the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nancy Graves Foundation, and is presently the Director of the EFA Studio Program. He has curated numerous exhibitions. Bill teaches a course for MFA students at Pratt Institute titled Art World & Professionalism, and has lectured including at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, Cornell University, and F.I.T. He had a solo installation of fifty-six paintings at the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Pubic Library in 2016. In January 2019 he had his fifth solo exhibition at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea
Hitomi Iwasaki
Hitomi Iwasaki, Director of Exhibitions/Curator, joined the Queens Museum in 1996 and has worked on numerous landmark exhibitions, including Cai Guo-Qiang (1997), Out of India: Contemporary Indian Art from Diaspora (1997), and Global Conceptualism (1999) and initiated site-specific artist projects that later developed into longer-term residency and fellowship programs. As Director of Exhibitions, she organized Caribbean: Crossroad of the World (2012) in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio and The Studio Museum in Harlem and Bringing the World into the World (2015), large-scale international contemporary art exhibition celebrating the Museum’s The Panorama of the City of New York–a 9,000 sq.ft. scale model of the metropolis made in 1964 for the New York World’s Fair. Her work continues to focus on conceptually driven site-specific artist projects with a ranging body of local and international artists including Terence Gower, Nic Hess, Duke Riley, Johanna Unzueta, and Jewyo Rhii. In addition to Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake (2017), she has worked on numerous artist solo-projects including Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Mariam Ghani, Anna K. E., Ronny Quevedo, Julia Weist and Sable Elyse Smith. Iwasaki is a recipient of the International Association of Art Critic’s IACA Curator’s Award Best Project in a Public Space, 2009–2010, and her most recent publications include The Panorama Handbook: Thoughts and Visions On and Around the Queens Museum’s Panorama of the City of New York (2018).
About Dow Kim Family Foundation
Dow Kim Family Foundation is a non-profit organization engaged in philanthropic activities in areas of education, social services, and arts & culture with a primary focus to help better and empower the lives of underserved and under-resourced Korean Americans.
