Teiger Foundation Awards $7 Million in Grants to 85 Curators
163Aug. 29, 2025
Teiger Foundationon August 27 announced that it has awarded a total of $7 million to eighty-five curators working at more than sixty art institutions in the United States and Puerto Rico. Each will receive between $50,000 and $150,000. The funds support three years of programming for contemporary-art curators at institutions with budgets of $3.5 million and below, and aids those at organizations of all sizes in performing research, staging exhibitions, and hosting touring shows.
The grantmaking cycle is the nonprofit’s largest to date, nearly doubling the $3.9 million it awarded last year. The organization revealed that it plans to shift its call for proposals to a biennial cycle beginning this year, to allow for deeper investment and extended support. At the same time, it is expanding its Hosting grant, which supports traveling exhibitions and is the only one of its kind, to a quarterly cycle to allow for increased curatorial collaboration and increased audience engagement.
Among those receiving funding for a single project are the first major survey of L. V. Hull, organized by the Arts Foundation of Kosciusko, Mississippi, at the L. V. Hull Home & Legacy Center and the Mississippi Museum of Art and curated by Ryan N. Dennis, Annalise Flynn, and Yaphet Smith; and the exhibition “Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era” at MOCA Los Angeles, curated by Clara Kim and Kris Kuramitsu. Those receiving support over three years include the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, which will present exhibitions curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Abdiel D. Segarra Ríos, and Alexandra Méndez investigating themes such as diasporic abstraction, food politics, and overlooked local conceptual art legacies; and the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, where curator Jaik Faulk will present programming grounded in southern Louisiana culture.
The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State Los Angeles received a Hosting grant for “Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams,” organized by David Evans Frantz and Amy L. Powell from the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign, Illinois, and led locally by Aaron Gomez, while Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond and Lawrence Kumpf, founder of Blank Forms in Brooklyn, New York, received funds for research on Al Loving and Catherine Christer Hennix, respectively.
“Curators play a critical role in shaping cultural narratives; we are proud to support this dynamic and diverse cohort of leaders,” said Larissa Harris, executive director of Teiger Foundation, in a statement. “We’re excited to support an expanded range of curatorial voices across geography, experience, and institutional scale, underscoring our belief that critical, ambitious work is happening in every corner of the country. These new programs allow us to meet curators where they are, respond to the evolving needs of the field, and ensure that artists and communities have the thoughtful stewardship they deserve.”
Established in 2008,Teiger Foundationexpanded its grantmaking activities following the posthumous sale of the collection of its benefactor, American management consultant and art collector David Teiger (1929–2014); it is today one of the largest organizations of its kind, with a focus on supporting the work of curators.
A full list of grantees is available here.