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In these final weeks before applications close for Foundwork’s 2026 Artist Prize, we’re revisiting the work of the three...
09/03/2026

In these final weeks before applications close for Foundwork’s 2026 Artist Prize, we’re revisiting the work of the three wonderful artists who made our 2025 Short List. 

Gozié Ojini (gozie ojini) was born in Los Angeles and lives in New Haven, CT. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Ojini employs careful gestures with found objects, exploring their historical significance within shifting cultures and systems of value. His forthcoming solo show opens on September 9th at Silke Lindner. 

Image: “199.5 lbs,” 2024; altered upright piano

[The selection period for the 2026 Prize starts on September 25 at 5 PM PT. To be considered, artists must register (if you have not done so already) and maintain a published artist profile on Foundwork, including at least 6 artworks and an artist statement, throughout the 2026 selection period: 5 PM PT, September 25 – 5 PM PT, December 31, 2026. See the Foundwork Artist Prize section in our FAQ and official Rules for full instructions and terms that apply to this year’s award.]

In these final weeks before applications close for Foundwork’s 2026 Artist Prize, we’re revisiting the work of the three...
09/02/2026

In these final weeks before applications close for Foundwork’s 2026 Artist Prize, we’re revisiting the work of the three wonderful artists who made our 2025 Short List. 

Eugene Jung (eugene jung), based in New York and Seoul, builds post-apocalyptic environments that respond to contemporary catastrophes through sculpture and installation. Jung received her MFA from Columbia University this past spring.

Image: “Earthmovers-lifting,” 2024; plastic sheet, stainless steel, stainless steel hose bands, rust activator

[The selection period for the 2026 Prize starts on September 25 at 5 PM PT. To be considered, artists must register (if you have not done so already) and maintain a published artist profile on Foundwork, including at least 6 artworks and an artist statement, throughout the 2026 selection period: 5 PM PT, September 25 – 5 PM PT, December 31, 2026. See the Foundwork Artist Prize section in our FAQ and official Rules for full instructions and terms that apply to this year’s award.]

The countdown has begun. Our 2026 Artist Prize deadline is in three weeks.As we prepare for our annual review process, w...
08/31/2026

The countdown has begun. Our 2026 Artist Prize deadline is in three weeks.

As we prepare for our annual review process, we’re returning to our tradition of revisiting last year’s fantastic awardees. 

Our 2025 honoree was Brooklyn, NY-based Antonia Kuo (Antonia Kuo), whose practice centers around recording, translation, and the potential of the photographic medium. In the words of critic Drew Zeiba (🌪), who interviewed Kuo last spring for our Dialogues program, “Kuo’s practice is capacious. It’s anchored in complex, patterned compositions made on light-sensitive photo paper, to which she sometimes adds found and sculpted materials—often metal—x-rays, and other media. Increasingly, she also works in free-standing sculpture, creating complex, extraterrestrial-seeming compositions in ceramic and cast metal through a multi-step mold process.” You can learn more about her expanding oeuvre in their conversation at https://foundwork.art/dialogues. 

Image: “Twilight Child,” 2025; unique photochemical painting on light-sensitive silver gelatin paper in aluminum frame (4 panels)

[The selection period for the 2026 Prize starts on September 25 at 5 PM PT. To be considered, artists must register (if you have not done so already) and maintain a published artist profile on Foundwork, including at least 6 artworks and an artist statement, throughout the 2026 selection period: 5 PM PT, September 25 – 5 PM PT, December 31, 2026. See the Foundwork Artist Prize section in our FAQ and official Rules for full instructions and terms that apply to this year’s award.]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent passing of Francisco Correa Cordero, the visionary founder of Lubov Gallery in...
08/29/2026

I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent passing of Francisco Correa Cordero, the visionary founder of Lubov Gallery in New York. Francisco was one of the most interested, insightful, and compassionate people I’ve ever met. He was also one of the most gifted curators and natural artist collaborators and advocates I’ve ever known. From his long tenure at ICI (Independent Curators Intl.), where he was an invaluable part of that wonderful organization, to this most recent chapter, where Francisco devoted his full time to his true passion, working with boundary-pushing artists and producing exhibitions at Francisco Correa Cordero, Francisco has always been an indispensable and deeply loved part of any initiative that’s been lucky enough to receive his attention and support. Apart from many casual chats around town and at the gallery, I’m grateful for the times we had the chance to directly collaborate together, first when Francisco was kind enough to be one of the first guest curators at Foundwork back in 2018, and then on an ongoing basis when Francisco generously became a Foundwork advisor, and ultimately, a founding board member. Seeing the outpouring of love for Francisco over the last couple of weeks affirms what was so obvious to everyone fortunate enough to have known him—even though his gallery was a little fish in a big pond, with his unique blend of modesty, playfulness, eloquence, and above all, a profound love and understanding for the art and artists in his life, Francisco made plenty of ripples. Francisco, you are truly one in a million. We will miss you dearly.

The registration deadline for our 2026 Foundwork Artist Prize is now just one month away: 5:00 pm PT, September 25This y...
08/25/2026

The registration deadline for our 2026 Foundwork Artist Prize is now just one month away: 5:00 pm PT, September 25

This year's honoree will receive an unrestricted U.S. $10,000 grant, remote studio visits with each of the esteemed jurors, and an interview in our Dialogues program.

Three artists will be named to the 2026 Short List, and each will receive a $1,000 micro-grant in support of their practice.

To be considered, artists must register (if you have not done so already) and maintain a published artist profile on Foundwork, including at least 6 artworks and an artist statement, throughout the 2026 selection period: 5 pm PT, September 25 – 5 pm PT, December 31, 2026.

See the Foundwork Artist Prize section in our FAQ and official Rules for full instructions and terms that apply to this year's award.

“If there’s no meaning in the universe, then we are actually really free. We’re born with these unique, one-of-a-kind bo...
07/19/2026

“If there’s no meaning in the universe, then we are actually really free. We’re born with these unique, one-of-a-kind bodies with the ability to feel. Limits, restrictions, rules, and judgments—those are scenarios we made,” Aki Goto (Aki Goto 🩲 後藤輝) tells Monica Uszerowicz (Monica Uszerowicz) in their conversation for our Dialogues program. “We think and we hurt and we love and we enjoy those meanings we’ve created on earth; we’ve created meaning where there was no meaning at all.” Learn about Goto’s interest in divinatory processes and how trust shapes perception at www.foundwork.art/dialogues.

Pictured here: Works from “DIVINATION: Trust Not Your Process, Trust Your Process” presented by Desnivel Gallery at Psychic Readings by Marie in New York’s East Village, 2025

“When I think about motherhood—I started recording because I wanted to laugh at my life,” artist Aki Goto (Aki Goto 🩲 後藤...
07/17/2026

“When I think about motherhood—I started recording because I wanted to laugh at my life,” artist Aki Goto (Aki Goto 🩲 後藤輝) tells Monica Uszerowicz (Monica Uszerowicz) in their Dialogues conversation. “Things felt really crappy, you know, when the kids were so little and motherhood was just really exhausting. I felt like I deserved laughter, and filming and editing became a small resting place for me.” Read more about the ways mothering informs Aki’s subject matter, and how her video-making practice both reflects and creates her reality at www.foundwork.art/dialogues.

Pictured here: “She Left a Filling in My Chest,” 2026; from Aki Goto’s presentation with Europa Gallery at Frieze. Photo by Tim Schutsky.

We’re thrilled to share our latest Dialogues interview—a conversation between video, sound, and installation artist Aki ...
07/15/2026

We’re thrilled to share our latest Dialogues interview—a conversation between video, sound, and installation artist Aki Goto (Aki Goto 🩲 後藤輝), and writer, editor, and photographer Monica Uszerowicz (Monica Uszerowicz). 

“I like adding the third dimension to the video pieces because I want to somehow limit the imagination of the world I make: focusing and narrowing, but also deepening it. I want my videos to exist within this odd layer of reality that, to me, feels like an aspect of the world that already exists but only reveals itself when we’re not really paying attention,” Goto tells Uszerowicz of the new work she created for Frieze New York this past spring. Find their full discussion at https://foundwork.art/dialogues. 

Aki Goto is a Japanese-born video, sound, and installation artist. After moving to New York City in 2009, her practice expanded through collaborations and later through her life in the Catskills, where nature and spirituality became important influences. During the 2020 lockdown, she began creating intimate, phone-shot videos documenting everyday life and motherhood. Her work explores emotion, vulnerability, and presence, transforming personal moments into shared human experiences. Goto has exhibited at EUROPA, CLEARING (LA&NYC), Nonaka-Hill (LA), Arts of Life (Chicago), (NY), Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie (Quebec), cosmicwonder_official (Tokyo), etc. Goto received awards such as the Annual Purchase Award (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, 2024) and Women’s Studio Prize (Women’s Studio Workshop, 2023). 

Monica Uszerowicz is a writer, editor, and photographer born and based in New York City. Her writing has been featured in Artforum, Atmos, The Believer, BOMB, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere, and her photographs have been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. She is the recipient of a 2020 Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Pictured here: “The Soft Lattice” (installation) with its accompanying film, “Tender Alignments,” 2026; from Goto’s Frieze presentation with Europa. Photo by Tim Schutsky.

To initiate the Open Call for our 2026 Artist Prize, we’ll be introducing you to our five jurors, each of whom are celeb...
07/03/2026

To initiate the Open Call for our 2026 Artist Prize, we’ll be introducing you to our five jurors, each of whom are celebrated leaders in the international contemporary arts community.

The fifth juror in our cohort is Esther Schipper, who founded Esther Schipper in Cologne in 1989, relocating to Berlin in 1997. Conceptual art from around the world, featuring radically experimental and time-based works, formed the core of her gallery’s early program. Today Schipper’s gallery represents over 50 artists and estates, with a diverse range of international artists, established figures, and emerging talents practicing in various media. Schipper opened a company in Korea in 2017 and a public gallery in Seoul in 2022, as well as a gallery location in Paris on Place Vendôme the same year. Since 2024, the gallery also operates an office and showroom in New York. (Portrait by Andrea Rossetti.)

The Foundwork Artist Prize is our annual juried award to support outstanding artistic practices in any media. The honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant, studio visits with each jury member, and a published interview as part of our Dialogues program. Visit www.foundwork.art/artist-prize to learn more about how to participate. 

To initiate the Open Call for our 2026 Artist Prize, we’ll be introducing you to our five jurors, each of whom are celeb...
07/01/2026

To initiate the Open Call for our 2026 Artist Prize, we’ll be introducing you to our five jurors, each of whom are celebrated leaders in the international contemporary arts community.

Our fourth juror, Stefan Benchoam (stefan benchoam), is an artist and exhibition-maker from Guatemala City with a strong interest in collaboration. As an artist, he has participated in exhibitions at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; , London; La Loseta, San Juan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; MAZ, Guadalajara; and MADC, San José, among others. He is co-founder of Buró de Intervenciones Públicas, which develops low-cost, high-impact projects in public spaces worldwide. He is also co-founder and director of Proyectos Ultravioleta, a multivalent hybrid space/gallery for contemporary art, and is co-founder/co-director of NuMu / Guatemala—Guatemala’s only contemporary art museum. As a writer, he has written for Mousse Magazine & Publishing and South as a State of Mind, as well as artist monographs including Carlos Amorales and Vivian Suter. (Portrait by Daniele Volpe.)

The Foundwork Artist Prize is our annual juried award to support outstanding artistic practices in any media. The honoree will receive an unrestricted $10,000 grant, studio visits with each jury member, and a published interview as part of our Dialogues program. Visit www.foundwork.art/artist-prize to learn more about how to participate. 

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