Rema Hort Mann Fund

05/14/2026

05/04/2026

RHMF invites you to join us for our art week open house on May 12th and May 14th! RSVP & More info via link in bio. We can’t wait to see you here!

04/21/2026

.williams is a New York based interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, collage, and installation whose work focuses on racial and social issues. He holds an MFA from Columbia University (22) and BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art (‘15). Williams has exhibited at Art Lot Brooklyn (25), participated in group exhibitions at Canada Gallery, Half Gallery, New York, NY; C-L-E-A R-I-N-G, Los Angeles, CA; M23, New York, NY and Francois Gebaly, New York, NY among others.

Elzie Williams has been recognized by the Rema Hort Mann Fund as a talented emerging artist, we look forward to seeing the next steps he takes in his career.

Read more about Elzie’s work and other recognized emerging artists via the link in our bio.

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04/21/2026

We are honored to receive an award recognizing our support for cancer equity, health, and education from the Community Outreach and Engagement team at Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center on World Cancer Day.
RHMF Board Member, MD, and cancer survivor Dr. David Biro accepted the award on our behalf. His words offered something for all of us to hold onto as we continue our work—ensuring that no one is alone during treatment and that loved ones remain connected when it matters most.
Many thanks to Allison Snow, PhD, MSW, OSW-C, Senior Director of Oncology Social Work and Cancer Supportive Services at Mount Sinai Health System and an RHMF Cancer Committee member, for organizing such a thoughtful and impactful day-long event.

04/17/2026

is an artist whose work explores intimacy, reciprocity, and shared care across cultural and personal boundaries. Moving between Chinese and U.S. contexts, Liu creates participatory installations and performances that transform everyday encounters into spaces of connection. At Skowhegan, she crafted Can we share some time together?, a work using human hair spun into a broom to brush the audience while haircut conversations played, making tangible the tenderness of touch and trust. Other projects, like Are you from China? and Crystal Bubble Palace, playfully navigate identity, displacement, and fantasy through gestures of humor and empathy. Across works that span from cooking exchanges to collaborative photo projects, Liu reassigns agency and reveals the subtle dynamics of relationships, enacting Audre Lorde’s notion of the erotic as power to nurture collective care and possibility.

Sidian Liu has been recognized by the Rema Hort Mann Fund as a talented emerging artist, we look forward to seeing the next steps she takes in her career.

Read more about Sidian’s works and other recognized emerging artists via the link in our bio.

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04/17/2026

RHMF congratulates and 2015 RHMF alum on receiving a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded to individuals with exceptional creative ability in the arts. Since 1935, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has recognized those with distinguished achievement and extraordinary promise.

Sheida created a Peter’s Guardian Angel for RHMF—a powerful reminder that no one is alone in their experience with cancer. Her work continues to examine the intersections of power, environmental crisis, queerness, migration, and care.

We also celebrate RHMF alum (2015) Leeza Meksin on receiving this honor. A New York–based interdisciplinary artist, Leeza’s work spans painting, installation, public art, and multiples, exploring the relationships between architecture, the body, and space.
Congratulations to both artists on this well-deserved recognition.

Image 1: Sheida Soleimani, Peter’s Guardian Angel
Image 2: Installation view of Signal, 2024, curated by Leeza Meksin, featuring RHMF alumni

04/14/2026

(b. Waxahachie, TX) creates vibrant abstract sculptures and paintings that reclaim agency, visibility, and joy through color, form, texture, and found materials. She transforms discarded and embedded objects into caring acts of resistance and preserved memory. Influenced by her Hispanic and Indigenous lineage, alongside formative experiences within fundamentalist religious institutions, her works are insistent on hope and repair––monuments for joy, care, and belonging.

Kristy Hughes has been recognized by the Rema Hort Mann Fund as a talented emerging artist, we look forward to seeing the next steps she takes in her career.

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Read more about Kristy’s works and other recognized emerging artists via the link in our bio.

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04/07/2026

.vidal.l is an artist who currently resides between New York and Mexico City. The elements of nature that appear in Vidal’s large-scale paintings emerge from catastrophe. Fires and floods intermingle with a vast visual repertoire that incorporates autobiography, biblical scenes, cave paintings, golem-like figures, mythological references, and something long foretold that has yet to happen.

Antonio Vidal de Lascurain has been recognized by the Rema Hort Mann Fund as a talented emerging artist, we look forward to seeing the next steps he takes in his career.

Read more about Antonio’s work and other recognized emerging artists via the link in our bio.

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04/02/2026

is a large-format film photographer, filmmaker, screenprinter, lithographer, welder, sculptor, woodworker and storyteller.

“In high school I started taking photographs of reflections, patterns, buildings, lines, symmetry. At CalArts, my mentor suggested I rephotograph someone’s work. I began rephotographing Eugène Atget using large-format film. Then I did things my way. I created kaleidoscopes—reflections, patterns. […] I want children with Down syndrome to get a good education like me.I see things other people don’t see. I make art other people cannot make.” - Rachel Handlin

Rachel Handlin has been recognized by the Rema Hort Mann Fund as a talented emerging artist, we look forward to seeing the next steps she takes in her career.

Read more about Rachel’s work and other recognized emerging artists via the link in our bio.

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04/02/2026

The new year is starting strong for the Rema Hort Mann Fund! We are honored to announce that RHMF has been awarded a NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) 2026 grant.
Public support makes our work possible, and we are deeply grateful to the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs for this meaningful investment in our mission.
This support allows us to continue and expand our commitment to using the arts as a powerful tool for care, connection, and equity, supporting artists across New York City.

We hope you can join us for our NYC Art Week Open Houses on May 12 and 14th (links in bio)! Lots more on the horizon - stay tuned!