The Graham Foundation is pleased to announce $419,000 in new grants to organizations supporting 31 projects. The funded projects—including major museum retrospectives, site-specific commissions, art and architecture biennials, and provocative journals and publications—offer forums for new ideas with the potential to expand the field of architecture. Operating on a variety of scales, these grants give voice to innovative programs and scholarship, and create new platforms for engagement with architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.

The awarded projects were selected from a competitive pool of over 230 submissions from organizations in 24 countries. The new grantees comprise a diverse group of national and international organizations in cities across North America and the world, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Johannesburg, London, and Istanbul. These new award recipients join the expanding network of individuals and institutions that the Graham Foundation has supported over the past 60 years in its role as one of the most significant funders in the field of architecture.

The full list of the 2016 grants to organizations follow below. To learn more about the new grants, click here.

2016 GRANTS TO ORGANIZATIONS

EXHIBITION (16 awards)    
Anyone Corporation
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
California State University Long Beach-University Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
The Jewish Museum
LIGA-Space for Architecture
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
Museum of Modern Art
National Building Museum
Serpentine Gallery
Swiss Institute
University of Chicago-Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society & Smart Museum of Art

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA (1 award)
Monoambiente

PUBLIC PROGRAM (3 awards)
CAMPO
Lampo
Society of Architectural Historians

PUBLICATION (11 awards)
Arab Image Foundation
Architectural Association
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Guayaba Press
MAS Context
Places Journal
Project: A Journal for Architecture
Terreform
University of Johannesburg
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

Image: Chinese public health poster depicting the human body as a factory, 1933. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. From the 2016 Organizational Grant to Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts for Are We Human?, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial.