Grantee Database

Oliver WANG

• 2026
• Arts Criticism
• United States to Japan

To explore how American car culture has shaped Japanese aesthetics of design, craft, and self-expression, tracing trans-Pacific exchanges that connect material culture, visual style, and everyday forms of creativity. Wang will conduct fieldwork and interviews with car customizers and event organizers and participants influenced by American automotive culture. He will also visit lowrider hangouts with close connections to counterparts in Southern California, tracing how a visual language of creativity inspired by L.A.’s Chicano community becomes articulated through Japanese cultural contexts. Wang hopes to interpret these practices not only as social phenomena but as acts of aesthetic invention that reveal trans-Pacific artistic exchange and, in parallel, challenge narrow definitions of artistic practice, showing how creativity flourishes beyond galleries and museums – in garages, on city streets, and within grassroots communities.

John Alexis Balaguer

• 2024
• Arts Criticism
• Philippines to United States

To explore museums, galleries, and art spaces in New York to study exhibition writing and engage with artists, gallerists, and cultural workers, aiming to have a deeper understanding of art criticism.

Brian Bernards

• 2024
• Arts Criticism
• United States to Korea, Thailand

To research, write, and conduct interviews in Thailand for a book on Inter-Asian Cinema dealing with cinematic reflections on pop culture-inspired tourism.

Tomoko Seki

• 2024
• Arts Criticism
• Japan to United States

To conduct research on theater in the United States for a comparative study with Europe and Japan to understand the characteristics of Japanese, European, and American plays.

Association for Asian Studies

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2018
• Arts Criticism
• Cambodia, East Timor to United States

a Project Grant to bring four artists from Asia to the U.S. to participate in a roundtable discussion on arts under military occupation during the 2019 AAS Annual Conference

Zeny May Recidoro

Country / Region:
• Philippines

• 2020
• Arts Criticism
• Philippines to United States

To gain professional experience for the remainder of the Optional Practical Training year after graduation

• 2019
• Arts Criticism
• Philippines to United States

To continue in the second and final year of a Master of Arts program in art writing at the School of Visual Arts

• 2018
• Arts Criticism
• Philippines to United States

A 1-year Graduate Scholarship to provide for travel and living expenses during the first year of an M.A. program in art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City

AICA Taiwan

Country / Region:
• Taiwan

• 2018
• Arts Criticism
• Hong Kong, Vietnam to Taiwan

a Project Grant to support the participation of two arts professionals from Asia in an award ceremony during the 2018 AICA Congress

Yeung Yang

Country / Region:
• Hong Kong

• 2018
• Grant to AICA Taiwan

• 2012
• Arts Criticism
• Hong Kong to United States

for a five-month grant to participate in a residency program at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York.

Lu Mingjun

Country / Region:
• China

• 2017
• Arts Criticism
• China to United States

a 6-month fellowship to research contemporary art criticism and interview art writers and artists in the U.S.

Bonnie Marranca

Country / Region:
• United States

• 2017
• Arts Criticism
• United States to Japan

A 1-month grant to research Fluxus artist Dick Higgins’s Graphis scores in the archives of the Sogetsu Art Center in Tokyo

Judha Su

Country / Region:
• Thailand

• 2017
• Arts Criticism
• Thailand to United States

A grant supplement for an artist residency program

• 2017
• Arts Criticism
• Thailand to United States

A 6-month fellowship to engage with artists and art critics in the U.S. to advance critical practice and dialogue on contemporary art in Thailand

Lee Seung Hyo

Country / Region:
• Japan

• 2013
• Arts Criticism
• Japan to Myanmar

for a one-month grant to research developing socio-political issues and the cultural environment, explore local arts festivals, and interview artists in Myanmar