Three Artists Awarded 2026 MacArthur “Genius” Grants

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim, assemblage and performance artist Rodney McMillian, and painter Vincent Valdez have been named by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as among the 2026 cohort of MacArthur Fellows. The three join seventeen other recipients of the transformative “genius” grants issued this year by the foundation, honoring those in []

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https://www.artforum.com/news/three-artists-awarded-2026-macarthur-grants-1234760260/