2023 Étant Donnés Contemporary Art Grantees Announced

For 29 years, FACE Étant Donnés program has fostered active collaboration and encouraged long-lasting partnerships between France-based visual artists and collectives and American curators and cultural institutions. Grants support the development and/or presentation of new work. This year, 10 projects were selected, including 7 exhibition grants and 3 curatorial grants.

Exhibition Grants :

• Fouad Elkoury, Hervé Guibert, Karla Hiraldo Voleau – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)

Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy

Presented by the International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Curator: Sara Raza

June 2, 2023

• Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost Exhibition

Presented by the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX

Curator: Frauke Josenhans

September 15, 2023

• Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Jennifer Teets

Intimate Confession is a Project

Presented by the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX

Curator: Jennifer Teets

October 27, 2023

• Julien Creuzet

Julien Creuzet: Algorithm Ocean True Blood Moves

Presented by Performa, New York, NY

Curator: Charles Aubin

November 1, 2023

• Bianca Bondi

Bianca Bondi: A Preservation Method

Presented by Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Curator: Emily Edwards

November 18, 2023

• Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema

Presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Curators: Kelly Kivland, Daniel Marcus, Bill Horrigan

January 26, 2024

• Ethel Lilienfeld

Invisible Filter at FotoFest Biennial

Presented by FotoFest Inc., Houston, TX

Curator: Steven Evans

March 9, 2024

Curatorial Grants :

• Emily Edwards

Bianca Bondi: A Preservation Method

Assistant Curator, Dallas Contemporary, Houston, TX

June 2023

• Kate Kraczon

Julien Creuzet: Accretion

Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, Brown arts Institute // David Winton Bell Gallery

Providence, RI

Summer/Fall 2023

• Kari Rittenbach

Curatorial Research

Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1, New York, NY

September 2023