Cover Image: Eugenio Espinoza, Negativa Moderna (installation view), 2007. Photo by Oriol Tarridas.
CIFO Artists
Information about CIFO's Grants & Commissions Program
CIFO's Grants and Commissions Program offers emerging, mid-career and established contemporary Latin American artists (regardless of their country of residency) the opportunity to develop and present experimental and engaging new work. The program enables artists to develop their work outside the constraints of the commercial marketplace, and provides them with a unique platform to present projects to audiences worldwide. Up to six emerging artists, and up to three mid-career or established artists are offered the opportunity, funds, and space to develop and exhibit new work. The foundation also presents one established artist with an Achievement Award in recognition of their career.
The Selection Process
Each year, CIFO’s Honorary Advisory Committee - comprised of leading art professionals, curators and artists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe - offers an extensive list of nominees to be considered for the awards. The committee helps identify visual artists from Latin America who are creating some of the most challenging and innovative work today. Once nominations are in, CIFO appoints a Selection Committee composed of Advisory Committee members who recommend finalists for the program. The Selection Committee, while closely reviewing all nominated artists, will consider the existence of a coherent discourse, engaging concepts, and formal resolutions; how each of these elements is expressed in the work; and how they relate within the context of the artist’s chosen discipline. In order to ensure a fair and impartial process, Selection Committee members cannot vote for their nominees. And, after a rigorous review process by the committee, the finalists are presented to the foundation's Board of Directors, at which time the annual recipients of CIFO's Grants & Commissions are selected and ratified.
The program is by invitation only, and has been known to springboard its recipients to the next level of their careers.
Award Recipients │ Grants & Commissions Program
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| 2023 │ Exhibition Coming Soon | 2020 │ Exhibition Coming Soon |
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Rosemberg Sandoval (Colombia) |
Tania Candiani (Mexico) Simone Micheline (Brazil) Paloma Contreras Lomas (Mexico) Lucas Lugarinho (Mexico) Maria Noujaim (Brazil) Milton Raggi Vinueza (Cuba)
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| 2019 │ An Emphasis on Resistance | 2018 │ Strategic Immersions |
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Leyla Cárdenas (Colombia) Susana Pilar Delahante (Cuba) Ana Linnemann (Brazil) María José Machado (Ecuador) Claudia Martínez Garay (Peru) Yucef Merhi (Venezuela) Oscar Abraham Pabón (Venezuela) Nicolás Paris (Colombia) Cecilia Vicuña (Chile) |
Magdalena Atria (Chile) Fredman Barahona (Nicaragua) Gala Berger (Argentina) Rubén D'Hers (Venezuela) Laura Huertas Millán (Colombia) Víctor del Moral (Mexico) Lázaro Saavedra (Cuba) Daniela Serna (Colombia) Horacio Zabala (Argentina) |
| 2017 │ No Black / No white (no and) | 2016 │ Liquid Sensibilities |
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Fredy Alzate (Colombia) |
Jorge Julián Aristizábal (Colombia) |
| 2015 │ Intersections (after Lautréamont) |
2014 │ Fleeting Imaginaries |
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Adrián Balseca (Ecuador)
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Pablo Accinelli (Argentina)
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| 2013 │ Deferred Archive | 2012 │ "Not Me": Subject To Change |
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Milena Bonilla (Colombia)
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Eduardo Abaroa (Mexico) |
| 2011 │ Viewpoint |
2010 │ In Transition |
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David Lamelas (Argentina)
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Ivan Puig (Mexico)
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| 2009 │ Shifting Constructs |
2008 │ Interrogating Systems |
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Dora Longo Bahia (Brazil)
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Alejandro Almanza Pereda (Mexico)
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| 2007 │ Positions in Context | 2007 │ 3 Perspectives |
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Alberto Baraya (Colombia) Fredi Casco (Paraguay)
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Eugenio Espinoza (Venezuela) |
| 2006 │ Surfaces & Savage Modern | 2006 │ 10 DEFINING Experiments |
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Magdalena Fernández(Venezuela) Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela)
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Emilia Azcárate (Venezuela)
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| 2004 │ Tomas Saraceno/ Jarbas Lopes | |
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Jarbas Lopes (Brazil) (*CIFO 2004 Residency program) Tomás Saraceno (Argentina) (*CIFO 2004 Residency program)
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