Guggenheim Fellowship

The 2025 United States and Canada Competition is now open.

uggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors.

Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. Candidates must apply to the Guggenheim Foundation in order to be considered.

The Foundation receives approximately 3,000 applications each year. No one who applies is guaranteed success in the competition and there is no prescreening; all applications are reviewed. Approximately 175 Fellowships are awarded each year.

If you previously created an account, simply log in to your account at https://app.gf.org/login/ and create an application for this year. If you do not remember your password, use the Forgot Password function on the login page to reset your password.

If you do not have an account, sign up for an account at https://app.gf.org/register/ and make an account following the onscreen directions. Once you make an account, you can create an application for the 2024 competition.

Apply here.

The application deadline is 11:59 pm EDT, Tuesday, September 17, 2024.

Please note that all prospective applicants must first register and create an account. If you created an account in a previous competition, that account information has not been imported into our new system; you must create a new account.

For full instructions, including information on recommendation letters and supporting documents, please consult the guide to the competition here.

The competition timeline can be found here .

Types of work examples to submit

Recent work is generally the most pertinent. Applicants who are not directly covered in the following categories should follow the procedure outlined for the category closest to their own.

You should not exclusively submit examples that are co-created, co-directed, etc., unless you are applying jointly with another person. For us to properly evaluate your application as an individual artist, writer or scholar, most of your submitted work examples should not be jointly created works.

For detailed submission information click below for your category of interest. Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists. Installation or New Media Artists. Poets, Playwrights, Screenwriters, Scholars, and Writers of fiction and general nonfiction. Theatre or Performance Artists. Composers. Photographers. Film and Video Makers. Choreographers.