Guggenheim Fellowship 2024

The 2024 United States and Canada competition is now open. The application deadline is 11:59 pm EDT, Thursday, September 21, 2023.

Guggenheim 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.

The competition timeline can be found here.

Further details regarding the application process can be found in Application Resources, Submission Materials, and the Guide to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Online Application.

All applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. or Canada at the time of application.

Persons who have already received a Guggenheim Fellowship are not eligible to apply for another.

Guggenheim Fellowships are not available for the creation of residencies, curriculum development, or any type of educational program, nor are they available to support the development of websites or blogs.

Our awards are intended for individuals only; they are not available to organizations, institutions, or groups.

Guggenheim Fellowships are not open to students (undergraduate, graduate, or postgraduate).

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.

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