Montreal visual artist Antonietta Grassi has been named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Mme Grassi is the only Canadian recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in the visual arts discipline.
Each scholarship holder will receive a monetary allowance allowing them to pursue independent work at the highest level in “the freest possible conditions”, it is stated. Since its creation in 1925, the Foundation has awarded more than $400 million in scholarships to more than 19,000 recipients.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation seeks to “foster the development of scholars and artists by helping them engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any art, under conditions as free as possible. »
Antonietta Grassi is one of 188 cultural creators working in more than fifty disciplines new members of the New York foundation. The 2024 crop of Guggenheim Fellows was selected based on the prior professional achievements of candidates full of “exceptional promise,” the foundation continues.
A painter with an abstract practice, Grassi has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, the United States and Europe. His work, which is similar to geometric abstraction, evokes weavings or textiles with its multiple superimposed forms.
The artist has already been the recipient of awards and honors, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec.
His work will be presented at the Patrick Mikhail gallery from May 5 to June 29 alongside that of other artists in the collective exhibition Network theory.
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