Guggenheim Foundation

The Guggenheim Foundation offers Fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form under the freest possible conditions. From the beginning, we have awarded our Fellowships based on merit alone, promising in our founding charter to “[aid] without distinction on account of race, color or creed, scholars, scientists and artists of either sex in the prosecution of their labors.”

Since our founding, we have supported over 19,000 writers, scholars, scientists, and artists in over 50 different fields of study across the fine arts, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. These individuals have pioneered new art forms, made world-changing discoveries, given voice to all manner of experience, and answered some of our society’s biggest questions.