Our Fellowships support the development and presentation of outstanding art and research projects by international, emerging artists, writers, scholars, and activists.

Vera List Center Fellowships support the development and presentation of outstanding art and research projects by international, emerging artists, writers, scholars, and activists. Fellows are appointed for a low-residency, two-year engagement with the Biennial Focus, and receive a financial stipend, a graduate student research assistant, travel assistance, curatorial and financial production support, and the opportunity to present the fellowship project to the public.

With each Biennial Focus, a new VLC Fellowship Cohort is appointed, based on submissions to an open call or by nomination. 

The Boris Lurie Fellow, established with a grant from the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, is awarded to an artist living outside the U.S. with special consideration to those who have faced political hardship. The Borderlands Fellowship is a collaboration of the VLC and the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, intended to support research projects that create communities across different geographical, cultural, and political landscapes. The Borderland fellows focus on the relevance of place, thus seeking to support and apply an Indigenous lens to reflect on questions of borderlands.

The 2022–2023 Sámi Fellowship is a joint initiative between Frame Contemporary Art Finland, the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and the Vera List Center. The 2022–2023 ArtsLink Fellow is jointly appointed by the Vera List Center and CEC ArtsLink.

In addition to the Vera List Center Fellows, each Biennial Focus includes five Jane Lombard Fellows who are selected by a nominating committee as part of the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.