Philadelphia Museum of Art

Among the largest art museums in the US, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a pilgrimage site for modern and contemporary art professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world, due in part to its extensive holdings of the work of Marcel Duchamp, as well as its extraordinary Constantin Brancusi sculptures. Center support has made possible a number of significant exhibitions and projects at the museum, including retrospectives on the work of Barnett Newman and Arshile Gorky; a mid-career survey of Philadelphia-based artist and Pew Fellow Zoe Strauss; a commissioned composition by saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter for the museum’s well-known Art After 5 series; an exhibition examining the influence of Duchamp on John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg; a reinstallation of the museum’s South Asian Galleries; and an interactive performance and installation project with Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk. In 2015, the museum was awarded an Advancement grant to support Creative Africa, an extensive exhibition and performance series centered on historic and contemporary African art. In 2017, the museum received a Center Project grant to present the first US commission of a site-specific performance by Israeli filmmaker and installation artist Yael Bartana, accompanied by an exhibition of her film trilogy, And Europe Will Be Stunned. In 2020, the museum received a Center Project grant for The Shape of Time (working title), an exhibition that will survey 30 years of contemporary art made by artists who share an experience of South Korea by their birth, residence, or ancestry. In 2021, the museum received a Re:imagining Recovery grant to involve community members as content co-creators in ways that deepen connections to the PMA’s collections and the stories they hold for a fresh approach to digital storytelling practices.