The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced this week the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, one of the most coveted honors in the arts.This is the foundation’s 101st class of fellows. The class spans 55 scholarly disciplines and artistic fields, with fellows chosen from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants. Fellows are divided into creative arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. The creative arts portion has 30 fellows for fine arts, 19 for photography, 19 for film & video, 10 for fiction, and six for drama and performance art, among other disciplines.Among the winners in the fine arts category this year are sculptor John Ahearn; new media and installation artist American Artist, who last had an exhibition at Pioneer Works in 2025; Kenneth Tam, who is featured in the upcoming edition of “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1; Japanese German artist Kota Ezawa, who has had exhibitions at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and the Cummer Museum in Florida; fiber artist Sonya Clark, whose exhibition “We Are Each Other ” traveled to the High Museum of Art and the Cranbrook Museum of Art; and multidiscplinary artist John Miller. Other winners include Juana Valdes, Fia Backström, Allison Janae Hamilton, and Francis Ruyter. Also receiving a fellowship are video artists Steve Reinke, whose work appeared in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collection of MoMA; Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, who appeared in the 2017 Whitney Biennial as well as exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio and the Pérez Art Museum Miami; and Christopher Harris, whose films appeared at the Tate Modern last year. Collier SchorrNovelist and Art in America contributor Lucy Ives won in the fiction category. Created in 1925, the Guggenheim Fellowship has awarded nearly $450 million to over 19,000 artists and scholars. The full list of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellows in Creative Arts follows below, and the full list can be asked on the foundation’s website. BiographyKristen IversenChoreographyKyle AbrahamYanira CastroSeán CurranK.J. Holmesjaamil olawale kosokoMolly Rose Liebernia loveAmy O’NealRaymond PintoSilas RienerEleanor SmithDrama & Performance ArtPenny ArcadeStephanie FleischmannHaruna LeeRalph B. PeñaAlva RogersElaine RomeroFictionAndre AlexisJessica AnthonyLucy IvesMarlon JamesBret Anthony JohnstonMegha MajumdarAnders NilsenMaurice RuffinNamwali SerpellMadeleine ThienFilm-VideoMargaret BrownBrian M. CassidyReid DavenportCate GiordanoJacqueline GossChristopher HarrisBrian Christopher HawkinsMadeleine Hunt – EhrlichZhu JiaSarah LasleySteve MaingMitch McCabeTenzin PhuntsogSteve ReinkeAnna SamoBeatriz Santiago MuñozMelanie ShatzkyFern SilvaAdam James SmithFine ArtsJohn AhearnAmerican ArtistFia BackströmElena BajoAmy BessoneRaymond BoisjolySonya ClarkKota EzawaJude GriebelIva GueorguievaKarl HaendelFariba HajamadiAllison Janae HamiltonLaMont HamiltonJames HoffJulia M. KuninMonica MajoliAspen MaysLeeza MeksinJohn MillerMarina RosenfeldMichael RossFrancis RuyterKate ShepherdClaire ShermanKenneth TamAlina TenserJuana ValdesJennifer WestAnne WilsonGeneral NonfictionEmily BenedekWilliam DeresiewiczElisa GabbertAmitav GhoshElizabeth GoodsteinDonovan HohnJohn J. LennonJoseph LuzziJames MarcusEmily OgdenPamela PetroMusic CompositionMathew ArrellínSivan Cohen EliasOswald HuỳnhJon IrabagonIngrid LaubrockJames Brandon LewisDavid Serkin LudwigModneyReinaldo Manuel MoyaLinda May Han OhKay Kyurim RhieLaurie SchwartzMarcelo ToledoAnya YermakovaPhotographySamantha AppletonJeremiah AriazChris Aluka BerryHarlan BozemanJonathan Michael CastilloStephen FerryAllison GrantKapulani LandgrafMatthew LeifheitPixy LiaoChris McCawFred RitchinCollier SchorrLara ShipleySheida Soleimaniriel SturchioSadie WechslerGuanyu XuSamira YaminPoetryRaymond AntrobusPaula BohinceHeather ChristleMyronn HardyChristopher KempfSuji Kwock KimEdgar KunzRickey LaurentiisVivek NarayananV. Penelope Pelizzon