Fellowship
2024-25 Fellowship
The Leslie-Lohman Artist Fellowship is a program of mentorship and collective learning that has centered intergenerational LGBTQIA+ artists of color since its inception in 2017. Through professional development workshops and critical seminars by artists and theorists, the Fellowship offers the skills needed to create a sustainable art practice while radically affirming identities through liberatory pedagogy. The Fellowship is led by Leslie-Lohman Staff and Senior Fellowship Manager Arantxa Araujo building off of the work of Fellowship Founding Director Ela Troyano.
This year's awardees include Ciwas Tahos (Taipei, Taiwan), Dan Paz (Oakland, CA), Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla (Valdivia, Chile), Miller Robinson (Los Angeles, CA), Nyala Moon (Brooklyn,NY), and Ogemdi Ude (Brooklyn, NY).
The Artist Fellowship program is generously supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in partnership with Christie’s Education.
Ogemdi Ude
Ogemdi Ude is a Black queer femme dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, and for BAM's DanceAfrica festival. She has taught at The New School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, MIT, and University of the Arts. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. Learn more here.
Portrait of Ogemdi Ude by Rachel Keane
Dan Paz
Dan Paz is an interdisciplinary artist researching gendered, queer, and carceral relations to the nation-state within the Latin(x)é diaspora, focusing on their familial connections between Colombia and the United States. In 2023, they were a Public Scholars for the Future Fellow at the University of California, Davis, where they are currently working toward a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, with emphases in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory and Research. Learn more here.
Portrait of Dan Paz by Christa Holka
Kütral Vargas Huaiquimilla
Writer, visual artist, performer, and Communications Manager at Galería Barrios Bajos in Valdivia, Chile exploring Mapuche culture from a contemporary perspective, blending global and local elements. Author of Factory (2016), The age of the trees (2017), and the novel Blood´s Performance (2024). She has received the First Honorable Mention at the 24th Municipal Youth Art Prize and 2017 Art and Culture Prize, Los Lagos region. Her internationally recognized work challenges colonial narratives, combining pop art and mass production aesthetics. Learn more here.
Portrait of Kütral by Fabiola Pontigo
Ciwas Tahos
Ciwas Tahos (Anchi Lin) is a visual artist working across performance, moving image, cyberspace, ceramics, and kinetic installation. She holds an MFA in New Media Art from Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) and a BFA in Visual Art from Simon Fraser University (Canada). Recent exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Hawai‘i Triennial 2025: ALOHA NŌ, and 2024 BLEED at Arts House in Australia. Ciwas was awarded the Biannual Prize of the Pulima Art Award (Taiwan's Indigenous Contemporary Art Award) in 2023. Her project Pswagi Temahahoi was presented at Documenta 15 in collaboration with Wagiwagi Art Labs. Learn more here.
Portrait of Ciwas and their drawing by Julia Lin Kingham
Miller Robinson
Miller Robinson is a two-spirit, trans, antidisciplinary Karuk artist based in Tongva Gabrieleno Territory, known as Los Angeles,CA. Since receiving a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2014, Miller has exhibited widely in Los Angeles including the UCLA Hammer Museum, Craft Contemporary Museum, Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Heritage Square Museum and others. Miller was a 2023 fellow of Queer|Art Mentorship working with artist Jeffrey Gibson and a recipient of the 2022 Los Angeles Artadia Award. Learn more here.
Portrait of Miller Robinson by Paasha Motamedi
Nyala Moon
Nyala Moon is a graduate of City College with an MFA in film production, a 2020-2021 QueerArt Film fellow, TV writing fellow for Hillman Grad, and a Film Fatales director fellow. Her latest film, “How Not To Date While Trans,” won audience and best short film awards at Inside Out, Wicked Queer Boston’s LGBT Film Festival, Translation Seattle’s 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, and NewFest '22. Her latest short film, Dilating For Maximum Results, won Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding US short at OutFest and Newfest. Nyala was also selected to be a part of the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Learn more here.
Photo by Nyala Moon
Fellowship
ALUMS
Now in its eighth year, the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship is a program designed to empower and support queer artists. Each year, a cohort of emerging artists are invited to participate in a series of professional development workshop that provide art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and community building across disciplines to create a sustainable art practice. Learn more about the Fellow Alumni here
Fellowship
ALUMS
Now in its eighth year, the Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship is a program designed to empower and support queer artists. Each year, a cohort of emerging artists are invited to participate in a series of professional development workshop that provide art business skills, strategic planning, peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and community building across disciplines to create a sustainable art practice. Learn more about the Fellow Alumni here