Carlson Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

Andrea Carlson ’05 has been awarded the 2022 United States Artist Fellowship.

USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career. Each year, individual artists and collaboratives are anonymously nominated to apply by a geographically diverse and rotating group of artists, scholars, critics, producers, curators, and other arts professionals.

Carlson (Ojibwe, b. 1979) is an artist and writer who moved from Minneapolis to Chicago in 2016. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives relating to objects and their possession and display. Her current research activities include museum studies, Indigenous futurism, and film studies. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Artist Fellow, received a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, a 2020 3Arts Make a Wave award, and a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award.

Learn More

• United States Artist Fellowship
• Carlson's Website