Award Programs
FOCA, a membership-based organization, continues its 50-year tradition of funding important exhibitions for contemporary California artists. Sponsoring California artists, curators, their exhibitions, and activities is at the heart of FOCA’s mission. This is accomplished with three awards – the Curators Award, FOCAFellowships, and the Curators Lab.
Publications from exhibitions are listed below and maintained in our archives.
curators AWARD
curators lab
focafellowships
Three artists will receive FOCAFellowships in Summer 2023.
Inaugurated in 2005 celebrating FOCA’s 30th Anniversary, this award is a biennial, unrestricted grant for up to three artists with an exhibition history of ten years or more. A panel of distinguished curators nominate the artists who are then invited to apply for the award. Jurors, who are prominent arts professionals in the community, evaluate and select the artists for FOCAFellowships. Two years later, the same jurors become the next nominators.
focapublications
One of the guiding principles of the Fellows of Contemporary Art is to provide funding for exhibition catalogs.
