Angelo Madsen Minax ’12 named 2022 Guggenheim Fellow

Department of Art Theory and Practice alumnus Angelo Madsen Minax  has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. Minax received his MFA from Northwestern in 2012.

Minax is a multi-disciplinary artist and filmmaker, with projects that draw on auto-ethnography to explore chosen and biological kinships, intimacy and desire, and cosmic and technological phenomena. His works have shown at Berlinale, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Leslie Lohman Museum, Tom of Finland Institute, Anthology Film Archives, the British Film Institute, Tribeca Film Festival, KurzFilm Hamburg, the European Media Art Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Berwick Media Arts Festival, Alchemy Festival of Moving Image, and dozens of LGBT film festivals around the world.

This year, the Foundation awarded 180 artists, writers, scholars and scientists from across the United States and Canada. Selected from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants, the fellows were appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.

“Now that the past two years are hopefully behind all of us, it is a special joy to celebrate the Guggenheim Foundation’s new class of Fellows,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation and 1985 fellow in poetry. “This year marks the Foundation’s 97th annual Fellowship competition. Our long experience tells us what an impact these annual grants will have to change people’s lives. The work supported by the Foundation will aid in our collective effort to better understand the new world we’re in, where we’ve come from, and where we’re going. It is an honor for the Foundation to help the Fellows carry out their visionary work.”

Minax is currently an Associate Professor of Time-Based Media at the University of Vermont and a Queer|Art Mentor.