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Selected from nearly 2,500 applicants, Sarah Lawrence faculty members John O’Connor and Claudia Bitrán are among the 171 American and Canadian scientists, scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and writers and artists of all kinds selected to receive a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
John O’Connor has been on the Visual and Studio Arts faculty at Sarah Lawrence since 2010. He has also taught at Princeton University, Pratt Institute, and New York University. His recent exhibitions include shows at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, Martin Asbaek Projects in Copenhagen, Fleisher Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, and The Lab in Dublin, Ireland. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Methodist University, and New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Claudia Bitrán works primarily through painting and video and has exhibited individually at Cristin Tierney Gallery in NY (2022), Walter Storms Galerie in Munich (2020-2021), Spring Break Art Show in NY (2020), Muhlenberg College Gallery (2018-2019) and Practice Gallery in PA (2018), Brooklyn Bridge Park in NY (2018), Roswell Museum and Art Center in New Mexico (2017), and Museo de Artes Visuales in Santiago Chile (2016), among others.
A member of the Sarah Lawrence Visual and Studio Arts faculty since 2022, she also teaches in the Painting Department at Pratt Institute and is a guest critic at SIA in Beijing.
Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted nearly $400 million in Fellowships to over 18,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.
Created and initially funded in 1925 by Senator Simon and Olga Guggenheim in memory of their son John Simon Guggenheim, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has sought since its inception to “further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions.”