David Diao is one of three visual artists who received the 2015 Grants to Artists Award from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. The foundation, founded by John Cage and Jasper Johns, awards unrestricted grants worth $35,000 to distinguished individuals and collectives in the arts.
In addition to Diao, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts awarded 14 grants to artists across five disciplines, including the Body Cartography Project, Melanie Maar and Will Rawls for dance; Ellen Fullman, Zach Layton, and Missy Mazzoli for music/sound; Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay, and Cynthia Hopkins for performance art/theater; Julie Patton and Tony Towle for poetry; and David Diao, David Hartt, and Xaviera Simmons for visual arts.
