Co-FounderFor Freedoms
Eric Gottesman is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Creative Capital Artist, a Fulbright Fellow, an Artadia awardee, and a founder of For Freedoms, an initiative for art and civic engagement that won the 2017 ICP-Infinity Award, 2022 National Arts Award, and was named the "largest creative collaboration in U.S. history" by TIME Magazine. His projects question notions of power, engage communities in critical self-reflection, and propose models for repair. His work in the visual, literary, political, and teaching arts addresses nationalism, migration, structural violence, and intimacy, and has been shown at health conferences, on the televised opening of the NFL season, inside government buildings, on indigenous reserves, inside post-war rubble and in art museums around the world. Teaching is integral to Gottesman’s art practice and he is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut, Lebanon. Gottesman’s work is always collaborative. He has never made an artwork alone.