The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the recipients of the 2025 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship, an initiative that supports artists exploring innovative approaches to technology and new media. Administered by United States Artists, the Fellowship awards five artists annually with unrestricted grants of $50,000.
One of the 2025 Knight Arts + Tech Fellows is Antonia Wright (Miami, FL), a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Through a multimedia practice of video, coding, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, Wright explores systems of power. The body is a principal element in her work.
Launched in 2021, the Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship recognizes artists who are expanding the boundaries of creative practice through emerging technologies — including artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, immersive installations, video game design, digital fabrication, and software-based work. Fellows use these tools in thoughtful, radical, or poetic ways, pushing the field forward and critically engaging its possibilities.
In addition to the unrestricted $50,000 award, recipients gain access to financial planning support and are featured in Shift Space, the fellowship’s annual online publication fostering dialogue among artists, writers, and technologists. Coinciding with today’s announcement is the release of Shift Space 5.0, the latest edition of the publication. Featuring essays, poetry, and prose, this year’s issue continues to explore critical ideas and experimental practices shaping the intersection of art and technology.
Artists have always shaped how we understand the world. The Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship celebrates that enduring power while embracing new tools to do it,” said Kristina Newman-Scott, Vice President for Arts at Knight Foundation. “This fellowship is about more than technology. It’s about investing in visionary artists whose practices challenge dominant narratives, expand civic imagination, and invite us to see and feel differently. Through Shift Space and their individual work, these Fellows are not just experimenting with media, they are reshaping cultural discourse, bridging disciplines, and helping us build more connected, expressive communities. We are proud to support them, not just for what they make, but for how they move us forward.”
As technological advancement increasingly shapes our collective reality, this year’s Knight Arts + Tech Fellows offer ambitious engagements with these tools — recasting them as pathways to liberation, reimagined pedagogy, and radical self-authorship.