Alf Foundation Grantees
2023 Grantees
Shelby Lindsley
Shelby Lorraine Lindsley (b. 2000, they/she) is an MFA ’24 candidate at Otis College of Art and Design. She grounds their work within conceptual art, using her artwork to reference events from their life. Lindsley's art practice is fluid, due to revolving around different… READ MORE
Nehemiah Cisneros
Nehemiah Cisneros’ paintings bring to life magnified expressions of humanity through grotesquely exaggerated renderings of authority figures and icons. His work merges the graphic aesthetics of 1990s skateboard graphics with the theatrical scale of Baroque painting from the 1600s. Informed by his experiences of growing up in Mid City Los Angeles… READ MORE
2022 Grantees
Hayley Quentin
Hayley Quentin is a Los Angeles-based artist using intuition and technical precision with the goal of merging the intuitive with the analytical (both in the conceptual ideation and reception of her work); using a quiet whisper… READ MORE
Yi Gao
Yi Gao (b. 1988, China) is a 2023 MFA candidate with a concentration in painting at UCLA. This is her second grant award from the Martha Alf Foundation. Through a series of improvisation, paint splatter, writing… READ MORE
2021 Grantees
Xiouping
Xiouping is a 2021 MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design and a multi-media artist working in painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. She is Taiwanese and Texan and her work examines identity politics through storytelling… READ MORE
Yi Gao
Yi Gao (b. 1988, China) is a 2023 MFA candidate with a concentration in painting at UCLA. With a background in traditional Chinese painting, her mixed-media works on paper assemble figurative narratives drawn from subconscious memory, the exploration of female… READ MORE