NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Malloy Jenkins congratulates william córdova on being named a 2025 Trellis Art Fund Milestone Grantee.

Trellis Art Fund envisions a world where the work of individual artists is recognized for its intrinsic value—holding art as an unparalleled means to understand ourselves and connect with others. The 12 recipients of the 2025 Milestone Grant will receive $100,000 paid in two installments over a two-year period. These funds can be applied towards any purpose, from project-specific support to general professional needs. The award encourages artists to ‘keep going’ to sustain and uplift their creative practices with a supportive community.

For the second annual Milestone grant cycle, Trellis Art Fund invited 56 artists, curators, and art world professionals nationwide to nominate artists living in or eligible to work in the United States. An anonymous jury of five art leaders reviewed the submissions and picked 12 artists from a pool of 81 applicants.

The diverse, interdisciplinary group of applicants ranged from 29 to 83 years old and came from 19 of the 50 states, plus Puerto Rico. 71.6% self-identified as artists of color, and 37% identified as LGBTQIA+. The Milestone cohort is similarly diverse, ranging in age from 38 to 82 years old, and working across various mediums of painting, sculpture, film, video, installation, and performance. The jury selected the artists for the Milestone cohort based on the commitment they have demonstrated to their practice, their unique contributions to their fields, and the sustained high level of quality within their work.

Born Lima, Peru. Lives Miami, New York. B.F.A. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. M.F.A. Yale University. Cordova is an interdisciplinary cultural practitioner interested in the roots of abstraction, history of textile encoding and non-linear narratives. Cordova illuminates the synthesis of memory, ritual and mythology to further disrupt, challenge and reassess definitions of our collective landscape. Exhibitions; 50th Venice Biennial. Prague Triennial, 13th Havana Biennial, 74th Whitney Biennial, Prospect III Triennial, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Prospect III Triennial. Curatorial; Tulsa Centennial in 2021, Florida AIM Biennial. Awards; Smithsonian Fellowship, Linder Institute Fellowship (2025), Creative Capital Award (2024), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021).