Joyce Hwang earns her second NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Kelly Sheldon August 13, 2025
Professor Joyce Hwang, recipient of the 2025/NYFA Artist Fellowship
Joyce Hwang, a professor in the UB Department of Architecture, has been selected as a recipient of the distinguished 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in the category of Architecture, Environmental Structures, and Design.
This fellowship is one of NYFA’s (New York Foundation for the Arts) flagship programs for individual artists. Over the past four decades, the foundation has awarded more than $36.5 million in these unrestricted grants to artists across 15 disciplines living in New York State and its Tribal Nations, selected by a panel of their peers. Hwang previously received this honor in 2013.
The Architecture, Environmental Structures, and Design category includes a range of creative practices, such as environmental design; the making of places, spaces, constructions, and landscapes; traditional and experimental forms of architecture (built and unbuilt); functional art and design objects; and/or work made for hire. This category is awarded once every three years, and of a highly competitive pool of 218 applicants, just 11 fellowships were granted in the current cycle.
For nearly 20 years, Hwang has focused her creative practice on designing and building projects that incorporate habitat conditions for urban wildlife into the built environment.
Often working with interdisciplinary collaborators, from ecologists and biologists to musicians and co-designers, these projects situate non-human species not only in terms of “ecosystem services” but also as community members and co-inhabitants of the planet that we all share. This fellowship will support her ongoing research and ecological design projects as well as idea development for a future design project
The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional Funding is provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Lawrence Foundation, and individual donors.
The full lists of recipients, finalists, and industry panelists who made the selections can be found here.