The following institutions received grants through the American Art Program's annual exhibition competition. Participating venues for each exhibition are listed below.

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA
($125,000 grant awarded in 2015)
Paul Revere: Artisan and Entrepreneur

• New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
($200,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Fellowship: The Guggenheim Foundation and the History of American Photography, 1937-2017

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
($250,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
($175,000 grant awarded in 2016)
Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark and the Bronx

• The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
• Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
• Kumu Art Museum, Tallin, Estonia
• Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
($75,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Sanford Biggers: Code-Switch

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
($200,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Alma W. Thomas: A Creative Life

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
($225,000 grant awarded in 2017)
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott

• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (February 15–May 17, 2020)
• Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (June 20–September 27, 2020)
• Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (October 25, 2020–January 31, 2021)

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
($150,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Visionary New England

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
($100,000 grant awarded in 2017)
William L. Hawkins: An Imaginative Geography

• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
• Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
• Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
• Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
($175,000 grant awarded in 2017)
RE:DEFINE

• Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
• venues to be announced

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Deana Lawson

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
($60,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Beauford Delaney Through the Unusual Door

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
A Question of Emphasis: Louise Fishman Drawing

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
($200,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Scandinavian Design and the United States

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
($200,000 grant awarded in 2018)
The Path to Paradise: Judith Schaechter's Stained-Glass Art

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
($200,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Americans in Spain

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
($200,000 grant awarded in 2015)
Hearts of Our People: Native American Women Artists

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
• Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
($100,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Pattern and Decoration

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
($350,000 grant awarded in 2014)
Donald Judd

• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
($200,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY
($200,000 grant awarded in 2018)
The Oscar Howe Project

New Museum, New York, NY
($125,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Peter Saul

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
($100,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Winold Reiss in New York

New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
John Quidor: New York Stories

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
($75,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
($200,000 grant awarded in 2018)
American Cosmos: The Influence of Alexander von Humboldt on American Art and Culture

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC
($125,000 grant awarded in 2018)
Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

Tate Modern, London, UK
($100,000 grant awarded in 2016)
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

• Tate Modern, London UK
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
• The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Cross Pollination: Martin Johnson Heade's Hummingbirds and Habitats

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
($100,000 grant awarded in 2019)
The Dirty South: The Southern Impulse in Art, Material and Sonic Culture

The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
($75,000 grant awarded in 2019)
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
($250,000 grant awarded in 2018)
The Impact of Mexican Muralists on Artists in the United States, 1920-1950

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
($200,000 grant awarded in 2017)
The Expressive Figure in the American Renaissance, 1876-1917

• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• venues to be announced