Trellis Art Fund Announces 2025 Stepping Stone Recipients
The Trellis Art Fund, a New York-based nonprofit, has announced its 2025 Stepping Stone Grant recipients, including Kamrooz Aram, Kang Seung Lee, and Aki Sasamoto. Launched in 2024, the annual initiative awards 20 artists with unrestricted USD 40,000 each, distributed over two years. Aram, an Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based artist, works across painting, photography, sculpture, and collage, examining the boundaries between fine art and design while challenging art history’s unequal treatment of Western and Eastern artistic traditions. Born in South Korea, Los Angeles-based artist Kang Seung Lee explores minority experience and personal histories through a multidisciplinary practice that challenges dominant historical narratives, while Japanese-born, Brooklyn-based Samamoto creates performance and installation through site-responsive, collaborative practice, using everyday objects and physical constraint to explore themes of food, health, and orderliness.
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