Tiny Grant 2026 Cohort
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Chris Garneau
Chris Garneau emerged in the New York music scene in 2006 with his debut album Music for Tourists on Absolutely Kosher Records, gaining international attention through a Take-Away Show filmed by Vincent Moon. He has since released C-Sides (2007), El Radio (2009), Winter Games (2013), Yours (2018), and The Kind (2021), produced by Patrick Higgins, and has toured widely across North America, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, sharing stages with artists including Xiu Xiu, José González, and Joan as Policewoman, and opening for Charlotte Gainsbourg at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Following the Out of Love EP (2023), Garneau’s sixth studio album, In Reverse, is set for release in February 2026.
Fiona Tsang
Fiona Tsang (she/her) is a Brooklyn native. She is an Asian-American dancer, choreographer, educator, and the author of Mama Vo’s Bánh Xèo. With her dance background in waacking, hip hop, house, heels, ballet, and modern, she has developed a strong passion for performing and creating. Her credits include RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, Nymphia Wind, Bad Bunny, Ayra Starr, AP Dhillon, A-Boogie, J CHEN PROJECT, Doug Varone, and more. She recently assisted Princess Lockerooo for the production of The NutWaacker at The Guggenheim and Jermaine Browne at ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Fiona’s work has been showcased in the New York Performing Arts Library, Sybarite: Love is Love, ClubNYC, 2019 DanceNYC Symposium, CrossCurrent Contemporary Dance Festival, Versatility Dance Festival, and We Belong here: AAPI Festival.
kiarita
kiarita is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist of Caribbean descent. Their practice is based in assemblage and installation, examining intimacy, touch, and sustainability. They have been the recipient of the Bronx AIM & Van Lier Trust Fellowships, as well as participated in many group exhibitions nationally.
Kim Blanck
Kim Blanck’s short film Gloria, supported by the Berkeley FILM Foundation, Dementia Spring Foundation and PANO Network, made its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. The film won both the Narrative Short Jury Award and the Audience Award at the 2025 Austin Asian American Film Festival, where the jury called the film "a richly emotional experience...with a strong visual style that features a luminous color palette and an eye for the beauty in the mundane."
Kim's pilot Half Full, a comic meditation on mixedness, was a selection for the inaugural Refinery29 x TBS Comedy Lab, and she is co-creator and producer of Basic Witch, named the "witty web series you need this Halloween" by The Cut. Also an award-winning actor, she was seen on Broadway in the original company of Suffs and in the Off-Broadway hit Octet; her film and television appearances include Women Who Kill, Call Jane, New Amsterdam, and WeCrashed. She is currently developing the film adaptation of Nipples for Christmas, Jenna Dioguardi’s autobiographical play chronicling her time as a 27-year-old breast cancer patient.
Robert Hernandez
Robert Hernandez is a mixed-media sculptor whose interdisciplinary practice integrates drawing and paper-based sculpture. His recent exhibition, Never Dreamt Never Known (2025), at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Downtown Gallery presented a new series of freestanding paper sculptures.
Hernandez was selected for the AIM (Artist in the Marketplace) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2016, culminating in the inclusion of his large-scale paper sculpture El Tigre in the AIM Biennial Exhibition. He is also a recipient of the Keyholder Residency at the Lower East Side Printshop (2014), where he expanded his work in print-based processes.
His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Governor’s Island Art Fair, 8 Hour Projects at Allegheny College, Boston Young Contemporaries, the New England Gallery for Latin American Art, and the Boston Center for the Arts.
Taiye Godbody
Taiye Godbody is a Brooklyn based creative leader and storyteller hailing from Ethiopia, Benin and Jamaica. His rich intercultural fluency and sharp instinct for composition creates a visual language entirely his own. Through his signature striking light and thoughtful concepts, he empowers his subjects to speak back to the viewer, working to unite Diasporic perspectives.
His work has taken him from collaborations with Disney and Adidas to features in publications like VOGUE, Essence, The Washington Post, Billboard and Complex, while also mounting exhibitions from New York City to Berlin, to Accra.
Shoko Tamai
Shoko Tamai is an award-winning choreographer, dancer, and director whose work blends ballet, contemporary movement, and martial arts to explore mythology, human connection, and environmental consciousness. Trained internationally, she has performed and presented work at major venues worldwide. She is the founder and director of Ninja Ballet and creates multidisciplinary works rooted in innovation and mythic storytelling.
Wen Liu
Wen Liu was born in Shanghai, China, and based in NY, USA. Her art is a collection of reactions to the environments and objects encountered to build her sense of security coming from a foreign land. Questions that drive her work include: What is temporary and what is permanent? What is your place in this temporality and permanence? How do you deal with public recollection versus private memories?
Liu is a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and a 2022 grantee of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation. She has received multiple awards from the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and was awarded the Illinois Arts Council 2020 Artist Fellowship. Her past residencies include MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, ACRE Projects, and Hyde Park Art Center.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT), Roswell Museum (NM), Lubeznik Center for the Arts (IN), the Chicago Cultural Center, and the National Grand Theater in Beijing.
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