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Dieu Donné is a leading non-profit cultural institution dedicated to serving established and emerging artists through the collaborative creation of contemporary art using the process of hand papermaking.

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Lab Grant Residency

“Your mind is so alive when you’re there. There are a lot of things that were very inspiring in terms of thinking about paper and fiber that I had no idea that I would come to ... We’re fully focused on this one special process that you can’t do anywhere else.”
— E.V. Day, 2009 Lab Grant Artist

Founded in 2000, the Dieu Donné Lab Grant Residency is a year-long program designed to provide mid-career and established artists with the opportunity to work in-depth in hand papermaking. Awarded by invitation only, artists from a wide range of creative backgrounds collaborate with Dieu Donné master papermakers to explore the vast potential of papermaking through experimentation and innovation.

2026 Lab Grant Artist:
Kevin Beasley

Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, Virginia) lives and works in New York. He earned a BFA in Painting and Sculpture from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2007), and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University (2012). Recent solo exhibitions include PROSCENIUM | Rebirth / Growth: The Watch / Harvest / Dormancy: On Reflection, Storm King Art Center, New York (2025); A body, revealed, Hill Art Foundation, New York (2022); A view of a landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018); and Kevin Beasley, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018).

In 2023, Beasley released A View of a Landscape, a 300-page book and double LP record, conceived as equal elements and designed together, produced in collaboration with The Renaissance Society and the University of Chicago Press. Beasley has also participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally, including House of Nisba, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (forthcoming); Ancestral: As Afro-Américas, Museum of Brazilian Art, São Paulo (2024); and the 15th Gwangju Biennale, Soundscape of the 21st Century, Gwangju, South Korea (2024).

A selection of recent performances includes Tell it anyway, with Ralph Lemon, as part of Ceremonies Out of the Air at MoMA PS1, New York (2024), and at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2024). His work is held in major public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.