Robert Grosvenor, Untitled, 1970 (installation view, 1974). Courtesy Robert Grosvenor and Storm King Art Center Archives.
Robert Grosvenor has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Grosvenor is among 21 new 2025 inductees to the 127-year-old honor society, which awarded Grosvenor a grant in 1974.
The academy’s class of 2025 includes Lin-Manuel Miranda, architect Ricardo Scofidio, New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik, sculptor Donna Dennis, novelist Jesmyn Ward, artist-curator Coco Fusco, multi-disciplinary artist Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne name: Hock E Aye Vi), weaver-textile artist Sheila Hicks, conceptual artist Rashid Johnson, photographer An-My Lê, and installation artist Fred Wilson. In addition, Angela Davis has been elected American Honorary Member, along with Francis Alÿs and Marina Tabassum were elected Foreign Honorary Members.
The 300 members of Arts and Letters are divided into Departments of Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music, and are elected in recognition of notable achievement in their fields. Current members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters include Hilton Als, Lynda Benglis, Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Joel Shapiro, Cindy Sherman, Mark di Suvero, and James Turrell, among many others. Members oversee every aspect of the institution’s governance by serving on its Board of Directors, award selection committees, and investment committee.
Inductees are to be formally welcomed during a May ceremony at the academy’s beaux arts complex in Upper Manhattan.
About the Academy of Arts and Letters
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of artists, architects, composers, and writers who foster and sustain interest in the arts. Members distribute over 70 awards annually; fund concerts and new works of musical theater; purchase and commission contemporary art for donation to museums across the country; and present exhibitions, talks, and events for the public at our historic buildings in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.