Travel Grants

• About CIMAM Travel Grant Program

  

  Launched in 2005, CIMAM’s Travel Grant Program is designed to foster cooperation and cultural exchange between contemporary art curators and museums directors in emerging and developing economies and their counterparts in other regions of the world.

• 2026-28 Travel Grants Committee

  

  The 2026-28 Travel Grant Program consists of CIMAM Board members: Clara Kim (Chair), Pablo Lafuente, Kamini Sawhney, Tatiana Cuevas, Raphael Chikukwa, Joselina Cruz, Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, and Stephanie Rosenthal.

• 2026 Harare

  

  CIMAM Travel Grants invite curators, researchers, and museum professionals working in modern and contemporary art museums to apply for a Travel Grant to attend the 58th CIMAM Annual Conference, taking place in Harare, Zimbabwe, from November 20–22, 2026.

• CIMAM Precedent Grantees

  

  Since 2005 over 300 young curators and museum directors from emerging economies have been awarded support to attend CIMAM’s Annual Conference. Over the years CIMAM’s travel grantees have constituted a remarkable group of professionals who have later become important protagonists in today’s modern and contemporary art museums and collections.