Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) today announced the four artists selected to receive 2025 Mohn LAND Grants: Susan Aparicio, Woohee Cho, Hannah Huntley, and yétúndé ọlágbajú. Mohn LAND Grants were introduced in 2023 as a new and ambitious initiative to invest in emerging Los Angeles artists by providing them with a platform to present site-responsive, transdisciplinary work across Los Angeles County. The program was developed in collaboration with art collectors and philanthropists Pamela and Jarl Mohn.
“I am excited to be supporting the work that these four artists are undertaking through the 2025 Mohn LAND grants,” Jarl Mohn said. “Supporting artists at every stage of their career is undoubtedly important, but perhaps critically so as they endeavor to produce public art and work in dialogue with their communities. LAND has long facilitated these relationships, creating opportunities that inspire young and emerging artists to grow their practices and explore new material. This latest cohort of grantees showcases the breadth and depth of the artists who call Los Angeles home, and I am incredibly eager to experience the projects they will produce over the next year.”
Founded in 2009, LAND is recognized for supporting artists who work outside of traditional models and who are deeply embedded in their communities. The initiative reflects LAND’s mission to empower artists to have autonomy over the presentation of their work and in more direct relationship with the public. Mohn LAND Grants provide critical support, visibility and context for an artist’s first major public commission.
Artists were nominated by current Mohn LAND Grant recipients, as well as other LA-based artists and curators. They were selected based on a criteria of artistic excellence, a depth of community engagement, and the potential of the support to elevate their career at this moment in their overall practice and progression.
The curatorial team at LAND — comprised of director Laura Hyatt, deputy director Christopher Mangum-James and curators-at-large Bryan Barcena and Irina Gusin—shares that “the artists awarded the 2025 Mohn LAND Grant are representative of the diversity of practices that exist in Los Angeles, and insofar the projects they propose span a variety of mediums and formats, with a particular focus on performance and finding ways that art can meet audiences in unconventional spaces.”
They continue: “This year’s cohort of emerging artists all engage with sculptural objects to create a focus around which audiences can gather, and in doing so create and reinforce new and existing communities within this city.
The exhibitions will include new works as well as reimaginings of previous projects for new contexts, using the communities and neighborhoods they live in across Los Angeles as both a muse and a foil. Several of these artists are eager to use the opportunity to highlight their network of collaborators, peers, and local organizations, and draw connection to their sources of vital care, mutual support, and inspiration.”
This year’s cohort of artists are currently developing their projects. New commissions by each artist will be presented by LAND over the coming year.