Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Karl Haendel on receiving the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts.

Haendel joins the 101st class of the Guggenheim Fellows including 223 distinguished individuals working across 55 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, the Class of 2026 Guggenheim Fellows was tapped based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.

As established in 1925 by founder Senator Simon Guggenheim, each Fellow receives a monetary stipend to pursue independent work at the highest level under “the freest possible conditions.”

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the Museum of Modern Art’s acquisition of Robert Pruitt’s work Woman with Lizards (2025).

Featured in his latest exhibition at the gallery, Corpus in 2025, Pruitt’s monumental drawing depicts a seated female-figure enrobed in a mesh of sumptuous green vines that conceal a collection of small green lizards. Throughout Pruitt’s work, these quasi-mystic figures percolate and speak to the artist’s interest in honing the spiritual aspects of nature in his work. Pruitt’s practice weaves together religious iconography, science fiction imagery, and African American perspectives on theism, transcendence and mythology.