The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

17 January 2019

The Warhol Foundation Announces Fall 2018 Grants

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Fall 2018 grant round. $3.65 million will be awarded to 42 arts organizations for exhibitions, publications, and visual arts programming, including film screenings, artist residencies, and new commissions. The foundation has an open submission process with application deadlines in the spring and fall. This biannual program represents $7.2 million of the foundation’s fiscal year grants budget which totals $13.9 million. This round of recipients was selected from an applicant pool of 273 nonprofit organizations. Individual grants range from $44,000-$120,000. A complete list of recipients follows.

The foundation supports artist-centered organizations with a focus on practices that are experimental, under-recognized, and/or challenging in nature. Current grants will fund projects in 16 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico with one international recipient, Ashkal Alwan, whose Home Works Forum gathers artists, curators, and scholars from around the world at its home base in Beirut. The foundation’s commitment to highlighting the work of innovative yet often marginalized practitioners is evident in grantee projects, which include a significant exhibition of Arab American artists produced by the St. Paul, MN-based organization Mizna, a series of books published by Visual AIDS that champion the activist practices of artists affected by the disease, and IndieCollect’s restoration and touring retrospective of important films by queer filmmakers. Half of the monographic exhibitions supported in this grant round feature female artists; eight of the ten are dedicated to artists of color. In alignment with the foundation’s commitment to freedom of artistic expression, a grant to the Media Democracy Fund will continue to aid its efforts to insure an open, accessible, and secure internet.

“We strive to support institutions that share our artist-centered values. The small grassroots arts organizations as well as the museums represented here provide invaluable opportunities for artists to express their unique perspectives on the pressing urgencies of the day. We hope that our grants help to amplify artists’ voices within their communities, in national discussions and debates, and across platforms in the international contemporary art world,” said Joel Wachs, the foundation’s President.

Reinforcing the value of the grant to working artists, Bradford Nordeen, Creative Director and Founder of Los Angeles-based Dirty Looks, explained that the award “embolden[s] our support for and compensation of the 75+ arts workers who make the project a reality, ensuring that our artist fees contribute toward a sustainable artistic practice, across our varied collaborations.”

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Fall 2018 Grant Recipients | Support for Single Exhibitions

  • Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, Milford Graves exhibition, $44,000
  • UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, “Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter,” $75,000
  • Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott,” $100,000
  • Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, “Fatimah Tuggar: Home’s Horizons,” $75,000
  • The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, “From the Uncanny Valley to the Crypto Sublime,” $100,000
  • Institute of Contemporary Art / University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Karyn Olivier exhibition, $50,000
  • John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, “Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe,” $75,000
  • Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY, “ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work,” $50,000
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Mrinalini Mukherjee exhibition, $100,000
  • Mizna, St. Paul, MN, “History Is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary,” $50,000
  • MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, Group exhibition that grapples with the legacies of the Gulf War in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003, $100,000
  • Museum of Chinese in America, New York, NY, “Godzilla vs. the Art World: Asian American Collectives,” $50,000
  • Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, “No Man’s Land: Women of Land Art,” $100,000
  • National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY, “The Oscar Howe Project,” $100,000
  • Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, “Teresita Fernández: Elemental,” $100,000
  • Pomona College Museum of Art / Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA, Todd Gray exhibition, $50,000
  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, “The Allure of Matter: Contemporary Art from China,” $100,000
  • Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA, “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Transnational Solidarity in the 1980s,” $75,000
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, “Still (A)live,” $100,000

 

Fall 2018 Grant Recipients | Program Support

  • African Film Festival, New York, NY, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Art Papers, Atlanta, GA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation, Burlington, VT, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, TX, $90,000 (over 2 years)
  • Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Dirty Looks, Los Angeles, CA, $50,000
  • DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • IndieCollect, New York, NY, $60,000
  • Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY $60,000 (over 2 years)
  • Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • New Venture Fund, Media Democracy Fund, Washington, DC, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, $120,000 (over 2 years)
  • Root Division, San Francisco, CA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Times Square Alliance, New York, NY, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, $100,000 (over 2 years)
  • Visual AIDS, New York, NY, $80,000 (over 2 years)

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Warhol painted more than 100 works related to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, which some have read as complex reckoning of his homosexuality, Catholicism, and mortality in response to witnessing AIDS devastate the gay community.