Over $4 million will be given to 49 organizations and institutions that keep artists at the center of their work.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced its Spring 2024 grantees. 49 visual arts organizations and cultural institutions from 19 states across the US, the District of Columbia, and one museum in South Africa will receive over $4 million to cultivate, present and uphold the diverse creative practices of artists. This round of grants supports the full range of visual arts organizations, from grassroots community centered spaces to storied cultural institutions.

“Artists are at the center of all of our grantmaking efforts; we seek to uplift organizations and institutions that consistently amplify artists’ voices and facilitate artists’ visions,” says Joel Wachs, President, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “The voices of artists keep our cultural conversations dynamic and evolving; their unique perspectives resist the stagnation that comes with polarization and suggest new ways of moving into and through turbulent times.”

Grantees receiving program support include small to mid-sized organizations that enable artists to pave their own creative paths and bring their visions to fruition. Some bolster artists’ practices through exhibitions, residencies, public art commissions, publications, and public symposia, while others, such as W.A.G.E., advocate for the value of their labor, developing systems for their equitable compensation.

Several new grantees foster cultural exchange and community interaction as an integral part of their programs. Donkey Mill Art Center (Hölualoa, HI) is committed to uplifting voices of Native Hawaiian, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ artists through its programs and to providing opportunities for exchange with local artists and members of the community. Open Source Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) presents site-specific contemporary art programming within a residential neighborhood, creating a unique and unconventional environment for artists to introduce their ideas to the public. San Francisco’s /(Slash) was founded by artists to support the city’s many independent curators, artists and writers, and its programs reflect the cultural and creative diversity of the region.

Other first-time grantees create opportunities for artists with research-based practices to present work in the public sphere. Emerson Contemporary at Emerson College (Boston, MA) is planning an ambitious series of exhibitions and programs around monuments, memorials, and local histories that will connect artists with local organizations. Heart of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), located in the newly renovated Lafayette Community Park Recreation Center, is organizing a three-part exhibition series of public works that celebrate the legacy of the park and surface forgotten stories of the communities it has served over the last 125 years. The newly launched Boston Public Art Triennial (Boston, MA) will commission immersive public projects from nationally prominent artists for its inaugural exhibition, Exchange, while also offering year-round professional development programs for early career artists experimenting with public art practices.

Technology, broadcast, performance, and new media are the focus of another group of grantees. The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University (Providence, RI) works with collaborative partners both on and off campus to commission artists interested in the relationships between performance, gender, race and technology. Artists working in experimental radio broadcasting and performance benefit from Montez Press Radio’s (New York, NY) partnerships with international creative communities to create programs that include interviews, conversations, oral histories, performances and new audio works.

Often, the geographic locations of grantee organizations serve as a source of inspiration or starting point for artists’ projects. Bas Fisher Invitational (Miami, FL) supports cultural producers and regional voices in Miami by presenting site-specific projects that address local issues such as climate change, population displacement, and neighborhood gentrification. A series of exhibitions at The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts (El Paso, TX) will focus on the historical interdependence of the U.S. and Central America in fields as diverse as agriculture and armed conflict as well as the impact of geography, climate and economic precarity on visual arts at the U.S./Mexico border. RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency) (Philadelphia, PA) provides an uncommon context for a residency program, located as it is within a commercial waste recycling facility with access to the adjacent Metal Bank Superfund Site. Artists develop projects that intervene in, respond to, or consider issues of the waste cycle and environmental rehabilitation.

“The Foundation supports organizations that are attuned to the idiosyncratic approaches artists take to their work; they make it their business to protect the integrity of these approaches and to stand behind the results,” says Rachel Bers, Program Director, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “Grantees share the values of flexibility, innovation, courage and perseverance with the artists they serve.”

Through various methods and practices, artists offer insight into how we might face urgent issues caused by the ongoing climate crisis. Their perspectives suggest possibilities for the acceptance of, collaboration with, or resistance to the ecological, economic, social, and cultural fallout from this emergency. Seeds: Containers of a World to Come organized by the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (St Louis, MO) will bring together ten artists who work with seeds as both science and metaphor, discussing threats to biodiversity and the impact of climate change on local ecologies. Meanwhile, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis will mount Like Water, a major group exhibition that makes fluid connections between intergenerational, geographically dispersed artists and art forms that consider water’s life-giving ability alongside its destructive power. Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, NV), will feature over 100 artists who are working with a sense of urgency to prevent environmental disaster using tactics that honor and respect land, sky, and water. Identified for their commitment to generating awareness of environmental sustainability, the artists will have the opportunity to discuss their ideas and work at the museum’s Art + Environment conference.

Many artists featured in funded exhibitions this round incorporate forms of activism and resistance into their practice, paving the way for and influencing younger generations of artists who are also politically minded. Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest, co-organized by The Phillips Collection (Washington, DC) and the Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati, OH), will be the first museum retrospective of the artist, activist, and educator whose work addressed imbalances of power affecting people of color, especially women. Jacqueline de Jong has made art as a form of protest across many decades, from her work with the Situationist International to her current depictions of the war in Ukraine; Nova Southeastern University Art Museum (Fort Lauderdale, FL) will present her first museum exhibition outside of Europe. The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY) is planning a retrospective that honors the labors and legacy of the groundbreaking artist Tom Lloyd, highlighting the artist’s cultural activism and community leadership alongside his aesthetic innovations.

The Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI) will mount Liz Collins: Motherlode, a mid-career retrospective of the queer feminist artist and designer whose work prompts discussions about mass production, labor efficiency, and the lived realties of industrialized culture. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI) will present Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape, the first survey of the Hmong American artist whose work reflects on expressions of identity and diaspora. The landmark survey Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form, organized by El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY) will present the sculptural work produced over the course of the Brazilian artist’s influential career.

Additionally, six grants will support curatorial research fellowships for projects in their nascent stages. Research includes a historical analysis of Chicago’s artist-run spaces; the influence of Gene Youngblood’s theories of Expanded Cinema on the Bay Area’s progression of new media art; the examination of cross-cultural navigations of queer desire in public space; a celebration of the fifty-year history of the publication Art Papers; a project that will analyze the implications of being able to see inside the human body; and a survey of the work of Afro-Brazilian artist, archivist, and scholar Abdias Nasciemento.

The complete list of Spring 2024 Grantees is as follows:

Spring 2024 Grant Recipients | Program Support Over 2 Years

African Film Festival – New York, NY     $100,000
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum – Ridgefield, CT     $100,000
Aperture – New York, NY     $100,000
Bas Fisher Invitational – Miami, FL     $80,000
David Winton Bell Gallery / Brown University – Providence, RI     $80,000
The Donkey Mill Art Center, Hŏlualoa Foundation – Holualoa, HI     $80,000
Emerson Contemporary / Emerson College – Boston, MA     $80,000
Los Angeles Filmforum—Los Angeles, CA     $68,000
Hammonds House Museum – Atlanta, GA     $100,000
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego – San Diego, CA     $80,000
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School – New York, NY     $100,000
Montez Press Radio – New York, NY     $90,000
Open Source Gallery – Brooklyn, NY     $60,000
Philbrook Museum of Art – Tulsa, OK     $100,000
RAIR – Philadelphia, PA     $80,000
Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought – New Orleans, LA     $80,000
/ (Slash) – San Francisco, CA $80,000
Space One Eleven – Birmingham, AL     $80,000
Summertime – Brooklyn, NY     $60,000
W.A.G.E.– Brooklyn, NY     $82,000
Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC     $100,000

Spring 2024 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support

American Federation of Arts – New York, NY     $100,000
Willie Birch: Stories to Tell

Arizona State University Art Museum – Tempe, AZ    $100,000
Exhibition support (over 2 years)

Boston Public Art Triennial – Boston, MA     $100,000
2025 Boston Public Triennial

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis – St. Louis, MO     $75,000
Like Water

Dia Art Foundation – New York, NY     $80,000
Reneé Green

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum / Washington University – St. Louis, MO     $75,000
Seeds: Containers of a World to Come 

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) – Los Angeles, CA     $100,000
Reflections in Lafayette Park: Reimagining Urban Oasis

John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Sheboygan, WI     $60,000
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape

El Museo del Barrio – New York, NY     $90,000
Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form

Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, MN     $65,000
El Vaivén: 21st Century Art of Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

Nevada Museum of Art – Reno, NV     $100,000
Into the Time Horizon

New Museum – New York, NY     $100,000
New Humans: Memories of the Future

The Isamu Noguchi Museum Foundation and Garden Museum – Long Island City, NY    $70,000
Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will wonder if we would have been friends

NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale – Fort Lauderdale, FL     $75,000
Jacqueline de Jong: Vicious Circles

Pérez Art Museum Miami – Miami, FL     $100,000
Woody De Othello: Transmutations

The Phillips Collection – Washington, DC     $100,000
Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest

Rhode Island School of Design Museum – Providence, RI     $60,000
Liz Collins: Motherlode

Rubin Center for the Visual Arts / University of Texas at El Paso – El Paso, TX     $100,000
Exhibition program support (over 2 years)

The Studio Museum in Harlem – New York, NY     $100,000
Tom Lloyd

Tufts University Art Galleries– Medford, MA     $100,000
Exhibition program support (over 2 years)

U.S. Biennial – New Orleans, LA    $100,000
Prospect.6         

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa – Capetown, South Africa     $100,000
Lie of the Land

Spring 2024 Grant Recipients | Curatorial Research Fellowship

Art Papers – Atlanta, GA     $50,000
Sarah Higgins

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts – San Francisco, CA     $50,000
Hannah Scott

International Center of Photography – New York, NY    $50,000
Elisabeth Sherman

Public Media Institute – Chicago, IL     $50,000
Brandon Alvendia, Kimi Kitada and Jes Allie

San José Museum of Art – San José, CA     $50,000
Juan Omar Rodriquez

Walker Art Center – Minneapolis, MN     $50,000
Rosario Güiraldes