Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts/ California College of the Arts – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Location: San Francisco, CA

Grant Cycle: Spring 2021

Amount: $120,000

Type of Grant: Multi-year Program Support

Website: https://wattis.org/ ↗

Maia Cruz Palileo, Long Kwento, 2021; installation view, CCA Wattis Institute; Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery. Photo: Impart Photography

Curatorial Practice class speaking with Anthony Huberman at the Wattis Institute. 9/21/2021

Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is...(Dancer in Grass Skirt), 1983/2009. C-print in 40 parts, 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm). Edition of 8 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © 2021 Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Lorraine O’Grady, Art Is...(Woman with Man and Cop Watching), 1983/2009. C-print in 40 parts, 16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm). Edition of 8 + 1 AP. Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. © 2021 Lorraine O’Grady / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

CCA Wattis Institute Facade

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute dedicated to contemporary art and ideas. The Wattis is a laboratory for testing the future of contemporary art through temporary exhibitions, public events, and in-depth research. It is part of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

The Wattis supports artists who take risks and experiment with new ideas. The Wattis provides a public forum to established, emerging, and under-recognized artists who challenge our ways of understanding the art of our current moment.

The Wattis currently works with artists in two distinct ways: as an exhibition space, it shows new and existing work by artists from around the world; and as a research institute, it commits an entire year to reflecting on the questions posed by a single artist’s work.

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Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.