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.

1986

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.