Over $4 million will be given to 48 arts organizations and institutions to continue providing critical support to artists.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Fall 2022 grants. 48 organizations will receive over $4 million to support artists and nourish creativity through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, publications, convenings, and curatorial research. The Spring and Fall 2022 grants, given to 98 organizations in 26 states, the District of Columbia and Canada as well as one foreign country, complement the Foundation’s additional annual grant-making which totals over $16 million.
As organizations continue to contend with the long-term effects of the challenging past few years, the Foundation will extend its flexible policy of allowing grant recipients to use up to 50% of their grants for administrative expenses, ultimately benefiting artists by providing crucial support for the stability of non-profit visual arts field.
“The Foundation’s grant program recognizes the vital role played by artist-centered organizations, community-oriented spaces, and major museums to amplify the voices and visions of artists,” states Joel Wachs, President, “In addition to championing experimental artistic practices, they provide crucial platforms from which artists can contribute to important cultural dialogues.”
The Fall 2022 grant recipients include several new grantees whose programs and missions support experimental practice, creative thinking, and community engagement. Counterpublic (St Louis, MO) works in public places, cultural institutions, historic houses, and community gathering spaces, commissioning artists, collectives, and community organizers to make and present works in St. Louis that engage the city’s histories and imagine new futures for it. The 20-year-old artist-led CURRENTS/Parallel Studios (Santa Fe, NM), a nexus for experiments in new media, supports established and emerging artist using technology to develop ideas through its annual festival and year-round exhibition space. Ortega Y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY) a non-hierarchical, collaborative institution run entirely by artists, presents exhibitions that support under-represented, marginalized, and emerging artists, expanding networks of cultural dialogue and bolstering artistic community.
Several grant recipients are addressing environmental deterioration by highlighting artistic practices engaged with this urgent topic. The Contemporary Austin (Austin, TX) will present The Land, an artist-led exploration of the connection between urban development, environmental degradation, labor and resource extraction, and human displacement. 18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica, CA) is organizing a series of exhibitions and commissions that explore various aspects of humanity’s relationship to the ecological health of the Earth, while SPACES (Cleveland, OH) is working on two collaborative projects: the co-production of the US Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale which will critically examine plastic as a renewable resource, and a project with UK-based artist Cooking Sections that investigates Lake Erie’s water quality.
Other Fall 2022 grantees are drawing upon their organizational histories and past artistic endeavors to illuminate current dialogues and develop new approaches to cultural production. Independent Curators International (New York, NY) will make its extensive archive of programs publicly accessible, providing an unparalleled resource on contemporary curation to a new generation of practitioners. In addition to publications by contemporary artists Primary Information (Brooklyn, NY) will produce new editions of out-of-print artists’ books and collections of previously inaccessible works that remain central to conversations around contemporary visual art. A pioneer in the field of socially engaged artmaking, Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a series of programs and installations that highlight the work of its founders; it will also continue developing its Archive Project which records the organization’s history and codifies its methodologies. Visual AIDS (New York, NY) honors and celebrates artists who have died from AIDS-related complications and those who are living with HIV. Many of its exhibitions, public events, and publications evolve from its Artists+ Registry and Archive Project, which was founded in 1994. It has recently launched a research fellowship to encourage new scholarship on lesser-known artists in the archive.
“The Fall 2022 grantees are nimble, adaptable and responsive to shifting cultural conditions enabling artists to engage with important issues, provoke public conversation and extend their practices beyond the confines of a studio or gallery space,” says Rachel Bers, Program Director, “We are pleased to support these organizations as they make way for artists to challenge and complicate our ways of moving through the world.”
Grants from the Fall 2022 cycle will also support exhibitions that look to the past to shed light on creative practices that grapple with political, social, and racial issues that occupy our cultural landscape. First time grantee the Albuquerque Museum Foundation’s exhibition Broken Boxes Podcast celebrates ten years of a project that highlights BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and activist visual artists whose work and practices challenge social, political, and creative orthodoxies. Copy Machine Manifestos: Artist Who Make Zines at The Brooklyn Museum will examine material and conceptual approaches to the underground art form whose affordable production and distribution ethos allows artists to disseminate radical ideas broadly. Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator is organizing Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive, an exhibition of first-generation US artists with roots in twelve countries whose work tells stories of diasporic identity. Also, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in collaboration with LAXART will present the group exhibition MONUMENTS featuring a selection of decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside new and recent contemporary art works, which together will create a space for public conversation about the pernicious ideology of the Lost Cause memorialized in public sculpture throughout the American South.
Solo exhibitions that champion artists whose work expands ongoing conversations in contemporary art history and the broader culture will also receive the Foundation’s support. First-time grantee The Athenaeum at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art will present Listeners, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based sculptor Fabienne Lasserre that will feature a performance created in collaboration with choreographer Beth Gill set within the gallery. Another first-time grantee Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture will present Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky a major retrospective of works by the artist who is affiliated with the Okanagan and Arrow Lakes tribes, examining his four-decade career working in the Pacific Northwest.
Additional solo exhibitions include Firelei Baez’s first museum show at the ICA/Boston; the first major museum survey of Argentina’s Marta Minujin, an artist central to the Latin American avant-garde presented by the Jewish Museum; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence, the first major retrospective to recognize the work of the innovative eighty-three-year-old Latinx artist; Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the first show to survey the sculptor’s work; and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s major exhibition of artist, filmmaker, and ethnographer Harry Smith.
A significant group of Curatorial Research Fellowships will also be awarded this grant cycle supporting a variety of projects that delve into topics such as gentrification, political action and disability aesthetics, mathematics and contemporary art practices, feminism, the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and wildfires and their impact on communities in Northern California, among other topics central to our current cultural moment.
The complete list of Fall 2022 Grantees is as follows:
Fall 2022 Grant Recipients | Program Support Over Two Years
The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon — $100,000
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX — $100,000
Counterpublic, St. Louis, Missouri — $80,000
CURRENTS/Parallel Studios, Santa Fe, NM — $80,000
Dirt Palace Public Projects, Providence, RI — $75,000
The Drawing Center, New York, NY — $120,000
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA — $100,000
Independent Curators International, New York, NY — $120,000
Institute 193, Lexington, KY — $60,000
The Laundromat Project, Brooklyn, NY — $110,000
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, North Miami, FL — $60,00
Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY — $60,00
Primary Information, Brooklyn, NY — $100,000
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX — $100,000
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT — $100,000
San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA — $100,000
SPACES, Cleveland, OH — $100,000
Transformer, Washington, DC — $100,000
Triple Canopy, New York, NY — $100,000
Visual AIDS, New York, NY — $100,000
White Columns, New York, NY — $100,000
Fall 2022 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support
Albuquerque Museum Foundation, Albuquerque, NM
Broken Boxes Podcast — $100,000
Athenaeum / University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, GA
Listeners — $60,000
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines — $100,000
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, Miami, FL
Depth of Identity: Art as Memory and Archive — $80,000
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility — $100,000
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
Firelei Báez exhibition — $100,000
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! — $100,000
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence — $100,000
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Like Magic — $60,000
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Ruth Asawa: Through Line — $100,000
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Monuments — $100,000
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA
Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky — $100,000
Performa, New York, NY
Performa 2023 Biennial — $100,000
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989 — $100,000
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I will not bend an inch — $75,000
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Harry Smith exhibition — $100,000
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Mickalene Thomas/Portrait of an Unlikely Space — $100,000
Fall 2022 Grant Recipients | Research Fellowships
Antenna / Press Street, New Orleans, LA
Shana M. griffin — $50,000
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
Felicia Mings — $50,000
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Sara Cluggish and MurphyKate Montee — $50,000
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Amara Antilla — $50,000
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
Margaret Winslow, Molly Garfinkel and Jodi Waynberg — $20,000
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA
Gavin Kroeber — $50,000
International Documentary Association , Los Angeles, CA
Keisha Knight and Abby Sun — $50,000
Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA
Laurel V. McLaughlin — $15,000
U.S. Biennial, Inc, New Orleans, LA
Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson — $50,000
