78 organizations will receive over $5 million to support visual arts programs across the country and beyond.
July 8, 2026—The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is pleased to announce the recipients of its Spring 2026 grant cycle, awarding a total of $5,166,000 to 78 organizations advancing the visual arts across the United States. The grants support exhibitions, curatorial research, public programs, and artist-centered initiatives in 26 states, Washington, D.C., Mexico City, and Berlin. This grant cycle marks the inaugural round of the Foundation’s new Project Grants for Small-Scale Organizations, which support artists’ projects at institutions with annual operating budgets under $200,000 and extend the reach of the resources the Foundation has made available to the field for almost 40 years.
The Spring 2026 recipients reflect the Foundation’s ongoing commitment to fostering experimentation, scholarship, and public engagement in the visual arts. 33 organizations are receiving Warhol Foundation support for the first time. Grants awarded this cycle include 20 project grants for small-scale organizations, 31 multi-year program support grants, 18 exhibition grants, and nine curatorial research fellowships.
“The work of visual artists is essential to how we understand ourselves, challenge one another, and imagine what is possible,” says Joel Wachs, President of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “The Foundation is committed to supporting artists and the organizations that sustain them as they carry out some of the country’s most important cultural work, often under extraordinarily difficult conditions.”
Twenty small-scale organizations will receive a combined $530,000 through the new initiative. Projects include a garden designed to be in harmonious alignment with the classical planets of ancient alchemy organized by the Golden Dome (Los Angeles, CA); a multidisciplinary installation activated by human touch that reflects on fieldwork done in the Arctic presented by Soon is Now (Beacon, NY); and a site-specific installation in an abandoned warehouse by art and science collective Seafoam Palace (Detroit, MI). A number of solo exhibitions will also receive support, including the ceramic works of “gay folk artist” Jeffry Mitchell at Ditch Projects (Springfield, OR), the first dedicated exhibition of St Louis-based artist Brianna McIntyre organized by DORF (Austin, TX), and an exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Camila Galaz presented by 2nd Story (Lexington, KY). Supported group shows include commissioned works made by formerly incarcerated artists at Art From the Inside (Minneapolis, MN) and an exhibition of risograph prints made during an experimental residency at Looky Here (Greenfield, MA). Additional funded projects include public art initiatives, new commissions, programs for peer learning and community building, and other experimental activities that are vital to local cultural ecosystems.
Several first-time grantees receiving multi-year program support provide artists with resources, space, and unconventional platforms to forge new directions in their work. During the cold winter months, Art Shanty Projects (Minneapolis, MN), presents temporary artist-built shelters on frozen Lake Harriet that house exhibitions and performances by over 200 artists. Conjuring the spirit of Northern California’s communes, Salmon Creek Arts (Albion, CA) hosts residencies, workshops, publications and exhibitions that encourage connectivity and responsibility to the land. In the high desert of Southern California, Yucca Valley Material Lab (Yucca Valley, CA) offers artists guidance and technical resources to produce ambitious new work in studios that support experimentation in glass, metal, fiber, robotics, and digital sculpting.
Other new grantees share a conviction that creative practices can be more meaningful when open to, shaped by, and accountable to the communities in which they take root. Creative Arkansas Community Hub and Exchange (Springdale, AR) supports artists and creative initiatives that reflect and engage in the full diversity of its region; Oxy Arts, Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA) connects artists to neighborhood residents and local small business to tackle pressing topics such as mutual care in the trans community, the rising cost of rent, and more; and Studio Two Three (Richmond, VA), a fully equipped printing facility, presents public exhibitions, hosts residencies, screens documentary films, and caters to its neighbors by facilitating community-initiated events including union meetings, clothing swaps and mutual aid efforts.
Additional multi-year program grantees are committed to providing support for experimental and interdisciplinary practices that resist easy categorization. San Francisco’s The Lab has for decades provided a home for artists pushing the boundaries of performance, sound, and visual art; Performance Space New York (New York, NY) nurtures performance and long-term immersive projects that highlight the voices of radical and marginalized artists; Triple Canopy (New York, NY) extends support for experimentation into the realm of publishing and digital culture, treating the essay, the image, and the online platform itself as material to be interrogated and reimagined; and Wave Farm (Acra, NY) is dedicated to creative experimentation with radio and time-based artforms supporting artists whose practices are uncategorizable and often escape critical and curatorial attention.
“At their best, visual arts organization cultivate creative risk-taking and promote the circulation of experimental approaches to culture. They are the incubators of new ideas, the platforms for underrepresented voices, and the community anchors that make artists’ visions accessible and intelligible to the public,” says Rachel Bers, Program Director of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, “Our recent grant program expansion reflects the foundation’s belief that small-scale institutions are just as vital as their larger and better known counterparts to the overall health of the arts ecosystem in this country; each has a crucial role to play in supporting the complexity and diversity of contemporary artistic practice.”
The Spring 2026 grant recipients include 18 museums, university art galleries, and other organizations presenting large-scale solo and group exhibitions. The Jewish Museum (New York NY) is organizing an exhibition of Malgorzata Mirga-Tas whose work brings vitality, grace, and dignity to representations of her Polish Romani community, challenging the derogatory stereotypes that have long shaped its depiction. The queer Mexican American artist, cultural icon, and activist Joey Terrill, who is a foundational figure in the development of Chicano visual culture on the West Coast, will have an exhibition at the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), and the Anchorage Museum (Anchorage, AK) will host an exhibition by Sonya Kelliher-Combs whose work draws on indigenous knowledge passed through generations to confront contemporary cultural and environmental threats.
Several funded group exhibitions will examine the climate crisis and its effects on land, people, and culture. First time grant recipient the Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico (Taos, NM) will organize Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest, presenting emerging and mid-career photographers who employ portraiture, landscape, community-based archives, and other forms of photography to express their connection to place. Another new grant recipient, New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford, MA) will pair landscape paintings by 19th century artist William Bradford with contemporary works by Indigenous artists in Melting Glaciers, Risings Seas: William Bradford, Climate Change, and the Contemporary, a juxtaposition that will bring attention to the threatened cultural lifeways of Indigenous artists from the Eastern Arctic. Imperfect Absence at Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art (Chadds Ford, PA) will feature artworks that address concerns of ecological conservation, focusing on interdisciplinary and immaterial approaches involving scientific research and long-term interventions into the landscape.
Nine curatorial research fellowships will also be awarded in the Spring 2026 grant cycle. The fellowships support scholarly research in the field for projects in formative stages. They include an investigation into poetry’s integral role in activist movements, an exploration of photography’s entanglement with textiles, and the examination of techno music’s intersection with various disciplines. Additional research focuses on the practices of Indigenous pan-Amazonian contemporary artists, preparations for the first posthumous museum survey of Japanese Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake, and a look at self-taught artists who use outdoor public space as both studio and exhibition site, among other projects.
The complete list of Spring 2026 Grantees is as follows:
Spring 2026 Grants | Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations
2nd Story, Lexington, Kentucky $20,000
Diskette///Rosette exhibition
Art From the Inside, St. Paul, MN $30,000
Re/Form program and workshops
Bridge Art, Chicago, IL $30,000
The Festival of Holes 2026
Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR $30,000
Jeffry Mitchell residency and exhibition
DORF, Austin, Texas $30,000
Original Sin exhibition
Golden Dome School, Los Angeles, CA $30,000
The Alchemist’s Garden: A Planetary Installation at the Philosophical Research Society
Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA $30,000
commissioning program support
Korea Art Forum, New York, NY $30,000
Socially Engaged Public Art Initiative
Larry Spring Museum, Fort Bragg, CA $20,000
Redwood Time exhibition
Looky Here, Greenfield, MA $20,000
RISO Futures: Experimental Print Residency & Installation Series
Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA $20,000
Collective Futures initiative
Prospect Art, Los Angeles, CA $20,000
CHANGE/EXCHANGE
Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago, IL $20,000
Double Exposure exhibitions
The School of Making Thinking, New York, NY $30,000
Program support
Seafoam Palace, Detroit, MI $20,000
Falling Sideways: Corollary
SHED Projects, Cleveland, OH $30,000
Interventions Inside + Outside
Small School, Raleigh, NC $30,000
Visiting Artist program support
Soomaal House of Art, Minneapolis, MN $30,000
Spearwave Exhibition Series
Soon is Now, Inc., Beacon, NY $30,000
In the Shadow of the Sun installation
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Yeadon, PA $30,000
Program support
Spring 2026 Grants | Program Support Over 2 Years
Art Shanty Projects, Minneapolis, Minnesota $50,000
BlackStar, Philadelphia, PA $100,000
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY $80,000
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Culver City, CA $80,000
Contemporary at Blue Star, San Antonio, TX $100,000
Creative Arkansas Community Hub and Exchange (CACHE), Springdale, AR $80,000
The Current, Stowe, VT $80,000
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA $100,000
516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM $100,000
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA $100,000
Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM $80,000
Institute 193, Lexington, KY $80,000
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA $100,000
The Lab, San Francisco, CA $80,000
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose, CA $100,000
Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR $100,00
Oxy Arts, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA $80,000
Performance Space New York, New York, NY $80,000
Primary Information, Brooklyn, NY $100,000
Public Media Institute, Chicago, IL $100,000
RedLine, Denver, CO $100,000
Ruta del Castor, Mexico City, Mexico $60,000
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS $80,000
Salmon Creek Arts, Albion, CA $80,000
Studio Route 29, Frenchtown, NJ $80,000
Studio Two Three, Richmond, VA $80,000
Triple Canopy, New York, NY $100,000
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA $80,000
Wave Farm, Acra, NY $80,000
White Columns, New York, NY $100,000
Yucca Valley Material Lab, Yucca Valley, California $60,000
Spring 2026 Grants | Exhibition Support
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK $100,000
Sonya Kelliher-Combs: MARK
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA $100,000
Imperfect Absence
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT $80,000
Exhibition Program support (over 2 years)
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO $70,000
Time Hop
Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico, Taos, NM $80,000
Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest
Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington, Seattle, WA $85,000
Invention Into Existence
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA $80,000
Ben Sakoguchi exhibition
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY $100,000
Malgorzata Mirga-Tas: Flowers of the Black Earth
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL $100,000
“Amanda Williams” exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH $100,000
Exhibition Program support (over 2 years)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX $60,000
Precious Okoyomon exhibition
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA $60,000
Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas: William Bradford, Climate Change, and the Contemporary
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA $50,000
Meghann Riepenhoff: Waters of the Americas
Sheldon Museum of Art / University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE $100,000
Pablo Helguera: Socialscapes and Bad Witches
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL $80,000
Nina Chanel Abney exhibition
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA $100,000
Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN $100,000
Abdias Nascimento exhibition
Spring 2026 Grants | Curatorial Research Fellowship
American Folk Art Museum, Long Island City, NY $50,000
Dr. Valérie Rousseau
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive / University of California, Berkeley, CA $44,000
Margot Norton
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA $50,000
Natasha Becker
The Fralin Museum of Art / University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA $50,000
Giulia Paoletti
Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany $50,000
Kelly Kivland and Jenny Schlenzka
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM $50,000
Heidi K. Brandow
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC $27,000
Dr. Tie Jojima
Spencer Museum of Art / The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS $50,000
Dr. Ryan Clasby
Wormfarm Institute, Reedsburg, WI $50,000
Austen Camille