The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Location
Chicago, IL
Grant Cycle
Fall 2024
Amount
$80,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
uima-chicago.org ↗
Franklin McMahon, Anti-war Protest Iran War on Devon Ave. in Chicago, 2003. Acrylic and graphite on paper, 22 x 33 inches.
Betty Venus Blue, They Say We Look Good for Our Age, 1996. Photo transfer, fabric, tassels, 47 x 47 inches.
Maryam Safajoo, Divested, 2025. Oil on linen, 20 x 24 inches.
Cassidy Early, Trans People Are Angels, 2022. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.

The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA) preserves and promotes contemporary art as a shared expression of the Ukrainian and American experience. UIMA develops, utilizes and encourages artistic talent through exhibitions, concerts, readings, lectures and films to serve the cultural needs of its community and city, and thereby strengthen cultural understanding and diversity.

Founded over 50 years ago, UIMA offers a robust schedule of exhibitions, musical and literary events, films, and gallery talks, including the annually anticipated Live and Silent Auction. Its permanent collection has grown to include works by such notable Ukrainian artists as Alexander Archipenko, Alexis Gritchenko, Mychajlo Andreenko, and Soviet era Ukrainian Non-Conformists, as well as many artists of Ukrainian descent. Works by Jerzy Nowosielski, Jules Olitski, Patrick Caulfield, Elisabeth Frink, Mary Fedden, are also featured, as well as Chicago artists Richard Hunt, Thomas Kapsalis, Michiko Itatani and others.

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant