The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Visual AIDS

Location
New York, NY
Grant Cycle
Fall 2022
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
visualaids.org/ ↗
Chloe Dzubilo, Operation, ca. 2008–2011. Courtesy of the Estate of Chloe Dzubilo.
Darrel Ellis monograph, 2019-21. Courtesy of Visual AIDS.
Still from Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento's video 'Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$)'. Courtesy of Visual AIDS.

Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS is the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, by producing and presenting visual art projects, exhibitions, public forums and publications – while assisting artists living with HIV/AIDS. It is committed to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS and the artistic contributions of the AIDS movement. It embraces diversity and difference in its staff, leadership, artists and audiences.

Visual AIDS uses the power of art as a catalyst to engage public response, dialogue and scholarship around HIV/AIDS through presenting contemporary art exhibitions, artist projects, public events and publications. It produces catalogs and printed matter. Year-round it collaborates with teachers and students to facilitate research and special projects.

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“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