Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2025 Grantees
118July 10, 2025
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Artson July 9 announced the fifty-one recipients of its spring 2025 grants. The foundation will award $4.3 million to visual arts organizations and institutions scattered across twenty-five states and Puerto Rico. Included among the cohort are thirty small and midsize organizations, which will receive multiyear funding, and sixteen museums and university art galleries, which will get exhibition support. Five curatorial research fellowships will be funded as well. The Warhol Foundationearlier this year collaborated with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to supply $800,000 in emergency aidto cultural programs that had seen their National Endowment for the Arts funding canceled.
“The spring 2025 grant cycle occurs amidst reductions in federal funding for the arts and humanities and new requirements for cultural production to align with executive orders and the administration’s priorities,” said Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs in a statement. “We have observed—and applaud—arts organizations across the country continuing to fulfill their missions, focusing on promoting artists’ expressions. We remain dedicated to supporting organizations that amplify the voices of artists, contributing to their individual well-being and to the overall health of our society.”
Among the recipients are organizations working to elevate artists’ careers through community-oriented activities, those offering a safe space for artists expressing ideas unaligned with the values of their communities, and those whose practices are rooted in Native American concepts of reciprocity and collectivity. Also receiving grants are organizations whose work is informed by the rural or historically unique areas in which they are situated and those aiming to shatter the stereotypes associated with the work of disabled or “outsider” artists.
First-time grantees receiving multiyear program support include Pensacola, Florida’s 309 Punk Project, an artist-run organization archiving the creative efforts of local punk and DIY culture; Rapid City, South Dakota’s Racing Magpie, a Lakota-centric arts and culture organization that stages exhibitions and public programs and operates studio programs for adults and elders; and the San Juan, Puerto Rico–based Para la Naturaleza, whichoversees a land trust of nearly 40,000 acres across eighty-six sites in Puerto Rico, and supports artists’ engagement in ecologically oriented residencies, programming, and study initiatives.
The exhibitions receiving funding are those that bring to the fore the work of underrepresented or overlooked artists, and thematic shows that address the current sociopolitical, economic, and cultural moment. Among them are the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive’s major retrospective—the artist’s first—of Maren Hassinger; the New York–based Creative Time’s program on“Religion and Spirituality”; and “Raving into the Future,” at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, which examines rave culture as a locus of resistance and joy.
A full list of recipients is below.
Spring 2025 Grant Recipients | Program Support Over 2 Years
Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile ($100,000)Amplify Arts, Omaha, NE ($60,000)Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), New York ($150,000)Arts of Life, Chicago ($80,000)Atlanta Center for Photography ($80,000)Atlanta Contemporary ($100,000)The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art ($80,000)Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY ($100,000)Centrum, Port Townsend, WA ($80,000)Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO ($100,000)Creative Time, New York ($100,000)Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA ($100,000)Fulcrum Arts, Pasadena, CA ($75,000)Human Resources, Los Angeles ($60,000)IndigenousAF, Las Vegas ($60,000)Indigo Arts Alliance, Portland, ME ($100,000)Moscow Contemporary, Moscow, ID ($60,000)Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN ($60,000)Ox-Bow, School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI ($80,000)Para la Naturaleza, San Juan, Puerto Rico ($100,000)The Peale Center, Baltimore ($80,000)Performa, New York ($100,000)Printed Matter, New York ($100,000)Progressive Art Studio Collective, Detroit ($80,000)/ Services to Enhance Potential (STEP) Queer|Art, New York ($80,000)Racing Magpie, Rapid City, SD ($80,000)1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA ($80,000)309 Punk Project, Pensacola, FL ($60,000)Twelve Gates Arts, Philadelphia ($70,000)The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles ($60,000)
Spring 2025 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco ($75,000)“Raving into Future”
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA ($100,000)“Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing”
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ($150,000)59th Carnegie International
DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago ($100,000)Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston ($100,000)Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ($90,000)“Speaking in Tongues”
ICA Philadelphia ($100,000)“The Condition of Being Near”
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson ($100,000)Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit ($80,000)Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY ($100,000)“Overexposed: Anatomy and Cinema, 1960–2025”
Oakland Museum of California ($90,000)Mildred Howard exhibition
Princeton University / Art Museum, Princeton, NJ ($100,000)“Clay Has Memory: Generational Knowledge from Africa”
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles ($100,000)“Several Eternities in a Day: Brownness and the Spiritual Turn in Art”
University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal ($100,000)Exhibition Program support (over 2 years)
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City ($100,000)Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM ($60,000)“Outburst: Native American Art After Vietnam”
Spring 2025 Grant Recipients | Curatorial Research Fellowship
Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Lansing ($50,000)Dalina A. Perdomo Álvarez
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver ($40,000)Leilani Lynch
Phoenix Art Museum ($50,000)Christian Ramírez
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT ($50,000)Edward A. Shanken
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond ($50,000)Valerie Cassel Oliver