Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Announces 2023 Grantees

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has named its 2023 grantees. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $935,000 to twenty-seven writers working across three categories—Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Each will receive an award of between $15,000 and $50,000. The grant program is meant to sustain critical writing about contemporary art and to ensure that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts.

“The grantees engage urgent issues such as disability access and aesthetics, Indigenous communities and their art practices, transnational modernisms, queer and feminist art, and more,” said Pradeep Dalal, director of the Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, in a statement. “Reading the scholarship and criticism produced by arts writers every year is a reminder as to how such writing can challenge the constrictions that chronology and thematized ordering systems impose on our understanding of art and history. The field of contemporary arts writing is capacious, and its constantly expanding disciplinary borders are perhaps more porous now than ever.”RelatedMANUEL BORJA-VILLEL WINS CCS BARD’S AUDREY IRMAS AWARD FOR CURATORIAL EXCELLENCESTAFF AT BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM MOVE TO UNIONIZE Among the winners in the Articles category are Moustafa Bayoumi, whose “Aesthetics, Circulation, and the Politics of the Restitution of Art from Guantánamo Bay” compares artworks made by detainees at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay to works about Guantánamo made by other artists, and Jane Ursula Harris, whose “Unruly Bodies: Confronting Ableism with Aberrance” focuses on work by artists Jesse Darling, Mae Howard, and Berenice Olmedo that examines the myths, realities, and possibilities associated with conditions of disability. In the Books category, Tara McDowell received a grant forThe Mother Artist,whichwill explore mothering as an emergent subject and condition of contemporary art, while Uri McMillan won a grant forThe Seventies in Color,investigating the impact of Black and brown creative labor on the art and fashion of the decade.

Among the grant recipients in the Short Form Writing category are Sahar Khraibani, in aid of a series of articles on the artistic modes of production employed by queer artists from the Arab world and its diaspora, and Lillien Waller, who is planning a series of profiles on artists of color, many of them from Detroit. A full list of 2023 grantees is below: Articles Moustafa Bayoumi, “Aesthetics, Circulation, and the Politics of the Restitution of Art from Guantánamo Bay”Chelsea Haines, “Transatlantic Solidarities: Gershon Knispel in Brazil”Jane Ursula Harris, “Unruly Bodies: Confronting Ableism with Aberrance”David W. Norman, “Forgetting Michael Heizer’s Effigy Tumuli: The Disappearance of a Settler Earthwork”Natalia Zuluaga, “Sway and Split: Performance and Pedagogy in 1980s Cuba” Books Kemi Adeyemi,Writing About Black ArtEmilie Boone,Haiti Chooses You: A Contemporary Pedagogy on PhotographyAmanda Cachia,Hospitable Aesthetics: Rescripting Medical Images of DisabilityKaleem Hawa,Land and CatastropheLila Lee-Morrison,Machinic Landscapes:Technology, Art and Environment in an Age of PlanetarityTara McDowell,The Mother ArtistUri McMillan,The Seventies in ColorJasmina Tumbas, Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond NationhoodW. Jamaal Wright,Valorizing the Void: Place and Public Art in Houston’s Third WardGregory Zinman,Public Scenes: Media Art Outside the Gallery and Museum Short-Form Writing Silvia BenedettiEdna BonhommeKim CórdovaYinka ElujobaWill FenstermakerJessica FuentesNadia Jackinsky-SethiSahar KhraibaniAnnette An-Jen LiuMark PietersonDina A.

RamadanLillien Waller.