Andy Warhol Foundation Announces 2025 Arts Writers Grantees
55Dec. 4, 2025
TheAndy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Granthasnamed its 2025 recipients, among themArtforumcontributors Glenn Adamson and Jeremy Lybarger. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $1.04 million to thirty-one writers working across four categories—Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and Translation. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. Launched in 2006, the grant program is aimed at sustaining critical writing about contemporary art and at ensuring that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts. The foundation has to date distributed over $13.5 million to more than 450 writers.
“By engaging deeply with works of art, exploring cultural and political contexts, and drawing connections across diverse periods and practices, arts writers broadcast artists’ voices far beyond gallery walls, reflecting—and shaping—critical issues in the social, political, and cultural landscape,” Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, said in a statement. “The Arts Writers Grant honors excellence in the field, and celebrates the generative role arts writing plays in creative and intellectual spheres.”
“It is heartening to see the bold work and urgent issues being addressed by the 2025 Arts Writers Grantees,” Pradeep Dalal, director of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, said in a statement. “The incisive criticism and expansive scholarship of this year’s grantees underscore the invaluable role of visual art in our lives today.”
A full list of 2025 grantees is below.
ArticlesOmar Berrada, “Stitching the Desert: Blackness in North African Art”Miriam Felton-Dansky, “Vetting Regimes: The US Politics of Artist Visas from the Berlin Wall to the Muslim Ban”Sohl Lee, “Contemporary Pasifika Art: Decolonial Currents and Communities in the Pacific Ocean”Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert “The Integrity of the Exhibit: On Art, Censorship, and Palestine”Zoé Samudzi, “The Citizen and the Anthropophage: Postwar/Postcolonial Italian Memory and the Cannibal Boom”Sunny Xiang, “Asian American Art During the First Intifada”
BooksMaggie Borowitz, An Unofficial History of Mexican PinkY Howard, Erratic Erotics: Analog – Sexualities – MortalitiesSalar Mameni, Bahamut: Aesthetic Flows of the Arabian SeaLydia Platón Lázaro, The Exchange Rate: Contemporary Women Artists and Longevity in the CaribbeanSharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Proving Ground: Proposals for a Genealogy of Black Feminist Land ArtJenni Sorkin, Deviant Scale: Cloth at the Body’s MarginsEric A. Stanley, The Aesthetic Underground: Visual Insurgency in the Long 1970sEllen Tani, Charles Gaines: Black Conceptualism and the Poetics of SystemsDrew Thompson, Coloring Surveillance through Polaroids: The Poetics of Black Solidarity and SocialityUranchimeg Tsultem, Withstanding Power: Mongolian Artists on Resilience in the Past and Present
Short-Form WritingGlenn AdamsonEmily AlesandriniLisa Hsiao ChenJean DykstraRuth GebreyesusRobert Alan GrandTobi HaslettJeremy LybargerRichard MayWalker MimmsLilia Rocio TaboadaCatherine G. Wagley
TranslationJessica Gogan, Creation Sundays: A Poetic Collection of the Experimental in Art and Education by Federico Morais (Portuguese)Eriko Ikeda Kay, From Their “Onna no ko shashin” to Our Girly Photo by Yurie Nagashima (Japanese)viento izquierdo ugaz, Saturday Night Thriller and Other Writings, 1992–2013 by Giuseppe Campuzano (Spanish)