Warhol Foundation to Give $4 M.+ in Grants to 57 Arts Organizations

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York has announced the cohort for its Fall 2025 grant recipients, which give over $4 million to 57 arts organizations. The Warhol Foundation is known for its decades-long support of arts and culture organization, which comes in the support of program support over two years and exhibition support, as well as a curatorial research fellowship. For the two-year program support, grantees receive between $60,000 and $180,000 this year, while exhibition support is between $35,000 and $100,000. Related Articles Amid NEA Dismantling, Warhol and Frankenthaler Foundations Announce $800,000 Fund Warhol Foundation Doles Out $4.1 M. in Grants to 49 Art Institutions The Fall 2025 grantees hail from 17 states and Washington, D.C., and range from established institutions like Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Independent Curators International, and Anthology Film Archives to artist-run organizations like Mini Mart City Park in Seattle and Transformer in Washington, D.C. Additionally, 20 grantees are receiving funds from the Warhol Foundation for the first time, such as Path with Arts in Seattle, Access Gallery in Denver, the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas, and Harvester Arts in Wichita, Kansas. Organizations outside traditional art centers are also part of the Fall 2025 cohort, including Art of the Rural in Winona, Minnesota; Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor, New York; Living Arts of Tulsa in Oklahoma; and Tri-Star Arts (Locate Arts) in Knoxville, Tennessee. Two international organizations also received support: the NGO Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyiv and the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan in Beirut. Exhibitions receiving support include a mix of solo shows, like Ching Ho Cheng at the Addison Gallery of American Art; Gisela Colón at the Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida; and Leilah Babirye at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Group exhibitions also factor into the cohort, such as “Telenovelas” at the Americas Society in New York, the Counterpublic 2026 Triennial in St. Louis, and “Light Comes Softly: Material Archives of the Haptic” at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. “Arts organizations of all sizes, operating under increasingly precarious conditions, are finding ways to not only stay true to their missions but to increase the critical, curatorial and community resources they offer to artists,” Rachel Bers, a Warhol Foundation program director, said in a statement. “We commend their cultivation of artistic experimentation and appreciate the platforms they provide for artists’ perspectives to be seen, heard, and engaged as they (and we all) forge a path through difficult times.” This recent grant cycle comes at a time when funding for the arts has become especially dire since the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts, one of the other major funders of arts organizations across the country. The deadline for the Warhol Foundation’s Spring 2025 grant cycle was March 1, about two months before the NEA completely canceled its grants. The Fall 2025 cycle, which had a deadline of September 1, is the first one in which arts organizations had a clearer sense of the arts funding landscape, which is borne out in the number of applications the foundation received. A spokesperson said the Warhol Foundation received nearly 40 percent more grant applications for this cycle than it usually does and that it is has increased the size of its grantee cohort by almost 20 percent. “The recent reduction in government funding for the visual arts, along with a cultural infrastructure destabilized by widespread political and economic uncertainty, have substantially weakened support for the entire arts ecosystem,” Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs said in a statement.“The intense pressure this places on artists and the organizations that sustain their work reinforces the Foundation’s commitment to support and uplift the vital work they do.” The full list of the Warhol Foundation’s Fall 2025 grantees follows below. Fall 2025 Grant Recipients | Program Support Over 2 Years Fall 2025 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support Addison Gallery of American ArtAndover, MA$75,000“Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue” Americas SocietyNew York, NY$80,000“Telenovela” Bard CollegeAnnandale-on-Hudson, NY$60,000Marilou Schultz exhibition City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk CultureNew York, NY$80,000“ART/WORK” Contemporary Art Museum, University of South FloridaTampa, FL$50,000“Gisela Colón: Plasmática” CounterpublicSt. Louis, MO$100,000Counterpublic 2026 Triennial Holter Museum of ArtHelena, MT$80,000Exhibition program support Institute of Contemporary Art/BostonBoston, MA$60,000“Leilah Babirye” List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA$60,000“Hao Jingban” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtNorth Adams, MA$75,000“Brother to Brother: Marlon Riggs & Essex Hemphill” Minnesota Museum of American ArtSaint Paul, MN$60,000“The Smell of Earth: the work of Seitu Ken Jones” The Montclair Art MuseumMontclair, NJ$35,000“Nadia Myre: Analogues” Museum of Contemporary Art North MiamiNorth Miami, FL$60,000“Light Comes Softly: Material Archives of the Haptic” Poster HouseNew York, NY$60,000“Designed to be Red: Native American and Indigenous Poster Works” The Wende Museum of the Cold WarCulver City, CA$60,000“Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky” Fall 2025 Grant Recipients | Curatorial Research Fellowship Art Museum at the University of KentuckyLexington, KY$38,000Rachel Hooper Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum / Naples PhilharmonicNaples, FL$50,000Dianne Brás-Feliciano