Warhol Foundation Announces Spring 2026 Grantees
12July 8, 2026
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Artstodaynamedthe seventy-eight recipients of its spring 2026grants. The foundation will award nearly $5.2 million to visual arts organizations and institutions scattered across twenty-six states; Washington, DC; Mexico City; and Berlin. The cohort, which includes thirty-three first-time grantees, is for the first time divided into four groups, rather than three, with the foundation introducing project-based grants for small scale organizations with annual budgets under $200,000.
“At their best, visual arts organization cultivate creative risk-taking and promote the circulation of experimental approaches to culture. They are the incubators of new ideas, the platforms for underrepresented voices, and the community anchors that make artists’ visions accessible and intelligible to the public,” said Warhol Foundation program director Rachel Bers in statement. “Our recent grant program expansion reflects the foundation’s belief that small-scale institutions are just as vital as their larger and better known counterparts to the overall health of the arts ecosystem in this country; each has a crucial role to play in supporting the complexity and diversity of contemporary artistic practice.” Related The Box in Plymouth Wins UK’s Museum of the Year Award Marc Dalessio Wins 2026 National Portrait Gallery Award
Thirty-one institutions will receive program support of $50,000 to $100,000 over two years, while eighteen museums, university art galleries, and other organizations will receive between $50,000 and $100,000 in exhibition support. Nine curatorial fellowships will be awarded funding of between $27,000 and $50,000, and twenty small-scale organizations will get between $20,000 and $30,000 each.
Among the small-scale organizations receiving grants are Los Angeles’s Golden Dome, which is creating a garden whose design is informed by the classical planets of ancient alchemy, and Springfield, Oregon’s Ditch Projects, which will present the ceramics of “gay folk artist” Jeffry Mitchell.
First-time grantees receiving multiyear program support include Minneapolis’s Art Shanty Projects, which during the winter months presents exhibitions and performances inside temporary artist-built shelters on frozen Lake Harriet, and the Albion, California–based Salmon Creek Arts, which hosts residencies and workshops centered around connection to land.
Among the grantees receiving exhibition support are the Jewish Museum in New York, which will present a solo show of work by Polish Romani artist Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which will mount a group show of work juxtaposing landscape paintings by nineteenth-century artist William Bradford with works by contemporary Indigenous artists.
Curatorial fellowships will support preparations for the first posthumous institutional exhibition of Japanese Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake, as well as an exploration of techno in relation to various disciplines, among other projects.
A full list of grantees is below. Spring 2026 Grant Recipients |Grants for Small-Scale Organizations2nd StoryLexington, KY$20,000“Diskette///Rosette” exhibition
Art From the InsideSt. Paul, MN$30,000Re/Form program and workshops
Bridge ArtChicago$30,000The Festival of Holes 2026
Ditch ProjectsSpringfield, OR$30,000Jeffry Mitchell residency and exhibition
DORFAustin, TX$30,000“Original Sin” exhibition
Golden Dome SchoolLos Angeles$30,000“The Alchemist’s Garden: A Planetary Installation” at the Philosophical Research Society
IndexicalSanta Cruz, CA$30,000Commissioning program support
Korea Art ForumNew York$30,000Socially engaged public art initiative
Larry Spring MuseumFort Bragg, CA$20,000“Redwood Time” exhibition
Looky HereGreenfield, MA$20,000RISO Futures: Experimental Print Residency & Installation Series
Practice GalleryPhiladelphia$20,000Collective Futures initiative
Prospect ArtLos Angeles$20,000“CHANGE/EXCHANGE”
Roots & Culture Contemporary Art CenterChicago$20,000“Double Exposure” exhibitions
The School of Making ThinkingNew York$30,000Program support
Seafoam PalaceDetroit$20,000“Falling Sideways: Corollary”
SHED ProjectsCleveland$30,000Interventions “Inside + Outside”
Small SchoolRaleigh, NC$30,000Visiting artist program support
Soomaal House of ArtMinneapolis$30,000“Spearwave” exhibition series
Soon is Now, Inc.Beacon, NY$30,000In the Shadow of the Sun installation
Tiger Strikes AsteroidYeadon, PA$30,000Program support
Spring 2026 Grant Recipients |Program Support Over 2 YearsArt Shanty ProjectsMinneapolis$50,000
BlackStarPhiladelphia$100,000
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora InstituteNew York$80,000
Center for Land Use InterpretationCulver City, CA$80,000
Contemporary at Blue StarSan Antonio, TX$100,000
Creative Arkansas Community Hub and Exchange (CACHE)Springdale, AR$80,000
The CurrentStowe, VT$80,000
18th Street Arts CenterSanta Monica, CA$100,000
516 ARTSAlbuquerque, NM$100,000
Headlands Center for the ArtsSausalito, CA$100,000
Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa FeSanta Fe, NM$80,000
Institute 193Lexington, KY$80,000
Kala Art InstituteBerkeley, CA$100,000
The LabSan Francisco$80,000
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)San Jose, CA$100,000
Oregon ContemporaryPortland, OR$100,00
Oxy Arts, Occidental CollegeLos Angeles$80,000
Performance Space New YorkNew York$80,000
Primary InformationBrooklyn, NY$100,000
Public Media InstituteChicago$100,000
RedLineDenver$100,000
Ruta del CastorMexico City$60,000
Salina Art CenterSalina, KS$80,000
Salmon Creek ArtsAlbion, CA$80,000
Studio Route 29Frenchtown, NJ$80,000
Studio Two ThreeRichmond, VA$80,000
Triple CanopyNew York$100,000
Vox PopuliPhiladelphia$80,000
Wave FarmAcra, NY$80,000
White ColumnsNew York$100,000
Yucca Valley Material LabYucca Valley, CA$60,000
Spring 2026 Grant Recipients | Exhibition SupportAnchorage MuseumAnchorage, AK$100,000“Sonya Kelliher-Combs: MARK”
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of ArtChadds Ford, PA$100,000“Imperfect Absence”
Brattleboro Museum & Art CenterBrattleboro, VT$80,000Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisSt. Louis$70,000“Time Hop”
Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New MexicoTaos, NM$80,000“Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest”
Henry Art Gallery / University of WashingtonSeattle$85,000“Invention into Existence”
Japanese American National MuseumLos Angeles$80,000Ben Sakoguchi exhibition
The Jewish MuseumNew York$100,000“Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Flowers of the Black Earth”
Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoChicago$100,000Amanda Williams exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art ClevelandCleveland$100,000Exhibition program support (over 2 years)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles$100,000“Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era”
Nasher Sculpture CenterDallas$60,000Precious Okoyomon exhibition
New Bedford Whaling MuseumNew Bedford, MA$60,000“Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas: William Bradford, Climate Change, and the Contemporary”
San Diego Museum of ArtSan Diego$50,000“Meghann Riepenhoff: Waters of the Americas”
Sheldon Museum of Art / University of Nebraska-LincolnLincoln, NE$100,000“Pablo Helguera: Socialscapes and Bad Witches”
Smart Museum of Art, University of ChicagoChicago$80,000Nina Chanel Abney exhibition
UCLA Hammer MuseumLos Angeles$100,000“Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful”
Walker Art CenterMinneapolis$100,000Abdias Nascimento exhibition
Spring 2026 Grant Recipients |Curatorial Research Fellowship
American Folk Art MuseumLong Island City, NY$50,000Dr. Valérie Rousseau
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive / University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA$44,000Margot Norton
Fine Arts Museums of San FranciscoSan Francisco$50,000Natasha Becker
The Fralin Museum of Art / University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA$50,000Giulia Paoletti
Gropius BauBerlin$50,000Kelly Kivland and Jenny Schlenzka
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native ArtsSanta Fe, NM$50,000Heidi K. Brandow
The Phillips CollectionWashington, DC$27,000Dr. Tie Jojima
Spencer Museum of Art / The University of KansasLawrence, KS$50,000Dr. Ryan Clasby
Wormfarm InstituteReedsburg, WI$50,000Austen Camille