The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts named 49 arts organizations that received a total of $4.1 million in the Fall 2021 grant cycle. As part of the announcement, the Warhol foundation also unveiled a new website developed by Wkshps.
Grants are directed to general program support of organizations for two years in the amount of 50,000 to 150,000 US dollars and to support specific exhibitions in the amount of 35,000 to 150,000 US dollars. Five institutions also received $47,000 or $50,000 curatorial research fellowships.
Warhol Foundation President Joel Wachs said that Fall 2021 grant recipients are adapting and inventing new ways to meet the needs of artists. Artists are at the heart of the Warhol Foundation’s work. It is more important than ever to support organizations that support and empower them as their practice evolves.
Several long-awaited shows received funding. The largest amount of support, $150,000, was given to the Carnegie Museum for its upcoming Carnegie International exhibition, which opens in September and is hosted by curator Sohrab Mohebbi.
Other major reviews that received $100,000 are for John Acomfre at the Menil Collection in Houston, Juan Francisco Elso at El Museo del Barrio in New York, Xavier Simmons at the Queens Museum, and Pacita Abad at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
A number of large-scale group exhibitions have also received funding, including:
In addition, 20 grantees in this cycle receive support from the Warhol Foundation for the first time, including:
Curators who have been recognized as part of the fellowship program include Denise Markonish of MASS MoCA in North Adams and Miranda Lash of the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Warhol Foundation Program Director Rachel Behrs said that museums, non-profit galleries, and other artist-focused organizations are important places for artists to incubate, explore, develop, and discuss projects that deal with the complexity of the present. The Warhol Foundation values the value these platforms place on artistic perspectives and voices, focusing artists’ perspectives on conversations that go far beyond the art world.
The full list of Fall 2021 grantees follows below.
Fall 2021 Grant Recipients (Program Support Over 2 Years) includes:
Fall 2021 Grant Recipients | Exhibition Support:
“Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime” – $50,000;
“Dara Birnbaum: Reaction” – $35,000;
Exhibition program support (over 2 years) – $100,000;
58th Carnegie International – $150,000;
“Natural World” – $75,000;
“Who tells a tale, adds a tail: Latin America and Contemporary Art” – $65,000;
“African Modernism in America, 1947-1967” – $100,000;
“Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala” – $100,000;
Faisal Abdu’Allah – $50,000;
“John Akomfrah, ‘The SNCC Manifestoes’” – $100,000;
“Juan Francisco Elso: Por América” – $100,000;
“Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s – Today” – $100,000;
Xaviera Simmons – $100,000
“Kelly Akashi: Of the Weeds” – $50,000;
Pacita Abad – $100,000;
Roberto Lugo exhibition and mural project – $40,000;
Fall 2021 Grant Recipients | Curatorial Research Fellowship are:
Denise Markonish – $50,000;
Macarena Gómez-Barris and Alaina Claire Feldman – $50,000;
Miranda Lash – $50,000;
Teréz Iacovino and José López Serra – $47,000;
Sharon Dynak and Tracey Kikut – $47,000.
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