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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its Spring 2026 grant cycle, which will see the nonprofit dole out nearly $5.2 million to 78 arts and cultural organizations.
The Spring 2026 cycle is divided into four types of grants: “Program Support Over 2 Years” (ranging from $50,000 to $100,000), “Exhibition Support” ($50,000–$100,000), “Curatorial Research Fellowships” ($27,000–$50,000), and “Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” ($20,000–$30,000).
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The “Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations” is being distributed for the first time after the Warhol Foundation announced earlier this year that it would create a new program for organizations with annual budgets under $200,000. Among the 20 organizations receiving these project-based grants, totaling $530,000, are Golden Dome in Los Angeles, which will design a garden; Soon is Now in Beacon, New York, to realize an installation; Seafoam Palace in Detroit, for a site-specific commission in a warehouse; and Art from the Inside in Minneapolis, which will mount a group exhibition of commissioned works by formerly incarcerated artists.
“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,” Warhol Foundation program director Rachel Bers said 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.”
Joey Terrill, My Mother’s Maiden Name, 1980–2006.
Photo Don Lewis/Courtesy the artist and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The exhibition support grants will go toward realizing 18 shows, including solos for Joey Terrill at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Amanda Williams at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas at the Jewish Museum in New York, Precious Okoyomon at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and Abdias Nascimento at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Group exhibitions receiving funding include “Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest” at the Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico in Taos, “Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and “Imperfect Balance” at the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
The 31 organizations receiving multi-year support include BlackStar in Philadelphia; the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in New York; 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California; Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky; Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose, California; Performance Space New York; and Vox Populi in Philadelphia.
Recipients of the curatorial fellowships include Margot Norton, chief curator of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in New York; Valérie Rousseau, curatorial chair and senior curator at the American Folk Art Museum; Natasha Becker, curator of African Art at the de Young Museum in San Francisco; and Tie Jojima, curator of global contemporary art at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
ashley middleton, Jessica Ackerley, Aude Guivarc’h, In the Shadow of the Sun (digital sketch of proposed installation), 2026.
Image: Aude Guivarc’h/Courtesy the artists and Soon Is Now
This cohort also features 33 first-time grantees, including Salmon Arts Creek in Albion, California; Yucca Valley Material Lab in Yucca Vallery, California; and Art Shanty Projects in Minneapolis, which “presents temporary artist-built shelters on frozen Lake Harriet that house exhibitions and performances by over 200 artists,” according to a release.
“The work of visual artists is essential to how we understand ourselves, challenge one another, and imagine what is possible,” Warhol Foundation president Joel Wachs said in a statement.“The Foundation is committed to supporting artists and the organizations that sustain them as they carry out some of the country’s most important cultural work, often under extraordinarily difficult conditions.”
The full list of the Warhol Foundation’s Spring 2026 grantees follows below.
Projects Grants for Small-Scale Organizations
GranteeAmountProject2nd StoryLexington, Kentucky$20,000“Diskette///Rosette” exhibitionArt From the InsideSt. Paul, MN$30,000Re/Form program and workshopsBridge ArtChicago, IL$30,000The Festival of Holes 2026Ditch ProjectsSpringfield, OR$30,000Jeffry Mitchell residency and exhibitionDORFAustin, Texas$30,000“Original Sin” exhibitionGolden Dome SchoolLos Angeles, CA$30,000“The Alchemist’s Garden: A Planetary Installation” at the Philosophical Research SocietyIndexicalSanta Cruz, CA$30,000commissioning program supportKorea Art ForumNew York, NY$30,000Socially Engaged Public Art InitiativeLarry Spring MuseumFort Bragg, CA$20,000“Redwood Time” exhibitionLooky HereGreenfield, MA$20,000RISO Futures: Experimental Print Residency & Installation SeriesPractice GalleryPhiladelphia, PA$20,000Collective Futures initiativeProspect ArtLos Angeles, CA$20,000“CHANGE/EXCHANGE”Roots & Culture Contemporary Art CenterChicago, IL$20,000“Double Exposure” exhibitionsThe School of Making ThinkingNew York, NY$30,000Program supportSeafoam PalaceDetroit, MI$20,000“Falling Sideways: Corollary”SHED ProjectsCleveland, OH$30,000Interventions “Inside + Outside”Small SchoolRaleigh, NC$30,000Visiting Artist program supportSoomaal House of ArtMinneapolis, MN$30,000“Spearwave” Exhibition SeriesSoon is Now, Inc.Beacon, NY$30,000In the Shadow of the Sun installationTiger Strikes AsteroidYeadon, PA$30,000Program support
Program Support Over 2 Years
GranteeAmountArt Shanty ProjectsMinneapolis, Minnesota$50,000BlackStarPhiladelphia, PA$100,000Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora InstituteNew York, NY$80,000Center for Land Use InterpretationCulver City, CA$80,000Contemporary at Blue StarSan Antonio, TX$100,000Creative Arkansas Community Hub and Exchange (CACHE)Springdale, AR$80,000The CurrentStowe, VT$80,00018th Street Arts CenterSanta Monica, CA$100,000516 ARTSAlbuquerque, NM$100,000Headlands Center for the ArtsSausalito, CA$100,000Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa FeSanta Fe, NM$80,000Institute 193Lexington, KY$80,000Kala Art InstituteBerkeley, CA$100,000The LabSan Francisco, CA$80,000Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)San Jose, CA$100,000Oregon ContemporaryPortland, OR$100,00Oxy Arts, Occidental CollegeLos Angeles, CA$80,000Performance Space New YorkNew York, NY$80,000Primary InformationBrooklyn, NY$100,000Public Media InstituteChicago, IL$100,000RedLineDenver, CO$100,000Ruta del CastorMexico City, Mexico$60,000Salina Art CenterSalina, KS$80,000Salmon Creek ArtsAlbion, CA$80,000Studio Route 29Frenchtown, NJ$80,000Studio Two ThreeRichmond, VA$80,000Triple CanopyNew York, NY$100,000Vox PopuliPhiladelphia, PA$80,000Wave FarmAcra, NY$80,000White ColumnsNew York, NY$100,000Yucca Valley Material LabYucca Valley, California$60,000
Exhibition Support
GranteeAmountProjectAnchorage 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, MO$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, WA$85,000“Invention Into Existence”Japanese American National MuseumLos Angeles, CA$80,000Ben Sakoguchi exhibitionThe Jewish MuseumNew York, NY$100,000“Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Flowers of the Black Earth”Museum of Contemporary Art ChicagoChicago, IL$100,000Amanda Williams exhibitionMuseum of Contemporary Art ClevelandCleveland, OH$100,000Exhibition Program support (over 2 years)Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA$100,000“Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era”Nasher Sculpture CenterDallas, TX$60,000Precious Okoyomon exhibitionNew Bedford Whaling MuseumNew Bedford, MA$60,000“Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas: William Bradford, Climate Change, and the Contemporary”San Diego Museum of ArtSan Diego, CA$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, IL$80,000Nina Chanel Abney exhibitionUCLA Hammer MuseumLos Angeles, CA$100,000“Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful”Walker Art CenterMinneapolis, MN$100,000Abdias Nascimento exhibition
Curatorial Research Fellowship
GranteeAmountProjectAmerican Folk Art MuseumLong Island City, NY$50,000Dr. Valérie RousseauBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive / University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA$44,000Margot NortonFine Arts Museums of San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$50,000Natasha BeckerThe Fralin Museum of Art / University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA$50,000Giulia PaolettiGropius BauBerlin, Germany$50,000Kelly Kivland and Jenny SchlenzkaIAIA Museum of Contemporary Native ArtsSanta Fe, NM$50,000Heidi K. BrandowThe Phillips CollectionWashington, DC$27,000Dr. Tie JojimaSpencer Museum of Art / The University of KansasLawrence, KS$50,000Dr. Ryan ClasbyWormfarm InstituteReedsburg, WI$50,000Austen Camille
