$5m For US Arts Organisations in Warhol Foundation’s Latest Awards Cycle

A community printing facility, a space for creative experimentation with radio- and time-based art forms, and exhibition shelters on a frozen lake are among the 78 projects and organisations set to benefit from more than $5,000,000 in grants awarded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in its spring 2026 cycle.

The grant’s awardees include 33 organisations receiving support for the first time, 31 multi-year programme support grants, 18 exhibition grants and nine curatorial research fellowships. This cycle also sees the introduction of 20 new project grants for small-scale organisations with operating budgets of less than $200,000.

A statement from the foundation said that the recipients reflected the organisation’s “ongoing commitment to fostering experimentation, scholarship and public engagement in the visual arts”, as part of its mission to “support experimental and challenging new artistic activity in the most meaningful way possible, and to preserve and expand Warhol’s artistic legacy”.

Among the first-time grantees receiving multi-year support are Minneapolis-based Art Shanty Projects, which constructs temporary exhibition and performance shelters on frozen Lake Harriet. Studio Two Three in Richmond is a fully equipped printing facility that is also a space for community events and public exhibitions. Meanwhile, in Acra, Wave Farm supports artists working in time- and radio-based practice whose work often flies under critics’ radar.

Joel Wachs, the Warhol foundation’s president, said: “The work of visual artists is essential to how we understand ourselves, challenge one another, and imagine what is possible. The foundation is committed to supporting artists and the organisations that sustain them as they carry out some of the country’s most important cultural work, often under extraordinarily difficult conditions.”

Among the 18 museums and galleries receiving grants are The Jewish Museum in New York City, which will mount an exhibition from artist and actiivst Malgorzata Mirga-Tas about her Polish Romani community, and the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, which will host a show from Chicano visual culture activist Joey Terrill. Group exhibitions that have been allocated funding include Imperfect Absence at Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where the works on display will concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to ecology, conservation and long-term intervention.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts—which supports arts programmes throughout the US and beyond—was established in New York City in 1987. Warhol left almost his entire estate to the cause.

Another big-name foundation has also launched an award this week: The Fundación Kahlo for Mexican Art and Culture’s new biennial Kahlo Art Prize will give an emerging Mexican artist a $50,000 prize, as well as an international mentorship programme and the chance to exhibit at the Museo Casa Kahlo. The inaugural recipient will be named on 6 July 2027, the 120th anniversary of Kahlo’s birth.