Warhol Foundation Awards $4M in Grants to 57 Arts Groups

Overview of the Warhol Foundation’s Fall 2025 Grant Recipients

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York has revealed the recipients of its Fall 2025 grants, which will distribute over $4 million to 57 arts organizations. This grant program is a significant part of the foundation’s long-standing commitment to supporting arts and culture. The funding includes two-year program support, exhibition support, and curatorial research fellowships.

For the two-year program support, grantees can expect to receive between $60,000 and $180,000 this year. Exhibition support ranges from $35,000 to $100,000. These funds are intended to help organizations maintain their operations and continue to provide vital platforms for artists and cultural expression.

Diverse Recipients Across the United States and Beyond

The Fall 2025 grantees represent a wide array of locations, with participants coming from 17 states and Washington, D.C. Among them are well-established institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Independent Curators International, and Anthology Film Archives. Additionally, several artist-run organizations have been included, like Mini Mart City Park in Seattle and Transformer in Washington, D.C.

Notably, 20 of the grantees are receiving support from the Warhol Foundation for the first time. These include Path with Arts in Seattle, Access Gallery in Denver, the Galveston Artist Residency in Texas, and Harvester Arts in Wichita, Kansas. The foundation also supports organizations outside traditional art centers, such as 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.

In addition to U.S.-based organizations, two international entities have received support: the NGO Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyiv and the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan in Beirut.

Exhibitions Supported by the Warhol Foundation

Several exhibitions are set to benefit from the Warhol Foundation’s support. These include solo shows such as 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 are also part of the cohort, including "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.

Rachel Bers, a program director at the Warhol Foundation, commented on the importance of these grants. She stated that arts organizations of all sizes are finding ways to stay true to their missions while increasing the critical, curatorial, and community resources they offer to artists. She praised the platforms these organizations provide for artists’ perspectives to be seen, heard, and engaged during challenging times.

Context of Funding Challenges

This recent grant cycle comes at a time when funding for the arts has become especially dire. The Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), one of the major funders of arts organizations across the country, has had a significant impact. The NEA completely canceled its grants shortly after the deadline for the Warhol Foundation’s Spring 2025 grant cycle, which was March 1.

The Fall 2025 cycle, with a deadline of September 1, marked the first time that arts organizations had a clearer sense of the arts funding landscape. According to a spokesperson, the Warhol Foundation received nearly 40 percent more grant applications than usual for this cycle, and it increased the size of its grantee cohort by almost 20 percent.

Joel Wachs, president of the Warhol Foundation, highlighted the challenges faced by the arts ecosystem due to the reduction in government funding and the destabilization of cultural infrastructure caused by political and economic uncertainty. He emphasized the foundation’s commitment to supporting and uplifting the vital work done by artists and the organizations that sustain their efforts.

Detailed List of Fall 2025 Grant Recipients

Below is a list of the Warhol Foundation’s Fall 2025 grant recipients:

Fall 2025 Grant Recipients | Program Support Over 2 Years

• Addison Gallery of American Art
• Andover, MA
• $75,000

• "Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue"

• Americas Society

• New York, NY
• $80,000

• "Telenovela"

• Bard College

• Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• $60,000

• Marilou Schultz exhibition

• City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture

• New York, NY
• $80,000

• "ART/WORK"

• Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida

• Tampa, FL
• $50,000

• "Gisela Colón: Plasmática"

• Counterpublic

• St. Louis, MO
• $100,000

• Counterpublic 2026 Triennial

• Holter Museum of Art

• Helena, MT
• $80,000

• Exhibition program support

• Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

• Boston, MA
• $60,000

• "Leilah Babirye"

• List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Cambridge, MA
• $60,000

• "Hao Jingban"

• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

• North Adams, MA
• $75,000

• "Brother to Brother: Marlon Riggs & Essex Hemphill"

• Minnesota Museum of American Art

• Saint Paul, MN
• $60,000

• "The Smell of Earth: the work of Seitu Ken Jones"

• The Montclair Art Museum

• Montclair, NJ
• $35,000

• "Nadia Myre: Analogues"

• Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

• North Miami, FL
• $60,000

• "Light Comes Softly: Material Archives of the Haptic"

• Poster House

• New York, NY
• $60,000

• "Designed to be Red: Native American and Indigenous Poster Works"

• The Wende Museum of the Cold War

• Culver City, CA
• $60,000
• "Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky"

Fall 2025 Grant Recipients | Curatorial Research Fellowship

• Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
• Lexington, KY
• $38,000

• Rachel Hooper

• Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum / Naples Philharmonic

• Naples, FL
• $50,000
• Dianne Brás-Feliciano