The Andy Warhol Foundation named its 2025 Arts Writers Grant recipients, among them past and current ARTnews and Art in America contributors such as Glenn Adamson, Jeremy Lybarger, Zoé Samudzi, and Catherine G. Wagley.
The grants consider writers across four categories: Articles, Books, Short-Form Writing, and Translation. The latter was introduced this cycle with a $30,000 purse to those translating books on contemporary visual art into English. A total of $1.04 million will be distributed to 31 writers this year in grants ranging from $15,000 to $50,000.
Since the initiative started in 2006, the grants have been annually awarded to contemporary art writers “to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts.” Thus far, the foundation’s grants have supported more than 450 writers with more than $13.5 million in funding.
“By engaging deeply with works of art, exploring cultural and political contexts, and drawing connections across diverse periods and practices, arts writers broadcast artists’ voices far beyond gallery walls, reflecting—and shaping—critical issues in the social, political, and cultural landscape,” Joel Wachs, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, said in a statement. “The Arts Writers Grant honors excellence in the field, and celebrates the generative role arts writing plays in creative and intellectual spheres.”
“It is heartening to see the bold work and urgent issues being addressed by the 2025 Arts Writers Grantees,” Pradeep Dalal, director of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, said in a statement. “The incisive criticism and expansive scholarship of this year’s grantees underscore the invaluable role of visual art in our lives today.”
Below is the full list of the 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant recipients.
Articles
Omar Berrada, “Stitching the Desert: Blackness in North African Art”
Miriam Felton-Dansky, “Vetting Regimes: The US Politics of Artist Visas from the Berlin Wall to the Muslim Ban”
Sohl Lee, “Contemporary Pasifika Art: Decolonial Currents and Communities in the Pacific Ocean”
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert “The Integrity of the Exhibit: On Art, Censorship, and Palestine”
Zoé Samudzi, “The Citizen and the Anthropophage: Postwar/Postcolonial Italian Memory and the Cannibal Boom”
Sunny Xiang, “Asian American Art During the First Intifada”
Books
Maggie Borowitz, An Unofficial History of Mexican Pink
Y Howard, Erratic Erotics: Analog – Sexualities – Mortalities
Salar Mameni, Bahamut: Aesthetic Flows of the Arabian Sea
Lydia Platón Lázaro, The Exchange Rate: Contemporary Women Artists and Longevity in the Caribbean
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Proving Ground: Proposals for a Genealogy of Black Feminist Land Art
Jenni Sorkin, Deviant Scale: Cloth at the Body’s Margins
Eric A. Stanley, The Aesthetic Underground: Visual Insurgency in the Long 1970s
Ellen Tani, Charles Gaines: Black Conceptualism and the Poetics of Systems
Drew Thompson, Coloring Surveillance through Polaroids: The Poetics of Black Solidarity and Sociality
Uranchimeg Tsultem, Withstanding Power: Mongolian Artists on Resilience in the Past and Present
Short-Form Writing
Glenn Adamson
Emily Alesandrini
Lisa Hsiao Chen
Jean Dykstra
Ruth Gebreyesus
Robert Alan Grand
Tobi Haslett
Jeremy Lybarger
Richard May
Walker Mimms
Lilia Rocio Taboada
Catherine G. Wagley
Translation
Jessica Gogan, Creation Sundays: A Poetic Collection of the Experimental in Art and Education by Federico Morais (Portuguese)
Eriko Ikeda Kay, From Their “Onna no ko shashin” to Our Girly Photo by Yurie Nagashima (Japanese)
viento izquierdo ugaz, Saturday Night Thriller and Other Writings, 1992–2013 by Giuseppe Campuzano (Spanish)
