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).
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
| Grantee | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Story Lexington, Kentucky |
$20,000 | “Diskette///Rosette” exhibition |
| Art From the Inside St. Paul, MN |
$30,000 | Re/Form program and workshops |
| Bridge Art Chicago, IL |
$30,000 | The Festival of Holes 2026 |
| Ditch Projects Springfield, OR |
$30,000 | Jeffry Mitchell residency and exhibition |
| DORF Austin, Texas |
$30,000 | “Original Sin” exhibition |
| Golden Dome School Los Angeles, CA |
$30,000 | “The Alchemist’s Garden: A Planetary Installation” at the Philosophical Research Society |
| Indexical Santa Cruz, CA |
$30,000 | commissioning program support |
| Korea Art Forum New York, NY |
$30,000 | Socially Engaged Public Art Initiative |
| Larry Spring Museum Fort Bragg, CA |
$20,000 | “Redwood Time” exhibition |
| Looky Here Greenfield, MA |
$20,000 | RISO Futures: Experimental Print Residency & Installation Series |
| Practice Gallery Philadelphia, PA |
$20,000 | Collective Futures initiative |
| Prospect Art Los Angeles, CA |
$20,000 | “CHANGE/EXCHANGE” |
| Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center Chicago, IL |
$20,000 | “Double Exposure” exhibitions |
| The School of Making Thinking New York, NY |
$30,000 | Program support |
| Seafoam Palace Detroit, MI |
$20,000 | “Falling Sideways: Corollary” |
| SHED Projects Cleveland, OH |
$30,000 | Interventions “Inside + Outside” |
| Small School Raleigh, NC |
$30,000 | Visiting Artist program support |
| Soomaal House of Art Minneapolis, MN |
$30,000 | “Spearwave” Exhibition Series |
| Soon is Now, Inc. Beacon, NY |
$30,000 | In the Shadow of the Sun installation |
| Tiger Strikes Asteroid Yeadon, PA |
$30,000 | Program support |
Program Support Over 2 Years
| Grantee | Amount |
|---|---|
| Art Shanty Projects Minneapolis, Minnesota |
$50,000 |
| BlackStar Philadelphia, PA |
$100,000 |
| Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute New York, NY |
$80,000 |
| Center for Land Use Interpretation Culver City, CA |
$80,000 |
| Contemporary at Blue Star San Antonio, TX |
$100,000 |
| Creative Arkansas Community Hub and Exchange (CACHE) Springdale, AR |
$80,000 |
| The Current Stowe, VT |
$80,000 |
| 18th Street Arts Center Santa Monica, CA |
$100,000 |
| 516 ARTS Albuquerque, NM |
$100,000 |
| Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito, CA |
$100,000 |
| Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM |
$80,000 |
| Institute 193 Lexington, KY |
$80,000 |
| Kala Art Institute Berkeley, CA |
$100,000 |
| The Lab San Francisco, CA |
$80,000 |
| Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) San Jose, CA |
$100,000 |
| Oregon Contemporary Portland, OR |
$100,00 |
| Oxy Arts, Occidental College Los Angeles, CA |
$80,000 |
| Performance Space New York New York, NY |
$80,000 |
| Primary Information Brooklyn, NY |
$100,000 |
| Public Media Institute Chicago, IL |
$100,000 |
| RedLine Denver, CO |
$100,000 |
| Ruta del Castor Mexico City, Mexico |
$60,000 |
| Salina Art Center Salina, KS |
$80,000 |
| Salmon Creek Arts Albion, CA |
$80,000 |
| Studio Route 29 Frenchtown, NJ |
$80,000 |
| Studio Two Three Richmond, VA |
$80,000 |
| Triple Canopy New York, NY |
$100,000 |
| Vox Populi Philadelphia, PA |
$80,000 |
| Wave Farm Acra, NY |
$80,000 |
| White Columns New York, NY |
$100,000 |
| Yucca Valley Material Lab Yucca Valley, California |
$60,000 |
Exhibition Support
| Grantee | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| Anchorage Museum Anchorage, AK |
$100,000 | “Sonya Kelliher-Combs: MARK” |
| Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art Chadds Ford, PA |
$100,000 | “Imperfect Absence” |
| Brattleboro Museum & Art Center Brattleboro, VT |
$80,000 | Exhibition Program support (over 2 years) |
| Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis St. Louis, MO |
$70,000 | “Time Hop” |
| Harwood Museum of Art of the University of New Mexico Taos, NM |
$80,000 | “Terruño: Contemporary Photography and Sense of Place in the American Southwest” |
| Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington Seattle, WA |
$85,000 | “Invention Into Existence” |
| Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, CA |
$80,000 | Ben Sakoguchi exhibition |
| The Jewish Museum New York, NY |
$100,000 | “Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Flowers of the Black Earth” |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Chicago, IL |
$100,000 | Amanda Williams exhibition |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Cleveland, OH |
$100,000 | Exhibition Program support (over 2 years) |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA |
$100,000 | “Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era” |
| Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas, TX |
$60,000 | Precious Okoyomon exhibition |
| New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, MA |
$60,000 | “Melting Glaciers, Rising Seas: William Bradford, Climate Change, and the Contemporary” |
| San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA |
$50,000 | “Meghann Riepenhoff: Waters of the Americas” |
| Sheldon Museum of Art / University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE |
$100,000 | “Pablo Helguera: Socialscapes and Bad Witches” |
| Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Chicago, IL |
$80,000 | Nina Chanel Abney exhibition |
| UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles, CA |
$100,000 | “Joey Terrill: Homeboy Beautiful” |
| Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN |
$100,000 | Abdias Nascimento exhibition |
Curatorial Research Fellowship
| Grantee | Amount | Project |
|---|---|---|
| American Folk Art Museum Long Island City, NY |
$50,000 | Dr. Valérie Rousseau |
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive / University of California Berkeley, CA |
$44,000 | Margot Norton |
| Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco San Francisco, CA |
$50,000 | Natasha Becker |
| The Fralin Museum of Art / University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
$50,000 | Giulia Paoletti |
| Gropius Bau Berlin, Germany |
$50,000 | Kelly Kivland and Jenny Schlenzka |
| IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Santa Fe, NM |
$50,000 | Heidi K. Brandow |
| The Phillips Collection Washington, DC |
$27,000 | Dr. Tie Jojima |
| Spencer Museum of Art / The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS |
$50,000 | Dr. Ryan Clasby |
| Wormfarm Institute Reedsburg, WI |
$50,000 | Austen Camille |
