Warhol Foundation Awards 31 Arts Writing Grants
The winners include art critics and historians who will write about colonialism, immigration, and Palestine in the visual arts context.
The Andy Warhol Foundation named 28 arts writers and three translators to receive its annual Arts Writers Grant, today, Wednesday, December 3. The 31 grant recipients will receive a combined total of $1.04 million for articles, books, short-form writing, and translated texts.
For the first time in the arts grant's 20-year history, the foundation awarded $30,000 grants to three writers to translate books about contemporary art from another language into English. The inaugural winners — Jessica Gogan, Ekido Ikeda Kay, and viento izquierdo ugaz — were selected to translate writings from Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish, respectively.
Gogan, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Pittsburgh, will translate Creation Sundays: A Poetic Collection of the Experimental in Art and Education, which recounts free expression events at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM) under Brazil’s military dictatorship, by Brazilian critic Federico Morais. Eriko Ikeda Kay will translate From Their “Onna no ko shashin” to Our Girly Photo by Yurie Nagashima, a book about women photographers in the 1990s. Viento izquierdo ugaz will translate works by the late Peruvian drag queen and performance artist Giuseppe Campuzano, Saturday Night Thriller and Other Writings, 1992–2013.
Receiving grants between $15,000 and $50,000, the 2025 grantees for articles, books, and short-form writings include projects about immigration visas and the censorship of Palestinian artwork.
“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 shared with Hyperallergic.
Critic Miriam Felton-Dansky received a grant to support the article “Vetting Regimes: The US Politics of Artist Visas from the Berlin Wall to the Muslim Ban.” Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert, contemporary art curator for the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University Bloomington, received the grant for an article titled “The Integrity of the Exhibit: On Art, Censorship, and Palestine.”
Among the grant recipients in the book category is Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of the critically acclaimed book Harlem is Nowhere. Rhodes-Pitts’s grant will support her forthcoming publication Proving Ground: Proposals for a Genealogy of Black Feminist Land Art. Also on the list of grants for books is art historian Jenni Sorkin, who will receive support for a book titled Deviant Scale: Cloth at the Body’s Margins.
"The incisive criticism and expansive scholarship of this year’s grantees underscore the invaluable role of visual art in our lives today," Dalal said in a statement.
Find the full list of the Andy Warhol Foundation's Arts Writers Grant recipients below.
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)
