The Andy Warhol Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2024 Arts Writers Grant. The 30 writers will receive prizes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 across three categories — Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing — for a total of $945,000 in awards. A complete list of recipients is included at the end of this article.
This year’s cohort includes several Hyperallergic contributors, including former News Editor Jasmine Weber, who began writing for the magazine in 2018. Weber will explore the artistic legacies of the historically Black beaches in Sag Harbor on Long Island, New York with her grant in Short-Form Writing.
Among this year’s notable grantees in that category is former Los Angeles Times art and design columnist Carolina Miranda, who will write a series of articles focused on emerging and mid-career Latine and Latin American artists in Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Tucson. In 2013, Miranda wrote reviews for Hyperallergic on the art of Channa Horwitz and others.
Four other Hyperallergic contributors were awarded Short-Form Writing grants, including Chicago-based freelance journalist Kerry Cardoza, whose work will focus on neighborhoods in the city’s South and West Sides; Miami-based writer Alexandra Martinez; Taipei-based writer and educator Christopher Whitfield; and New Orleans-based critic Kristina Kay Robinson.
Nizan Shaked, a professor of contemporary art history, museum and curatorial studies at California State University, Long Beach (CSU), is among the “Books” grantees this year for her forthcoming publication Art Against the System, which will look at how individual artists and collectives use their work to disrupt state institutions and legal structures.
The Warhol Foundation has supported the art writing of over 425 emerging and established authors, from criticism and short-form essays to in-depth scholarly studies and books, since the grant was launched in 2006.
In a statement, Director of the Arts Writers Grant Pradeep Dalal said this year’s projects cover topics such as “art’s relationship to fossil fuel extraction, Native art and activism, migration and questions of visibility, internationalist solidarity networks, DIY publishing, and LGBTQ comic artist communities” and artists working in Chile, Columbia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela.
“Despite the severe contraction of available venues for publishing in the arts, these writers continue to enrich and expand the academic disciplinary frameworks of both art criticism and art history,” Dalal said.
See the complete list of 2024 Arts Writers Grant recipients below.
Articles
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres — “Beyond Worlds: The Art and Life of Hong Xian”
Anne Marie E. Butler — “Deviance, Penetration, and the Erotic in Aïcha Snoussi’s Drawing Installations”
Catherine Quan Damman — “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism”
Heather Davis — “Human Energy: Oil Erotics, Violence, and Queer Desire”
Carina del Valle Schorske — “Monte Adentro”
Ilegvak — “Water Protectors: Indigenous Art as Reimagination from the No Dakota Access Pipeline NoDAPL Movement”
Elize Mazadiego — “‘Somos Libres?!’: Alternative Art Networks and Latin American Queer Diasporas in 1970s Amsterdam”
Hande Sever — “Kuzgun Acar: Forms of Defiance”
Isaiah Matthew Wooden — “Out of Water and Dirt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kiyan Williams’ Monumental Acts of Refiguration”
Books
Katie Brewer Ball — Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960
Margaret Galvan — Comics in Movement
Che Gossett — Marlon Riggs and the Black Queer Cinematic
Anna Indych-López — Mexico City: Spatial Politics in Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Marci Kwon — Making San Francisco Chinatown
T. Lax — A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums
Sean Nesselrode Moncada — Maruja Rolando: On-Site
Nizan Shaked — Art Against the System
Edward A. Vazquez — Finish Line: V.I.S.U.A.L. Among the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, 1975–1981
Short-Form Writing
Rosa Boshier González
Kerry Cardoza
Tyler Coburn
Alexandra Martinez
Tris McCall
Carolina Miranda
Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
Camila Palomino
Kristina Kay Robinson
Caroline Tracey
Jasmine Weber
Christopher Whitfield
