The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded $945,000 to 30 writers, including Houston-based author Rosa Boshier González.
2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Recipients
In a press release, Joel Wachs, President of the Warhol Foundation, said, “Artists play a vital role in illuminating key issues of our time, but it is thanks to the attention and insights of arts writers that artists’ visions become widely known and discussed. The Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant supports and celebrates the crucial contributions of writers who not only transmit but creatively engage with artists’ methods, intentions, contexts, and blind spots to bring their perspectives into focus in the public sphere.”
Established in 2005, the Arts Writers Grant has provided more than $11.5 million to over 380 writers. The grant program offers funds ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories: Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Ms. Boshier González, a Glasstire contributor, has received an award for Short-Form Writing. Past Glasstire winners include Jessica Fuentes (2023), the publication’s News Editor, and Kelly Klaasmeyer (2009), the publication’s then-Editor.
Pradeep Dalal, the Director of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, noted, “The 30 writers receiving support this year are working on projects asking urgent questions about art’s place in the world today. Exploring topics including 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 covering artists working in Chile, Columbia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela, this year’s grantee projects actively expand our understanding of contemporary art.”
Rosa Boshier González
With her award, Ms. Boshier González will write a series of essays on two generations of artists from Colombia and its diaspora, whose work examines the material violence of the country’s ongoing civil war. Ms. Boshier González holds an MFA from The California Institute of Arts and is currently enrolled in a Creative Writing & Literature PhD program at the University of Houston. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast Journal from 2022 to 2024 and her writing has appeared in Catapult, Joyland Magazine, Guernica, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and other publications.
Ms. Boshier González told Glasstire, “I am beyond grateful to the Andy Warhol Foundation for this extraordinary opportunity to focus on the ways in which Colombian and Colombian diasporic art has changed over the last few decades, particularly various approaches to embodiment. This project will allow me to stretch my art criticism beyond reportage to produce rangy writing, blending creative and critical forms to engage with a lineage of artmaking that holds as much personal significance to me as it does political relevance.”
See the full list of 2024 grantees below and visit the Arts Writers Grant website to learn more about each recipient.
2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Recipients
Articles
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres: “Beyond Worlds: The Art and Life of Hong Xian”
Anne Marie 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
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