Marci Kwon Receives 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has announced its 2024 grantees. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $945,000 to thirty writers working across three categories—Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. The grant program is aimed at sustaining critical writing about contemporary art and at ensuring that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts.

“The thirty writers receiving support this year are working on projects asking urgent questions about art’s place in the world today,” said Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant director Pradeep Dalal in a statement. “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. . . . 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.”

Among the grantees in the Articles category is longtime Artforum contributor Catherine Quan Damman, who was recognized for “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism,” situating the painter’s work within lineages of Afro-Asian solidarities and Black internationalist feminism. T. Lax, another veteran Artforum contributor, received funding for A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums, an experimental book centering projects relying on crip theory, Black studies, and queer motherhood, while Marci Kwon received support for her volume Making San Francisco Chinatown, the first-ever book-length study of artists living and working in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the wake of the powerful 1906 earthquake that rocked that city. In the Short-Form category, Camila Palomino was awarded funding for a forthcoming series of texts focused on artists and architects whose subversive large-scale urban interventions, murals, and graffiti respond to and represent interconnected social struggles.