The Wexner Center for the Arts receives $100,000 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University is the recipient of a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Spring 2021 Exhibition Support grant will supplement funding for Wex exhibitions for two years. 

“The generosity of the Warhol Foundation will help propel the Wex through the next phase of our support of risk-taking artists and socially relevant content,” says Wexner Center Executive Director Johanna Burton. “During this period of cultural reflection and engagement, the Wex’s curatorial team is working with two primary goals in mind: First, to explore our era’s interlocking social, political, and public health crises through exhibitions that center a diversity of voices, histories, and struggles; and second, in keeping with the Wex’s longstanding mission as a ‘laboratory’ for the creation of culture, to partner with artists whose work challenges the institution and pushes us into a novel yet necessary landscape for artists and audiences.” 

Among the exhibitions that will benefit from the funding are Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:), the first major museum show for the abstract painter, opening September 18; a winter 2022 exhibition being organized by Associate Curator Daniel Marcus on the center's pre-history and links between art, education, and activism; and a presentation of Wexner Center Artist Residency Award-supported work by Colombian-born multidisciplinary artist Carlos Motta, organized by Associate Curator Lucy Zimmerman, which will debut in the fall of 2022.