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KemperMuseumReceivesWarholFoundationGrant_FINAL.pdf

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced yesterday that it will award Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art a $100,000 grant in support of the forthcoming exhibition, Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence. The exhibition is the first major retrospective exhibition by New York-based artist Virginia Jaramillo (Mexican American, born 1939), presenting a selection of over seventy paintings and handmade paper works over more than sixty years. 

The Foundation is pleased to support an exhibition that will bring long-overdue recognition to the work of Virginia Jaramillo. For decades the public has been unaware of the full scope of the artist’s innovative practice; Kemper Museum’s exhibition will celebrate her long career and ensure her place in the chronicles of contemporary abstraction. 

Rachel Bers
Program Director, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

While Principle of Equivalence is the first exhibition to focus on the breadth of Jaramillo’s career, her work has been included in influential group exhibitions for decades, including such groundbreaking examples as The De Luxe Show in 1971, one of the first major racially integrated exhibitions in the United States, Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 (Hammer Museum, 2011), and We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (Brooklyn Museum, 2017). Jaramillo also has an exhibition history in Kansas City that stretches back to the 1970s at Douglas Drake Gallery. Her work was featured in Kemper Museum’s debut exhibition in 1994 and is represented in local permanent collections including Kemper Museum, Spencer Museum, Daum Museum, and the Hallmark Collection.  

"Tracing the impact of Jaramillo’s practice, the exhibition will feature early examples that pushed the depth of the painted surface to its very limits, innovations in the centuries-old practice of handmade papermaking, and recent large-scale paintings in which Jaramillo engages notions of antiquity and architectural ruin," said Erin Dzidzic, director of curatorial affairs for Kemper Museum. "This exhibition marks an important milestone in the artist’s career and serves as a timely reminder to look with intention toward those who have made important—if historically excluded—contributions to the history of American abstraction."

The exhibition, which will be on view from June 2–August 27, 2023 is organized by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri and curated by Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs. A full-color catalog in conjunction with this exhibition will be distributed by Yale University Press.


High resolution images are available upon request.

Located in Kansas City, Missouri, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is a leading presenter of global modern and contemporary art in the region. As the first contemporary art museum in the state, Kemper Museum has connected Midwest communities with the artists of our time since 1994. The museum cares for nearly 1,500 artworks by hundreds of artists in its growing Permanent Collection. A rotating selection of these works are on view in the museum’s Gunnar Birkerts-designed building, alongside rotating special exhibitions. Each year, the museum presents eight to ten exhibitions and major projects, with a special focus on emerging, mid-career artists, as well as artists from historically excluded groups. An active calendar of creative public programs provides meaningful engagement opportunities for visitors of all ages and backgrounds.

Kemper Museum is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Admission, parking, and public programs are always free, thanks to the generosity of members and other donors.

Media Contact: Louise Forster, lforster@kemperart.org, (816) 753-5784

In accordance with Andy Warhol’s will, the mission of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is the advancement of the visual arts. The foundation manages an innovative and flexible grants program  while also preserving Warhol’s legacy through creative and responsible licensing policies and extensive scholarly research for ongoing catalogue raisonné projects. To date, the foundation has given nearly $280 million in cash grants to over 1,000 arts organizations in 49 states and abroad and has donated 52,786 works of art to 322 institutions worldwide.

Media Contact: Jeffrey Walkowiak, jeffrey@warholfoundation.org, (212) 387-7555

About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts

Kemper Museum awarded $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for forthcoming exhibition, Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence