A living archive of Andy Warhol's gravesite, since 2009.
Andy's Figments is an ongoing art and social-history project that began at Andy Warhol's gravesite in 2009. At its heart are the thousands of people who have visited Andy's grave and left notes, photographs, objects, stories, memories, questions, and pieces of themselves behind.
The project documents the many ways people continue to connect with Andy Warhol, not just as a famous artist, but as someone who inspires people to talk about their own lives, identities, struggles, creativity, humor, and hopes.
The archive lives across daily tombstone photos, notes written to Andy, everyday images, short films, and project data collected over seventeen years. This is all working toward one goal: preserving these voices through the Andy's Figments living archive, photographs, films, social media, this website, and ultimately the 2028 book celebrating the 100th anniversary of Andy Warhol's birth.
Live from Andy's Grave
Andy Warhol's grave has been viewable live, 24 hours a day, since EarthCam and The Andy Warhol Museum partnered to stream it as part of a project they call Figment. It's the same camera that's captured thousands of visitors over the years, leaving notes, flowers, soup cans, and pieces of themselves behind.
Warhol is buried at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh, alongside his parents, Julia and Andrej Warhola, following his funeral at Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on February 26, 1987. The cemetery is run by St. John the Baptist Church, a sister parish to St. John Chrysostom, the church Warhol attended as a child.
