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Tate Americas Foundation

The Tate Americas Foundation supports Tate in its mission to celebrate the art of the past and the present, supporting artistic risk-taking and scholarly excellence across the five centuries of British art and the international modern and contemporary collections.

Recent acquisitions

Tadáskía

the black trans ladies 2024

Lent by Tate Americas Foundation courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, 2025

Juan del Prete

Abstraction 1945

Lent by Tate Americas Foundation courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, 2025

Yente (Eugenia Crenovich)

Tapestry No.4 1957

Lent by Tate Americas Foundation courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, 2025

Joaquín Torres-García

Street No.2 (Rue No.2) 1929

Lent by Tate Americas Foundation courtesy of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee, 2025

Foundation activities

LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 2025 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC & PUERTO RICO RESEARCH PROGRAMS

LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 2025 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC & PUERTO RICO RESEARCH PROGRAMS

Immersed in the vibrant islands of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, the Latin American Acquisitions Committee spent the week exploring the richness of Caribbean contemporary art through curator-led tours, private collection visits, and intimate artist studio sessions. In the Dominican Republic, highlights included: a visit to the Mella-Russo Collection, a private viewing of the […]

TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION EVENT: COCKTAILS WITH MARIA BALSHAW

TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION EVENT: COCKTAILS WITH MARIA BALSHAW

Patrons gathered together for an intimate evening with Tate Director, Maria Balshaw, hosted in the home of Tate Americas Foundation Trustee and Latin American Acquisitions Committee member, Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian.

NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE OCTOBER 2025 LONDON & PARIS PROGRAMS

NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE OCTOBER 2025 LONDON & PARIS PROGRAMS

To coincide with Frieze Week in London and Art Basel in Paris, the North America Acquisitions Committee (NAAC) gathered for a series of special programs, exhibition previews, and curator-led tours. Highlights include the opening of the Hyundai Turbine Hall Commission: Máret Ánne Sara at Tate Modern, and exclusive access to Kerry James Marshall: The Histories […]

TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION SUMMER HAMPTONS 2025 PROGRAM

TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION SUMMER HAMPTONS 2025 PROGRAM

Guests gathered at the Parrish Art Museum for a special tour led by curator, Christine Y. Kim, exploring exhibitions by Shirin Neshat, Raven Halfmoon, and Sean Scully. The visit concluded with an exclusive viewing of Trustee Glenn Fuhrman’s private art collection.

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Current exhibitions

NIGERIAN MODERNISM

NIGERIAN MODERNISM

Until 10 May 2026

Nigerian Modernism celebrates the achievements of Nigerian artists working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960. Nigerian Modernism tells the story of artistic networks, groups like the Zaria Art Society and Mbari Artists’ and Writers’ Club, they fused Nigerian, African and European techniques and traditions to create vibrant, multidimensional works.

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY

EMILY KAM KNGWARRAY

Until 11 January 2026

Renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c.1914–1996) created compelling, powerful works that reflect her extraordinary life as an Anmatyerr woman born in Alhalker in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory of Australia. One of the world’s most significant painters to emerge in the late 20th century, her lived experience and cultural connections to her Country was translated into vibrant batiks and later into monumental paintings on canvas.

EMILIJA ŠKARNULYTE

EMILIJA ŠKARNULYTE

6 December 2025 – 12 April 2026

Working between documentary and the imaginary, artist Emilija Škarnulytė creates films and immersive installations that explore deep time and invisible systems, as well as power structures possibly hidden within the cosmic and geological order. In her practice, Cold War military bases, neutrino observatories, decommissioned nuclear power plants, and deep-sea data storage units become relics of a lost human culture.

LEE MILLER

LEE MILLER

Until 15 February 2026

With the most extensive retrospective of her photography yet staged in the UK, Tate Britain celebrates Lee Miller as one of the 20th century’s most urgent artistic voices. The exhibition showcases Miller’s extraordinary career, from her participation in French surrealism to her fashion and war photography.