The Latin American Acquisitions Committee research trip, led by Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator-at-Large, Latin American Art at Tate, explored Buenos Aires’ vibrant contemporary art scene. Members visited the studios of artists Eduardo Basualdo, Ad Minoliti, Gabriel Valansi, Guillermo Kuitca, Eduardo Navarro, Elena Dahn, and Marta Minujín; they toured private art collections, prominent galleries, and key cultural institutions’; and a visit to Joaquín Torres-García’s exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes provided an in-person look at a Tate Collection artist’s work.
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LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION HOSTS 2024 ARTISTS DINNER
The Tate Americas Foundation hosted its annual Artists Dinner, raising funds to support exhibitions at Tate and honoring Tate Collection artists. The 2024 honorees were Sebastiana Calfuqueo, Tania Candiani, Sky Hopinka, Rashid Johnson, Deana Lawson, Tau Lewis, Ken Lum, Marta Minujín, Jenny Saville, Erika Verzutti, and Jeffrey Gibson.
NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK
Members of the North American Acquisitions Committee embarked on a three-day research trip through New York’s Hudson Valley, visiting with artists Jeffrey Gibson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jordan Casteel, Mika Rottenberg, Arlene Shechet, and Huma Bhabha, .and visiting dynamic spaces, like the Indigenous-led Forge Project, the collaborative gallery space, The Campus in Hudson, and Urban Art Projects, where large-scale public works by artists including Yayoi Kusama and Rashid Johnson are fabricated.
NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE VISIT ARTISTS SHEREE HOVSEPIAN AND RASHID JOHNSON IN CELEBRATION OF THE ACQUISITION OF JOHNSON’S BLACK AND BLUE
In August 2024, the North American Acquisitions Committee visited artists Sheree Hovsepian and Rashid Johnson to celebrate the Tate’s acquisition of Johnson’s work, Black and Blue.
LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO SÃO PAULO AND RIO DE JANEIRO
The Latin American Acquisitions Committee research trip, led by Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator-at-Large, Latin American Art at Tate, explored São Paolo’s vibrant contemporary art scene, with
a visit to the Bienal de São Paulo, various private art collections, and key galleries and arts institutions to view exhibitions by Tate Collection artists including Sonia Gomes, Antonio Obá, and Marta Minujín. The group then travelled onwards to Rio de Janeiro and visited the studios of Beatriz Milhazes, Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, and Maxwell Alexandre.
LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO MEXICO CITY AND MERIDA
The Latin American Acquisitions Committee research trip, led by Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator-at-Large, Latin American Art at Tate, explored Mexico City’s vibrant contemporary art scene, with visits to the studios of Mexican artists Abraham Cruzvillegas, Tania Candiani, Pedro Reyes, Carlos Amorales, Fernando Palma Rodriquez, various private art collections, and key galleries and arts institutions to view exhibitions by Tate Collection artists including Gala Porras-Kim at MUAC and a new commission by Erika Verzutti at El Eco. The group then travelled to Merida and visited studios and galleries and completed the trip with an extraordinary visit to the James Turrell Agua de Luz.
NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO AMERICAN SOUTH
The North American Acquisitions Committee research trip explored the American South with visits throughout Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham and surrounding areas, such as the Gee’s Bend Quilt Community in Boykin, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative Museum and Memorial in Montgomery, Black American Portraits touring exhibition at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the new UTA Artists Space in Atlanta, studio visits with Michi Meko, Hasani Salehe, William Downs, and Dawn Williams Boyd; collection visits, and Selma landmarks such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The final day the Committee visited Joe Minter’s African Village with special guest Lonnie Holley.