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 at the Royal Academy of Arts. In Paris, programming aligns with Asia NOW and Paris+ Art Basel, featuring private tours of Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Philip Guston: The Irony of History at Musée Picasso, and Otobong Nkanga at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
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NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE OCTOBER 2025 LONDON & PARIS PROGRAMS
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.
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION STUDIO VISIT WITH FANNY SANIN
On the heels of Frieze Week in New York, Tate Americas Foundation visited Tate collection artist Fanny Sanín in her home studio in New York City–and had the opportunity to see the most recently acquired work, Acrylic No. 2 (1990), in person.
NORTH AMERICAN & LATIN AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEES TOUR ‘FOR ART’S SAKE’
For Art’s Sake: Selected Works by Tiqui Atencio & Ago Demirdjian at Christie’s in New York, offered a glimpse into Tiqui’s journey, from her roots in Venezuela and her studies across continents to her fruitful collecting partnership with Ago since their first meeting in Paris in the 1980s. The showcase ranged from Carmen Herrera and Ed Ruscha to Cecily Brown and Julie Mehretu.
NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE FRIEZE WEEK STUDIO VISITS
During Frieze Week in New York, the North American Acquisitions Committee (NAAC) visited the studios of Tate collection artists Amy Sillman, Anicka Yi, and Kevin Beasley in Brooklyn and Queens, NY.
NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO ARKANSAS & OKLAHOMA
The North American Acquisitions Committee research trip, led by Christine Y. Kim, Britton Family Curator-at-Large, North American Art at Tate, explored diverse art scenes of Arkansas and Oklahoma. In Bentonville, Arkansas, the group experienced James Turrell’s The Way of Color at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, toured its permanent collection and American Sunrise: Indigenous Art, and visited the relocated Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Bachman-Wilson House.
In Tulsa and Oklahoma City, highlights included visits to the Queen Rose Art House with Kalup Linzy, the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and the Philbrook Museum of Art and Greenwood Rising History Center. Plus, an exploration of HONOR SONG, a retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds at Oklahoma Contemporary, and two studio visits in Norman with Raven Halfmoon and Jereldine Redcorn, both renowned for revitalizing Caddo pottery traditions.
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 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.
Celebrating 20 Year Anniversaries of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee and North American Acquisitions Committee
Over 20 years ago, Tate created region specific acquisitions committees to enhance the Tate collection and to represent an integrated view of global art history for Tate audiences. In 2001, the Tate Americas Foundation formed the North American Acquisitions Committee and then shortly after in 2002, with the leadership and guidance of Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, they founded the Latin American Acquisition Committee. In those twenty years, there have been 395 works acquired from 146 Latin American artists and 219 works from 102 North American artists. We will be celebrating the incredible contributions of these committees throughout the fall.
Tate now has a family of dedicated Acquisitions Committees which play a key role in this process of diversifying Tate’s collection. At times, these Committees may also choose to jointly support works of art to bring key pieces into Tate’s collection. These groups have proved extremely successful in championing Tate’s activities relating to specific regions or media by: broadening Tate’s scope of international activities; forging stronger relationships and dialogue with local individuals and institutions; and in creating in-depth holdings for important artists and themes.
These committees contribute invaluable expertise and support towards strengthening Tate representation of art and to develop and integrate alternative narratives within the chronology of art.
NAAC NEW YORK PROGRAM
The North American Acquisitions Committee (NAAC) met in New York for their annual Allocations Meeting at which the they voted to acquire many exciting works for Tate’s Collection. Committee member Miyoung Lee generously hosted NAAC for lunch and a collection visit, and after they visited with artists Rick Lowe, Adam Pendleton, and Oscar Murillo.
Pictured, artist Rick Lowe explains his work featured in the Whitney Biennial.