Tate Acquisition Committee members gathered in New York for a packed week of exclusive events during Frieze New York 2026. Highlights included a private walk-through of Lilia Carrillo: Ruptures and Premonitions at The Americas Society, led by Estrellita B. Brodsky, Curator-at-Large, Latin American Art, Tobias Ostrander, ahead of the public opening. The following day, members enjoyed exclusive studio visits with Tate Collection artists Walter Price and Dana Schutz, marking the occasion of their recent acquisitions. The week concluded with a special morning tour of the Studio Museum in Harlem, where members explored the museum’s galleries and current exhibitions.
Category: North American Acquisitions Committee
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION SPRING NEW YORK 2026 ACTIVITIES
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2026 PROGRAM
Supporters of the Tate Americas Foundation visited the 2026 Venice Biennale and enjoyed an exciting week of exclusive programs, including tours of the Lorna Simpson, Paulo Nazareth, and Michael Armitage exhibitions at Pinault Collection, followed by full days exploring the pavilions and artworks at the Giardini and Arsenale. Additionally, LAAC Co-Chair Erica Roberts generously hosted an exclusive luncheon and NAAC Co-Chair George Wells set the whole week’s tone with a cocktail reception at the iconic Hotel Metropole.
DAISY DESROSIERS APPOINTED BRITTON FAMILY CURATOR-AT-LARGE, NORTH AMERICAN ART
Tate announced Daisy Desrosiers as the Britton Family Curator at Large, North America. Based in the USA, Desrosiers will focus on the development of North American art in Tate’s collection through new research and acquisitions.
Desrosiers is an interdisciplinary art historian, curator, and museum leader whose practice brings together collection-building with ambitious, artist-centered curatorial work. She co-curated the 15th Shanghai Biennale and her recent work has involved a wide range of artists including Vivian Suter, Joan Jonas, Claudia Alarcón & Silät, Ming Smith, Marie Watt, Christine Sun Kim, Alvaro Barrington, Beverly Buchanan, Nancy Spero, and Naeem Mohaiemen.
Since 2021, Desrosiers has been Director and Chief Curator of The Gund at Kenyon College, where she has led a transformative institutional vision. She will continue her engagement with the institution following her appointment at Tate, ensuring continuity in its program. A 2023 Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership in New York, Desrosiers also serves on the Advisory Committee of Fogo Island Arts and on the Board of Directors of the Art Gallery at University College Cork.
Desrosiers succeeds Christine Y. Kim, Tate’s inaugural Britton Family Curator at Large, North American Art. Supported by the Britton Family Foundation, this position plays a significant role in acquiring North American works for Tate’s collection. Desrosiers will enable Tate to continue broadening its approaches to modern and contemporary art, forging new relationships with artists, scholars, and curators in the region, and contributing to exhibitions and projects at Tate’s galleries.
Daisy Desrosiers said, “I am deeply honored to join Tate at this moment. I’m particularly excited by the opportunity to engage more fully with the layered histories that shape the collection, bringing forward voices and connections that deepen and complicate how art is understood. I’m equally committed to contributing to how North American art can be more expansively perceived within the collection, tracing its multiple histories, entanglements, and resonances across contexts. For me, a collection is a place of ongoing dialogue – where we not only reflect the world as it is, but imagine what it might become.”
Gregor Muir, Director of Collection, Tate said, “I am delighted to welcome Daisy to Tate and I look forward to the knowledge and energy she will bring to our work with North American art and artists. I would also like to thank the Britton Family Foundation for their ongoing support of this vital role. Tate’s network of curators based around the world, working closely with our fantastic curatorial team in the UK, brings unparalleled insight and understanding to our work with international art.”
Paul Britton, Chair of the Tate Americas Foundation said, “The Britton Family Foundation is pleased to support this curatorial position as a part of its commitment to expanding the voices of North American artists in Tate’s collection. Daisy Desrosiers brings distinguished experience to Tate and will be an enormous asset in enriching the collection with works of art from North American artists.”
TATE AMERICAS FOUNDATION TOUR THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2026
The Tate Americas Foundation offered an exclusive tour of the anticipated Whitney Biennial 2026, led by curatorial staff who guided attendees through the exhibition’s highlights.
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 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.
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.