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.
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NORTH AMERICAN ACQUISITIONS COMMITTEE RESEARCH TRIP TO HUDSON VALLEY, NEW YORK
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.
North American News
The Tate Americas Foundation recently acquired Firelei Baez A Map of the British Empire in America, 2021 (pictured above), five works by Dawoud Bey from his Night Coming Tenderly (Black), 2017 series, Andrea Bowers Memorial to Arcadia Woodlands Clear-Cut, 2014, and five drawings by Annie Pootoogook.
Three works by Charles White from his Wanted Poster series (pictured above), Christine Sun Kim’s Why Your Hearing Parents Did Not Learn Sign Language, 2019 and Why My Hearing Partner Signs, 2019, as well as Edgar Heap of Birds Places of Healing, 2020 have also been acquired for the Tate collection.
NORTH AMERICAN NEWS
The Tate Americas Foundation recently acquired Marilyn Minter Smash 2014 (pictured above) and three works by Ian Wallace, The Marbles I-IV 2008, The Audience I-IV 2008, and Street Reflections and Pan Am Scan 1970, printed 2009.
NORTH AMERICAN NEWS
The Tate Americas Foundation recently acquired Joan Snyder’s Dark Strokes Hope 1971 using endowment income with additional support from North American Acquisitions Committee member Komal Shah.