Gifted Works

Since 2013, VIA has gifted more than 50 works of art to public collections throughout the United States. Through our grantmaking, we are committed to funding the production of new works of art that will ultimately enter a museum’s holdings, thereby ensuring the public’s continued access to visionary work by today’s leading artists. VIA works closely with each artist to match the commissioned work with an appropriate collection. Acquired works equally benefit the artist, the museum and the public – by embodying VIA’s three core values, reflecting the collection’s regional or material focus, and representing the artist’s oeuvre.

2023

Gifted to the Anchorage Museum

Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson
Water Moves Life , 2021
12 bronze water jugs sculptures with audio tracks

Anchorage Museum lawn, in Cuddy Park in Anchorage, and in Juneau, Alaska.

Gifted to the Walker Art Center

Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas
The Teachings of the Hands , 2021
Panoramic film installation, Color & Surround Sound
46 min

UT Austin, September 24 – December 3, 2021; Ballroom Marfa May 26, 2022 – September 4, 2022 (reception with artists June 4, 2022; EL Paso, January 27–April 15, 2022

Gifted to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Jill Magid
Tender Balance , 2021
Color HD video with four - channel sound
28 minutes
1/3 

Commissioned by Creative Time

Gift to Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA)

Jacolby Satterwhite
Reifying Desire 7—Dawn , 2021 - 2022
2-channel HD color video and 3D animation with sound, 53 framed ink, marker and paper drawings and vinyl wallpaper
27:25 mins.

Commissioned for Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT Triennial 2022

Gift to The Griot Museum of Black History, St. Louis

David Adjaye
Asaase III , 2023
Rammed earth and steel
III

Commissioned for Counterpublic 2023.

2022

Gift to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Richard Mosse
Broken Spectre , 2022
Multi-channel, immersive film and video installation
Dimensions variable

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

180 Studios, London, England

Converge 45 Biennial, Portland, Oregon

Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago

Amie Siegel
Asterisms , 2021
Large-scale sculptural and video installation
Dimensions variable

Exhibited at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo: Though it’s dark, still I sing

Gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Play Me Home , 2020
Four-channel film and video piece and a series of related, sculptural objects
Dimensions variable

Exhibited at the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans, Yesterday we said tomorrow

2021

Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Shadow Stalker , 2019
Real-time interactive installation with custom computer software and accompanying video work
Dimensions variable
2 of 4 plus 1 AP

Manual Override, The Shed, November 13, 2010 – January 12, 2020. Curated by Nora N. Khan

Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 22 – October 25, 2020, Curated by Claudia Schmuckli

13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Turning, January 4 – September 5, 2021, Curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala

 

2020

Gift to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Lynn Hershman Leeson
Shadow Stalker, 2019
Real time interactive installation with custom computer software and accompanying video work
Dimensions variable
2 of 4 plus 1 AP

Exhibited at de Young Museum, FAMSF as part of Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI

 

2019

Partial Gift to the Carnegie Museum of Art

Tavares Strachan
11 works from The Encyclopaedia of Invisibility, 2018
12 mm neon, transformers, aluminum powder coated brakets, lexan
Dimensions variable

Commissioned for Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018

 

Partial Gift to Dia Art Foundation

Charlotte Posenenske
14 selected works from Series B, C, D & DW, 1967/2008-11
Medium variable
Dimensions variable

Exhibited at Dia:Beacon

 

Partial Gift to Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Isaac Julian
Lessons of the Hour, 2019
Ten-channel color video with sound
27 minutes
Edition 1 of 2

Exhibited at Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester as part of the “Reflections on Place” series

 

Partial Gift to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Zanele Muholi, et al.
Women's Mobile Museum Portfolio, 2018
Silver Gelatin and Archival Inkjet Prints
Dimensions variable
1 of 5

Exhibited at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Juniata Park, Point Breeze, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Gift to the Museum of Modern Art

Tacita Dean
Antigone, 2018
2 synchronized 35 mm anamorphic color films, optical sound
56 minutes with a running time of exactly one-hour
2 of 4 + 1 AP

Premiered at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

 

2018

Partial Gift to the Walker Art Center

Daniel Buren
Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile, 1975/2018
Artist-designed Club 420 sails
9 main sails: 192 x 93-3/8 inches each, and 9 jib sails: 137-3/4 inches each

Exhibited at Walker Arts Center / Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

 

Partial Gift to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

John Akomfrah
Precarity, 2017
Three channel HD color video installation, 7.1 sound
52 minutes

Exhibited at Prospect.4 New Orleans

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2017

Gift to the University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

JJ PEET
FiLTER_ Animation, 2017
HD Video; color, silent
17:24 minutes
REGULATED VIEWING, 2017
HD Video; color, silent
28:30 minutes

Exhibited at University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in On the Hour / JJ PEET: THE VACANT AMERICAN 

 

Gift to High Desert Test Sites

Andrea Zittel
Planar Pavilions at A-Z West, 2017
Cement block and paint

Permanent installation at High Desert Test Sites

 

2016

Gift to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas

Alex Israel
Booties, 2015
Acrylic on aluminum
Dimensions: 4 1/8” x 10 3/8” x 9 1/8”
Edition of 10, AP 1 of 2
Glove, 2015
Acrylic on aluminum
Dimensions: 7” x 7” x 14 1/4”
Edition of 10, AP 1 of 2
Cap, 2015
Acrylic on aluminum
Dimensions: 8 1/2” x 9 1/2” x 13 3/4”
Edition of 10, AP 1 of 2

2015

Nasher Sculpture Center

Gift to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Oliver Laric
Untitled, 2014
4K video, color, sound
5 min 55 sec
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP
The Hunter and the Dog, 2014
Polyurethane, jade powder, bronze powder, aluminum powder, and pigments
35 2.5" x 26" x 2 2/5"

Feb 25 – May 24, 2015

2015 Generational Triennial

 

2015

Gift to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York

John Gerrard
Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) 2014, 2014
Simulation installation
Edition 1 of 5 + 2 AP

October 3–December 1, 2014

Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza

Gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)

Allora & Calzadilla
Temperament and the Wolf, 2014
Live performance/action

September 5, 2014 – November 9, 2014

10th Gwangju Biennale

Partial Acquisition Grant to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Charles Gaines
Skybox I, 2011
Acrylic, digital print, polyester film and LED lights
3 boxes: 84” x 48” x 5” each
Unique

October 25, 2014 to Sunday, January 25, 2015

Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans

Gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

Doug Aitken
Station to Station (Volume), 2013
Earth, acrylic and steel
60" x 12" x 12"
Edition 7 of 10

September 2013 (various dates)

Multiple venues

2014

Gift to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Sharon Hayes
Ricerche: three, 2013
Single channel HD video
38 minutes
Edition 1 of 5 + 1 AP

June 1 – November 24, 2013

55th Venice Biennale