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.
2025
Gift to the Studio Museum in Harlem
Gift of the artist and VIA Art Fund.
2024
Gift to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Gift of VIA Art Fund and the artist.
Gift to El Museo del Barrio
Reynier Leyva Novo, Methuselah, Low Poly monarch butterfly model generated in Blender, rendered in Cycles 500 samples, PBR textures, 4k resolution. Modeling and Animation: MODO Creativos
Gift to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Adaptation (film stills from work in progress), 2019-2020
10min, 16mm film, color, sound
Courtesy the artist; 47 Canal, New York; and Modern Art, London
2023
Gift to the Anchorage Museum
Anchorage Museum lawn, in Cuddy Park in Anchorage, and in Juneau, Alaska.
Gift to the Walker Art Center
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
Gift to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Commissioned by Creative Time
Gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA)
Commissioned for Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT Triennial 2022
Gift to The Griot Museum of Black History
Commissioned for Counterpublic 2023.
2022
Gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
180 Studios, London, England
Converge 45 Biennial, Portland, Oregon
Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibited at the 34th Bienal de São Paulo: Though it’s dark, still I sing
Gift to the Baltimore Museum of Art
Exhibited at the fifth iteration of Prospect New Orleans, Yesterday we said tomorrow
2021
Gift to the Museum of Modern Art
Commissioned by Manifesta 13 and VIA Art Fund with the support of Ammodo. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, NY.
Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art
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
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
Commissioned for Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018
Partial Gift to Dia Art Foundation
Exhibited at Dia:Beacon
Partial Gift to the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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
Exhibited at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Juniata Park, Point Breeze, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Gift to the Museum of Modern Art
Premiered at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2018
Partial Gift to the Walker Art Center
Exhibited at Walker Arts Center / Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Partial Gift to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Exhibited at Prospect.4 New Orleans
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2017
Gift to the University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
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
Permanent installation at High Desert Test Sites
2016
Gift to the Nasher Sculpture Center
2015
Nasher Sculpture Center
Gift to the Walker Art Center
Feb 25 – May 24, 2015
2015 Generational Triennial
2015
Gift to the Museum of Modern Art
October 3–December 1, 2014
Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza
Gift to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
September 5, 2014 – November 9, 2014
10th Gwangju Biennale
Partial Acquisition Grant to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
October 25, 2014 to Sunday, January 25, 2015
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
Gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
September 2013 (various dates)
Multiple venues
2014
Gift to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
June 1 – November 24, 2013
55th Venice Biennale