List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites

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A brick factory building, complete with smokestack, sits in the distance surrounded by a field and in front of hills covered in trees
The Dia Beacon building and surrounding landscape.

There are eleven locations and sites which the Dia Art Foundation considers part of its constellation of art museums and long-term installations.[1] Dia breaks its holdings into two distinct categories: locations and sites. "Locations" include museum structures that contain galleries of smaller works either on permanent or temporary display, while "sites" are long-term art installations placed outside of the gallery context that have been either commissioned or acquired by Dia. All three locations are found in New York state, while the eight sites are located in New York, Utah, New Mexico, and Germany.[2] Currently one location, , is scheduled to be opened in 2022,[3][4] and there are seven sites that were once listed by Dia but are no longer listed.

The Dia Art Foundation was established in 1974 in New York City by the not yet married Heiner Friedrich and Schlumberger heiress Philippa de Menil, as well as . They created the institution to help artists realize ambitious projects whose scale and scope is not feasible within the normal museum and gallery systems.[5][6] With Friedrich and de Menil's combined large fortune, the foundation began supporting minimalist, conceptual, and land artists with, as Vanity Fair describes in a article, "stipends, studios, assistants, and archivists for the individual museums it planned to build for each of them".[6] Beginning with a collection of warehouse spaces in New York and outdoor spaces in the American West, the foundation did not focus on constructing true museums but focused on singular artistic visions.[7] This approach changed slightly in 1987 with the opening of Dia's first rotating exhibition space, the Dia Center for the Arts, now Dia Chelsea, on 22nd Street in New York City.[8] Dia Beacon, a former Nabisco box factory turned into a large-scale museum for the permanent collection, opened in 2013.[8][9]

The foundation began by working with and collecting the work of only twelve artists: Joseph Beuys, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Fred Sandback, James Turrell, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, and La Monte Young.[8][9] To this day the foundation owns works by less than 50 artists, but contains a breadth and depth of their work in a way other institutions do not have the resources to maintain.[7] Dia Director Jessica Morgan explains the relationship between Dia and its artists as, "I wouldn't use the word 'family', but these are people we're in communication with almost on a weekly basis, and in some cases we hold the vast majority of their seminal work".[7] Known for its focus on American male minimalist, experimental, and land artists from the 1960s and 1970s, Dia's focus has been changing to include other artists from the era, largely women and Japanese artists, since Morgan became curator in 2015.[9] This gradual refocus is markedly seen in the 2018 acquisition of Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt, Dia's most recent addition to their list of sites.[9]

Locations[]

A close up image of a seven story brick building.
One of the three buildings that together form Dia Chelsea.

Dia maintains three locations all within New York State. These locations present galleries of work, either owned by or loaned to Dia, in temporary or permanent installations.[2] Dia Chelsea, the first Dia location, was known as the Dia Center for the Arts from its opening in 1987 through the opening of Dia Beacon in 2003.[8]

Location[2] Placement Year opened Description Ref.
Dia Beacon Beacon,
New York 		2003 Dia's permanent collection is housed in this former Nabisco box printing factory with each gallery designed for the presentation of a single artist's work. [10]
Dia Bridgehampton Bridgehampton,
New York 		1979 building purchased by Dia,
1983 Dan Flavin Art Institute established
2020 renamed[a] 		Home of the Dan Flavin Art Institute, nine fluorescent light works by the artist on permanent display, the former fire house and church also has a gallery for rotating exhibitions. [13]
Dia Chelsea New York City,
New York 		1987,
2004 closed,
2015 moved and reopened,
2020 renovation and expansion 		A collection of three former industrial buildings, architecturally connected during a 2020 renovation, which now hosts temporary exhibitions. Currently closed and scheduled to reopen on September 17, 2020. [14][15]

Sites[]

Times square with people sitting on a bench and a costumed character taking their character head off.
The location in Times Square where Max Neuhaus's sound art installation, Times Square, emanates.
a brass circle flush to a grey stone background.
The only part of The Vertical Earth Kilometer visible above ground.

Dia lists eight sites in its catalogue. These sites include commissions, land art, long-term art installations not in a gallery context, and site-specific installations. While focused largely in New York City and the American West, there are sites also placed internationally and elsewhere in the United States. The first sites were a trio of acquisitions and commissions by Walter De Maria in 1977 and the most recently collected site is Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt acquired in 2018.[2]

Site[2] Artist Placement Year Year acquired Description Ref.
7000 Oaks Joseph Beuys New York City,
New York 		1982 begun,
1988 NYC installation,
1996 expanded 		1988 37 trees each paired with a roughly four foot tall basalt stone. [16]
Spiral Jetty Robert Smithson Great Salt Lake at ,
Box Elder County,
Utah 		1970 1999 A 1,500-foot-long (460 m) by 16-foot-wide (4.9 m) jetty made from six thousand tons of black basalt and soil from the area arranged in spiral. [17]
Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt Great Basin Desert,
Utah 		1973-76 2018 Four concrete cylinders, measuring eighteen feet long by nine feet in diameter, sitting in an open cross layout and arranged to line up with the sunset on solstice days. [18]
The Broken Kilometer Walter De Maria New York City,
New York 		1979 1979 A grid of 500 polished brass rods, with a total length of 3,280 feet, laying on the floor and illuminated with metal-halide stadium lights. [19]
The Lightning Field Walter De Maria Quemado
New Mexico 		1977 1977 400 stainless steel poles standing upright to define a horizontal plane over a one mile by one kilometer area. [20]
The New York Earth Room Walter De Maria New York City,
New York 		1977 1977 A 3,600 square foot room filled with 250 cubic yards of soil to a depth of 22 inches. [21]
The Vertical Earth Kilometer Walter De Maria Kassel,
Germany 		1977 1977 A five centimeter wide, one kilometer long brass rod inserted vertically into the earth with its top flush to the ground. [22]
Times Square Max Neuhaus New York City,
New York 		1977,
2002 reinstalled 		2002 Sound emanating from a grate in Times Square on a triangular pedestrian island between 45th and 46th streets. [23]
List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites is located in the United States
Dia Beacon
Dia Beacon
Dia Chelsea & NYC sites
Dia Chelsea & NYC sites
Dia Bridgehampton
Dia Bridgehampton
Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty
Sun Tunnels
Sun Tunnels
The Lightning Field
The Lightning Field
Placement of Dia locations and sites within the United States of America. Locations are red pins and sites are blue. The only Dia site outside of America, The Vertical Earth Kilometer by Walter De Maria located in Kassel, Germany is not shown.
List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites is located in Manhattan
Dia Chelsea
Dia Chelsea
7000 Oaks
7000 Oaks
The Broken Kilometer
The Broken Kilometer
The New York Earth Room
The New York Earth Room
Times Square
Times Square
Placement of Dia locations and sites within New York City. Locations are red pins and sites are blue.

Former sites[]

view of a forested shoreline with mountains in the background.
The forest surrounding Guayanilla, Puerto Rico where by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla once stood.

There are seven Dia sites, or long term installations, that were once listed in Dia publications or press releases but are no longer categorized as such. These sites were not necessarily removed from view, for instance The Dan Flavin Art Institute became part of Dia Bridgehampton[13] and Dan Flavin's Untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) was moved from Munich, Germany to Dia Beacon.[24]

Site Artist Placement Year Year acquired Year removed from view Description Ref.
Dan Flavin Art Institute Dan Flavin Bridgehampton,
New York 		1979 building purchased by Dia,
1983 Dan Flavin Art Institute established 		1983 - The Dan Flavin Art Institute, nine works by the artist on permanent display, now constitutes part of Dia Bridgehampton. [25][13]
Dream House La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela New York City,
New York 		1979 2015[b] 1985 This rendition of Dream House stretched over 6 floors and had more than 20 staff members. Located at the former New York Mercantile Exchange building it closed due to the loss of Dia funding following the 1980s oil glut. Dia later helped fund another, smaller, rendition of the work in TriBeCa. [26][27]
Fred Sandback Winchendon,
Massachusetts 		1981 - 1996 A former bank building housing works by Sanback was opened by Dia on 1981 and closed in 1996 by the artist. [28][29]
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla Between Guayanilla and Peñuelas,
Puerto Rico 		2015 N/A[c] 2018 The artists placed Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake), a 1965 fluorescent light sculpture by Dan Flavin, in a cave in the Puerto Rican jungle which can only be accessed by hiking approximately 2 hours to it, and powered it with the use of solar panels. [31][32][25]
Dan Graham New York City,
New York 		1981-1991 elements created,
1991 on view as composed whole 		1997 Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube acquired 2004 located on the roof of the Dia:Chelsea galleries, Graham placed a small urban park containing a pavilion created out of one-way glass, named Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube, and a shed for viewing video art. [33][34]
Dan Flavin New York City,
New York 		1996 1996 Disappears from Dia press releases between February 7, 2017[35] and February 24, 2017.[36] Flavin’s last artwork using fluorescent light, this site-specific installation was in the two stairwells of Dia's former headquarters at 548 West 22nd Street and is no longer on view. [37]
Dan Flavin Munich,
Germany 		1973 2005 Disappears from Dia press releases between May 18, 2015[38] and July 17, 2015.[39] 58 four foot by four foot sculptures made of metal and fluorescent light fixtures. Now installed at Dia Beacon. [40]

Future locations[]

Dia has one new location planned. By renovating a retail space in the SoHo section of New York City which Dia already owns, a fourth location will be added to Dia's portfolio in 2022.[3]

Location Placement Year proposed to open Description Ref.
New York City,
New York 		2022 former retail space at 77 Wooster Street, which Dia owns and has been renting out, will be transformed into a 2,500-square-foot gallery. [3]

Affiliates[]

An ornate corner building built of white teracotta.
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of Dia's 7 affiliate institutions.

Along side the 11 locations and sites Dia manages, they also maintain relationships with 7 affiliate institutions. Dia collaborated and supported these institutions, either financially or by donating or sharing of artworks, early in each origination's development. Two of the affiliates, City by Michael Heizer and Roden Crater by James Turrell, while being partially funded and supported by Dia since the 70's, are still not completed.[5]

Site[5] Artist Placement Year Description Ref.
Andy Warhol Museum Andy Warhol Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1989 announced,
1994 museum opened 		Built in collaboration with the Carnegie Institute and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts as one of the four Carnegie Museums, the museum holds the worlds largest collection of art and archival items related to Warhol. [5][41]
George Trakas Beacon,
New York 		1999 initiated,
2001 site clean-up
2007 artwork inaugurated 		Water access area designed as an artwork including an angling deck, boardwalk, and bulkhead created in collaboration with Scenic Hudson and . [42][25]
Chinati Foundation Various Marfa,
Texas 		1978 Began as a collection of works by Donald Judd installed with the help of Dia. [5][43]
City Michael Heizer ,
Nevada 		1972 begun,
not yet completed 		A one and a quarter mile long by one quarter of a mile wide land art piece being partially funded by Dia. [5][44]
Cy Twombly Gallery Cy Twombly Houston,
Texas 		1994 An installation of Twombly's work built in collaboration with the Menil Collection. [5][45]
Dream House La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela New York City,
New York 		1993 A sound and light installation which Dia helped fund the installation of. [5][46]
Roden Crater James Turrell Painted Desert,
Arizona 		1977 land acquired
not yet completed 		A large-scale multi-room installation focused on experiencing light located inside an extinct volcanic Cinder cone funded with support by Dia. [5][47]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Dia switched from calling this the Dan Flavin Art Institute and a site, to calling it Dia Bridgehampton and a location between a November 21, 2019 and a January 29, 2020 press release. [11][12]
  2. ^ Dream House has gone through many iterations beginning in 1962. in 2015 Dia acquired a version and presented it at Dia Chelsea from June to October, 2015.[26]
  3. ^ As Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos) is a re-contextualization of the sculpture Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake) by Dan Flavin, it can not truly be acquired in the classical sense of the term. Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake) was created in 1965 and was acquired by Dia in 1980.[30]

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