DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Art Fair and the Dallas Museum of Art today announced that 12 artworks from this year’s fair will be added to the museum’s permanent collection. The acquisitions were funded by the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, an annual gift from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation that places works from the fair into the DMA’s collection.

Yesterday, the DMA’s Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art Dr. Vivian Li, Interim Chief Curator and The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art Dr. Nicole R. Myers, and a group of fund donors previewed the fair, selecting artworks by the following nine artists for the museum’s collection: Chelsea Culprit, Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Karla Diaz, Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Riley Holloway, Yifan Jiang, Yowshien Kuo, Masamitsu Shigeta, and Nishiki Sugawara-Beda.

"The acquisitions made at this year’s Fair are perhaps the most expansive yet, representing our commitment to expanding representation in our collection from artists of the Asian, Latin American, and African diaspora," says Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck. "From Dallas to Mongolia, these artists respond to our challenging contemporary moment with humor and beauty, reinventing art historical traditions, creating alternative worlds, and challenging our preconceived notions of divisions based on identity."

In 2016, the Dallas Art Fair Foundation initiated the Dallas Art Fair Foundation Acquisition Program, which enables the Dallas Museum of Art to acquire artworks from the Dallas Art Fair for the museum’s permanent collection. This partnership proudly fosters relationships between Dallas’ institutions and international galleries, as well as elevates the city’s presence in the art world. The program has funded $775,000 for the Dallas Museum of Art’s permanent collection to date, including this year’s grant of $100,000.

“The Dallas Art Fair is thrilled to continue its contributions to the Dallas Museum of Art’s permanent collections through the diverse group of works chosen this year, with four of the nine galleries from Dallas,” says Kelly Cornell, Dallas Art Fair Director. “It is so gratifying to be able to integrate work from the art fair into the museum and create an entry point for artists at all stages of their career, from all parts of the world.”

The 2023 donors are Jim Blake, Rochelle Gores, Sheryl and Geoff Green, Kasey and Todd Lemkin, Marlo and Jeffrey Melucci, Cliff Risman, Linda and David Rogers, Gowri and Alex Sharma, and Marlene and John Sughrue.