Which Artists Have Joined Guggenheim Museum’s Collection?

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The Guggenheim New York grew its collection by 39 artworks in 2025, the museum shared this week. The works, which span from 1963 to today, come from 31 different modern and contemporary artists from around the world.

Among the newly acquired works are American artist Nancy Holt’s 1969 series Trail Markers, a grid of 20 photographs documenting orange markers spotted on boulders along a walking route in southwest England taken with her husband, the artist Robert Smithson. A second work by Holt, the 35 mm slide installation Stone Ruin Tour (1967) was also acquired. 

Three works by U.S. photographer Elle Pérez also join the collection, acquired in conjunction with the Young Collectors Council. Pérez is one of several emerging artists who join the museum collection for the first time, alongside New York-based artists Rachel Rossin and Ruby Sky Stiler, and Canadian abstract painter Ambera Wellmann.

Further notable additions include two geometric abstract paintings by Colombian artist Fanny Sanín; The Joke (2024), an oil-on-panel painting by Salman Toor depicting a boisterous dinner scene; the mixed-media Scrapbook #62 (2002–2003) by Japanese artist Shinro Ohtake; and Carrie Mae Weems’ Lincoln, Lonnie, and Me – A Story in 5 Parts (2012), a multimedia installation about the purported American Dream.

Works gifted to the collection include pieces by U.S. conceptual artists Jenny Holzer and N. Dash and Paul Chan’s new media installation Sock N Tease (2013).

In a statement, Guggenheim deputy director Naomi Beckwith described the 2025 acquisitions as ‘a testament to the ways in which the institution thoughtfully looks back at its roots and its commitment to experimental forms and transnational approaches.’

The Guggenheim’s permanent collection comprises some 8,000 artworks. According to the museum, the 2025 acquisitions were largely funded by the museum’s acquisition committees, which includes the Guggenheim Constellation Council, Asian Art Circle, Latin American Circle, WANASA (West Asia, North Africa, South Asia) Circle, Photography Council, and Young Collectors Council. —[O]

Main image: Ambera Wellmann, Sacrum (2025) (detail). Oil on linen. 124.5 × 114.3 cm. Collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, purchased with funds contributed by Gary Steele and Steven Rice, Michael Wilkinson, and Nachson Mimran 2025.37. Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery, New York. Photo: Sebastian Bach.