Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez have gifted Tate 36 works by artists from Africa and its diaspora. It’s the second time the married collectors have made a high-profile donation to the museum network in the past year, having previously given Tate a large-scale Joan Mitchell painting.
The artworks in the gift are by an intergenerational range of artists, spanning Seydou Keïta, a Malian photographer born in the 1920s, to Joy Labinjo, a rising British painter of Nigerian descent who was born in 1994.
In some cases, Tate has already made a significant effort to spotlight artists included in the gift. Rotimi Fani-Kayode, the late Nigeria-born, England-based photographer, was already well-represented in the Tate collection, as was J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, a Nigerian photographer with work currently on view in Tate Modern’s “Nigerian Modernism” survey.
