Miami

collectors

donate

36

works

by

African

and

diaspora

artists

to

Tate

Collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works by 15 artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate as part of an ongoing partnership between the Miami couple and the UK institution. The works include seven photographs by the Malian artist Seydou Keïta, three paintings by the Congolese artist Cheri Samba and a 1986 wooden plank hanging piece by El Anatsui of Ghana.

“The acquisition furthers the ambition that Tate has of really changing art historical dialogue. It definitely represents a shift,” says Osei Bonsu, the curator of Nigerian Modernism at Tate Modern (until 10 May 2026).

“The ways in which these artists are both at the cutting edge of the contemporary but also rooted in more established histories of African art meant that it was an opportunity for Tate to look at their collection as a way of broadening our existing holdings, pushing forward some of the artists that we would have loved to acquire.”