Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970), 2019 . © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Victoria Sambunaris
Established in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is committed to advancing, realizing, and preserving the vision of artists. Dia fulfills its mission by commissioning single artist projects, organizing exhibitions, realizing site-specific installations, and collecting in-depth the work of a focused group of artists of the 1960s and 1970s. Today it consists of nine permanent sites across the United States and Germany, as well as three changing exhibition spaces in New York State: Dia Chelsea in the city, Dia Beacon in the Hudson Valley, and Dia Bridgehampton on Long Island.
Located in a former Nabisco box-printing factory, Dia Beacon presents Dia's collection of art from the 1960s to the present as well as special exhibitions, public programs and tours.
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Located on West 22nd Street in New York, Dia Chelsea presents temporary exhibitions, performances, lectures and readings.
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Housed in a turn-of-the-century firehouse, then church, Dia maintains Dan Flavin's permanent installation of nine fluorescent lights, the Dan Flavin Art Institute, and presents yearly exhibitions by artists primarily residing or working on Long Island in the first-floor gallery.
Plan your visitWalter De Maria's permanent installation of 250 cubic yards of earth, open to the public in SoHo since 1977.
Explore site →Walter De Maria's interior sculpture of 500 highly polished brass rods arranged in five parallel rows, open in SoHo since 1979.
Explore site →Walter De Maria's monumental land art work comprising 400 polished stainless steel poles, located in the high desert of western New Mexico.
Explore site →Robert Smithson's earthwork, a 1,500-foot-long coil of black basalt rocks and earth, located at Rozel Point peninsula on the shore of Great Salt Lake.
Explore site →Nancy Holt's work located in Northern Utah, composed of four concrete cylinders arranged in an open cross format and aligned to frame the sun during summer and winter solstices.
Explore site →Max Neuhaus's sound installation emerging from a pedestrian island in Times Square, since 1997.
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Your support makes Dia possible. Today Dia continues to maintain long-term projects across the United States; present its collection; commission artists; and conduct a roster of public programs.
Join today for free admission to Dia Beacon, bookshop discounts, invitations to special events, and more. The cost of your ticket may be applied toward a membership.
Dia was founded in New York in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope. To suggest the institution's role in enabling such ambitions, they selected the name 'Dia,' taken from the Greek word meaning 'through.' Today it consists of nine permanent sites across the United States and Germany, as well as three changing exhibition spaces in New York State: Dia Chelsea in the city, Dia Beacon in the Hudson Valley, and Dia Bridgehampton on Long Island.
Visit one of Dia's three exhibition spaces: Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York; Dia Bridgehampton on Long Island; and Dia Chelsea in New York City. Also in New York City, visit installation sites The Broken Kilometer, The New York Earth Room in SoHo, and a site-specific sound installation in Times Square. In western Utah, Dia maintains land art sites Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels. The Lightning Field is available to visit by reservation only.
At Dia Beacon, advance reservations are suggested, but not required. Dia's locations and sites in New York City are always free.
Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels are open and free to visit year-round. The Lightning Field is open from May to October for overnight visits, by reservation only. We rely on your help to preserve the artwork for all of us now and for future generations — please leave the land art and the natural environment exactly as you found it.