List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites

The Dia Art Foundation was established in 1974 in New York City by the not yet married Heiner Friedrich and Schlumberger heiress Philippa de Menil, as well as Helen Winkler.

They created the institution to help artists realize ambitious projects whose scale and scope is not feasible within the normal museum and gallery systems.

[5][6] With Friedrich and de Menil's combined large fortune, the foundation began supporting minimalist, conceptual, and land artists with, as Vanity Fair describes in an article, "stipends, studios, assistants, and archivists for the individual museums it planned to build for each of them".

[8][9] The foundation began by working with and collecting the work of only twelve artists: Joseph Beuys, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Fred Sandback, James Turrell, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, Robert Whitman, and La Monte Young.

[9] This gradual refocus is markedly seen in the 2018 acquisition of Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt, Dia's most recent addition to their list of sites.

[2] 2 - Depreciation 3 - The Broken Kilometer 4 - The New York Earth Room 5 - Times Square 6 - Spiral Jetty 7 - Sun Tunnels 8 - The Lightning Field

A brick factory building, complete with smokestack, sits in the distance surrounded by a field and in front of hills covered in trees
The Dia Beacon building and surrounding landscape.
A close up image of a seven story brick building.
One of the three buildings that together form Dia Chelsea .
Times square with people sitting on a bench and a costumed character taking their character head off.
The location in Times Square where Max Neuhaus 's sound art installation, Times Square , emanates.
a brass circle flush to a grey stone background.
The only part of The Vertical Earth Kilometer visible above ground.
The Dia field office in Quemado, New Mexico is responsible for administering the Lightning Field .
view of a forested shoreline with mountains in the background.
The forest surrounding Guayanilla , Puerto Rico where Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos) by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla once stood.
A colorfully lit interior of a church showing the apse and part of the crossing.
Interior of Santa Maria Annunciata in Chiesa Rossa with the fluorescent light installation by Dan Flavin .
An ornate corner building built of white teracotta.
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania is one of Dia's 7 affiliate institutions.