Sarah Grilo: Permanent Collection | The Met, New York
Sarah Grilo’s Black Wall (1967) formed part of the presentation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection in the Donald and Vera Blinken Galleries, located in the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. Acquired by the Museum in 2024, the painting was featured alongside seminal works from The Met’s postwar and contemporary art collection.
The Donald and Vera Blinken Galleries presented rotating installations drawn from The Met’s collection of modern and contemporary art. Although The Met has collected and exhibited work by living artists since its founding in 1870, it established its first department devoted exclusively to contemporary art (later expanded to modern and contemporary art) in 1967. Today, the department’s holdings of postwar and twenty-first-century art comprise nearly half of its collection, encompassing paintings, sculpture, design, decorative arts, and time-based media.
Since 2012, The Met has significantly expanded and diversified its collection of contemporary art, with a particular focus on works by women artists and artists of color, as well as artists working in Latin America, the Middle East, Turkey, South Asia, Africa, and North America. The rotating installations in these galleries reflected this broadened perspective on the history of modern and contemporary art.
