Museum Collections of Grant's Arts

This is what I find in researching the museum collections on Alexandra Grant’s CV. For the Museo Santo Domingo, it was a community mural project that she organized and it was completed and is supposed to stay there as part of the museum collection. As for the piece at Blanton Museum of Art, it is called Shadow (5), after Keanu Reeves’s “You are not here, not even” – this is a photo for the collaborative book “Shadow” where the text is Reeves’s poetry and she took photos of his shadow. The photo idea is neither original nor great but it is the shadow of Keanu Reeves and this is probably why it was accepted for their collection. 

Two pieces are part of the MOCA collection and one was donated by Anthony E. Nicholas and the other one was purchased with funds provided by the Drawing committee. Neither of the piece seems to be on display. 

Five of her arts are found in the LACMA collection. One were acquired by LACMA alone and four were acquired jointly by LACMA and the Hammer Museum, partial gift of the Lapis Press, funds provided by the Ralph Person Funds, etcetera, and two anonymous donors. It should be noted that the Lapis Press hosted the Shadow exhibition on Sep 23, 2014. But none of these “art pieces” are on display so basically, you can donate or get someone to donate your “arts” to the museum but it does not mean that it will be given value or put on display. I was not able to find Alexandra Grant’s art under the Hammer Museum and this is probably why. It was received and bought jointly with LACMA and neither museum is showing it. 

She has probably donated or planned to donate her art to the Orange County Museum of Arts so she can put it on her resume that it is part of their collection but whether or not it will be displayed remains to be seen.