Walter de Maria

Guggenheim.

Lightning Field.

The Equal Area Series (1976–90) is one of several large-scale works by Walter De Maria in Dia’s collection. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Dia commissioned and now maintains for visitors some of De Maria’s most significant permanent site-specific installations, including The Lightning Field (1977), on a remote desert plateau near Quemado, New Mexico, and The Broken Kilometer (1979) and The New York Earth Room (1977), both in downtown Manhattan, New York…

Walter De Maria was born in California and lives and works in New York. He has exhibited his work throughout the world, most recently at the Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan…

Interview with the artist