LOS ANGELES – Continuing the active development of its collection during its first year of operation, The Broad expanded its collection by 29 artworks over the past year, including pieces by 1980s Pictures Generation artists Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Sherrie Levine and Ericka Beckman, the museum announced today.

More than a third of the 29 new artworks acquired were by Los Angeles artists, and The Broad also added six new artists to the collection, including Oscar Murillo, Tauba Auerbach and Jonas Wood.

“The Broad is a hallmark collection for artists who emerged in the 1980s, whose preoccupations and innovations are still so resonant and influential in today’s ever expanding image-saturated world, and many of our acquisitions deepen those holdings,” said Joanne Heyler, founding director of The Broad, “while the addition of more L.A.-based artists also extends our long history of collecting art within L.A.’s dynamic art scene.”

Five Sherman works, currently on view through Oct. 2 in the museum’s first special exhibition, “Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life,” have been added to the collection, bringing the Broad collection’s holdings of the artist’s works to 129 – the largest collection of Sherman’s work in the world. Four of the acquisitions are from Sherman’s most recent body of work, completed earlier this year and featuring the artist as aging film personas.

With more than 200 artists in The Broad collection, the museum is continuing to add new artists, signaling a commitment by the institution to collect them in depth. The collection’s first work by Oscar Murillo, an artist based in London and La Paila, Colombia, is an eight-panel work composed of canvases hanging like flags titled trade today, 2014-15, examining the contemporary global economy.

The Broad collection now has 11 works by Sherrie Levine, with the addition of her cast bronze Beach Ball after Lichtenstein, 2015, which questions ideas of originality and how value is accrued.

Media artist Ericka Beckman enters the collection with You The Better, a 16mm film created in 1983. The 32-minute film explores games of chance and the powerlessness of players – and the viewer, drawn into the action – to affect the outcome. The acquisition also includes set pieces, shown with synchronized lighting, that together with the film comprise the installation.

Local artist Jonas Wood enters the collection with his painting Children’s Garden, 2015, which furthers the artist’s ongoing investigation of intimate environments. The work is an adaptation of an old photograph of Jonas’ childhood daycare center, which features chaotic shelving crowded with toys and books-into an illustrative scene composed of shape, pattern and saturated color.

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