 Piene's works are in more than 200 museum and public collections around the world, among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Harvard Art Museums, and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT.The University of Maryland, Baltimore County awarded Piene an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 1994.In 1996, he received the Sculpture Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.