About
As a gallery that has been active in the region for almost two decades, Green Art Gallery has had the privilege of bearing witness to the tremendous transformations the region’s art scene has experienced, in terms of artistic production and presentation, audience reception, and the growing role of institutions, small and large, public and private.
What began in 1995 as a “salon d’art” driven by two women’s personal passion for Modern Arab art has evolved into a contemporary art space whose specific mission it to promote artists working across different media, traditional and new, whose practice is representative of our current time, with an emphasis on research based ideas.
Green Art Gallery now represents a multi-generational mix of artists from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, Turkey and beyond including Turkish artist Hale Tenger, NY-based Iranian artist Kamrooz Aram and NY- based Palestinian artist Shadi Habib Allah. Further artists represented include NY-based artist Seher Shah, Venezuelan artist Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia and the Hungarian painter Zsolt Bodoni.
In addition to holding solo exhibitions for its roster of artists, Green Art Gallery regularly collaborates with curators and guest artists in an effort to present their work for the first time in the region.
In 2012, Green Art Gallery initiated a publication program collaborating with curators, writers, and artists, to expand the reach of its exhibition program beyond “the white cube”. In this way, the Gallery aims to contribute to the documentation, archiving and historicizing of artistic production in the region. In March 2014, Green Art Gallery launched the first monograph for artist Kamrooz Aram, one of the 5 winners of the 2014 Abraaj Group Art Prize.
Since 2010, Green Art Gallery has participated in various international and regional art fairs including Art Dubai, Moving Image Fair in London, Art Basel, Art Hong Kong, Artissima Art Fair, Art Brussels, and Fiac’s (Off)icielle.
