Past Exhibitions
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965
Organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and curated by Melissa Rachleff
This exhibition examined the New York art scene between the peak of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism in the early 1960s. It was organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and curated by Melissa Rachleff.
But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988-2008
with: Abdullah Al Saadi, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Hassan Sharif, Hussein Sharif, Jos Clevers, Mohammed Kazem, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Vivek Vilasini
This exhibition focuses on the formative years of an influential creative community working at the vanguard of contemporary in the UAE art since the 1980s.
Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents
Artists: Ai Weiwei, Jamie Allen, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Liu Bolin, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Monira Al Qadiri, Evan Roth, Phillip Stearns, Siebren Versteeg, Addie Wagenknecht, Kenny Wong.
This exhibition explored the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.
Diana Al-Hadid Phantom Limb
“Phantom Limb” was Al-Hadid’s first solo exhibition in the Arab World, and was accompanied by a major monograph publication.
Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes: Both Sides of the Tongue
This exhibition and accompanying book traced the contemporary obsession with self-help to a medieval genre of political science, “mirrors for princes,” shared among Christian and Muslim lands, with Machiavelli’s THE PRINCE being the most famous example.