Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City opened in May 2014. Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare, the Gallery's second location was founded in August 2017 in partnership with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions.

History

The gallery was founded by Catinca Tabacaru, a Romanian-born art dealer and curator, who worked as a litigation attorney and executive director of

Women's Voices Now Women's Voices Now (WVN) is an American non-profit organization that "uses film to drive positive social change that advances girls' and women's rights globally". It organizes online short film festivals A festival is an event ordinarily ce ...

, in 2014 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. Tabacaru also co-founded and served as the executive director of

, an organization that encourages women's filmmaking in Muslim-majority communities. In 2012, she stepped down from Women's Voices Now to focus primarily on her art career, and opened her first physical space for the Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in 2014. One year later she co-founded the

CTG Collective The CTG Collective is a not-for-profit art organization. The Collective was founded by Rachel Monosov, Catinca Tabacaru and Justin Orvis Steimer. List of residencies CTG(R): ZImbabwe, 2015 * Participants: Virginia Chihota, Admire Kamudzengerer ...

, and subsequently CTG(R), a traveling art residency program affiliated with the gallery with its inaugural installment taking place in Zimbabwe. She curated her first institutional exhibition at the

National Gallery of Zimbabwe The National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) is a gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, dedicated to the presentation and conservation of Zimbabwe's contemporary art and visual heritage. The original National Gallery of Rhodesia was designed and directed by ...

in 2015. In 2020, the gallery exhibition space moved from NYC to Bucharest, Romania, Catinca’s home town.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* Gail Stoicheff: Little Miss Strange * Yapci Ramos: Red-Hot * Shinji Murakami: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology * Terrence Musekiwa: Standing on a line, not being on either side * Joe Brittain: Past Tense * Capucine Gros: Implicit Borders: a cartography of free will * Mehryl Levisse: Birds of a feather fly together * Admire Kamudzengerere: I am gonna...you. Till you run. * Xavier Robles de Medina: if you dream of your tongue, beware * Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels: a DEFECT // to DEFECT * Greg Haberny: Py•r•o·glyph•s * Justin Orvis Steimer: *

Sophia Wallace Sophia Wallace (born 1978) is an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is best known for her project "CLITERACY," which addresses citizenship and body sovereignty through the medium of text-based objects, unauthorized street installation ...

: OVER AND OVER AND OVER * Radouan Zeghidour: HYPOGEA * Jasmin Charles: Charly & Chill * Shinji Murakami, Solo exhibition *

Greg Haberny Greg Haberny (born 1975) is an American artist and filmmaker based in New York. Haberny's artist residencies include The Fountainhead Residency and McColl Center for Art + Innovation. In 2016, Haberny held an exhibition called 'Py•r•o·glyp ...

: Domestic * Justin Orvis Steimer: have you ever wondered what a soul looks like? * Joe Brittain: Intercourse * Gail Stoicheff: Distressed Blonde * Rachel Monosov: Effects of Displacement * Tamara Mendels: Flow *

Addam Yekutieli Addam Yekutieli a.k.a. ''Know Hope'' (1986) is an American-born Israeli artist who creates Social practice (art), social practice projects, immersive installations and Public art, public artworks. He became known for his work in the streets of T ...

(aka Know Hope): EMPATHY * Yapci Ramos: Perras y Putas

Group exhibitions

* 1972: Rachel Monosov and Admire Kamudzengerere * THE GUARDIAN AND THE BUILDER: Terrence Musekiwa, Justin Orvis Steimer * TERRA NOVA: Rachel Monosov, Terrence Musekiwa, Yapci Ramos, Justin Orvis Steimer * FRAGMENTED TIME: Ella Littwiz, Rachel Monosov, Benjamin Verhoeven, Reijiro Wada * Zig Zag Zim Part II: Admire Kamudzengerere, Rachel Monosov, Terrence Musekiwa, Xavier Robles de Medina and Justin Orvis Steimer * Zig Zag Zim Part I: Virginia Chihota, Admire Kamudzengerere, Rachel Monosov, Terrence Musekiwa and Justin Orvis Steimer * Devotion: Mike Ballou, Joe Brittain, William Corwin, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Elizabeth Ferry, Rico Gatson, Elisabeth Kley, Rachel Monosov, Roxy Paine, Joyce Pensato, Katie Bond Pretti, Carin Riley, Paul Anthony Smith, Justin Orvis Steimer, Gail Stoicheff, and

. * Material Myth: Tracey Emin, Caroline Wells Chandler, Meg Lipke, Rachael Gorchov, Roxanne Jackson and Robin Kang * Fictions and Constructions: Rui Chafes, Felix R. Cid, and Xavier Robles de Medina * Robin Kang & Duhirwe Rushemeza: Danger is in the Neatness of Identification * Make it Big, Make it Red, Put a Crown on It: Doo-Jin Ahn, Jasmin Charles, Christian Dore,

Barnaby Furnas Barnaby Furnas, (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1973), is an American painter and former graffiti artist who lives and works in New York City. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and received a BFA in 1995 before going on to study ...

, Peter Kappa, Brian Leo,

& Andrew Smenos * It Begins on Paper:

Patricia Cronin Patricia Cronin (born in 1963 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is a New York-based feminist cross-disciplinary artist. Since the early-1990s, Cronin has garnered international attention for her photographs, paintings and sculptures that address conte ...

, Greg Haberny, Rachel Monosov, Xavier Robles de Medina, Justin Orvis Steimer, Gail Stoicheff &

References

External links

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