The Grey Art Gallery is

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’s fine art museum, located on historic

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, in New York City's

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. As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. While these goals are common to all museums, the Grey distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization. In 1974, Abby Weed Grey established the Grey Art Gallery (originally known as the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center) at New York University, both as a permanent home for her art collection and to promote international artistic exchange in an academic setting. The museum opened to the public in 1975. The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at NYU comprises some 700 works produced by artists from countries as diverse as

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, and

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. Mrs. Grey's vision was bold and simple: one world through art. Believe that art, as a universal language, could serve as a potent vehicle for knowledge, communication, and understanding, Mrs. Grey formed this unique collection while traveling in

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and the

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in the 1960s and '70s. The Abby Weed Grey Collection constitutes the largest institutional holdings of modern Iranian and Turkish art outside those countries. The Grey Art Gallery also oversees the art collection of New York University. Founded in 1958 with the acquisition of

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism ...

's ''Resonateur'' (1922) and Fritz Glarner's ''Relational Painting'' (1949–50), the NYU Art Collection comprises approximately 5,000 works, mainly dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as

Pablo Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

's ''Bust of Sylvette'' (1967), currently installed at

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;

Joseph Cornell Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and film-maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmm ...

's ''Chocolat Menier'' (1952); and works by

Henri Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prim ...

Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà ( , , ; 20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona ...

, and Ilya Bolotowsky, as well as

Romare Bearden Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City a ...

Arshile Gorky Arshile Gorky (; born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, hy, Ոստանիկ Մանուկ Ատոյեան; April 15, 1904 – July 21, 1948) was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent the last years of hi ...

, Adolph Gottlieb,

Kenneth Noland Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was though ...

, Jane Freilicher, Ad Reinhardt, and

Alex Katz Alex Katz (born July 24, 1927) is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Early life and career Alex Katz was born July 24, 1927, to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, as the son of an émigré who ...

, among many others.

History

History of the Building

The Grey Art Gallery's location is rich in cultural history. The gallery is housed in the Silver Center (formerly Main Building), on the site on NYU's original home, the legendary University Building (1835–94), where many famous artists and writers, including Samuel Colt, Winslow Homer, George Inness, and Henry James, worked. It was also here that Professor Samuel F. B. Morse established the first academic art department in the U.S. Between 1927 and 1942, the space now occupied by the Grey Art Gallery hosted A. E. Gallatin's Gallery (later Museum) of Living Art—the first American museum exclusively devoted to modernist art. In exhibiting work by Pablo Picasso,

Fernand Léger Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as " tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, p ...

, Joan Miró,

Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...

Piet Mondrian Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (), after 1906 known as Piet Mondrian (, also , ; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being o ...

Jean Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born in Straßburg (now Stras ...

, and artists associated with the

American Abstract Artists American Abstract Artists (AAA) was formed in 1936 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publications, and lectures helped to establish the organization as a major fo ...

group, Gallatin created a forum for intellectual exchange and a place where visitors could view the latest developments in art. NYU lacked a permanent museum until 1975, when a private donation gift from Mrs. Abby Weed Grey enabled the historic venue's renovation and improvement of the historic venue, and the doors reopened as the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center in 1975.

History of the Gallery

Founder and patron of the Grey Art Gallery, Mrs. Abby Weed Grey collected some 700 works of modern art on her travels throughout Asia and the Middle East. A native of

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and a graduate of

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, Mrs. Grey established the ''Ben and Abby Grey Foundation'' to sponsor artists. She called for a more complex understanding of works by contemporary artists around the world, acknowledging their interest in local popular and folk forms as well as interactions with modernism. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs. Grey undertook curatorial projects such as ''Fourteen Contemporary Iranians'' (1962–65) and ''Turkish Art Today'' (1966–70), each of which toured the United States; ''Communication Through Art'' (1964), which opened simultaneously in

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, and

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, before traveling throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Asia, and eastern Africa; and ''One World Through Art.'' By 1979, Mrs. Grey had become one of American's prominent collectors of Asian and Middle Eastern art. Mrs. Grey served on the Board of Trustees of The Minnesota Society of Fine Arts (1967–1973) and the

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’s Board of Overseers (1964–1983). She endowed the Grey Fellowship in Museum Studies at the

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, and in 1979, established and endowed The Grey Fine Arts Library and Study Center'','' a resource in NYU's Department of Art History (formerly Department of Fine Arts).

Collections

Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art

The gallery was endowed by Abby Weed Grey, who also donated some 700 works of modern art that she acquired during her frequent travels in Asia and the Middle East. Mrs. Grey was especially supportive of Iranian art, which comprises one-fifth of her collection at NYU. She also donated significant holdings of works by artists from Turkey and India. Many of the artists whose works she collected adapted their culture's indigenous aesthetic traditions to contemporary circumstances, and they often blend representation and abstraction.

Iranian Art

Artists include: Mahmud Ahmadi, Siah Armajani, Jamal Bakhshpour,

Kamran Diba Kamran Diba ( fa, کامران ديبا, born 5 March 1937) is an Iranian architect and museum director, and prior to the Iranian Revolution, Diba worked entirely in the public sector in Iran. He is currently residing in Paris, France. Biogra ...

, Bijan Dowlatshahi, Ahmad Esfandiari, Mansour Ghandriz, Behrooz Golzari,

Marcos Grigorian Marcos Grigorian, also known as Marco Grigorian ( hy, Մարկոս Գրիգորեան; fa, مارکو گريگوريان; December 5, 1925 – August 27, 2007) was an Iranian-Armenian and American artist and gallery owner, and he was a pioneer o ...

, Mahmoud Javadipour, Sirous Malek,

Morteza Momayez Morteza Momayez ( fa, مرتضی ممیز; August 26, 1936 – October 25, 2005) was an Iranian graphic designer. He was one of the founders of Iranian Graphic Design Society (IGDS) and held a membership to Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI ...

, Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, Nassar Ovissi, Ru’in Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Behjat Sadr,

Sohrab Sepehri Sohrab Sepehri ( fa, سهراب سپهری; October 7, 1928 – April 21, 1980) was a notable Iranian poet and painter. He is considered to be one of the five most famous Iranian poets who have practiced modern poetry alongside Nima Youshij, Ah ...

, Masoumeh Seyhoun, Jazeh Tabatabai, Sadegh Tabrizi,

Parviz Tanavoli Parviz Tanavoli (born 1937) is an Iranian sculptor, painter, educator, and art historian. He is a pioneer within the Saqqakhaneh school, a neo-traditionalist art movement. Tanavoli has been one of the most expensive Iranian artists in sales. Tanav ...

, Esmail Tavakoli, Hamid Zarrine-Afsar, Charles-

Hossein Zenderoudi Charles Hossein Zenderoudi ( fa, (شارل) حسین زنده‌رودی; born March 11, 1937) is an Iranian painter, calligrapher and sculptor, known as a pioneer of Iranian modern art and as one of the earliest artists to incorporate Arabic cal ...

Turkish Art

Artists include: Mustafa Aslier, Aliye Berger, Nurullah Berk, Sabri Berkel, Sadan Bezeyis, Abidin Elderoglu, Dervim Erbil, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, Ahmet Gürsoy, Nevil Islek, Özer Kabas, Füreya Koral,

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Indian Art

Artists include: Prabhakar Barwe,

Dhanraj Bhagat Dhanraj Bhagat (1917–1988) was an Indian sculptor, considered by many as one of the major sculptors of the Indian subcontinent. He was born in 1917 in Lahore, in the erstwhile British India and secured a diploma in sculpture from the Nationa ...

Satish Gujral Satish Gujral (25 December 1925 – 26 March 2020) was an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist and writer of the post-independent era. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, in 1999. His el ...

, Maqbool Fida Husain, Kanwal Krishna, Krishna Reddy, Francis Newton Souza,

Vivan Sundaram Vivan Sundaram (born 28 May 1943) is an Indian contemporary artist. His parents were Kalyan Sundaram, Chairman of Law Commission of India from 1968 to 1971, and Indira Sher-Gil, sister of noted Indian modern artist Amrita Sher-Gil. He is marr ...

, Jehangir P. Vazifdar.

The New York University Art Collection

The New York University Art Collection, of which the Grey Art Gallery is now guardian, was founded in 1958 with NYU's acquisition of

’s ''Resonateur'' (c.1922) and Fritz Glarner’s ''Relational Painting'' (1949–50). Today the collection (which includes approximately 6,000 objects) is primarily composed of late-19th and 20th-century works, ranging from

’s monumental public sculpture ''Bust of Sylvette'' to a

box, ''Chocolat Menier'', from 1952. The collection's particular strength is American painting from the 1940s to the present. European prints are also well represented, with works by

, and

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

, to name a few. Artists in the NYU Art Collection include:

Milton Avery Milton Clark Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965Haskell, B. (2003). "Avery, Milton". Grove Art Online.) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husba ...

, Ilya Bolotowsky,

Sonia Delaunay Sonia Delaunay (13 November 1885 – 5 December 1979) was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to Fr ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Bor ...

, and many others. The collection is especially rich in works by artists working in New York in the 1950s and '60s, such as

Willem de Kooning Willem de Kooning (; ; April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter El ...

Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s u ...

, Adolph Gottlieb,

Al Held Al Held (October 12, 1928 – July 27, 2005) was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings. As an artist, multiple stylistic changes occurred throughout his career, howe ...

Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American painter, renowned as both an artist and teacher. His career spanned two generations and two continents, and is considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstrac ...

Nicholas Krushenick Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter, collagist and printmaker whose mature artistic style straddled Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism and Color Field. He was active in the New York art scene f ...

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attribute ...

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of ''The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology''. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also inc ...

Louise Nevelson Louise Nevelson (September 23, 1899 – April 17, 1988) was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Kyiv Oblast ...

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

, Ad Reinhardt, and Bernard (Tony) Rosenthal.

Selected exhibitions

Barjeel Exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery

* 1975: ''Inaugural Exhibition: Selections from the Abby Weed Grey Collection'' * 1976: ''Inaugural Exhibition, Part II: Selections from the New York University Art Collection'' * 1976: ''Parviz Tanavoli: Fifteen Years of Bronze Sculpture'' * 1978: ''The Decorative Designs of

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements o ...

.'' Co-organized by the

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds ...

and the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center * 1981: ''The Photography of Space Exploration'' * 1981: ''Tracking The Marvelous'' * 1983: ''

Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, ...

and

Tina Modotti Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left Italy in 1913 and moved to ...

'' Organized by the

Whitechapel Art Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the ...

, London * 1984: '' Giovanni Boldini and Society Portraiture: 1880–1920'' * 1985: ''Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties'' * 1989: ''"Success Is a Job in New York": The Early Art and Business of

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (; born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationsh ...

.'' Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the

Carnegie Museum of Art The Carnegie Museum of Art, is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsbu ...

, Pittsburg. * 1989: ''Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties.'' Organized by the

List Visual Arts Center Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its admini ...

at MIT, the Japan Foundation, and the Grey Art Gallery * 1994: ''From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS.'' Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and Independent Curators Inc. * 1997: '' Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self'' * 1999: ''Inverted Odysseys:

Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (, born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-port ...

, Maya Deren,

Cindy Sherman Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often co ...

'' * 1999: ''When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland.'' Organized by the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

Art Museum * 2002: ''Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture'' * 2004: ''Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954–1968''. Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The gallery is housed in an award-winning building designed by architect Peter Cardew and o ...

at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver * 2006: ''The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984.'' Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University * 2008: ''New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University'' * 2008: ''The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art'' * 2009: ''Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya.'' Organized by the

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art ("The Johnson Museum") is an art museum located on the northwest corner of the Arts Quad on the main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its collection includes two windows from Frank Lloyd W ...

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

* 2011: ''Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory The Brown Building is a ten-story building that is part of the campus of New York University (NYU), which owns it. It is located at 23–29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in the Greenwich Village neighborhood o ...

Fire'' * 2012: ''

Jesús Rafael Soto Jesús Rafael Soto (June 5, 1923 – January 17, 2005) was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter. His works can be found in the collections of the main museums of the world, including Tate (London), Museum Ludwig (Germany ...

: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970'' * 2012: ''Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore.'' Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and presented at the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library * 2015: ''Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection'' * 2015: '' Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera.'' Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the

Chrysler Museum of Art The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum on the border between downtown and the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. ...

, Norfolk, Virginia. * 2016: ''Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran'' * 2017: ''Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965'' * 2018: ''The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of

Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or M ...

.'' Organized by the Weisman Art Museum at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

in collaboration with the Cajal Institute, Spain * 2019: ''Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989.'' Organized by the

Columbus Museum of Art The Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (its name until 1978), it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio. The museum collect ...

, Columbus, Ohio * 2019: ''Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection'' * 2020: ''Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s.'' Co-curated with the

Barjeel Art Foundation Barjeel Art Foundation is a non-profit arts organisation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The foundation was established in 2010 by Emirati commentator Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi to manage and exhibit his personal art collection. There are ov ...

, Sharjah, UAE.

Awards

* 1991 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for ''"Success is a Job in New York": The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol,''

, Pittsburgh, and Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, on view at the Grey March 14–April 29, 1989 * 1997 AICA (The United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics) award for ''Shiro Kuramata 1934–1991,'' on view February 25–May 2, 1998 (Best Design Show) * 1999 AICA (The United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics) award for ''Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman,'' on view November 16, 1999 – January 29, 2000 (Best Photography Show) * 2007 AICA (The United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics) award for ''The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984,'' Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University, New York, on view January 10–April 1, 2006 (Best Thematic Museum Show in New York City) * 2007 Village Voice Best of NYC award (Best Didactic Gallery) * 2012 AICA (The United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics) award for ''The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art,'' on view September 16–December 6, 2008 (Best Show in University Gallery) * 2012 AICA (The United States Section of the International Association of Art Critics) award for ''Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore,'' on view September 6–December 8, 2012 (Best Show in a University Gallery) * 2017 the Alice Award administered by Furthermore grants in publishing, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, for ''Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965'' by Melissa Rachleff, co-published by the Grey Art Gallery and DelMonico Books* Prestel Publishing. (The Alice Short List)

Directors

* Robert R. Littman, 1976–1983 * Thomas Sokolowski, 1984–1996 * Lynn Gumpert, 1997–present

References

External links

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New York UniversityGuide to the Records of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center
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