page_title: Grey Art Gallery
section_title: Selected exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Grey Art Gallery / Selected exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Barjeel Exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery
context_page_description: The Grey Art Gallery is New York University’s fine art museum, located on historic Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich Village. 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 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.
context_section_description: 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. Co-organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center
  1981: The Photography of Space Exploration
  1981: Tracking The Marvelous
  1983: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti Organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery, 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. Organized by the Grey Art Gallery and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg.
  1989: Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties. Organized by the List Visual Arts Center 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, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman
  1999: When Time Began to Rant and Rage: Figurative Painting from Twentieth-Century Ireland. Organized by the University of California, Berkeley 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 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 at Cornell University
  2011: Art/Memory/Place: Commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  2012: Jesús Rafael Soto: 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, 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. Organized by the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in collaboration with the Cajal Institute, Spain
  2019: Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989. Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, 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, Sharjah, UAE.
caption: Barjeel's Taking Shape Exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery
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