Exhibitions

Past

8 Ways of Holding On - Nadia Ayari
6 - 17 Apr 2019 Opening: Apr. 6, 6 — 9 pm Address: Arch 402. Cremer St, London E2 8HD Opening times: Every day, 11 am — 6 pm Taymour Grahne is pleased to present 8 Ways of Holding On, Nadia Ayari’s first London solo show. In this exhibition, Ayari furthers her investigation into the... Read more

The Way Back - Maia Cruz Palileo
25 Sep - 7 Oct 2018 Opening: Sep. 25, 6 — 9 pm Address: 93 Piccadilly, London W1J 7N Q Opening times: Every day, 11 am — 7 pm Marking the second iteration of his nomadic exhibition platform, Taymour Grahne is pleased to announce The Way Back, featuring new paintings and works on paper by New... Read more

Every Day Was Yesterday - GaHee Park
24 May - 13 Jun 2018 Opening: May 24, 6 — 9 pm Address: 9B Battersea Square, London SW11 3RA Opening times: Wed — Sun, 11 am — 7 pm Taymour Grahne is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition of his nomadic exhibition platform. In Every Day Was Yesterday, New York-based artist GaHee Park presents a... Read more

Try to Smoke it: Curated by Holly Coulis
2 May - 7 Jul 2017 Try to Smoke It Curated by Holly Coulis 2 May – 7 June 2017 Opening: 2 May, 6 – 8 PM Location: Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present 'Try to Smoke It,' an exhibition of 8 painters, curated by Holly Coulis. '[Jasper] Johns's subjects... Read more

Dear, dear, dear - Maia Cruz Palileo
28 Feb - 25 Apr 2017 28 February – 25 April 2017 Opening: 28 February, 6 – 8 PM Location: Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Maia Cruz Palileo’s second solo show at the gallery, Dear, dear, dear, featuring new paintings, works on paper and fresco sculptures exploring notions of... Read more

Follow The Crooked Path (Though It Be Longer) - Austin Eddy
28 Feb - 25 Apr 2017 Austin Eddy - Follow The Crooked Path (Though It Be Longer) 28 February – 25 April 2017 Opening: 28 February, 6 – 8 PM Location: Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Follow The Crooked Path (Though It Be Longer), featuring new sculptures, drawings and... Read more

Observable Universe - Matthew F Fisher
18 Jan - 22 Feb 2017 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Observable Universe, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Matthew F Fisher. Exploring notions of timelessness and nature, Fisher’s paintings are a meditation on the relationship between permanence and intransience. Every attempt to produce that which shall be any rock, ends... Read more

Robot Open Sesame - Yui Kugimiya
14 Jan - 22 Feb 2017 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Robot Open Sesame, a series of new paintings by Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Yui Kugimiya exploring the delicate tension between positive and negative space. Soft blobs of pastel color float in a hazy sea of white. These shapes have presence and weight, yet they... Read more

Mojave Pictures - Ryan Schneider
28 Oct - 21 Dec 2016 I came to Joshua Tree in February 2015, for what was supposed to be a 3 month stay, but the positive effect the desert had on my work and on me was undeniable, and I decided to remain. I gave up my studio and apartment in Brooklyn, and moved out... Read more

Natural Memory - John Dilg
28 Oct - 21 Dec 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Natural Memory, a solo exhibition of recent work by Iowa City-based artist John Dilg. The show’s imagery derives from an ongoing meditation on Dilg’s relationship to the land and its ability to conjure vivid, visual memories. These paintings and works on paper are... Read more

Deeper and More Troublesome - Corey Escoto
7 Sep - 19 Oct 2016 Deeper and More Troublesome, the sequel to Corey Escoto's solo exhibition Deep Trouble at Regina Rex Gallery in Fall 2015, highlights Corey's fascination with the influence of the Hollywood film industry, the mainstream media, and their connection to the governing political apparatus. Corey's work begins with a series of 8x10... Read more

Sunday - Bruno Pacheco
7 Sep - 19 Oct 2016 Sunday, Lisbon/London-based artist Bruno Pacheco’s first solo exhibition in the USA, explores his interest in painting and its histories. The exhibition consists entirely of paintings on paper. Pacheco’s process involves the constant repetition of an image and its continuous alteration. This repetition implies a permanent search for a point of... Read more

A Verdant Summer
28 Jun - 17 Aug 2016 A VERDANT SUMMER KAMROOZ ARAM NADIA AYARI LARISSA BATES WHITNEY BEDFORD HOLLY COULIS DANIELE GENADRY RAFFI KALENDERIAN YUI KUGIMIYA NICKY NODJOUMI MAIA CRUZ PALILEO MATTHEW PORTER RYAN SCHNEIDER GUY TILLIM HANNAH WHITAKER 28 JUNE – 17 AUGUST 2016 Read more

Bread and Circuses - Hector Arce-Espasas
18 May - 22 Jun 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Bread and Circuses, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Héctor Arce-Espasas. This new body of work, which includes ceramics and paintings, explores themes of historicity, cultural identity, and colonialism. The title of the show comes from an idea used by the Romans to... Read more

Sometimes - Fanny Tavastila
18 May - 22 Jun 2016 Read more

Bricks - Nadia Ayari
10 Mar - 8 May 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present Bricks, a solo exhibition of new thick oil paintings, watercolors, and sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Nadia Ayari. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Ayari uses her practice to explore the intersection between primary forms: the fig, branch and blood. Employing... Read more

Linea - Abdolreza Aminlari
10 Mar - 8 May 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Linea, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Abdolreza Aminlari in the lower level gallery space. This new body of work continues Aminlari’s explorations of thread as a medium. Repetitive and ritualistic, the work simultaneously references the uniformity of factory production... Read more

You and Me - Nicky Nodjoumi
26 Jan - 5 Mar 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present You and Me, a solo exhibition of new work by the critically acclaimed New York-based artist Nicky Nodjoumi (b. 1942). Nodjoumi’s nuanced figurative paintings engage in political discourse with a satirical touch, layering the artist’s personal heritage and lived experiences into scenes that... Read more

Present Tense - Zineb Sedira
12 Nov 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition Zineb Sedira: Present Tense. The exhibition marks the internationally acclaimed artist’s first solo presentation in New York. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath of Art Reoriented, it features a number of seminal works, ranging from photography and video to... Read more

Current Times, Savage Times - Radamés "Juni" Figueroa
12 Sep - 4 Nov 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Current Times, Savage Times, a solo exhibition of new works by Puerto Rican artist Radames “Juni” Figueroa. This presentation comes a year after Figueroa’s participation in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and solo exhibition at New York’s SculptureCenter. Pairing his familiar Tropical Readymades, with... Read more

Missing Real - Daniele Genadry
12 Sep - 4 Nov 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present Missing Real, a solo exhibition of new works by Brooklyn-based artist Daniele Genadry. Marking the artist’s first solo presentation in New York, the exhibition includes a large-scale floor installation, paintings, works on paper and photo-based collage that investigate the unseen realities which contribute... Read more

Formal Relations
2 Jul - 19 Aug 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present Formal Relations, a group exhibition curated by Kamrooz Aram and Murtaza Vali, featuring work by Abdolreza Aminlari , Doug Ashford , Fayçal Baghriche , Eva Berendes , Ala Ebtekar , Michelle Grabner , Yamini Nayar and Zarina . Presenting an international and intergenerational... Read more

What Looks Back at Us - Fayçal Baghriche
28 May - 27 Jun 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to announce What Looks Back at Us, a solo exhibition by French-Algerian artist Fayçal Baghriche, featuring Atlas Series, his brand new body of work. Titled after its namesake, the Atlas Mountains, the series showcases photographs of the site, which is rich in minerals and semi-precious... Read more

Night and Day - Whitney Bedford
16 Apr - 20 May 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to announce Night and Day, a solo-exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Whitney Bedford. In this most recent body of work, layered ink drawing interacts with and is subsumed by oil paint to form volatile, mercurial compositions. Her concern is with the sublime,... Read more

Guavas and Ferns - Maia Cruz Palileo
16 Apr - 20 May 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to announce Guavas and Ferns, an exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Maia Cruz Palileo. The paintings in this exhibition draw inspiration from a recent trip that Palileo took to the Philippines to visit with elders from a dying generation and to see her... Read more

The Story, Like All Stories, is Incomplete - Rania Bellou
10 Jan - 20 Feb 2015 Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present the story, like all stories, is incomplete , a multi-media exhibition of new work by Greek-born, London-based artist Rania Bellou. Curated by Vali Mahlouji, the exhibition centers around a found diary, dating back to 1940 and belonging to New York resident Margaret Becker.... Read more

Memorizing by Means of Observing - Mohammed Kazem
13 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 “I am fascinated by collecting and documenting information about seemingly unimportant objects, traces of our present, within a particular environment.” – Mohammed Kazem Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present ‘Memorizing by Means of Observing,’ an exhibit of works by Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem. Born in 1969 in Dubai, Mohammed... Read more

K Files - Tarek Al-Ghoussein
16 Sep - 23 Oct 2014 New York, New York – Taymour Grahne Gallery is pleased to present K Files, the first solo exhibition in New York by Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist Tarek Al-Ghoussein. On the occasion of the exhibition, the gallery celebrates the launch of the artist’s second monograph, Transfigurations, with essays by Reem Fadda, Kevin Mitchell,... Read more

Didn't Start the Fire
14 Jul - 6 Sep 2014 Didn’t Start The Fire presents four artists’ varying approaches to recent and present day imperialism. Centering on the use of monolithic forms, the exhibition brings together works by Haig Aivazian , Nader Sadek , Kamau Amu Patton , and Yui Kugimiya . Haig Aivazian‘s Why Should Fear Seize the Limbs... Read more

Fixed Unknowns
14 Jul - 6 Sep 2014 The red eye of a flower escapes from its stem, multiplies and migrates across the canvas. Three spheres of uncertain scale hover over a black field, as marbles poised to be dispersed, or planetary bodies frozen in orbit. A circle acts as the aperture through which we see--and as the... Read more

The Situationist Effect - Katia Kameli
23 Apr - 22 May 2014 Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present The Situationist Effect, a solo exhibition of work by the Paris-based Franco-Algerian artist Katia Kameli. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, The Situationist Effectdocuments Kameli’s personal approach to the city of Marseille and its surroundings, through a film and a... Read more

Surface Tension - Corey Escoto
13 Mar - 12 Apr 2014 New York, New York - Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present Surface Tension, a solo exhibition of work by Texas-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Corey Escoto. Pairing a series of manipulated Polaroid photographs with corresponding sculptures that use the images as their structural blueprint, Escoto inverts and explores the relationship of... Read more

'Kesh Angels - Hassan Hajjaj
28 Jan - 8 Mar 2014 New York, New York (January 8, 2014) – Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present 'Kesh Angels, a solo exhibition of work by the Moroccan-born, UK-based artist, Hassan Hajjaj. Marking the artist’s first exhibition in New York, ‘Kesh Angels presents a unique take on the vibrant street culture of Morocco... Read more

A Round Now - Ciarán Murphy
10 Dec 2013 - 22 Jan 2014 New York, New York(October 21, 2013) – Taymour Grahne Gallery is proud to present A Round Now, a selection of new oil paintings and watercolors by acclaimed Irish artist Ciarán Murphy, marking the artist’s first exhibition in New York. Murphy’s enigmatic paintings take their starting point from a wide-ranging and... Read more

Chasing the Butterfly and other Recent Paintings - Nicky Nodjoumi
7 Sep - 19 Oct 2013 This September, Taymour Grahne Gallery opens its doors with an inaugural exhibition by acclaimed Brooklyn-based artist Nicky Nodjoumi. Featuring large-scale oil paintings in the main gallery and works on paper in the lower gallery, Chasing the Butterfly and Other Recent Paintings explores Nodjoumi’s surreal hybridization of historic and contemporary imagery... Read more