About Taymour Grahne Projects
Taymour Grahne Projects is a Dubai-based contemporary art gallery. Alongside its physical exhibitions and a London office, it maintains an active online exhibition and art fair program.
Founded in 2013 by Taymour Grahne, the gallery has developed a reputation for identifying overlooked positions and supporting sustained artistic practices. After previously establishing spaces in New York’s Tribeca and London’s Holland Park/Notting Hill, the gallery’s Dubai flagship at Alserkal Avenue now acts as a platform for introducing international artists to the region while situating artists from the Middle East and its diasporas within a broader global discourse.
Moving beyond traditional models of representation, Taymour Grahne Projects works through long-term, project-based collaborations with a focused group of artists. Its program focuses on the vital intersections between the Global South and the West, championing painting-led practices.
Taymour Grahne Projects has placed the works of its artists into major museum collections worldwide, including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; The Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut; The British Museum, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi; The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, North Carolina; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech; and X Museum, Beijing, among others.
The gallery’s exhibitions, artists, and activities have been reviewed by major global publications including The New York Times, Frieze, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Whitewall, Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, AD Middle East, The National (UAE), GQ Middle East, and The Observer, among many others.
Taymour Grahne Projects is a member of The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD).
About Taymour Grahne
Taymour Grahne is a London and Dubai-based art dealer known for discovering and promoting some of today's most significant contemporary artists.
Born in London to a Lebanese mother and Finnish father, Grahne was raised in London, Beirut, and New York City. His journey into the art world began during his International Relations studies at Boston University, where he launched Art of the Mid East, a blog highlighting the underrepresented art scenes of the Middle East.
After earning an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York, Grahne noticed that many artists featured on his blog lacked representation in the city. This led him to establish his own gallery in New York in 2013 at 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood, a historic building that housed the iconic Area nightclub during the 1980s, renowned as a hub for celebrities and leading artists such as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Grahne inaugurated the gallery with a solo exhibition by NYC-based painter Nicky Nodjoumi, seamlessly blending the location's rich artistic heritage with contemporary art.
Taymour has worked with and exhibited some of the leading contemporary artists of our time, including: Francesca Mollett, Dominique Fung, Aubrey Levinthal, GaHee Park, Nadia Ayari, Maia Cruz Palileo, Daniele Genadry, John Dilg, Zineb Sedira, Mohamed Melehi, Anika Roach, Tidawhitney Lek, and Lamia Joreige, among many others.
Grahne holds an MA in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and a BA in International Relations from Boston University. He has spoken at various art panels at institutions including Wellesley College, Kingston University, and Regent's University.