Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in New York City opened in May 2014. [1] [2] Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare, the Gallery's second location was founded in August 2017 in partnership with Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions. [3]
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, [1] [2] [4] in 2014 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. [1] [5] [6] [7] Tabacaru also co-founded and served as the executive director of Women's Voices Now, an organization that encourages women's filmmaking in Muslim-majority communities. [1] [2] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] 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. [1] One year later she co-founded the CTG Collective, 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 in 2015. [8] In 2020, the gallery exhibition space moved from NYC to Bucharest, Romania, Catinca’s home town. [13]