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Salwa Zeidan Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located within the Hilton Capital Grand airport road Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), founded by the Lebanese artist Salwa Zeidan in 1994 and reopened in 2009. [1] [2] The gallery is specialized in contemporary art and has exhibited such artists as Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem, and Nedim Kufi.
The gallery is known for collaborating with both emerging and renowned artists from UAE, Middle East as well as the rest of the globe. It currently works with over 60 artists, although it has official representation contracts with a select list of around 29. Some of the artists currently[ when? ] represented by the gallery [3] are:
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