AINA Gallery is pleased to announce its grand opening in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. Previously known as Aicon Art, AINA brings its curatorial program of South Asian modern masters from the twentieth century alongside cutting-edge contemporary artists working across South Asia, Africa, and their global diasporas to the new gallery designed by studioMDA.
Derived from the Persian and South Asian concept of the mirror (aina /آئینہ), AINA is an exhibition space dedicated to reflection and global artistic dialogues.
“AINA Gallery was conceived as a space of clarity and synthesis … New York has long been a global nexus for artistic exchange, yet non-Western modernisms and contemporary artists of the Global South continue to be underrepresented and deserve a dedicated, uncompromising platform on this stage. There is a depth of culture and history that has been left unexplored to their full potential outside of the Western framework, and our mission is to present these artistic movements with the scholarly depth and high-level presentation they demand.”
—AINA Founder Prajit Dutta
To mark its inauguration, AINA presents Other Stories — A Genealogy for the Present, featuring rare works by seminal twentieth-century masters alongside new works by leading contemporary voices. Curatorial advisor Atreyee Gupta explains that the “exhibition takes Rasheed Araeen’s seminal 1989 Hayward Gallery exhibition The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post War Britain as both a historical point of departure and a critical proposition.”
AINA Gallery’s grand opening takes place October 1, 6-9 PM at 550 West 29th Street, NY.
For more information visit www.ainagallery.com / @ainagallery.ny.
Artists: Peju Alatise, Khadim Ali, Rasheed Araeen, Faiza Butt, Avinash Chandra, Victor Ekpuk, Rachid Koraïchi, Ernest Mancoba, Veer Munshi, Surendran Nair, Saad Qureshi, Krishna Reddy, Rekha Rodwittiya, Sujith S.N., Mohan Samant, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Francis Newton Souza, Aubrey Williams, Zarina
