June 10, 2025 (Berlin, Germany) – SOCIÉTÉ is pleased to announce the representation of American artist Salim Green in collaboration with François Ghebaly.
Salim Green explores themes of concealment, visibility, and opacity through a multi-disciplinary practice encompassing painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, and writing. For Green, abstraction functions both as an aesthetic strategy and an attitude: a means of negotiating notions of legibility, authorship, and the plasticity of experience. A recurring point of reference in his work is Dark Forest Theory—a speculative framework proposing that extraterrestrial civilizations remain hidden to avoid detection and destruction. Adopting this theory as a lens for understanding relational dynamics and Black existence, Green’s work embodies acts of strategic withdrawal—resistant assertions of unknowability, interiority, and survival. Salim Green's upcoming solo presentation at SOCIÉTÉ in 2026, will mark the artist’s European debut. François Ghebaly will open his first solo exhibition in September 2025. DFT 2025, a group exhibition co-curated by Salim Green and Benjamin Chaffee, will open at Wesleyan University in the same month.
Salim Green has recently had a solo exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York and currently is the Sullivan Fellow in the arts at Wesleyan University.
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About Salim Green:
Salim Green (b. 1996, Middletown, CT) earned a BA from Wesleyan University in 2020 and an MFA from the University of California Los Angeles in 2024. Green’s work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Room 3557, Los Angeles; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown; SculptureCenter, New York; Bellyman, Los Angeles; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Fábrica, Mexico City. His work is included in the collections of the Getty Research Institute, The Kinsey Collection and the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Middletown, CT.
About SOCIÉTÉ:
SOCIÉTÉ is a Berlin-based contemporary art gallery with a global reach. The gallery’s bold curatorial approach plays a pivotal role in advancing its artists’ visions, supporting major museum exhibitions, biennials, and acquisitions by leading institutional collections worldwide. Operating in both the primary and secondary markets, SOCIÉTÉ provides curated advisory services to select clients.
Beyond its exhibitions, the gallery’s publishing initiative, EDITION SOCIÉTÉ, collaborates with prominent writers and graphic designers to produce artist books, catalogues, and, more recently, high-end artist editions.
SOCIÉTÉ is an active presence at major international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Basel Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze New York, Frieze London, ARCOmadrid, and Gallery Weekend Berlin.
Image Credits:
1. Portrait of Salim Green. Photography by Pelumi Sokunbi. Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.
2. Salim Green, '1001 (for the ride)', 2025. Oil and acrylic on wood felt on wood panel. 23 x 23 x 4 cm.
Photography by Trevor Good. Courtesy the artist and SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin.