NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery opened to the public on 1 November 2014 with the exhibition On Site. It sits at the entrance to the NYU Abu Dhabi campus on Saadiyat Island and describes itself as an intimate museum space in a university setting, modelled on US academic museums. Its founding executive director and chief curator is Maya Allison.

The gallery presents scholarly, non-commercial exhibitions, curated in-house, by faculty or by guest curators, and a second venue, the Project Space in The Arts Center, for experimental projects, student and faculty shows and regional emerging artists. The department also oversees the campus art collection and runs the annual Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award with the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation. Recent exhibitions include Ala Younis: Past of a Temporal Universe (2025 to 2026).