Salim Green

Salim Green’s practice engages with concepts of concealment, visibility, and opacity across a range of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, and writing. Through different mediums and modes of abstraction, Green considers strategies to navigate social constructs and our built environment. In his research and writing, Green often refers to the “Dark Forest Theory,” a speculative idea that interplanetary civilizations hide from each other out of self-preservation, and to prevent conflict over resources. Using this concept as a model for relational politics and Black experience, Green’s work assumes the metaphorical position of hiding - from surveillance, the anxieties of others, domination, the state, and the overreach of publicity and visibility.

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 Société, Berlin; Josh Lilley, London; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Room 3557, Los Angeles; 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 between Los Angeles, CA and Middletown, CT, where he is currently the Sullivan Fellow in Art at Wesleyan University.