Salim Green

Salim Green’s practice engages concepts of concealment, visibility, and opacity across a range of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, and writing. Through these different media and by utilizing different forms of abstraction, Green considers strategies for the navigation of 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 in order 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, overreaching publicity or 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 François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Room 3557, Los Angeles; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown; SculptureCenter, New York; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Fábrica, Mexico City. His work is included in the collections of the Getty Research Institute, The Underground Museum and the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. He lives and works in Los Angeles.