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The Green Family Art Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 2021, the Green Family Art Foundation's mission is to provide a venue for, make grants to museums for the benefit of, and educate others about contemporary artists they believe communicate important ideas that are relevant and discussion worthy today and in the future. All programming is free and open to the public. The Green Family Art Foundation presents three exhibitions per year featuring works by emerging and established artists that the foundation chooses to support for aesthetic, expository, and illustrative purposes.

History
The Green Family Art Foundation was established in 2021 in a pop-up exhibition space located in Dallas' design district. The foundation's inaugural exhibition was a group exhibition titled Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility and Hypervisibility, curated by Andrea Emelife. The exhibition included established artists such as Barkley L. Hendricks, Robert Colescott and David Hammons, mid-career artists including Henry Taylor (artist), Amy Sherald and Mickalene Thomas, to rising artists such as Amoako Boafo, Jordan Casteel and Jadé Fadojutimi. Other exhibitions in the space included Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity, Hannah Lupton Reinhard: A House of Stars and Angels  , and Painters Painting Painters: A Study of Muses, Friends and Companions.

Dallas Arts District
In 2022, the Green Family Art Foundation moved to its current location, a 4,200 square foot exhibition space located in Arts District, Dallas, next door to the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Crow Museum of Asian Art. The inaugural exhibition in the new venue was titled Black Abstractionists: From Then 'til Now, curated by Dexter Wimberly. The exhibition included artists ranging from established artists such as Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam and Frank Bowling, to mid-career artists including Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates and Julie Mehretu, to rising artists including Rachel Jones (artist), Oscar Murillo (artist) and Kevin Beasley. . Subsequent exhibitions have included Bernadette Despujols: Oh, Man! , The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback, Considering Female Abstractions , and Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, curated by Mara Hassan. .

Pop-Up Exhibitions
In April 2023, the Green Family Art Foundation sponsored a one week, pop-up exhibition produced by Nicodim Gallery titled Maternity Leave: None of Women Born, located next-door to the foundation at 1801 N. Pearl Street. The exhibition questioned what it means to be of women born, when life actually begins, and explores structures that might assume the role of “mother” as society progresses. The exhibition featured artworks from the Green Family Art Foundation's collection including works by Alice Neel, Wangechi Mutu and Loie Hollowell as well as new artworks by artists such as Dominique Fung, Nadia Waheed and Ángeles Agrela. The Green Family Art Foundation has announced that this pop-up exhibition series will continue annually each April.