Brief Histories is a contemporary art gallery located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side at 115 Bowery in New York City.

Co-founded in 2011 by Fawz Kabra and Isak Berbic, Brief Histories began as an independent curatorial project, adapting formats according to different spaces and production contexts. Brief Histories has been an apartment show, an action, a tea ceremony, experimental press, and gallery. Working collaboratively with artists, Brief Histories is dependent on economies of cooperation.

In the fall of 2021 Brief Histories opened its new gallery space on the Bowery with a program of exhibitions, public programs, and publications.

Solo exhibitions, events, and publications organized and presented at Brief Histories on the Bowery include Edgar Serrano Rumors of My Demise 2021, Sahra Motalebi This Phenomenal Overlay 2022, Coleman Collins Body Errata 2022, Jumana Manna Late Night Strollers 2022, and Ali Eyal In the Head’s Sunrise 2022.

Publications include Tame the Wilderness? (2020) and artist book Rumors of My Demise (2021) by Edgar Serrano, Redistribute Health by Dread Scott (2020). Publications by Brief Histories Press are distributed at Printed Matter, Inc., New York and Art Jameel Shop, Dubai.

Artists that have recently exhibited with Brief Histories include Simon Benjamin, Sarah Anderson, Himali Singh Soin, Leila Seyedzadeh, Agnieszka Kurant, Anahita Vossoughi, Howardena Pindell, Isak Berbic, Jenny Polak, Jeremy Dennis, Joe Namy, Karee Dahl, Samuel Jablon. Public program contributors include Brian Kuan Wood, Omar Berrada. Print contributors include Amal Issa, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Annabel Daou, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carl Pope and Karen Pope, Dread Scott, Ian Alan Paul, Jeremy Dennis, Mirene Arsanios, Nadia Ayari, Naeem Mohaiemen, Regine Basha, Shannon Davis, Stephanie Dinkins, Uzma Z. Rizvi, Yara El-Sherbini.

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