The Art Design Project Gallery is pleased to announce its new exhibitions:

-Virtual exhibition: From Traditional to Contemporary: Photographs May - Aug 2023.

For our newest virtual art exhibition "From Traditional to Contemporary: Photographs”. The Art Design Project is proud to curate a selection of Limited edition Color photographs by four exceptional artists, all of them represented by our gallery, with the aim of captivating the viewer and highlighting the true passion of these artists. Enjoy!


-Gallery Exhibition: Spring 2023 Group show exhibition
At our Miami Beach Gallery, we are excited to present our new Spring 2023, Group show.. The exhibition is part of our ongoing installations in our gallery located in Miami Beach, where we bring together works from a blue-ribbon group of artists represented by the gallery and works from our archives covering diverse artistic mediums from painting to photographs.
Our Miami Beach Gallery is by appointment only.

“The Art Design Project gallery promotes the intersection of art and design, representing the work of emerging and established artists. The gallery curate physical and online art exhibitions, as well as pop-up exhibits and alternative engagements around the world, where patrons can purchase artworks directly from our art selection of the artists we represent, from our archives, or through our online art partners”.

Michael James O’Brien is a photographer, teacher, curator, poet, and activist currently based in Atlanta, GA. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong, Antwerp, Istanbul, Liverpool, and Savannah GA. in addition to having worked in London’s National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. His work has been featured in publications like Rolling Stone, Vogue UK, The New Yorker, GQ, Eyemazing, Black & White Photography UK, The Guardian, and The Financial Times among many others. He has been Editor-at-Large of Verbal Abuse, the poetry zine as well as Contributing Editor for Departures Magazine.

His book Girlfriend; Men, Women, and Drag, with text by Holly Brubach, was published by Random House in English, French & Japanese in 2000. From 1900 to 2000 he did all the still photography for Matthew Barney’s. Drawing Restraint 7 as well as Cremaster 1,2,4 & 5 which were exhibited worldwide. For over 20 years, O’Brien was a member of ACTUP as well as a volunteer for GMHC and Terrence Higgins Trust UK. He was a co-producer of the Love Ball in NYC & Paris, which over the years raised more than $ 3 million for people living with HIV/AIDS.

He was the Creative Director for DAA/Designers Against Aids in 2011-12 and produced the Live Positive Campaign for the Flemish HIV Awareness organization, SENSOA in 2013.
O’Brien is based in Atlanta where he is the Chair of Photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design/SCAD. He is currently the Chair of the Advisory Council of Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Zoltan Gerliczki was born in Nyíregyházain, Hungary in 1971 and he was raised in a Budapest orphanage during Hungary’s Communist regime. He is a filmmaker, painter, and computer artist who currently works as a graphic designer in Antwerp, London, Paris, and New York. As a graphic designer and post-production artist he has been involved with various publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Zoo Magazine, Io Donna, Departures (US), Cosmopolitan (France), Paris Review, Travel & Leisure, and The Guardian UK, among others. Commercially, he has also been involved with Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix, Illy, and L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris, among others. Gerliczki is now emerging as a consummate artist breaking boundaries between the various mediums he works within.

Dora Franco began her artistic career as a fashion model in her country Colombia, work that she continued in Europe and New York, where she posed for artists such as Salvador Dalí and Richard Avedon among many others. Her interest in the arts led her to study Fine Arts at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and at the Art Institute of San Francisco, where she began her career as a fashion, beauty, and interior design photographer. Franco's work has been published in Hello, Vogue Spain, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanidades, and many other publications. Two of her photographs are part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Colombia.

Ying Chen was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Chinese parents living in Japan. She grew up and spent her early childhood in Japan until the age of seven, then spent her youth in China. Now Chen has graduated from SCAD with her bachelor's degree and is currently enrolled in the SCAD graduate photo department. Since 2018, her focus has been on photo collages. Using a collection of photos she selected for a theme, Chen aims to convey her state of mind in a deconstructed yet whole picture.