Each year, the fair features a globally diverse lineup of over 90 galleries from more than 40 different countries,[2][3] Art Dubai attracted over 30,000 visitors in 2019, including UAE-based, regional and international collectors, curators, patrons, and nearly 100 visiting museums and institutions.

Notable artists that have been exhibited at Art Dubai Digital include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Sougwen Chung, Refik Anadol and Jonathan Monaghan.

The section featured projects by individual artists or galleries, located in or focused on the Middle East, Africa, Central and South Asia and Latin America.

The section aims to give visitors a curated reading of the Global South, acting, as its name suggests, as a gateway to current artistic developments from these regions.

[12] The conference features live talks, panel discussions and performances by regional and international thought leaders, artists, curators and writers such as Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Stipe and Christo.

[13] In 2018, the Global Art Forum was co-directed by Noah Raford and Marlies Wirth with Commissioner Shumon Basar and held under the title 'I Am Not a Robot', focusing on the timely theme of power, paranoia and potentials of automation.