[3] The gallery was founded by Catinca Tabacaru, a Romanian-born art dealer and curator, who worked as a litigation attorney and executive director of Women's Voices Now,[1][2][4] in 2014 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City.
[1][2][8][9][10][11][12] In 2012, she stepped down from Women's Voices Now to focus primarily on her art career, and opened her first physical space for the Catinca Tabacaru Gallery in 2014.
[1] One year later she co-founded the CTG Collective, and subsequently CTG(R), a traveling art residency program affiliated with the gallery with its inaugural installment taking place in Zimbabwe.
She curated her first institutional exhibition at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in 2015.
[8] In 2020, the gallery exhibition space moved from NYC to Bucharest, Romania, Catinca’s home town.