For people who want to live with the work.
A small modern gallery in north Fort Worth — focused on original paintings, made by hand, shown in person.
The gallery.
Kush Art Gallery is a small modern gallery in north Fort Worth. We exhibit original paintings — figurative, abstract, cityscape, mixed media — by working artists, with rotating exhibitions every few months and a permanent collection on the walls in between.
The room is calm and well-lit. There's no front desk pressure. People walk in, take their time, and either come back or don't. The work does the work. We just give it the room and the introduction.
The hand behind it.
Kushal Bastakoti founded Kush Art Gallery in 2023. He's also the painter whose work makes up most of the permanent collection — figurative, cityscape, abstract — and the reason the gallery exists in the first place.
Born in Pokhara, Nepal — a town tucked under the Annapurna range, where art is a daily practice rather than an institutional one — Kushal moved to Texas seven years ago and started painting the cities he was learning to call home. Dallas. Boston. Chicago. New York.
By 2023, he had built enough of a body of work to need a wall. Not a wall in someone else's space. His own. Kush Art Gallery opened that year as both a studio and a stage — for his work and for the artists he believed in.
Today the gallery shows his paintings alongside other working artists, hosts exhibitions every few months, and ships pieces to collectors throughout the United States. The decision to be both the founder and one of the represented artists is a deliberate one — galleries run by working artists tend to treat artists better. We've kept it that way.
Original. One of one.
Every piece in the gallery is original. None are reproduced, none are duplicated, none have been digitally distributed for print. When a painting is sold, that conversation is over — nobody else will own that exact moment.
It's a deliberate choice. We believe original art holds value precisely because it can't be copied. We believe collectors deserve the certainty of one-of-one ownership. And we believe artists deserve the dignity of a gallery that treats their work as singular.
Our three rules.
Original or nothing.
Every work on our wall is one-of-one. No prints, no editions, no duplicates. When you take it home, nobody else has it. Ever.
Artists keep their dignity.
We don't take 50% commissions and call it standard. We offer two paths — a flat fee or a 60/40 split — both designed to let artists actually profit from their work.
Beautiful objects belong together.
The painting, the room it lives in, the conversation that brings them together — those are the three things we care about. Everything else is admin.
The story in five chapters.
Show #13 announced · Brett Dyer joins as Featured Artist
The thirteenth exhibition opens this season. Brett Dyer joins the gallery as Featured Artist, putting his work on the wall through the year's rotation of shows.
The pace finds itself.
The gallery settles into a steady rhythm of group exhibitions — including The Shape of Love and A Season of Palette. The collector base expands beyond Texas.
The roster takes shape
The Featured Artist Program is structured and the first applications are reviewed. New work joins the gallery's core program throughout the year.
Opening Reception — Show #01
Kush Art Gallery opens at 13021 Harmon Road. Original modern paintings on the walls, a private car collection on the floor, one founder, one vision.
Kushal arrives in Texas
Founder Kushal Bastakoti relocates from Pokhara, Nepal. Begins building the body of work that becomes the gallery's founding collection.
Be in the room.
Visit during open hours, schedule a private viewing, or reserve your place at our next exhibition.