Built by collectors. For collectors.
A gallery in DFW, where modern original paintings share a room with a private collection of cars.
Two passions. One room.
Kush Art Gallery began with a simple question: why do art galleries and the things people love most rarely live in the same room? Why does a great car belong in a garage and a great painting belong in a white box? We thought they could share the floor — and that the conversation between them would be more interesting than either one alone.
The answer, it turned out, was magnetic. Collectors who came for the cars stayed for the canvases. Buyers who came for a painting paused at the cars and asked about them. The two worlds — fine art and serious craft on four wheels — were never as separate as the industry pretended.
The hand behind it.
Kushal Bastakoti was born in Pokhara, Nepal — a town tucked under the Annapurna range, where art is a daily practice rather than an institutional one. He 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 represents working artists, hosts exhibitions roughly every other month, and ships pieces to collectors throughout the United States.
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.
Cars, paintings, sculpture, design. Everything beautiful made by hand belongs in the same room. We refuse the artificial division.
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
Baburam Bastakoti's abstract work joins the gallery's core program. The Featured Artist Program is structured and the first applications are reviewed.
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.