Urban Dialogues© was created in 2009 by Amy Bassin, from New York City and Sonia Gil, from Rio de Janeiro. They started to have conversations about art and  collaborate virtually as well as provide one another support for their artistic pursuits. It was so fun, productive, and profound that they decided to reach out to other artists worldwide, form a global art collective, and collaborate virtually.

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The original group was formed by artists from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Zoersel, Madrid, Prague, Lagos, Tokorozawa-City, Mumbai, Kolkata and Copenhagen.

​In 2011, the Belgian artist Frie J. Jacobs curated the first UD exhibition, DIFFERENCES?/SIMILARITIES! 

​Some years later, in 2015, they were together in Berlin to meet artist Emeka Ogboh, from Lagos, Nigeria, who was participating in the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. In 2018 Urban Dialogues artists  travelled to Lisbon for an Art Residency and Exhibition at Espaço Espelho D' Água, in Belém.

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