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The FOG Design and Art Fair celebrated its 10th anniversary with a buoyant 2024 edition at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center, opening January 18. The fair saw brisk sales, including a Jim Hodges canvas sold for $115,000 at Gladstone Gallery and multiple works by Anicka Yi, Yayoi Kusama, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ruth Asawa at David Zwirner. Tina Kim Gallery sold works by South Korean artists Kim Tschang-Yeul and Ha Chong-Hyun, as well as two Pacita Abad pieces, with one fetching $200,000 to $250,000. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) acquired several works for its permanent collection via the FOG Forum Fund, including pieces by Maria Pergay, Duyi Han, and Katie Stout.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 23, 2026 visibility 32 link 32 artists, 3 galleries

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The FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco opened with a glitzy preview gala at Fort Mason Center, serving as a fundraiser for SFMOMA's education initiatives. VIP tickets started at $10,000 for the first hour, and by 7 p.m., the event filled to capacity as prices dropped to $250. Dealers reported a different energy this year, partly due to the recent Los Angeles wildfires affecting many participating galleries. Sales were strong, with New York dealer Ales Ortuzar selling multiple works by Suzanne Jackson in the first few hours. Local collector Sonya Yu, a recent ARTnews Top 200 listee, highlighted the resilience and sophistication of the Bay Area art community.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 27 link 17 artists, 4 galleries

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At the opening of San Francisco's FOG Design and Art fair, prominent collector Komal Shah navigated the crowded aisles, stopping to chat with a who's who of the Bay Area art scene, including FOG founder Stanlee Gatti, ICA San Francisco director Ali Gass, and SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford. Shah, known for her collection focused on women artists, was scouting works with a handwritten list, considering pieces by Ruth Asawa and Joan Brown, though she passed on a $425,000 Asawa sculpture. The fair's gala serves as a fundraiser for SFMOMA, and Shah's collection is currently on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the exhibition "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection."

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Rena Bransten, a foundational figure in the San Francisco art scene, has died at the age of 92 following a heart attack and a subsequent fall. Since founding her eponymous gallery in 1975, Bransten became a champion for California-based artists, with a pioneering focus on women and artists of color. Her gallery represented major figures including John Waters, Dawoud Bey, and Fred Wilson, evolving from its origins in ceramics to a multidisciplinary powerhouse that recently transitioned to a nomadic model.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 6, 2026 visibility 25 link 19 artists, 2 galleries

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San Francisco Art Week is underway, anchored by the 12th edition of FOG Design and Art (January 21–25) on a historic former Army base. The event arrives amid flux for Northern California's art scene, with several prominent galleries closing and two major art schools—the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts—recently shuttering. However, new free-admission fairs Atrium and Skylight Above (both January 22–25) signal fresh energy. The article highlights must-see museum shows across the city, including "Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread" at BAMPFA, "Rose B. Simpson: Lexicon" at the de Young Museum, "Rising Tides" at the Floating Art Museum, and "Earthseed Dome: Lily Kwong" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 28, 2026 visibility 18 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

DACA Artist Uses Thread to Weave Immigration Stories

Arleene Correa Valencia, a DACA recipient and Bay Area artist, presents her debut solo exhibition "CÓDICE •• SOBREVIVIENDO A LA PERSECUCIÓN" at Fridman Gallery in Manhattan, on view through May 2. The show features large-scale acrylic and textile works on amate bark paper, including a 16-foot-long piece depicting border-crossing narratives. Valencia collaborates with her father, mother-in-law, and papermaker Jose Daniel Santos de la Puerta, and incorporates childhood letters that poignantly reflect family separation and undocumented life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 9, 2025 visibility 22 link 21 artists, 1 gallery

Manetti Shrem Museum Fall 2025 Exhibitions Explore the Borderlands; Environmental Justice

The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis presents two fall 2025 exhibitions: “OJO” Julio César Morales, a midcareer survey exploring the U.S.-Mexico border as a lived human experience through over 50 works in various media, and “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice,” a group exhibition from the Hammer Museum at UCLA that connects environmental and social injustice. The exhibitions run through Nov. 29, with a free public opening celebration on Sept. 28 featuring artists, curators, art making, and music. Morales’ show marks his California homecoming after a decade in Arizona as a senior curator and museum director, and includes an outdoor neon commission, “tomorrow is for those who can hear it coming” (2025).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 9, 2025 visibility 33 link 47 artists, 1 gallery

55 years. Berggruen Gallery

Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco announces its 55th Anniversary Exhibition, a group show running from June 26 to August 14, 2025. The exhibition features paintings, works on paper, sculpture, film, and archival ephemera from the SFMOMA Library and SFAI archive, showcasing museum-quality works by contemporary and historical artists. Many pieces are on loan from private collections and rarely exhibited publicly. The gallery, founded by John Berggruen in 1970 on Grant Avenue, quickly became a nationally recognized force in shaping the West Coast art scene, bridging New York and international artists with local collectors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 20, 2025 visibility 19 link 26 artists, 4 galleries

SF's art scene is back— 9 summer shows you shouldn’t miss

San Francisco's art scene is showing signs of recovery after a difficult period marked by the pandemic, federal arts grant cuts, and museum closures. June brought positive developments: the Headlands Center for the Arts raised record funds at its annual auction, the shuttered San Francisco Art Institute plans to reopen as an artist studio, and local criticism magazine SquareCylinder is returning. The article highlights nine summer exhibitions across the Bay Area, including shows by Ruby Neri, William T. Wiley, Hank Willis Thomas, Charlie Tweddle, and Shepard Fairey, ranging from public art installations to gallery retrospectives.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 21, 2026 visibility 27 link 15 artists

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Six years after announcing plans to deaccession its 1,600-work collection—the world's foremost trove of Post-war Northern California art—the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has reopened in a new downtown San Francisco space. The inaugural exhibition, "Far Out: Northern California Art," features artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Peter Saul, Viola Frey, Roy De Forest, and Jay DeFeo, celebrating the radical, countercultural ethos of the region. The space, located at the Minnesota Street Project in Dogpatch, had been vacant since the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts closed in 2023. Curator Twyla Ruby reports that visitors have been emotionally moved by seeing the collection reunited.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 31, 2025 visibility 16 link 6 artists, 3 galleries

Swiss mega gallery tied to Laurene Powell Jobs to open in Palo Alto near her offices

Hauser & Wirth, the Swiss mega-gallery, will open its first Northern California location this spring in downtown Palo Alto, inside a former post office at 201–225 Hamilton Ave. The move is widely seen as a bid to be closer to Silicon Valley clients, particularly billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, whose Emerson Collective offices are two blocks away. Powell Jobs, rumored to be one of Hauser & Wirth's top clients, shifted her business from Pace Gallery to Hauser & Wirth in 2022. The renovation is led by Paris-based architect Luis Laplace, who is also designing Powell Jobs' renovation of the San Francisco Art Institute. The gallery will be the third Hauser & Wirth in California, joining two Los Angeles locations.

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article policy schedule Mar 19, 2026 source 3 sources visibility 17 link 1 artist

San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum Plans to Sell Building

The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco has announced plans to sell its iconic Daniel Libeskind-designed building in the Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. The institution has been closed to the public since December 2024, drastically reduced its staff and budget, and aims to use the sale to stabilize its finances, reduce debt, and ensure its long-term survival.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 11, 2026 visibility 18 link 15 artists, 10 galleries

The 10 Best Museum and Gallery Shows to See in the Bay Area This Summer

The article highlights ten notable museum and gallery exhibitions opening in the Bay Area during summer 2026, including Ranu Mukherjee's solo show 'The Long Middle' at Gallery Wendi Norris, a group survey 'Slice of the Pie' at Fraenkel Gallery featuring 14 Bay Area galleries, and 'Giant Steps' at Personal Space in Vallejo focusing on innovative ceramic works. Other featured shows include Will Yackulic's 'A Certain Slant of Light' at pt.2 in Oakland and several other exhibitions across San Francisco and Oakland.

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museum exhibitions schedule May 8, 2026 visibility 16 link 9 artists, 6 galleries

Art and Soul: Showcasing Three Inspiring Women Artists

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will present a major exhibition of East Bay artist Mildred Howard titled "Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory" from June 12 through October 18. The show spans over 50 years of Howard's career, featuring sculpture, public art, and immersive installations, including large-scale works made from found objects like skillets, shoes, and glass bottles. Key pieces include "Blackbird in a Red Sky (aka Fall of the Blood House)" and "Ten Little Children Standing in a Line (One Got Shot, and Then There Were Nine)." Howard, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, explores themes of memory, home, Black identity, and the African American experience, often using house-like structures to prompt dialogue about belonging and sanctuary.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 16, 2025 visibility 20 link 10 artists, 4 galleries

Best art exhibits to see in the Bay Area this fall

The article highlights several notable art exhibitions opening in the Bay Area this fall, including 'Rave into the Future: Art in Motion' at the Asian Art Museum, featuring immersive dance culture works and ceramics by Sahar Khoury and Maryam Youssif; Selva Aparicio's solo show at Gallery Wendi Norris, where she carves rug designs into the floor and uses cicada wings and hair in her installations; Andrew Owen's photography exhibition 'In Light Years' at Small Works, capturing California's landscapes and environmental scars; Caterina Fake's installation 'Bed for Dreaming' at the Jones Institute, an experimental home gallery where guests can sleep in an ancient bed; and the farewell celebration at Altman Siegel Gallery after 16 years of operation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 2, 2025 visibility 20 link 26 artists, 4 galleries

Closures Can’t Dim the Spark: 9 Unmissable Bay Area Art Shows This October

The article highlights nine must-see art exhibitions in the Bay Area for October, despite recent gallery closures like KADIST and Gallery 16. Key shows include the Museum of the African Diaspora's twin exhibitions 'Continuum' and 'Unbound' for its 20th anniversary, Drew Villanueva's first solo exhibition at Good Mother Studio inside Ikea, Jim Melchert's retrospective at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Mills College Art Museum's '100 Years of Creative Visions'. The programming is anchored by the second edition of Nexus, a Bay Area art week spotlighting Black voices and bridging regional divides.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 21, 2025 visibility 14 link 14 artists, 12 galleries

San Francisco Art Fair brings attention to Bay Area scene and sales for exhibitors from near and far

The San Francisco Art Fair opened on April 17 at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, running through April 20. Rebranded from ArtMrkt San Francisco last year, the fair featured 88 exhibitors, including a strong contingent from the East Bay, such as Oakland-based galleries pt.2, Johansson Projects, and Good Mother Gallery. Notable moments included artist Marc Horowitz using DeBoer Gallery's stand as a live studio, selling paintings for $25,000 and up, and the Alternative Art School showcasing works by four artist-members. Dealers reported healthy sales, with works priced from a few hundred dollars to the lower five figures, and local galleries like Micki Meng donated proceeds to the environmental non-profit Art into Acres.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 23 link 20 artists, 1 gallery

Your guide to the best events of SF Art Week

SF Art Week returns with a packed schedule of events across San Francisco, including the Recology Artist in Residence exhibition featuring work made from materials sourced at the city's recycling center, a mural painting and unveiling by eL Seed in collaboration with incarcerated artists at San Quentin, and the launch of ICA SF's nomadic model with exhibitions by Tara Donovan and Lily Kwong at the Transamerica Pyramid Center. Other highlights include gallery openings at Paul Thiebaud Gallery, frame-making demonstrations at Aedicule, a new art fair at the Fairmont Hotel, and a curator-led tour at SHACK15, alongside workshops, a rave-themed reception at the Asian Art Museum, and a conversation between artist Lava Thomas and curator Key Jo Lee at MoAD.

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article local schedule Aug 1, 2025 visibility 23 link 24 artists, 1 gallery

Art Spaces In and Around Guangzhou

This article surveys four notable art spaces in and around Guangzhou, China. It profiles the He Art Museum in Foshan, a private nonprofit founded by He Jianfeng and designed by Tadao Ando, which houses the He family collection spanning Lingnan School ink painting to international modernists. It also covers the Bai’etan Greater Bay Area Art Center, a government-funded complex opened in April 2024 that includes branches of the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, and the Guangdong Literature Museum. Additionally, it highlights Vitamin Creative Space, a dual independent art space and commercial gallery founded by Zhang Wei and Hu Fang, and the ChunYangTai Arts and Cultural Centre, part of the Langtou Experiment village revitalization project.

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The former San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) campus has been transformed into a privately funded nonprofit arts center called the California Academy of Studio Arts (CASA). Backed by philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, who purchased the Chester Street campus for $30 million last year, CASA will host 30 emerging artists annually in an unaccredited studio program. Artists will have access to private studios, shared workspaces, and professional mentors, with no tuition fees. The center is led by director Abbye Churchill and plans seminars for participants. SFAI, one of the oldest art schools in the U.S., suspended operations in 2022 and filed for bankruptcy after a failed merger with the University of San Francisco.

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trending_up market schedule Jan 27, 2026 visibility 13 link 1 artist, 1 gallery

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Sesse Elangwe's 2025 painting *True Friends?* sold for $22,000 at San Francisco dealer Jonathan Carver Moore's booth during the opening of FOG Art + Design on January 21. The work, created during a residency run by Moore, was purchased by a local collector. Elangwe, a self-taught Cameroonian artist known for emotionally charged portraits of Black subjects, was the fourth participant in Moore's residency program, which aims to connect artists with Bay Area collectors. Another portrait, *And My Better Half* (2025), was pre-sold for $9,000 to another Bay Area collector.

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article local schedule May 1, 2026 visibility 29 link 52 artists

What’s on now at San Francisco museums, May 2026

San Francisco museums are navigating a mix of upcoming exhibitions and financial challenges in May 2026. SFMOMA is closing "KAWS: Family" on May 3 and opening "Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal" from May 16 to September 13. The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has suspended operations due to funding issues, and SOMArts is also facing a budget gap. Meanwhile, the Museum of Craft and Design presents "Video Craft" through August 16, and the Letterform Archive hosts "Black Memory Scholar: The Language of Storytellers" and "Piet Zwart: Brand Architect." SFMOMA has announced three SECA award winners—CrossLypka, Em Kettner, and Chanell Stone—who will exhibit from December 2026 to May 2027, and the museum continues to showcase "Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10" and new installations by Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen, and Rose B Simpson.

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article policy schedule Apr 21, 2026 visibility 17 link 2 artists

Midea Group scion’s Shunde art museum shifts focus to amplify local voices

The He Art Museum (HEM) in Shunde, China, a private institution founded by the family behind appliance giant Midea Group, is shifting its programming strategy. Under director Shao Shu, the museum is moving away from hosting major international exhibitions to focus on amplifying local and regional artists, particularly from the Greater Bay Area, and exploring themes of Lingnan culture.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 20, 2026 visibility 32 link 2 artists

This week in the Greater Bay Area: Where to see Monet paintings, a robotics exhibition and more

The Greater Bay Area is hosting a diverse range of cultural events this week, highlighted by the exhibition "Blooming: The Art of Gardens in East and West" at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. This show features rare works by Claude Monet, including his iconic Water Lilies, alongside traditional Chinese garden-themed art. Other notable visual arts events include the "Fragrance of Youth" exhibition at the Guangdong Museum of Art, showcasing contemporary Lingnan female artists, and the Tap Siac Craft Market in Macao, which features over 200 artisanal stalls.

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article local schedule Mar 31, 2026 visibility 29 link 26 artists

What’s on now at San Francisco museums, April 2026

San Francisco’s museum landscape is undergoing a significant shift this April, anchored by the major reinstallation "Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10" at SFMOMA. The exhibition marks a decade of the museum's partnership with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, featuring works by Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, and Roy Lichtenstein across multiple floors. While the city celebrates these high-profile openings and the announcement of SECA Art Award finalists, the local scene faces challenges as the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts has suspended operations due to institutional difficulties.

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museum exhibitions schedule Dec 17, 2025 visibility 18 link 2 artists

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The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will host a major retrospective for Bay Area artist Mildred Howard, titled “Poetics of Memory,” opening in June 2025. The exhibition spans five decades of Howard’s work, including new pieces, and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog with plans for a national tour. Howard, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, has a long history with OMCA, which owns her 1989 installation *TAP: Investigation of Memory*. Senior curator Carin Adams, who worked with Howard on reinstalling *TAP* in 2019, proposed the retrospective to honor Howard’s legacy in the Bay Area arts scene.

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Art Dealer Larry Gagosian Recalls Rare Misstep With San Francisco Gallery: ‘Nobody Showed Up’

Larry Gagosian, the mega-dealer, has candidly discussed the failure of his San Francisco gallery, which operated from 2016 to 2021. He stated the gallery simply failed because "nobody showed up" to openings, describing the experience as depressing. The closure was part of a broader reflection on his career, prompted by the opening of a new Gagosian gallery on New York's Upper East Side.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 27, 2026 visibility 16 link 4 artists

Meet the artists representing Hong Kong and Macao at the Venice Biennale

Hong Kong artists Angel Hui and Kingsley Ng, along with Macao artists Eric Fok Hoi Seng, Veronica Lei Fong Ieng, and O Chi Wai, will represent the Greater Bay Area at the 61st Venice Biennale, running from 9 May to 22 November 2026. Hong Kong's exhibition, titled 'Fermata: Hong Kong in Venice,' marks a shift from a solo to a duo format for the first time, co-organized and curated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA). Hui presents installations featuring embroidered plastic bags and aluminum window grilles inspired by local Hong Kong motifs, while Ng creates site-specific works referencing hanging laundry. Macao's showcase, 'Jacone's Polyphony,' features the three Macao artists. The biennale, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, is themed 'In Minor Keys' and includes 110 artists, 100 national participations, and 31 collateral events.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 2, 2026 visibility 8 link 6 artists

Samantha Nye’s ‘Web of Love’ now open at Cuesta’s Miossi Gallery

Artist Samantha Nye's immersive video installation "Web of Love" has opened at the Harold J. Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College's San Luis Obispo campus. The four-screen work is a scene-by-scene remake of an old Scopitone film, featuring legendary Bay Area artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, and is designed with a lounge area of heart-shaped hot tubs on red shag carpet.

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trending_up market schedule Jul 31, 2025 source 2 sources visibility 13 link 4 artists, 3 galleries

Hauser & Wirth will open a Palo Alto gallery in 2026.

Hauser & Wirth will open a new gallery in Palo Alto, California, in spring 2026, marking its first location in Northern California and its third in the state. The gallery will occupy a historic post office building at 201-205 Hamilton Avenue, near Stanford University, offering 2,600 square feet of exhibition space, a bookshop, and a design overseen by architect Luis Laplace. The expansion follows the gallery's existing venues in Los Angeles and comes nearly a decade after its major downtown L.A. complex opened in 2016.

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