upcoming events
our take on events in the bay area.
Presence: The Art of Being
Presenting a collective reflection on the human form and lived presence. View a variety of art forms in the Hunters Point Shipyard gallery by artists who create at the Shipyard.
Art of the Form: Perspectives from the West (CLOSING RECEPTION)
Meet the artists behind this juried exhibition and explore their vast creativity in expressing the art of form. A no-host bar complements this evening of creativity.
Beyond the Gze
Complementing the sculptures from The Art of Form, Beyond the Gaze brings three accomplished figurative painters into dialogue with the work in the round, offering a compelling two-dimensional counterpoint to deepen the viewer’s experience.
Presence: The Art of Being - Meet the Artists
Presenting a collective reflection on the human form and lived presence. View a variety of art forms in the Hunters Point Shipyard gallery by artists who create at the Shipyard.
OPEN AIR: Plein-air landscapes & Cityscapes
A group show of plein-air landscapes and cityscapes.
RAFAEL HAYASHI: PROTECT ME
On Sunday, June 14th, from 1–4 PM, we’re excited to host Hayashi for a live painting demonstration, offering a glimpse into the artist’s process and evolving decisions at the easel. Guests are invited to experience the work as it unfolds in real time.
21st Century Sucks
Heron Arts is pleased to announce 21st Century Sucks, a solo exhibition by Tim Williams. The opening reception is June 13th, 2026, from 6-9 pm. It is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view until July 11, by appointment only.
Machismosa
In the tradition of chisme as lore, Machismosa examines how machismo is learned, whispered, and passed down. This exhibition dismantles it through the same radical storytelling that built it, bringing together ten Latine artists whose multimedia practices unravel machismo’s rigidity and reimagine it as fluid, intimate, and communal.
RAFAEL HAYASHI: PROTECT ME
In his debut US solo exhibition, Brazilian artist Rafael Hayashi transforms private fears into a sacred and restless act of guardianship, painting figures that stand at the threshold between childhood terror, paternal love, and mythic protection.
Dogs Keep Revealing Themselves to Me
This is Lola Reed's debut solo exhibition with Good Mother Studio in which she traces the quiet violence of a culture that has learned to treat living flesh the way it treats everything else: as raw material to be refined, marketed, and eventually replaced.
We Are Who We Have Been Waiting For
We Are Who We Have Been Waiting For — a new exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Rebeka Rodriguez Mondragón — opens June 12 and runs through July 3, 2026.
Memory Cradle
Eleanor Harwood Gallery is pleased to present Memory Cradle, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Kate Tova and Anastasia Tumanova.
In Your Own Time // Leyla Pekmen + Julien Laport
Johansson Projects presents In Your Own Time, a two-person exhibition featuring Turkish painter and sculptor Leyla Pekmen and French painter Julien Laporte.
The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade
Modern Eden Gallery proudly presents The Portrait Show 14: Masquerade, our annual portrait show and a yearly tradition celebrating the many forms of contemporary portraiture.
Guy Diehl: The Quiet Eye
Dolby Chadwick Gallery is honored to present The Quiet Eye, an exhibition of recent paintings by Guy Diehl.
Delicious: Work Inspired by Food & Drink
May 28 - June 21, 2026
opening reception: Sun, May 31, 3 - 6
Preview is not yet available. Check gallery website for updates.
Estrangement: Challenging the Myth of Mankind’s Separation from Nature
This series of paintings places human anatomy in direct conversation with the organic world — flesh becoming root, vein becoming vine, bone becoming husk — not as metaphor, but as reminder.
Slice of the Pie
Fraenkel Gallery presents SLICE OF THE PIE: Fourteen Bay Area Galleries & What Makes Them Different, a group exhibition that brings together a vibrant cross-section of some of the Bay Area’s most influential and idiosyncratic art galleries.
#125: Revok
An opening inspired by las calles de San Juan, Puerto Rico. The studio returns to a gallery setting and becomes a solo exhibition of REVOK. Fresh work meets Jaunt legacy in The Jaunt's 125th artist collaboration.
Art of the Form: Perspectives from the West
Meet the artists behind this juried exhibition and explore their vast creativity in expressing the art of form. A no-host bar complements this evening of creativity.
Crystal Clear
GCS Agency, in collaboration with Art Megastar, is thrilled to present Crystal Clear, opening Thursday, May 21st, from 6–9 pm at 201 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111.
FLESH INTO BLOOM
CULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to present Flesh into Bloom, featuring work by Daniela Terroba, Theresa Daddezio, Ruxue Zhang, Sarah Blaustein, and Abby St. Claire.
Tender Forms
A Group Exhibition Celebrating Artists from the Asian Diaspora with Maya Fuji, Nibha Akireddy, Shingo Yamazaki, and Justin Yoon.
THE LONG MIDDLE
Over the last thirty years, Ranu Mukherjee has developed a multidisciplinary practice that questions Western and human-centric ideas about intelligence, resilience, and survival, imagining a more tender and attentive way of relating to the world.
Melanie Walker, Nomadic Dreamer
The Center for Photographic Art, in conjunction with PhotoLucida, is pleased to announce the much-anticipated and long-awaited exhibition of the 2024 Critical Mass Solo Show Award Winner, Melanie Walker.
“Cyclical Snakes and Infinite Inward” – a solo exhibition by Travis Gillan
Mirus Gallery is a dynamic exhibition space established by curator and art dealer Paul Hemming in 2012. The gallery features a program of contemporary artwork by emerging and mid-career artists in a rotating lineup of both solo and thematically organized group shows.
WARD SCHUMAKER: PAINTINGS 2007-2026
Modernism is pleased to present its first exhibition of San Francisco painter Ward Schumaker. The survey brings together important paintings from the past twenty years that demonstrate Schumaker’s sustained commitment to iterative explorations in mark making and the integration of gestural abstraction with language and numbers.
Once the Ocean Floor
Haines proudly presents Once the Ocean Floor, a group exhibition of photography featuring works by John Chiara, Linda Connor, David Maisel, and Meghann Riepenhoff.
Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle
Haines proudly presents Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle, our 12th solo exhibition with the celebrated artist.
A Certain Slant of Light
Dolby Chadwick Gallery is honoured to present A Certain Slant of Light, an exhibition of new work by Gonzalo Fuenmayor.
Gonzalo Fuenmayor: A Certain Slant of Light
Dolby Chadwick Gallery is honoured to present A Certain Slant of Light, an exhibition of new work by Gonzalo Fuenmayor.
A Tiny Radiance In a Dark Place
Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce A Tiny Radiance In a Dark Place, an exhibition of new work by Darren Waterston. This show marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
A Creature Having A Dream About Himself
Harman Projects is pleased to announce A Creature Having A Dream About Himself, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel.