The German painter Birgit Jensen explores the relationship between truth and artifice -- and the role mediation plays in it -- through the unlikely medium of landscape painting. Her process begins with photographs, which she digitally edits, then manipulates into layers of geometric marks or patterns. From them, she painstakingly constructs multi-layered paintings on canvas. Up close, the imagery breaks into pixelated noise. From a distance, they appear nearly photographic.

Robert Koch Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Japanese photographer Yamamoto Masao, featuring selections from his series A Box of Ku, Nakazora, Kawa=Flow, Bonsai, and Tomasu. Yamamoto’s pictures are grounded in Zen philosophy, seeking beauty in everyday life and the moments we often overlook. His practice centers on the belief that meditation and careful observation reveal the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Treasured Bearing, an exhibition of recent work by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, on view from November 6 to 29.

SWIM Gallery presents One Big Room Full of Bad Bitches, a group exhibition celebrating queer, femme, and women-identifying artists in graffiti.

Municipal Bonds is pleased to present The Enigma of Geometries, Danielle Dimston's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view November 1 through December 20, 2025

Harman Projects is excited to announce 20 Years of GATS, a solo exhibition by California-based artist GATS. 

Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, is pleased to present Disproportionate Upheavals, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with narrative painter Philemona Williamson.

With Richard Misrach: Rewind, Fraenkel Gallery presents a retrospective look at the artist’s career, spanning more than five decades. The exhibition is organized in advance of a full-scale survey of Misrach’s work at museums in the U.S. and Europe, planned for 2027 and 2028.

Through the immediacy of Polaroid, NYC artist Ryan Rudewicz (Rude Polaroids) invites us into a raw, unapologetic archive of queer intimacy — where desire becomes documentation, and the body becomes proof of life.

Maybaum Gallery is pleased to present From Prow to Wake, a solo exhibition by Canadian born and Israel-based artist Melanie Daniel. In Daniel’s psychedelic, richly-textured landscapes, figures inhabit otherworldly ecosystems in which nature runs riot.

Pamela Walsh Gallery is pleased to present The Linear Edge, a group exhibition featuring Myles Bennett, Michael Dickey, Miquel Gelabert, and Dani Tull, four contemporary artists whose practices probe the possibilities of line as both boundary and breakthrough

Acclaimed filmmaker and artist Popo Fan brings a new body of work investigating intimacy, censorship, and diaspora—composed for the gallery with cinematic precision and keen humor. More details and preview to follow.

Hashimoto Contemporary presents Friends & Family, a group exhibition featuring and celebrating over 30 artists from within their community. 

Join Chung 24 Gallery for the Opening Reception Saturday, October 4th, 2025 from 2 -5pm. Ghost Ships and Mourning Doves features individual work by Robin Lasser as well as her collaboration with Sydney Brown.

Dolby Chadwick Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of recent work by Ann Gale, on view from October 2–November 1, 2025.

Some More Dogs is coming to SF @fouroneninesf. The dog pack includes work by @alisonelizabethtaylor, @rae_klein, @arleenecorreavalencia, @jennagribbon, and more.

In conjunction with the Art of Manga exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, new art prints by Hirohiko Araki (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) will be exhibited at Minnesota Street Project. 

Mark your calendar for Creative Growth’s upcoming fashion exhibition, celebrating fashion as a central muse. Enjoy fashion, textiles, sculpture and more.

Formerly a mayo factory, now a creative mecca — 1890 Bryant is home to 100+ artists who define the SF art scene. This is the first time their work is being shown together outside their studios.

Gallery Wendi Norris presents My America, Julio César Morales’ sixth solo presentation with the gallery. Marking the artist’s homecoming to San Francisco after twelve years in Arizona working as a senior curator and museum director.

Places for People reveals our shared right to the city. Through altering landmarks, protest art, and showcasing San Francisco’s diversity, these artists inspire fresh perspectives on the city’s creativity.

Strange Forest, a solo exhibition by Diana Guerrero-Maciá, presents a poignant and tactile body of work exploring abstraction as a vessel for memory, migration, and material histories. Guerrero-Maciá’s hybrid textile-collage paintings blur the boundaries between painting and textiles, between the personal and the political, between past and future.

In Peter Hujar: The Gracie Mansion Show Revisited, Fraenkel Gallery recreates the now-legendary exhibition that took place in New York’s East Village in 1986, one year before the artist’s death.

Brazilian-born artist Gus Azevedo paints the in-between—those thresholds of migration where memory and place blur. In Dimensional Drift, color swells and recedes like tides; forms dissolve, then reassemble into new constellations.

Studio Gallery is pleased to present a show of new work from Kanna Aoki as she continues to explore local subjects-San Francisco, the beloved parrots, Point Reyes, and a day at the beach.

A radical and visionary artist, Hershman Leeson has challenged conventional definitions of art for over six decades, consistently shredding the boundaries of technology, identity, and psychology.

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present What Holds Us, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Scott Albrecht. The exhibition marks Albrecht's fifth solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary.

BENT: The wonderfully playful & quizzical work of John Casey and Duncan Sherwood Forbes

Dolby Chadwick Gallery is thrilled to present Of Water, Dust, and Light, an exhibition of new work by Danae Mattes.

Opening celebration at Jonathan Carver Moore, INTERMedio, a solo exhibition by Luis Felipe Chávez.