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our take on events in the bay area.
Broad Strokes
Les Toil artist for the zine Schmobots and a slew of other cool comics, art, book covers, Misfit album covers and so much more...
Near poets
re.riddle is pleased to present Near Poets, a group exhibition curated by Kay Jaramillo, featuring paintings by Aaron Elvis Jupin, Arthur Wechsler, Brian Rideout, Kira Maria Shewfelt, Quintessa Matranga, Sophie Lourdes Knight and Will Yackulic.
GREEN
‘GREEN’, a juried exhibition of NCWCA members, self-identified women within California and invited artists
Presented by NCWCA and Arc Gallery.
Amy Trachtenberg: Abstract Objects of Devotion
500 Capp Street Foundation is pleased to present Abstract Objects of Devotion, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Amy Trachtenberg.
JANET DELANEY: Too Many Products
EUQINOM Gallery is pleased to present Too Many Products, the gallery's third solo exhibition with Berkeley-based photographer Janet Delaney. Following its acclaimed presentation at Photo London earlier this year, the exhibition brings together photographs from Delaney's deeply personal series examining labor, family, and the changing landscape of American commerce.
AINA CLOTAS: THE BACKWARDS RACE
Spanish artist Aina Clotas’s The Backwards Race positions the human body as both evidence and mystery: a physical structure, a vessel of feeling and memory, and one of the last places where humanity can still resist reduction into mere duty or function.
OPEN AIR: Plein-air landscapes & Cityscapes
A group show of plein-air landscapes and cityscapes.
Double Bind: Belonging and Its Discontents
Fridman Gallery (New York) and Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco) are pleased to present Double Bind: Belonging and Its Discontents, a group exhibition curated by Catharine Clark at Fridman Gallery, New York.
The Moleskine Project XIII
Harman Projects is pleased to announce the thirteenth iteration of The Moleskine Project. The dynamic group exhibition, which has included hundreds of emerging and established artists from around the world, returns to San Francisco.
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.
Drawings: Paul Pickrel
Themes+Projects is pleased to share an upcoming exhibition of drawings by Paul Pickrel (1917–2014), presented at Lee's Launderette in the Mission. Please mark your calendar to join us for an opening reception on Friday, June 26, from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Downs the Hills and Around the Bends
Creativity Explored is pleased to present a group exhibition of studio artists who utilize existing cultural iconography to map out their daily lives and experiences.
Lost in the Funhouse
The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco is proud to present Lost in the Funhouse, an exhibition of photographs by Ken Graves. Shaped by wit, disorientation, and psychological tension, the work reflects on the instability of contemporary life and the strange theater of American culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.