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. 

Solo show of Nicole Andrijauskas. Details not yet available. Save the date.

She Isn’t a Metaphor reimagines mythological women not as symbols or ideals, but as powerful, complex women. Drawing from Hindu mythology and other traditions, this series of mixed media by artist Nimisha Doongarwal challenges how women have been used as symbols—Sita for purity, Draupadi for sacrifice, or Medusa for fear—while their own voices have been erased.

Heron Arts is pleased to present RECLAMATION, a duo exhibition featuring about forty artworks by Augustine Kofie and Erik Otto. The opening reception is August 23rd, 2025 from 6-9pm. It is free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on view until September 18th, by appointment only.

FourSquared 2025​ is a unique exploration of the works of sixteen Bay Area artists. Each of the artists has produced sixteen small works, presented in sixteen clusters giving the audience the experience of sixteen micro solo exhibitions.

Pamela Walsh Gallery is proud to present Cloud Songs, an exhibition of new paintings by Don Scott Macdonald and Jeffrey Beauchamp—two artists attuned to both sight and sound, who offer lyrical interpretations of the landscape, where clouds, color, and light move like notes of music.

111 Minna Gallery and Studio Fallout are proud to present I Saw but I Did Not See, the first San Francisco solo exhibition by legendary collage artist Winston Smith since 2023.

Studio Gallery is pleased to present Patrice Wachs’ first solo gallery exhibition of paintings inspired by the Bay Area

We’re excited to launch the first of our Dialogues series, a conversation in images between Abi Joy Samuel and Zachary Oldenkamp. Samuel, with her English-Jewish roots, brings tenderness sharpened by history; Oldenkamp, from San Francisco, draws like someone sifting through the half-light of memory.