SF Art Events: Week of 05.17.26
THING ONE: Memory in Motion
Installation view: AOCA
May 2–Jul 12, 2026
A major group exhibition curated by Gilles Yoro (Felin Light), Memory in Motion brings together a dynamic group of contemporary African artists whose practices traverse time, geography, and materiality to explore the fluid construction of identity.
Participating artists:
Mederic Turay, Opa Bathily, Kebe Ibrahim Bemba, Kenof "Franck Kemkeng Noah'", Ange Arthur Koua, Gerald Chukwuma, Ayanda Mabulu, Mwass Githinji, Ndabuko Ntuli, Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi. and Dieudonne Diela Kamgang
LOCATION: Art of Contemporary Africa, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 - 6:00 pm
Installation view
THING TWO: A Creature Having A Dream About Himself
May 2–Jun 6, 2026
Harman Projects is pleased to announce A Creature Having A Dream About Himself, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist Jason Jägel. The exhibition marks Jason's first exhibition with Harman Projects.
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LOCATION: Harman Projects, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am–6 pm
THING THREE: Mike Brodie: New and Selected Works
Mike Brodie
May 2–Jun 13, 2026
This solo exhibition covers Brodie’s itinerant younger years, hitchhiking and hopping trains across America, a period that produced his critically acclaimed 2004-2008 series ‘A Period of Juvenile Prosperity’, and a decade of harrowing adult trials that began in 2012, resulting in his recent series Failing.
The photographs from both bodies of work are notable for being intimate and cinematic in equal measure. Becoming, by default and intent, part of the communities he encountered, he made photographs that eliminate distance between himself and his subjects, a closeness passed on to the viewer, and heightened by the warm, earthy tones of his uncompromising images.
LOCATION: Casemore Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am–6 pmm
