SF Art Events: Week of 07.06.25
Installation view of Issac Julien, I Dream A World
Thing one: Isaac Julien, I Dream A World
ENDing July 13th
Over the last 25 years, pioneering artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (b. 1960, London) has created immersive, multichannel video installations. Celebrated for his poetic visual narratives, Julien explores power, politics, and personal experience through the lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring 10 major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside select early single-channel films including his iconic Looking for Langston (1989), this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a museum setting and his first retrospective in the United States. The works’ themes range from global migration to the collection and appropriation of African artists and art by Western museums to the celebration of cultural figures who overcame racial oppression. Shot across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Asia, Julien’s works untangle the complex web of post-colonial conditions that has shaped the lives of individuals and societies across the globe.
LOCATION: de Young, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
HOURS: Tues–Sun 9:30am–5:15pm
THINGS TWO: THE 2025 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
July 10 – 13, 2025
For a third year in a row, Minnesota Street Project Foundation is thrilled to present the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF).
SFABF is an annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Open to the public July 11 through July 13, 2025, with a preview on Thursday, July 10 from 6 to 10 p.m. SFABF was founded in 2016 as a joint collaboration between Colpa Press, Park Life, and Minnesota Street Project.
MULTIPLE LOCATIONS:
1150 25th Street | 1275 Minnesota Street | 1240 Minnesota Street | 1201 Minnesota Street
PUBLIC HOURS:
Opening Night Preview! Thursday, July 10: 6pm - 10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am - 5pm
Free and open to the public
Book jacket of YR Dead by Sam Sax
Samantha Mathews, Untitled, 2025, acrylic, maker, gel paint and collage on paper, 18 x 24 inches.
thing three: Komorebi
Jul 10 – Aug 30, 2025
Opening June 10, 5 - 8pm
Creativity Explored is honored to present Komorebi, a Japanese word without direct English translation, which captures the quiet beauty of sunlight filtering through leaves - a fleeting moment where light and shadow meet.
This exhibition brings together works that explore subtle rhythms of pattern and the spaces between clarity and obscurity. Like its namesake, Komorebi invites the viewer to consider each ever-shifting moment, to see these patterns not as random and fixed compositions but as the result of a larger, unseen fluid structure.
This group exhibition includes the work of Creativity Explored artists Allura Fong, Taneya Lovelace, Samantha Mathews, James Nielson, Mary Ann Orozco, and Kalra Quinonez.
LOCATION: Creativity Explored, 3245 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
HOURS: Thursdays - Friday: 3 - 6 PM, Saturdays: 12-5 PM
