Workshop

Free Workshop: Painting Karl the Fog with Mário Pires Cordeiro

Opening: SILKWORM 緣份: My dream is a future with you

Opening: Fiber & Light

Special Event

Book Launch and Signing | Hal Fischer: Seminal Works

Special Event

Closing Reception: when he cries he looks like me

Lecture

Artist Conversation: BED FOR DREAMING

Workshop

Feather Drawing Workshop with Renée Gertler

Special Event

Book Launch: Hybrid: Curiosity in All Things

Opening Reception: Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots

Opening Reception: The Sweet Appreciation of Freedom

Special Event

MSP Holiday Closure Dates

Workshop

Free Workshop: Place and Color: Drawing with Stencils

Special Event

One Messy Year Book Launch + Conversation with Carissa Potter 

Lecture

Janet Jacobs Artist Talk

Opening Reception: KeFe: Music Island

Special Event

Opening Reception: timelines

Special Event

Opening Reception: Entangled Lineage

Special Event

The Sun Is A Joke

Special Event

Warehouse Residency Open Studio

Special Event

Book Signing: Thirty-Six Views of the Golden Gate Bridge by Arthur Drooker

Special Event

Mixtape: Protest Playlist

Special Event

Altman Siegel Farewell Party

Special Event

Panel: The Monkey King: The Legend of Sun Wukong & The Making of a New Opera

Workshop

SFArtsEd x SF Opera: Free Puppet Making Workshop

Opening Reception: Silence is Louder than Sound

Opening Reception: Harriet Heyman: Figuratively Speaking

Workshop

Amulet Making Workshop

Special Event

Bringing Art Home: A Conversation on Collecting

Special Event

First Saturday: November 1

Special Event

Book Launch + Panel: Jim Melchert: Where the Boundaries Are

Special Event

Book Launch: Too Many Products Too Much Pressure

Special Event

Poetry Reading & Harp Performance: A Sad Flower in the Sand

Special Event

Free Textile Collage Workshop with Tiersa Nureyev

Special Event

Davia Nelson in conversation with Ruth Charlotte Gneass and John Gnorski.

Special Event

Exhibition Walkthrough of Oliver Lee Jackson | Nexus Black Art Week

Special Event

Roberta Breitmore Look Alike Contest

Special Event

First Saturday

Screening

Film screening: Mary Helena Clark, Peng Zuqiang, and Ana Vaz co-presented with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

To Hear a Shadow Launch & Conversation

Screening

Film screening: Mary Helena Clark, Peng Zuqiang, and Ana Vaz co-presented with CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Performance

DJ NFS + Matt

Special Event

Meet the Artists: Zaida Oenema & Yvonne Mouser

Special Event

First Saturday

Special Event

On the Hunt: Scavenger Stories from Bay Area Artists

Lecture

Artist Talk and Curatorial Walkthrough with Cole Barash and Janie Perez-Radler

Special Event

Artists In Conversation

MSP Labor Day Hours

Special Event

Closing Reception: Art/Education/Community – 35 Years at Recology AIR

Workshop

Free Workshop: Resist Dye with Margaretta Grazier

Special Event

Opening Reception: Art/Education/Community – 35 Years at Recology AIR

Special Event

Far Out: Northern California Art from the di Rosa Collection

Special Event

MSP Summer Party

Special Event

Curatorial Walkthrough: Lagrange Point

Special Event

Lagrange Point Curatorial Walkthrough

Special Event

San Francisco Art Book Fair 2025

Special Event

Meditation: Listening to the Heart with Buddhist Monks

Special Event

MSP Holiday Closure

Workshop

Weaving on Mini Looms Workshop

MSP Closed for Juneteenth

Special Event

Shepard Fairey: Fractured

Membranes: Deena Qabazard

Lecture

Artist Talk: Afton Love

Membranes: Deena Qabazard

Special Event

First Saturday

Special Event

SquareCylinder Relaunch Celebration

Special Event

Insectpalooza: The Art and Magical Science of Arthropods

Special Event

Artist walk-through: Architecture of Light + Color

Dok-kan

Performance

Jazz Performance: Cody Anderson Trio

Special Event

Spirit of Sankofa: Panel Discussion and Dance Performance

Lecture

Reception and Artist in Conversation: Wendel A. White with Makeda Best

Performance

San Francisco Opera Presents: Music and Flowers

Workshop

Free Workshop: Sewing with Community Fits

Workshop

Free Dance Classes: Black Choreographers Festival Community Dance Day

Special Event

Conversation: Disability and Art

Workshop

Free Workshop: Basket Weaving with Wanda Chan

Special Event

Community Building, Walking, Sweets, Tea, Sharing Stories with Makaan

Special Event

First Saturday

Special Event

In Conversation: Boris Labbé x Wade Wallerstein

Special Event

Conversation | Rena Bransten, Richard Shaw, & Jeff Kelley

Special Event

Book Talk and Signing: Badiucao and Melissa Chan: You Must Take Part in Revolution

Workshop

Free Cyanotype Workshop with Zoe Farmer

Performance

Artist Reception and Performance: Live Performance by Bob Villain

Special Event

First Saturday

Special Event

Special Workshop with Tiersa Nureyev

Workshop

Third Saturday Workshop with C.K. Itamura: The Typewriter Project

Special Event

Minnesota Street Project Presents: The San Francisco Art Week Party

Special Event

Book Reading and Signing: Toypurina with Katie Dorame

Special Event

First Saturday

Special Event

Pop-Up Exhibition and Book Launch: Soft Eyes

Special Event

Winter Solstice Handshake Event

Lecture

Annie Albagli and Mareiwa Miller in Conversation, moderated by Qianjin Montoya

Performance

Feral Frequencies: live performance and radio séance

Special Event

Wonderland: A Holiday Art Market

Workshop

Between You and Me: A handshake workshop with Rene Yung

Workshop

Miniature Dioramas with Zoe Farmer

Special Event

Artist Reception: Packard Jennings

Workshop

Bags, Bags, Bags

Special Event

Fritz Horstman: Geometry of Light

Performance

Live Drawing Session With Hunter Saxony III

Workshop

Halloween Mask Making Workshop⁠ With Carissa Potter

Workshop

Collage Workshop with SFArtsEd artist-in-residence Erik Parra

Special Event

Opening Reception, Erik Parra: In the Cut

Special Event

Wood Panel: A Discussion on Materials in Art and Design

Special Event

Hunter Saxony III: Pieces Of A (Black) Man

Special Event

Opening Reception, Chicago

Special Event

Trevor Paglen and Erik Davis in Conversation + Special Screening

Reception for the Artist, John Waters: The Worst of Waters

Workshop

Third Saturday Workshop: Puppet Movie Studio with Ramon Abad

Special Event

Across Ground: Book Launch Celebration

First Saturday Party

Triple Double Artist Talk

Workshop

Miniature Dioramas with Zoe Farmer

Special Event

Minnesota Summer Party at Minnesota Street Project

Special Event

Closing Reception: Not Just Rainbows: The Art of Deidre DeFranceaux and Gooch: A Pride PopUp

Special Event

Sign Hill Walk Hike Talk Rite Tops Left with Gabriel Garza

Special Event

Conversation and Book Launch with Lindsey White and Dena Beard

Special Event

Vanessa Woods in conversation with Allie Haeusslein, Director Pier 24 Photography

Special Event

Opening Reception: Not Just Rainbows: The Art of Deidre DeFranceaux and Gooch

Special Event

Opening Reception: this ache in your heart is holy

Special Event

Opening Reception: lacuna

Special Event

Todd Hido: Artist Talk & Multimedia Presentation

Special Event

Book Launch & Artist Talk with Tom Marioni

Special Event

Carol Kino & Tony Bravo in Conversation

Special Event

MSP Open House

Special Event

SF Art Week Kickoff Party

Special Event

SF Art Book Fair

Between the Lines: Bolinas Museum’s Louisa Gloger interviews artist Chris Whitefield

Special Event

Closing Reception: as you summon other worlds

Special Event

Artist Talk with Arngunnur Ýr

Special Event

Open House in celebration of FOG Art + Design

Special Event

Opening Reception: Free Dive

Special Event

Artist reception: Looking at the Sky

Special Event

Winter Art Fair 2022

Workshop

Your Intuitive Colorscape

Workshop

Leah Rosenberg Gallery Session

Special Event

Opening: Chris Johanson

Special Event

Artificial Imagination

Special Event

Opening Reception:  October 22, 2022, 1-4 pm, Curator’s Walkthrough at 2 pm

Special Event

Ido Yoshimoto RED: Artist Converation

Workshop

Paper Pulp Making with Alexis Arnold

Lecture

Artist Talk: The Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist

Workshop

Head Bangers

Lecture

Artist Talk: Clement Valla reflects on Scanners

Special Event

Book Signing: RESCUERS: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust

Special Event

Artist Wesaam Al - Badry in conversation with art scholar, Benjamin L. Jones

Special Event

Artist Talk & Salt Ceremony

Lecture

In Conversation: Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Annalee Newitz

Lecture

Ruth Charlotte Kneass in Conversation with Deborah Bishop

Performance

Red Culebra: Let Us Speak Frog

Special Event

First Saturday: August 6

Special Event

Jade Beall: Photo Sessions, Artist Talk, & Book Signing

Lecture

Ricki Dwyer + Woody De Othello In Conversation

Special Event

Book Signing with Chris Johanson

Special Event

The Floating Museum: Lynn Hershman Leeson in conversation with David Senior

Special Event

San Francisco Art Book Fair

Special Event

Artist Talk with Aimée Beaubien

Screening

Don't Ask Me: A Screening and Conversation between Silk Worm and hannah baer

Special Event

First Saturday: June 4

Lecture

Unpacking the Process: Sholeh Asgary + Lewis deSoto

Special Event

First Saturday: May 7

Performance

Towards a Black Testimony: A Performance

Performance

Hello World

Performance

SF Danceworks presents Cheekbones & Pride

Lecture

Artist Talk: Bill Fontana

Special Event

First Saturday: April

Special Event

Open House

Special Event

Person. Woman. Camera. TV.

Special Event

First Saturday: March

Special Event

Vogue & Tone Dance Party hosted by Sir JoQ

Performance

Panorama of Eternal Night: Poetry & Music

Special Event

Carissa Potter: How to Say I Love You

Screening

LIVING IN MIRRORS: the life that belongs to me

Special Event

*Postponed* In Song Sing On, a songbook Sing-a-Long

Lecture

Multi-hyphenate: Working in Craft, Art, & Design

Special Event

Winter Art Fair

Lecture

Redefining the Creator Economy: A Panel Discussion

Performance

PLAY†PREY: A Performance

Performance

Radius

Lecture

Artists of Spirit & Flesh in Conversation

Special Event

2020 SF Art Book Fair

Special Event

2020 SF Art Book Fair

Special Event

2020 SF Art Book Fair

Special Event

2020 SF Art Book Fair

Performance

Brontez Purnell as Orlando as Brontez Purnell: “My” Journey

Lecture

It’s a Moment

Workshop

Kira Dominguez Hultgren: Artist Talk & Weaving Event “Become The Loom” Part II

Performance

[Lonesome Station]: Younger Youngest + Strange Pilgrim + Danny Paul Grody

Special Event

A Night of Art, Conversation and Food with Heena Patel and Zai Divecha

Screening

Sally Potter’s Orlando

Workshop

Kira Dominguez Hultgren: “Become a Loom” Part I

Special Event

The Painting Salon presents Miguel Arzabe + Terri Friedman

Special Event

Bad Seeds by back pocket

Lecture

Artist talk with Daniel Canogar

Lecture

In Conversation: Michael Jang, Sandra S. Phillips, and Nion McEvoy

Special Event

Gagosian + Ever Gold [Projects]

[Lonesome Station] presents Desiree Cannon + Sucker Crush

Special Event

Behind the Lens with Harry Benson: Photographer Talk & Book Signing

Special Event

People/Places/Performance

Performance

[Lonesome Station] presents Magic Magic Roses and Cindy

Special Event

Designing Change: An Evening with Roman Mars

Special Event

Ever Gold [Projects] Art & Culture Night

Special Event

THE CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS INVITES YOU TO: AN EVENING WITH MAJA RUZNIC

Workshop

SFArtsED Workshop: Zoe Farmer, Artist-in-Residence

Special Event

Artist Talk: Chris Russell in conversation with Eleanor Harwood

Screening

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

Special Event

Planting The Seed

No Age: Score for the Day Before

Performance

[Lonesome Station] presents: Jonny Fritz + Avi Vinocur & Patrick Dyer Wolf

Performance

[Lonesome Station] presents: Catch Prichard + JULY

Special Event

Public Events | PREOCCUPATIONS: PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES

Lecture

Gallery Sessions: Daniel Clowes

Special Event

Art For ¡Quba!

Special Event

Public Events | PREOCCUPATIONS: PALESTINIAN LANDSCAPES

Performance

[Lonesome Station] presents: Curasao + Josh Rennie-Hynes

Special Event

Public Events | Handed Down

Special Event

Public Events | Handed Down

Special Event

Public Events | Handed Down

Special Event

Poster Making Workshop: Favianna Rodriguez

Special Event

Gallery Sessions: Enrique Chagoya

Performance

[Lonesome Station] Presents: Younger Youngest + Hectorine

Lecture

Artist Talk: Alison O’Daniel in Conversation with Tanya Zimbardo

Special Event

Gallery Sessions: Thomas Cvikota

Special Event

Gallery Sessions: Stephanie Syjuco

Performance

Bonanza: That’s Funny

Special Event

The Internet Archive’s 2019 Artist in Residence Exhibition presents Radical Digital Painting

Special Event

Gallery Sessions: Ala Ebtekar

Special Event

San Francisco Art Book Fair

Lecture

It’s Really Hard to Watch Films Properly

Special Event

Besharam VIP Dinners

Special Event

Besharam VIP Dinners

Special Event

"Are You Besharam Enough?" A Relaunch Celebration

Special Event

Summer of the Arts and Sciences

Performance

[Lonesome Station] presents: Credit Electric + CHINA

Lecture

Digital Gold Rush: A talk by Olive Allen

Special Event

Don't Just Stand There: Stories about Impossible Decisions

Performance

Porchlight: Oops, I Did It Again: Stories about Repetition

Lecture

Artists with Disabilities in the Contemporary Art World

Performance

DANCE EXHIBIT by Lauren Simpson Dance

Performance

DANCE EXHIBIT by Lauren Simpson Dance

Performance

DANCE EXHIBIT by Lauren Simpson Dance

Special Event

SYSTEM FAILURE: displacement

Special Event

2019 CCA SENIOR FASHION EXPERIENCE

Performance

DANCE EXHIBIT by Lauren Simpson Dance

Performance

DANCE EXHIBIT by Lauren Simpson Dance

Special Event

Sunday Streets: Bayview/Dogpatch

Lecture

Artists in Discussion

Special Event

Art Insight: Masterpieces, Makers and the Market

Performance

Sholeh Asgary + Cyrus Yoshi Tabar

Lecture

Artist Talk: Martha Rosler

Special Event

Panel Discussion: Shiva Ahmadi, Abbas Akhavan, Sanaz Mazinani, Taravat Talepasand

Special Event

Artist Conversation + Book Signing: Sanaz Mazinani

Lecture

Todd Hido

Special Event

Tastes Like Home

Special Event

45 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, 45 YEARS OF SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

Performance

Blank Square + Sunflower Sweatshop + Intestinehead Live

Special Event

Editions Pop-up Shop

Screening

My Art: Laurie Simmons

Lecture

Artist Talk: Alison Pebworth and Carissa Potter

Lecture

Artists' Talk: Ellen Berkenblit + Sarah Braman

Lecture

Artist Talk with Bovey Lee

Special Event

Gallery Walkthrough with Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust

Special Event

Meet the Curators: Sam Sharkey and Kathleen Maguire on Take Only Memories, Leave Only Footprints

Screening

Film Screening: Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker

Screening

UNTITLED, Cinema | Canyon Cinema: Stinky Wieners and Dreamy Beavers

Lecture

Conversation with Donald Farnsworth and Professor Ronald Davis

Special Event

Designing Change: A Conversation with David Hogg

Special Event

Open Late

Performance

The World According to Sound Live!

Lecture

Half a Century, Old and New Work: A Conversation between Tom Marioni and Jim Melchert

Screening

Residency Intensive Screening PARTY

Special Event

Open Late

Special Event

Artist Talk & Book Signing: Ward Schumaker

Performance

Third Eye Moonwalk: Live Performance

SFADA Presents: Art Criticism in the Digital Age

Performance

Monster Drawing Rally 2018

Lecture

Artist Talk: Julian Watts

Lecture

Art & Blockchain Explained

Global China: Cross-Cultural Conversation on The Work of Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Lecture

Valentino Catricalà: Energy, Frequency and Vibration: A Discourse on the Work of Daniele Puppi

For the Sake of Summer: Film + Music 2018

Performance

100 Songs: Gautam Tejas Ganeshan

2018 SF Art Book Fair

Lecture

Artist Talk: Methods of Making

Artist reception: Valerie Hegarty

Opening Celebration: The Festival of the Impossible

Painting Salon with Jake Ziemann & Phillip Maisel

Dilexi Series Panel

Performance

Turntable Drawings: Danny Clay and Jon Fischer

MAKE IT SO: Southern Exposure's Annual Benefit Auction

Lecture

Trevor Paglen

Performance

Shadows in Stereo: Christine Marie

Nadja Verena Marcin's OPHELIA

SAHBA Salon: Show & Tell

Women Who Transformed Art in the West

Rupert Garcia in conversation with John Zarobell

ART GIVES BACK

Lecture

Curatorial Talk: Evelyne Jouanno

UNTITLED AFTER-PARTY

Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography

Performance

A Date with Self World

Six Sensational Ocean Views

Lecture

Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program presents Kerry Tribe

Southern Exposure's Monster Drawing Rally

Lecture

In Conversation: Adam Fuss + Klea McKenna

Book Release: Art and the Global Economy

Lecture

Artist Talk with Vik Muniz

Performance

A reading of Every Saturday Night

2017 SF Art Book Fair

Performance

Live Broadcast from Tomorrow

Lecture

A Chromophiliac’s Guide to Painting in the 20th + 21st Centuries

Art Classes for Kids

The Vertigo Effect: Natasha Boas in conversation with Anthony Discenza

Chip Lord’s Miami Beach Elegy with Live Music by Hayden Pedigo

Book signing with Tabitha Soren

RISE UP! Art As Action: A Panel Discussion

Paint the News

Robert Rosenthal + Three Clairvoyants

Lecture

Matthew Israel: The Big Picture

Screening

ALTERNATIVE FACTOIDS

Lecture

Hank Willis Thomas

Performance

100 Days Action + Lauren DiCioccio

Lecture

Echo Poems: Closing Reception + Artist Talk

Lecture

Artist Talk with Elizabeth Sims

Southern Exposure's Annual Fundraiser + Art Auction

Performance

12 Symbols

First Saturday / First Year

Encuentro con la palabra/Encounter with the Word

Artist Talk: Lauren DiCioccio

Lecture

The School: Diane Arbus's Untitled Photographs

Lecture

Artist Talk with Agelio Batle

RAM Bookshop / Book Signings

In Conversation: ​R. Luke DuBois

Opening Reception + Artist Talks

Book signing with Todd Hido

Community Day

Panel Discussion with Amy Ellingson

Rhizome Presents: Peter Rojas and Tracy Chou in conversation

After Pop Life Closing Party

Performance

鸡同鸭讲: Chicken with Duck Speaking

Performance

Kevin Killian’s “Life After Prince” (1993/2016)

Closing Reception: TRANSFER Download

Performance

Dana Hemenway: Installation Residency

Lecture

In Conversation: Abdulnasser Gharem, Ahaad Alamoudi + Shaweesh with Sarah Thornton

Lecture

David Dyment: Artists’ Books and Hybrids

Lecture

Dave King: SO MANY PICTURES

Lecture

Todd Hido: Ten Books on My Mind

Artist in Conversation: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kate Eilertsen

2016 SF Art Book Fair

Community Day with SFArtsED

Performance by Julia Adam Dance

How Not To Be Heard: Hito Steyerl's Subversive Strategies

Southern Exposure's Monster Drawing Rally

I Never Learned the Title of the Song I Always Sing

Bloom Chamber

Lecture

Artist Conversation: Sarah Hotchkiss + Ivan Iannoli

Ivan Iannoli

Lecture

New Material: Exhibition Walk-Through

Den + Wrath Pin Face Binned

MIXED USE

Alice Raymond: ready to go

Joan Brown: Presence Known

Performance

1275 Galleries Present: A reading with Keith J. Varadi, Anne McGuire, and Ian Dolton-Thornton

Blow This Sh*t Up

Performance

1275 Galleries Present: Art Practical's Double Feature

Petra Cortright: ZERO-DAY DARLING

John Preus: New Works

New Material

La Plage Blanche: Carine Magescas

Miya Ando: Atmosphere

Lecture

Artist Talk with Enrique Chagoya

Artist Talk with Owen Kydd

Lecture

1275 Galleries Present: Ray Mack in conversation with Evan Reiser

Exhibition walk-through with Paul Wackers

Thinking of You

Paul Wackers: Slow Wave

Anton Kern/Andrew Kreps

A rat's back + Queer Thoughts presents

Christie’s Spring Auction Highlights

BLACK STANDARD

1275 Galleries Present: The Painting Salon programmed by Et al etc.

Community Open House

Opening of 1275 Minnesota St

Conspiracy: Walkthrough and Q&A

Opening Reception: Conspiracy

Opening Reception Ehren Tool: Meditation on the Impacts of War

Opening reception Real Time & Space: A Group Exhibition