Last year’s SF Art Book Fair. Image courtesy of SF Art Book Fair.
July 10 to 13 – SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project Foundation: Bringing together independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts, the SFABF is hosting their annual multi-day exhibition celebrating printed materials of all kinds from around the globe. Hosting over 160 exhibitors at three different on-site venues, the fair situates local histories and perspectives of the Bay Area in conversation with national and international publishing communities. Preview is Thursday, July 10: 6 to 10 p.m. The Minnesota Street Project Foundation is located at 1150 25th st, 1201 – 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco.
Mildred Howard, “Junípero Serra” 2025 installation view, image courtesy of 500 Capp Street Foundation.
Ongoing to August 23 – Collaborating with the Muses: Part Two at 500 Capp Street Foundation: Collaborating with the Muses: Part Two is an installation on the patio of 500 Capp Street, draped in red textile stands a statue of Junípero Serra. This installation is in direct conversation with the Serra statue in Golden Gate Park, which was toppled in 2020 along with countless other monuments during the nationwide protests of the murder of George Floyd. Howard recontextualized this figure by bringing together public engagement and a community centered practice. This piece interrogates public space and collective memory in the midst of the city’s ongoing reckoning with its civic monuments. 500 Capp Street is located at The David Ireland House, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco.
Saturday, July 12, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Subverting Colonial Machinations: Readings and Dialogue with artists Jonathan Cordero and Tricia Rainwater. Reserve tickets here.
Sunday, July 20 – Exploring Untitled Histories/Hidden Truths: Fort Point tour with Anna Lisa Escobedo and Workshop with Malik Seneferu. Tour is at Fort Point from at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Workshop at 500 Capp Street isfrom 1 to 3 p.m. Tour and Bus tickets here. Workshop tickets here.
Sunday, August 10 – Shaping Legacy: Civic Monuments in Transition: Fort Point tour and intimate discussion at 500 Capp Street with Anna Lisa Escobedo. Tour is at Fort Point from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Workshop is at 500 Capp Street from 1 to 3 p.m. Tour and Bus tickets here. Discussion tickets here.
Saturday, August 23 – Undone and Taken Into Earth: Monument Workshop: Fort Point Tour with Anna Lisa Escobedo and Workshop with Weston Teruya. Tour is at Fort Point from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Workshop is at 500 Capp Street from 1 to 3 p.m. Tour and Bus tickets here. Workshop tickets here.
Thursday, August 21, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Closing Reception: 500 Capp Street. Reserve tickets here.
Pao Houa Her, “Untitled (real opium, behind opium backdrop)” from ‘The Imaginative Landscape” series, 2020. Image courtesy of SJMA.
July 11 to February 22 – Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape at San José Museum of Art: Pao Houa Her’s practice engages with the legacies, potentials, and aesthetics of landscape and portrait photography traditions, examining the complex intertwining of desire, homeland, and artifice. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family experiences and lore passed down by her elders, Her’s work centers women as the knowledge bearers of both past and future. Using a formally rigorous photographic approach, Her explores constructions of homeland that resonate across diasporas. Opening reception is Friday, July 11, 6-9pm. SJMA is located at 110 South Market Street, San José.
Top middle: Beto De Volder, “Untitled” 2022, ink on paper. Bottom left: Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, “Daydream 2” 2024, pigment ink on paper. Bottom right: Shahzia Sikander, “A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation (Veiled Shiva)” 1995, vegetable color, watercolor, dry pigment and tea water on wasli handmade paper. Images courtesy of the Hosfelt Gallery.
July 12 to August 16 – Drawn to Drawing at the Hosfelt Gallery: Featuring approximately 200 drawings spanning from the 16th to 21st century, these works reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. Drawings include European Old Masters, geometric abstraction, photorealism, three-dimensional objects, drawings made with thread, all exploring the intimacy, immediacy, and pleasure of drawing. Participating artists include Rina Banerjee, Harry Bertoia, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, Jess, Stefan Kürten, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Emil Lukas, Marco Maggi, Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Mansur Nurullah, Patricia Piccini, Liliana Porter, Lordy Rodriguez, Gideon Rubin, Thomas Schütte, Shahzia Sikander, Wayne Thiebaud, Cornelius Völker, William T. Wiley, and many others. Opening reception is Saturday, July 12: 3 to 5 p.m. Hosfelt Gallery is located at 260 Utah Street, San Francisco.
“Open House” Image courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts.
Sunday, July 20 from 12-5 p.m. – Headlands Center for the Arts Summer Open House 2025: Open House is an opportunity to view works in progress, meet current Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows, attend screenings, performances, and readings. Open House engages visitors in multidisciplinary art experiences, intimate viewing experiences, and personal conversations with current artists about their work. Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Simmonds Road, Sausalito.
Top: Laura Rokas, “Hard to Swallow” 2025, oil on Arches oil paper. Bottom: Michiko Itatani, “Matrix Identity” 2024, oil on canvas. Images courtesy of Rebecca Camacho Presents.
Ongoing to August 2 – Laura Rokas: A Meal in Itself and Michiko Itatani: Cosmic Codes at Rebecca Camacho Presents: Rebecca Camacho Presents is featuring two simultaneous solo shows from two female painters. A Meal in Itself features the work of Laura Rokas, she digs up forgotten Betty Crocker and Weight Watchers recipe cards, depicting the strange and peculiar dishes of the 1970s. These recipes centered convenience during a time where women were first entering the workforce while still expected to maintain traditional household burdens of family care and social entertaining. Cosmic Codes features the work of Michiko Itatani and her decades-long exploration and expression of her unique pictorial language. Bringing works together that span 17 years, this show highlights Itatani’s unique and persistent style of real and imagined fantastical spaces. Rebecca Camacho Presents is located at 526 Washington Street, San Francisco.
David Huffman “Cornbread Sky” 2025, oil and collage on panel. Image courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery.
July 24 to August 30 – David Huffman: A Brilliant Blackout at Jessica Silverman Gallery: A Brilliant Blackout features new paintings from Huffman’s acclaimed Traumanauts series, where Black astronauts journey through abstract, Afrofuturist landscapes. Merging his signature cosmic figures with expressive, gestural brushwork, Huffman creates vibrant worlds that explore themes of healing, displacement, and ancestral wisdom. Featuring both recent works and earlier pieces, these visually rich narratives offer powerful counter-histories and visions of Black self-determination. Jessica Silverman is located at 621 Grant Avenue, San Francisco.
Top left: Frederico García Lorca, “San Cristóbal”. Top right: Álvaro Urbano, “Granada Granada” 2023, installation view. Bottom left: Ajit Chauhan, “Erased postcard” 2023. Image courtesy of Ajit Chauhan. Bottom right: Álvaro Urbano, “Viaje a la Luna” 2025, detail view. Images courtesy of the Wattis Institute.
Ongoing to October 11 – Viaje a la luna at The Wattis Institute: Bringing together national and international artists, this show is inspired by a forgotten film script written in the late 1920s by Federico García Lorca, a renowned Spanish Surrealist poet and playwright. The political unrest and instability of Spain in the late 1920s never allowed for the film to be actualized. The works of these artists speculate and build upon themes of the script as well as explore the social conditions and political context in which it was written, and draws a parallel to the present. Participating artists include Emilio Amero, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Nina Canell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Ajit Chauhan, Federico García Lorca, Rosalind Nashashibi, Francesco Pedraglio, Tania Pérez Córdova, Álvaro Urbano, and Danh Vo. The Wattis Institute is located at 145 Hopper Street, San Francisco.
Saturday, July 12 – Exhibition walkthrough in Spanish: Begins at 11 a.m. at 145 Hooper Street. RSVP here.
Thursday, July 17th – Poetry reading curated by Steve Dickinson: Brings together local poets to respond to the exhibitions themes and legacy of Federico García Lorca for an evening of curated poetry. Begins at 6 p.m. at 145 Hooper Street. RSVP here.
Saturday, August 30 – Exhibition walkthrough in Spanish: Begins at 11 a.m. at 145 Hooper Street. RSVP here.
Wednesday, September 24 – Film screening with Mary Helena Clark, Peng Zuqiang, and Ana Vaz: Co-presented with the Minnesota Street Project foundation, these three films presented by these three artists investigate how film can become a place for blurred identities, past histories, and the edges of meaning and perception. Begins at 6 p.m. at 1201 Minnesota Street. RSVP here.