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Art stuff happening in and around San Francisco. Note that this list may be out of date… get up-to-date info by visiting the links.
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- Thu May 21 '26 – Sat Jun 27 '26showSora Kimberlain: Through Your Eyes or Someone Else's@ Wessling Contemporary
- Thu May 21 '26 – Sat Jun 27 '26showSora Kimberlain@ Wessling Contemporary
- Thu May 28 '26 – Sat Aug 15 '26openingSlice of the Pie@ Fraenkel Gallery
- Thu May 28 '26experimentalResonance: Circuit des Yeux@ Exploratorium
- Thu May 28 '26experimentalAfter Dark: At the Edge@ Exploratorium
- Thu May 28 '26museumThe Zizi Show@ SF MOMA
- Fri May 29 '26experimentalAfter Thought@ Gray Area
- Sat May 30 '26otherBuild, Treat, Heal: A Bay Area Fundraiser for Gaza Medical Aid@ Gray Area
- Sun May 31 '26workshopMAKE! with SCRAP: Matisse Landscapes@ SF MOMA
- Sun May 31 '26workshopOpen: Art Lab@ BAMPFA
- Sun May 31 '26experimentalImmersive Story Club@ Gray Area
- Mon Jun 1 '26salonAnalog Mondays @ Manny's@ Manny's
- Mon Jun 1 '26art walkInner Sunset Art Walk@ Hunt & Gather
- Mon Jun 1 '26 – Sun Jun 28 '26showArt Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)@ BAMPFA
- Mon Jun 1 '26 – Sun Jun 28 '26museumRhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection@ BAMPFA
- Mon Jun 1 '26workshopStrange Anatomy: Exquisite Corpses with Fuser Compositor and Creative Code@ Gray Area
- Mon Jun 1 '26 – Sun Jul 26 '26showFifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition@ BAMPFA
- Mon Jun 1 '26 – Sun Jun 28 '26museumObject Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection@ BAMPFA
- Tue Jun 2 '26artist talkDocent Tour: Manet & Morisot@ Legion of Honor
- Tue Jun 2 '26artist talkHighlights Tour at the Legion of Honor@ Legion of Honor
- Tue Jun 2 '26artist talkHighlights Tour at the de Young@ de Young
- Wed Jun 3 '26artist talkRewilding San Francisco@ 518 Valencia
- Thu Jun 4 '26museumAndy Warhol Exposed: Newly Processed Films from the 1960s@ SF MOMA
- Thu Jun 4 '26museumFree First Thursday@ BAMPFA
- Thu Jun 4 '26experimentalAfter Dark: Home Away from Home@ Exploratorium
- Fri Jun 5 '26experimentalWaves of Change: A Night of Vocals + Electronics@ Gray Area
- Fri Jun 5 '26openingPreview Day / Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26 – Sun Nov 29 '26museumMaren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26workshopMaren Hassinger Tributes and Wrenching News Workshop@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26showPublic Sculpture | Monument (Pyramid) at UC Botanical Garden@ UC Botanical Garden
- Sat Jun 6 '26workshopOpen: Art Lab@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26workshopCollaborative Comics Workshop@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26museumModified Hours: Galleries Open Late at 1 PM@ BAMPFA
- Sat Jun 6 '26artist talkCompelling Gallery Conversations@ de Young
- Sat Jun 6 '26workshopA Creative Photography Workshop@ Jack London State Historic Park
- Sat Jun 6 '26 – Sat Jul 18 '26showAdler Guerrier: Prim and mottled forms arranged to this end@ re.riddle
- Sat Jun 6 '26showLowrider Culture Celebration@ de Young
- Sat Jun 6 '26art walkAnother Way Urban Bike & Talk: East Bayshore—Richmond to Treasure Island@ East Bayshore (Richmond to Treasure Island)
- Sun Jun 7 '26workshopMAKE! with SCRAP: Thinking Big@ SF MOMA
- Sun Jun 7 '26museumMichael Wallin: Outside In@ SF MOMA
- Sun Jun 7 '26artist talkLecture Performance on the Web@ Gray Area
- Mon Jun 8 '26museumThe Etruscans Access Day@ Legion of Honor
- Mon Jun 8 '26 – Fri Jun 12 '26workshopCartoon Camp 2026 (June)@ Cartoon Art Museum
- Tue Jun 9 '26WNP Tuesday Talk: A History of Forest Hill's Dewey Blvd@ Western Neighborhoods Project
- Tue Jun 9 '26workshopTechno Improvisation with Beat DJ@ Gray Area
- Thu Jun 11 '26 – Sun Sep 13 '26museumLife in Space@ Exploratorium
- Thu Jun 11 '26museumAfter Dark: Life in Space@ Exploratorium
- Fri Jun 12 '26experimentalVisible Cloaks: Paradessence@ Gray Area
- Sat Jun 13 '26artist talkCinemaSFBay x WNP Film Club Present: Time After Time (1979)@ Vogue Theatre
- Sat Jun 13 '26 – Sat Jul 11 '26reception21st Century Sucks@ Heron Arts
- Mon Jun 15 '26 – Fri Jun 26 '26workshopAnimated Loops and GIFs@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Mon Jun 15 '26 – Fri Jun 26 '26workshopExperimental Animation@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Tue Jun 16 '26Dave Eggers - Contrapposto: A Novel@ Calvary Presbyterian
- Wed Jun 17 '26 – Sat Jun 27 '26museumFrameline50@ The Castro Theatre
- Thu Jun 18 '26experimentalRooftop Radio: French Electro Pop@ SF MOMA
- Thu Jun 18 '26art fairJoie de Vivre!@ SF MOMA
- Thu Jun 18 '26museumAfter Dark: Unplug and Play@ Exploratorium
- Sun Jun 21 '26workshopMAKE! with SCRAP: Drawing with Instructions@ SF MOMA
- Thu Jun 25 '26experimentalAtria: Live@ SF MOMA
- Thu Jun 25 '26museumAfter Dark: Pride@ Exploratorium
- Thu Jun 25 '26salonWorks on Paper Book Club: Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald@ SF MOMA
- Sat Jun 27 '26historyWNP Presidio Main Post History Walk@ Presidio of San Francisco
- Sat Jun 27 '26 – Sun Jul 26 '26showThe Moleskine Project XIII@ Hashimoto Contemporary / Harman Projects
- Sat Jun 27 '26 – Sun May 14 '28museumNengi Omuku: The Gathering@ de Young
- Mon Jun 29 '26 – Fri Jul 10 '26workshopTablet Animation@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Mon Jun 29 '26 – Fri Jul 10 '26workshopStorytelling Adventures@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Thu Jul 2 '26 – Sat Aug 15 '26showThe Ultramarine Layer: Meditations in Blue@ Wessling Contemporary
- Thu Jul 2 '26 – Sat Aug 15 '26showThe Ultramarine Layer@ Wessling Contemporary
- Thu Jul 2 '26 – Sat Aug 15 '26showThe Ultramarine Layer: A Group Invitational Exploring a Favorite Hue@ Wessling Contemporary
- Mon Jul 6 '26 – Fri Jul 10 '26workshopCartoon Camp 2026 (July)@ Cartoon Art Museum
- Tue Jul 7 '26workshopExpressive Systems: Making Poetic Mini-Games in PICO-8@ Gray Area
- Tue Jul 7 '26 – Sat Aug 22 '26showWave Comes In, Wave Goes Out@ Municipal Bonds
- Wed Jul 8 '26workshopHybrid Live Coding: Designing Systems for Audiovisual Performance@ Gray Area
- Sat Jul 11 '26workshopPersonal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender@ Gray Area
- Mon Jul 13 '26 – Fri Jul 24 '26workshopAnimal Anatomy@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Mon Jul 13 '26 – Fri Jul 24 '26workshopImagining Worlds@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Thu Jul 16 '26experimentalMax Cooper - 3D/AV Live - Feeling Is Structure Tour@ Gray Area
- Fri Jul 17 '26experimentalMax Cooper - 3D/AV Live - Feeling Is Structure Tour@ Gray Area
- Fri Jul 17 '26art fairOpen Sauce Industry Day@ Registration Tent / Industry Stage / Main Expo Hall
- Sat Jul 18 '26art fairOpen Sauce Day 1@ Gate A / Registration Tent
- Sun Jul 19 '26art fairOpen Sauce Day 2@ Gate A / Registration Tent
- Fri Jul 24 '26 – Sun Jul 26 '26experimentalTerrapin Roadshow - San Rafael@ Forest Meadows Amphitheatre
- Mon Jul 27 '26 – Fri Aug 7 '26workshopDeveloping a Sketchbook@ The Walt Disney Family Museum
- Mon Jul 27 '26 – Fri Aug 7 '26workshopDigital 2D Animation@ Walt Disney Family Museum
- Sat Aug 1 '26 – Sun Jan 31 '27museumTreasures of the Pharaohs@ de Young
- Wed Aug 5 '26 – Sun Jul 25 '27showArt Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las Frutas del Labor@ BAMPFA
- Wed Aug 5 '26 – Sun Jul 11 '27museumSome Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection@ BAMPFA
- Thu Aug 6 '26 – Sat Aug 29 '26residencyResident Artist Shows: golden lionheart collier@ Audium
- Wed Aug 12 '26 – Sun Nov 15 '26showCampus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces@ BAMPFA
- Sat Aug 15 '26experimentalMatmos with Dick Slessig Combo@ Gray Area
- Mon Aug 24 '26art fairSFZF Zine Picnic@ Yerba Buena Gardens
- Wed Aug 26 '26art fairSFZF Zine Picnic@ Yerba Buena Gardens
- Sun Aug 30 '26poetrySFZF Thinking Captions Zine Reading@ Silver Sprocket
- Mon Aug 31 '26otherSFZF Kick-off Party@ Mission: Comics & Art
- Tue Sep 1 '26workshopClasses and Art Instruction@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26otherSFZF After Party@ Silver Sprocket
- Tue Sep 1 '26openingArt + Water Opening@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26showFORCED PERSPECTIVE: The World of Boots Riley@ Art + Water
- Tue Sep 1 '26poetrySFZF Thinking Captions Zine Reading@ Silver Sprocket
- Wed Sep 2 '26receptionSFZF Kick-off Party@ Mission: Comics & Art
- Thu Oct 1 '26showDía de Los Muertos Annual Exhibition@ SOMArts
- Sat Oct 3 '26 – Sun Feb 7 '27museumRM x SFMOMA@ SFMOMA
- Sat Nov 7 '26residencyFree Crucible Tours@ The Crucible
- Thu Nov 19 '26residencyFree Public Tours@ The Crucible
- Tue Dec 1 '26art fairHoliday Market 2026@ 1890 Bryant Street Studios
- Fri Dec 11 '26art fairSunset Night Market: Dong Zhi/Holiday Market@ Irving Street
- Fri Jan 1 '27residencyArt + Water Residencies@ Art + Water