San Francisco Art Week 2024 Festival (Jan. 13-21)

SF Art Week celebrates the rich arts landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area and provides a comprehensive participant list, map, and neighborhood guide with insider tips on where to eat, drink, and shop while discovering great art.

SF Art Week will take place January 13-21, 2024.

Thursday January 18

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Join SUSDESIGN – Design for Sustainability Studio (Lisbon, Portugal) for an evening reception at the Consulate General of Portugal in Pacific Heights to meet the designers and curators of Sustainability by Design – From the Portuguese Atlantic to the Californian Pacific.

Learn more here, RSVP to info@susdesign.org.

5:00 – 8:00 PM THURSDAY AFTER HOURS AT Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

Explore the galleries which come alive at night with a mix of pop-up performances, chats, live drawings, and more–just for adults!

Visitors are invited to bring a friend for free ($19 for two people) by taking advantage of our limited time 2 for 1 Museum ticket deal every Thursday, 5—8 pm throughout the inaugural season of Thursday After Hours.

For online ticket purchases, click the button below and use the discount code Thursdate on the payment page to receive the 2 for 1 deal. Same day tickets will also be available for sale at the door with the 2 for 1 offer while supplies last.

Find out more: https://sfartweek.com/oakland-museum-of-california-omca/

Friday January 19 

5-8 PM Fort Mason Art Walk – Learn more and RSVP info here: https://sfartweek.com/fort-mason-center-for-arts-and-culture/

Join Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC), FOR-SITE, Haines Gallery, SF Camerawork, and the San Francisco Children’s Art Center to celebrate the Winter art season with an evening Art Walk.

Register here.

Check in at the lobby inside Landmark Building C to obtain maps and drink tickets.

Explore the following events:

• Check in starts at 5:00 p.m., inside Landmark Building C
• Fort Mason Art presents Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames Since 1970 in Gallery 308, Landmark Building A, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Guest curator Tanya Zimbardo appears in conversation with Director of Arts Programming Frank Smigiel at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
• Fort Mason Art presents Shiny Things for My Quartermaster: Seven Swallowtail Flags, a new public art commission by Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith. The suite of artist flags, installed above the main entrances to Landmark Building B, the Gateway Pavilion at Pier 2, and the Festival Pavilion at Pier 3 are on view through Spring 2024. More information about the commission is on display in the Building B Lobby.
• The Haines Gallery presents Adia Millett: Reflections On Black, with an opening reception, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and a live performance by Rewards Program (Phillip Laurent, Miles Lassi, and Zekarias Thompson). (Landmark Building C, first floor)
• SF Camerawork presents Charles Lee: Sweat & Dirt, on view from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with SF Camerawork Executive Director Aay Preston-Myint in conversation with artist Charles Lee at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (an exhibition walk-through with Charles Lee and curator Meghan Smith also occurs 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.) (Landmark Building A, next to Radhaus Alpine Beerhall & Restaurant)
• San Francisco Children’s Art Center hosts a Family Art-Making Workshop for all ages, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Landmark Building C, first floor).
• FOR-SITE’s The Guardhouse Program features talks with artist Tanja Geis, curator Lisa Ellsworth, and urbanist Johanna Hoffman (6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.). The Guardhouse installation, “Mud Will Remember Us,” is on view daily through Sunday, January 21, 2024, visible at all times through the windows. (The Guardhouse is across from Equator Coffees Cafe.)

COL Gallery Artist Reception | Friday, January 19th |  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Please join us for an evening with the artist, Francisco Moreno, to toast his new show at COL Gallery. RSVP at info@colgallery.com. Pizza provided by Square Pie Guys.

Friday, January 19, 2024 | 5:30 PM – Artist Talk | 

1201 Minnesota Street

Observing the Unknown: Rohini Devasher and Kim Beil in Conversation at Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Working with video, painting, printmaking, drawing, installation, and other mediums, Rohini Devasher (b. 1978, New Delhi) maps the complexities of ecology, cosmic space, and atmospheric science viewed through the twin lenses of wonder and horror. Her projects illuminate the weird, seductive, and entangled worlds that emerge from deep research and scientific exploration. Devasher holds a BFA in painting from New Delhi’s College of Art and an MFA in printmaking from the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton in the UK. She is co-represented by Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, and Project 88 in Mumbai, India.

Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University and her writing appears in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Believer and Cabinet, as well as many art magazines. Her book Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown will be released this winter by SBPH and MACK books.

Saturday January 20

Saturday, January 20 |  2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Ruth’s Table: REDISCOVERY IN THE MAKING OPENING CELEBRATION

Join us to celebrate Ruth’s Table’s sixth annual Gallery Takeover exhibition Rediscovery in the Making. Take a closer look at the exhibition, mingle, and contribute to the collaborative artworks on view!

All are welcome

Learn more here.

5-8 PM [Works in Progress] Opening Reception 

2331 3rd Street San Francisco, CA 94107

[Works In Progress] brings together the contemporary furniture design community in the San Francisco Bay Area: a group of studios, artists, and designers crafting tangible companions for living.

Learn more here: https://sfartweek.com/works-in-progress/

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Artists Reception: Heron Arts

7 Heron Street San Francisco, CA 94103

Artists Reception for Resonance in Light. This is a unique opportunity to experience the exhibition and speak with the artists about their work.

Heron Arts proudly presents Resonance in Light, an immersive and meditative exploration of the interplay between sound and light. This third edition of our annual exhibition revolves around the Gamelatron, a kinetic sculpture crafted by Aaron Taylor Kuffner which is a unique fusion of ancient Indonesian Gamelan tradition with modern technology. Constructed from bronze and iron instruments, the Gamelatron is transformed into a spectral musical automaton through the integration of mechanical mallets and a sophisticated computing system which translates digital compositions into a mesmerizing array of electrical pulsations.

Learn more here: https://sfartweek.com/heron-arts/