The San JoséMuseum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose,California,United States. Founded in 1969,the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is located at Circle of Palms Plaza,beside Plaza de César Chávez. A member of North American Reciprocal Museums,SJMA has received several awards from the American Alliance of Museums.
Jens Hoffmann Mesén is a writer,editor,educator,and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making. From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London. He is the former director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art from 2007 to 2016 and deputy director for exhibitions and programs at The Jewish Museum from 2012 to 2017,a role from which he was terminated following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations brought forth by staff members. Hoffmann has held several teaching positions including California College of the Arts,the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and Goldsmiths,University of London,as well as others.
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a contemporary art museum in San Francisco,California. MoAD holds exhibitions and presents artists exclusively of the African diaspora,one of only a few museums of its kind in the United States. Located at 685 Mission St. and occupying the first three floors of the St. Regis Museum Tower in the Yerba Buena Arts District,MoAD is a nonprofit organization as well as a Smithsonian Affiliate. Prior to 2014,MoAD educated visitors on the history,culture,and art of the African diaspora through permanent and rotating exhibitions. After a six-month refurbishment in 2014 to expand the gallery spaces,the museum reopened and transitioned into presenting exclusively fine arts exhibitions. MoAD does not have a permanent collection and instead works directly with artists or independent curators when developing exhibitions.
Thomas Patrick Campbell is the director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. He served as the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2009 and 2017. On 30 June 2017,Campbell stepped down as director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under pressure and accepted the Getty Foundation's Rothschild Fellowship for research and study at both the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and at Waddesdon Manor,in the UK.
The terms California Impressionism and California Plein-Air Painting describe the large movement of 20th century artists who worked out of doors,directly from nature in California,United States. Their work became popular in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California in the first three decades after the turn of the 20th century. Considered to be a regional variation on American Impressionism,the California Impressionists are a subset of the California Plein-Air School.
Paul Joseph Kos is an American conceptual artist and educator,he is one of the founders of the Bay Area Conceptual Art movement in California. Kos incorporates video,sound and interactivity into his sculptural installations. Currently Kos lives and works in San Francisco.
James Hayward is a contemporary abstract painter who lives and works in Moorpark,California. Hayward's paintings are usually divided in two bodies of work:flat paintings (1975-1984) and thick paintings. He works in series,some of which are ongoing,and include The Annunciations,The Stations of the Cross,the Red Maps,Fire Paintings,Smoke Paintings,Sacred and Profane and Nothing's Perfect series.
Ilene Segalove is an American conceptual artist working with appropriated images,photography and video. Her work can be understood as a precursor to The Pictures Generation.
Anthony Friedkin is an American photographer whose works have chronicled California's landscapes,cities and people. His topics include phenomena such as surf culture,prisons,cinema,and gay culture. Friedkin’s photographs have been exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum. His photographs are included in major Museum collections:New York's Museum of Modern Art,The J. Paul Getty Museum and others. He is represented in numerous private collections as well. His pictures have been published in Japan,Russia,Europe,and many Fine Art magazines in America.
David Simpson is an American abstract painter and educator,who lives in Berkeley,California. His work is associated with the minimalist,monochrome,and color field movements. Since 1958,Simpson has had more than 70 solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries and museums worldwide. His paintings have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. During the early 1960s Simpson was included in two seminal group exhibitions:Americans 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York curated by Dorothy Canning Miller and Post-Painterly Abstraction curated by Clement Greenberg in 1964;that traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the Walker Art Center and the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Pier 24 Photography is a non-profit art museum located on the Port of San Francisco directly under the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. The organization houses the permanent collection of the Pilara Foundation,which collects,preserves and exhibits photography. It produces exhibitions,publications,and public programs. Pier 24 Photography is the largest exhibition space in the world dedicated solely to photography.
Richard Learoyd is a British contemporary artist and photographer.
NIAD Art Center is a 501(c)(3) organization for artists with developmental and physical disabilities,founded in 1982 and based in Richmond,Contra Costa County,California. The organization provides studios,supplies,and gallery space.
Richard Benefield is executive director of the George Rickey Foundation,Inc.,as well as an independent consultant to museums and educational organizations including the Heard Museum,University of Arizona,and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He previously held director positions at The David Hockney Foundation,the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,The Walt Disney Family Museum,and Harvard University Art Museums.
John Joseph "Jos" Sances is an American artist,activist,writer,and community organizer,known for his printmaking,and tile murals/public art. He is the founder and director of Alliance Graphics. Sances is based in Berkeley,California.
Peter Rodríguez was an American artist,curator,and museum director. He was the founder,director and curator of the Mexican Museum in San Francisco,and a co-founder of the Galería de la Raza.
Alison "Ali" Gass is an American curator and museum director. She is the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. She has served as the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José,Smart Museum of Art,and chief curator of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
Wanxin Zhang is a Chinese-American sculptor based in San Francisco,known for his large-scale ceramic figures,formless ceramic structures,and bronze pieces. He is recognized as one of the leading artists in the new generation of the Bay Area clay movement. Zhang's work is characterized by a fusion of California Funk influence and references to Chinese history. His monumental clay figures convey themes of globalization,politics,and power by reshaping traditional symbols with contemporary pop culture elements. Zhang's work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum Collections.
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is an American contemporary art museum that opened in October 2022,and is located in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco,California. Admission is free.
Sahar Khoury is an American artist and sculptor. She won the 2019 SECA Art Award and has had work exhibited in multiple institutions such as the Luggage Store Gallery,Wexner Center for the Arts,Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
