Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco

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Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
AbbreviationICA San Francisco,
ICA SF
FormationOctober 1, 2022;23 months ago (2022-10-01)
Headquarters901 Minnesota Street,
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Coordinates 37°45′35″N122°23′24″W / 37.759638°N 122.390003°W / 37.759638; -122.390003
Founding Director
Ali Gass
Website Official website

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is an American contemporary art museum that opened in October 2022, and is located in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [1] [2] Admission is free. [3]

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About

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is a non-collecting institution with a 11,000-square-foot gallery space that opened in October 2022, funded through Silicon Valley–based donors. [3] [4] [5] Donors of the opening of ICA SF included Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Pamela and David Hornik, and Kaitlyn and Mike Krieger. [6] [7] [8] The space was designed after the European kunsthalle , specializing in displaying temporary, boundary-pushing art. [9] Ali Gass is the founding director. [10] [11]

In 2024, ICA SF announced plans to relocated from its original Dogpatch neighborhood to a larger five-story modernist building known locally as “the Cube” at 345 Montgomery Street in the city’s financial district, expanding exhibition space from 11,000 square feet to 26,000 square feet. [12] [13]

Exhibitions

The opening programming was a solo exhibition by Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson's, "This Burning World"; and a group exhibition curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, of work by Oakland-based artists Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan. [14] [15] [16]

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