Founded in 1984 by interdisciplinary artists seeking a home for experimental work in San Francisco, the Lab has played a critical role in nurturing artists’ careers for decades. Housed in the century-old Redstone Labor Temple in the Mission District, The Lab gives significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented artists. The Lab is a catalyst for artistic experimentation.
The Lab
Jacqueline Gordon: "Inside You Is Me," installation at The Lab from October 1–31, 2016; photo by Robbie Sweeny.
Julz Hale Mary: "Trauma is a Party (of One)," performance at The Lab on April 15, 2017; photo by Shot in the City.
Light Field film festival at The Lab on December 7–10, 2017.
Black Spirituals performance at The Lab on April 16, 2016.
Sadie Barnette: "The New Eagle Creek Saloon," installation at The Lab from May 11–June 30, 2019; photo by Robert Divers Herrick.
“It is an honor to be part of The Warhol Foundation’s mission to support the visual arts coupled with its commitment to specifically support the voices of women, POC, Native Americans, and LGBTQ. It is simply thrilling to be part of an organization where we get to see these values writ large and implement real change in real life ways in the visual arts community that still so needs to move forward in terms of social justice, equality, and diversity. We put our money where our mouth is. How many institutions actually do that?”
Deborah Kass, Artist