The vision of the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery is to serve a broad and varied audience that includes students, faculty and staff of San Francisco State University, along with the local arts community and the greater population of the region, while carrying out a program that reflects the range of disciplines taught by San Francisco State’s School of Art. To accomplish this, they organize professional artist exhibitions and present the work of student artists. Lectures, performances, film screenings and other public programs serve to expand the discussions initiated in their exhibitions. Student involvement in all aspects of organizing and presenting exhibitions in the Fine Arts Gallery is key to the program.
San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery
Vivek Shraya, "Trisha," Color photographs mounted on foamcore, vinyl text. Courtesy of the artist.
Wesaam Al-Badry, "THE DREAM," 2020. Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 in.
Arleene Correa Valencia, from the series, "Culpables Inocentes," 2018. Acrylic on finished shipping pallet. 42.13 x 40.95 in. Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery.
Marcel Pardo Ariza Fiera and Marcel, "encarnándose" (detail), 2021. Pigment print. Dimensions vary. Courtesy of the artist and OCHI.
Jamil Hellu, "Hides," 2016-17.
Series of 9 self-portraits.
Screen prints on dyed lambskin leather. Sizes ranging from 52 x 38 to 39 x 37 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Rebecca Camacho Presents.
Jeffrey Cheung, Untitled. 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 69.75 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Hanley Gallery.
Juliana Huxtable, "Ari-I", 2019/2022, Color photograph, 40 x 35 in. Courtesy of Reena Spaulding Gallery LA/NYC.
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”