/ (Slash) is a nonprofit visual art space founded in 2018 to advance and promote the expanding field of contemporary art in San Francisco through exhibitions, publications, and public programming. Slash aims to connect local artists, curators, and audiences with national and international artists.
Main gallery programming supports the work of Bay Area-based, independent curators as they organize thematically relevant exhibitions that bring international and globally exhibiting artists into dialogue with early-career and local artists. Working with the Advisory Committee and past curators, Slash identifies curators with strong artistic visions and roots in Bay Area and international communities and collaborate closely with each guest curator, supporting their curatorial visions through space and a meaningful budget. Exhibitions are accompanied by public programming and publications, featuring essays by commissioned art writers.
In addition to the main gallery Slash also contains /room/, a small project space adjacent to the main gallery dedicated to exhibiting work by local, emerging artists selected from annual open calls by a series of guest jurors. Selected artists are invited to exhibit experimental solo projects developed collaboratively from their submitted proposals, accompanied by public programs. /room/ creates a supportive onramp for local artists earlier in their careers by offering them a platform to exhibit their work parallel to more established artists on view in the main gallery.
Slash programming is offered free of charge and designed to be accessible to the general public.