Exhibitions and Public Programs

Since its founding in 1871, SFAI has sought to educate artists within an environment in which the most advanced and experimental forms of contemporary art are amply represented. Students are given direct access to exhibitions, lectures, symposia, films, and other unique interdisciplinary events. An integral part of campus life, such events connect students to the larger community of artists, art, and contemporary ideas.
 

Upcoming exhibitions:

On Kawara: Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens
17 June – 18 September 2010
Opening reception: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 from 5:30 to 7:30pm
 
Dan Perjovschi: The Institute Drawing
17 June – 18 September 2010
Opening reception: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 from 5:30 to 7:30pm
 
For more information, please go to www.sfai.edu/current.
 
The Walter and McBean Galleries (on the 800 Chestnut Street campus) house exhibitions, workshops, and other alternative and experimental avenues for presenting work by international contemporary artists. SFAI hosts many visiting artists, curators, and scholars—for a few days or for several months—who lecture, present new projects, give one-on-one critiques, lead seminars, and more.
 
At SFAI, it's important not only to witness, but also to organize and to participate in, the exhibition of contemporay art. To that end, SFAI provides students the opportunity to show their own work in a number of spots on SFAI's two campuses, including the Diego Rivera Gallery, home to SFAI's Rivera mural. Students also exhibit art online.
 
Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of Exhibition and Museum Studies, Hou Hanru is an internationally known curator and critic of global contemporary art.