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SF Art Fair — Select VIP Program
Exclusive Entry for Fair Pass Holders and Select VIPsThursday, April 16, 2026: 6— 9pm
Public hours: Fri Apr 17, 11am–7pm
Sat Apr 18, 11am–7pm
Sun Apr 19, 11am–6pm
San Francisco Art Fair
85 galleries, 14th edition, Fort Mason. The SF Art Fair is the week's center of gravity — produced by AMP with Fair Director Kelly Freeman and Artistic Director Nato Thompson, it's built a reputation for being genuinely curated rather than just large. This year the focus lands on AAPI artists and cultural contributions, in partnership with the Asian American Art Initiative at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center and two Chinatown organizations. It's a timely frame for a city with deep Asian Pacific roots.
Can’t miss Galleries:
Exhibited.at - WATCHING CARTOONS by Lomakin | Booth F12
Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts - Paul Norwood, Jay Kelly, Jeff Peters | Booth B17
Donna Seager Gallery | Booth A05
The fair runs a curated VIP program for collectors - priority access, private programming, and collector lounges. Let us know if you'd like to be part of it and we'll work on connecting you directly.
#100CTIP: If you're acquiring, go Thursday or Friday. The VIP preview is when galleries have time to talk and the best work is still available. By Saturday the aisles are full and the conversations are shorter.
April 17–19, 2026 - Free entrance
Hotel del Sol, taken over room by room by 80+ independent artists selling directly. No gallery markup, no velvet ropes — just the artists, their work, and actual conversation. Entry is free and it's a short walk from Fort Mason, so there's no reason not to go. A useful counterweight to the main fair's commercial energy.
Fifteen emerging Bay Area artists take over Gray Area's Grand Theater for three nights with immersive installations exploring memory, ritual, and the digital self. The work ranges from large-scale to intimate, physical to screen-based — united by a deliberate move away from optimization and spectacle toward something slower and more embodied. soft systems is the first show from ./local_memory, an artist-led series built around an open call. Worth seeing on its own terms, and conveniently timed to fair weekend.
Fri Apr 17: Opening Reception, 6–10pm - Tickets here
Sat Apr 18: Open Gallery, 4–10pm - Tickets here
Sun Apr 19: Open Gallery, 12–6pm
Created by Moment Factory — the Montreal studio behind some of the world's most technically ambitious immersive experiences — AURA transforms Grace Cathedral into a 360-degree canvas of light, projection mapping, and original music. The show has already drawn two million visitors in Montreal and Paris. The SF iteration runs 45 minutes: 15 minutes to explore the cathedral's architecture through an interactive app, then a 30-minute seated show where the Gothic Revival interior becomes the screen.
It's a different register from the fair circuit — more experiential, broader audience — but the production quality is genuinely high and Grace Cathedral is a remarkable space to do this kind of work in. A good evening option for the week.
Beeple has created and posted a new digital artwork every single day since May 1, 2007 — over 6,800 consecutive pieces. INFINITE_LOOP is a mid-career survey of that practice, spanning nearly two decades of daily work across 12,000 square feet of NODE's Palo Alto space. The exhibition extends this idea of infinite creation beyond the artist, inviting visitors to exhibit their own digital works alongside the main installation — blurring the line between spectator and creator.
Some featured works include HUMAN ONE (2021) — the kinetic four-screen video sculpture depicting a lone figure walking through endlessly shifting landscapes, previously shown at M+, Castello di Rivoli, and Crystal Bridges; Diffuse Control (2025) — a twelve-screen interactive installation where visitors remix AI-generated imagery in real time, previously at LACMA; Transient Bloom (2024) — an evolving digital garden that maps the rise and fall of cultural symbols using live internet data; and Everydays: Signal / Noise, a generative work with a physical dial that toggles between signal and noise — and a hidden button that can only be pressed 666 times before permanently locking the piece.
INFINITE_LOOP Opening Night
Saturday, April 18, 2026, 7:00 PM-12AM
RSVP Here
A conversation with Beeple, whose work explores humanity’s evolving relationship with the digital wold.
This event is a preview for the opening installation of Beeple’s new exhibition at NODE Foundation, located in Palo Alto.
If you're making the trip down for either or both of the Beeple events, make time for these outstanding collections nearby right on the Stanford campus.
1/ Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Rodin: The Shock of the Modern Body
The Cantor holds the largest Rodin collection in any American museum, and this three-gallery installation makes full use of it — nearly 100 works, placed in dialogue with rivals, mentors, and imitators. The curatorial frame is what makes it interesting: seeing Rodin's reframing of the human form not as inevitable genius but as a contested, radical move that others pushed back against.
The B. Gerald Cantor Sculpture Garden outside is open 24 hours, 365 days a year, free. Twenty monumental bronzes on one landscaped acre, including The Gates of Hell, cast in 1981. Don't skip it.
More information here
2/ Anderson Collection at Standford University
Modern and contemporary American art — Martin, Nevelson, Pollock, Rothko, Theibauld, de Kooning, Francis, Albers, Stella — free, always. One of the better kept secrets in the Bay Area for anyone who hasn't been.
More information here
1/ SFMOMA - Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10
The biggest museum moment of the year in the Bay Area, and it opens fair weekend. SFMOMA's full reinstallation of the Fisher Collection — 250 works, 35 artists, 60,000 square feet — is the most ambitious rehang the institution has done in a decade. Calder, Agnes Martin, Richter, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Sol LeWitt. For the first time there's also a multimedia timeline tracing how the collection was actually built, which is worth the visit on its own.
Get there early on Saturday or Sunday. It will be packed by midday.
More information here:
https://www.sfmoma.org/
2/ Museum of Craft & Design -Video Craft
Curated by Sarah Mills, PhD and Ariel Zaccheo, this show makes a genuinely interesting argument: that video art and craft media — ceramics, textiles, glass — share more formal and technical DNA than either field has historically admitted. Nearly 20 artists across career stages, from video pioneers to artists who grew up digital. Worth the detour for anyone tracking where digital art's material conversations are going.
More information here: https://sfmcd.org/exhibitions/video-craft/
