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SFAC Main Gallery

Fillmore District

A powerful tribute to Essex Hemphill's legacy exploring ritual, desire, and queer kinship through bold multimedia works by five Bay Area artists. Intimate installations and video art confront self-acceptance, environmental justice, and diasporic community with unflinching honesty.

Queer art exhibition
Free admission
Multimedia installations
Local Bay Area artists

Tips

💭"thought provoking and make me feel proud to live in the Bay Area"
🎟️always free admission
fully ADA accessible

SFAC Main Gallery

401 Van Ness Ave Suite 126, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA

Upcoming at SFAC Main Gallery

Sunday, Feb 14
MIKE KUCHAR's THE SECRET OF WENDEL SAMSON + JACK SMITH's NORMAL LOVE

MIKE KUCHAR's THE SECRET OF WENDEL SAMSON + JACK SMITH's NORMAL LOVE

February 14 at 8pm

Celebrate Valentine's with champagne and two rarely screened 1960s queer underground films: Mike Kuchar's inventive melodrama starring Red Grooms, and Jack Smith's visionary "Normal Love" with its be-wigged, plotless parade of early gay gestural play.

Sunday, Feb 21
WTO/99 + Whispered Media

WTO/99 + Whispered Media

February 21 at 8pm

"WTO/99" resurrects four explosive days of protest through 400+ hours of unseen footage, revealing how 1999 Seattle shaped today's political activism. After the screening, grab free wine, books, and vintage VHS tapes while supplies last.

Sunday, Mar 7
Archive Fever Dreams

Archive Fever Dreams

March 7

Step into the weird and wonderful world of archival fever dreams. Local underground artists spin forgotten footage into gold: Rebecca Barten crafts an emotional montage from her personal archives, David Sherman resurrects rare North Beach beatnik outtakes, and Scott Stark brings a 1950s Tulsa cocktail party back to life in 3-D slides. Expect cosmic animations, Hungarian fencing footage, and delightfully strange treats like "Bat-Men of Trinidad."