What began more than a decade ago as a loose cluster of events has grown into a regionwide celebration that draws international attention during the third week of January with the most exciting and anticipated new work and shows.
Now in its third iteration, San Francisco Art Week 2026 is the largest yet, bringing together more than 100 participants across multiple venues in San Francisco, the East Bay, Peninsula, Marin, Sonoma, San Jose and Santa Cruz through Sunday, Jan. 25.
If that’s not enough, it’s even added three new art fairs: Atrium, the Creativity Explored x Open Invitational and Art.Fair.Mont.
“It’s really an extended community that has a lot of overlaps of artists and audiences,” founder Emily Counihan said of the network of Bay Area arts spaces. “It’s been exciting to connect the institutions now on this one platform.”
Still, the Fog Design + Art fair remains the week’s epicenter, with its popular Fog Talks series attracting thousands to the Fort Mason Festival Pavillion starting Wednesday, Jan. 21.
Masami Teraoka’s “The Cloisters/Arezzo Converters” (2015). The artist is the subject of the show “Masami Teraoka: From Here to Eternity, Five Decades of Art Making” at Catharine Clark Gallery through March 7. (Courtesy Catharine Clark Gallery)
“I think there’s really become a feeling of ‘the more, the merrier’ with Art Week,” said Fog fair Director Sydney Blumenkranz.
But with so many options comes the task of selecting where to go and when. Here are a few key highlights recommended by the Chronicle during the very packed week.
More Information
San Francisco Art Week: Through Sunday, Jan. 25. Various Bay Area venues. Visit www.sfartweek.com for a full schedule and more details.
And remember, while you can overconsume champagne at S.F. Art Week parties, you can never take in too much art.
FAIRS
Art.Fair.Mont.
San Francisco’s GCS Agency presents this new fair in the storied Fairmont Hotel’s Pavilion Room, with a focus on contemporary galleries and creating a design-forward setting in conversation with the ballroom’s Beaux-Arts–inspired architecture. Local exhibitors include Oakland’s ABG Art Group, San Francisco gallery Creative Coma and GCS Agency.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 19-20. Free, suggested donation $10. Fairmont Hotel, 950 Mason St., S.F. www.art-fair-mont.com
Rearrangeable Rainbow Blocks by Judy Chicago reflected in Vestige by Davina Semo at Jessica Silverman space during the 2023 Fog Design + Art at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. (Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle)
Fog Design + Art
The fair that birthed San Francisco Art Week will bring together more than 60 exhibitors, plus 16 galleries participating for the first time, including local favorites Gallery Wendi Norris, Morgann Trumbull Projects and re.riddle.
The Fog Focus program centered on emerging artists will also expand to 16 galleries in its exhibition space at neighboring Pier 2.
The Fog Mrkt entryway installation will once again feature lower priced works by artists, designers and makers from California College of the Arts Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Hugomento, MMclay, Quince & Co., Small Works Projects and Works in Progress.
Its Fog Talk series will include programs by gallerist Jeffrey Fraenkel; artists such as Jeffrey Gibson, Suzanne Jackson and George McCalman; and a special panel about the new artist apprenticeship space Art + Water at Pier 29.
The 2026 fair will open with its preview gala on Wednesday, benefiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s education program. Lovefrom founder Sir Jony Ive and his wife Lady Heather Ive, along with artist Tabitha Soren and author Michael Lewis, are the gala’s honorary co-chairs.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 21-24; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25. Fair tickets are $35 in advance, $40 at the door. Fort Mason Pier 2 and Pier 3, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. www.fogfair.com
Atrium
Presented by Dogpatch arts hub the Minnesota Street Project, this new fair was conceived to showcase small, emerging and underground contemporary galleries in the Bay Area. Participating galleries include Cruise Control Contemporary, Et al., Jones Institute, Rena Bransten Gallery and Space Program SF.
Atrium will also include the group exhibition “Skylight Above” of artist-run projects and experimental exhibition models. The fair is fittingly presented in the MSP atrium at 1275 Minnesota St.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 23-24. Free. Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., S.F. www.atriumfair.com
New Creativity Explored x Open Invitational
Creativity Explored, the famed San Francisco arts nonprofit for the developmentally disabled, is partnering with the New York-based Open Invitational art fair for a new presentation focusing on artists with disabilities. The Creativity Explored x Open Invitational Art Fair will offer a wide variety of artwork for sale from artists represented by more than 20 studios, including Oakland’s Creative Growth and Richmond’s NIAD.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Jan. 23-25. Free. 215 Fremont St., S.F. www.creativityexplored.org
SHOWS
‘Masami Teraoka: From Here to Eternity, Five Decades of Art Making’
Catharine Clark Gallery celebrates its 35th anniversary with a major solo survey exhibition of work by acclaimed Japanese artist Masami Teraoka. The exhibition spans more than 60 years of work across media and coincides with the famed painter and printmaker’s 90th birthday, highlighting his signature blend of traditional and contemporary themes.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, Jan. 20-24. Through March 7. Free. Catharine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah St., S.F. www.cclarkgallery.com
Masami Teraoka, “McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan/Chochin-me,” 1982. Thirty-six-color screenprint on Arches 88 paper. (Ryan Whelan)
‘8 hours of rest’
Painter SoiL Thornton presents this new installation at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, focusing on concepts of labor and rest. Tania Candiani’s ongoing outdoor weaving, “Camouflage,” will also be on view.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, Jan. 20-24. Through March 7. Free. Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 145 Hooper St., S.F. www.wattis.org
‘Anthony McCall: First Light’
This show presents the Bay Area premiere of the British artist’s “solid light” works from the early 1970s. Now frequently described as precursors to contemporary “immersive” projection installations, the exhibition presents the 1973 work “Line Describing a Cone” as well as 1974’s “Conical Solid” and “Cone of Variable Volume.” Viewers become participants in the works, with their movements changing the shapes and form of what is projected.
11 p.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, Jan. 21-24; noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25. Through March 8. Free. Gallery 308, Landmark Building A, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F. www.fortmason.org
“Anthony McCall: First Light” is on view at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture’s Gallery 308 through March 8. (Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture)
‘Chris McCaw: Reversals and Revolutions’
Haines Gallery presents its second solo exhibition with the Pacifica photographer, marking his first solo exhibition in San Francisco in nearly a decade. The show includes McCaw’s well known “Sunburn” prints as well as his new series, which seeks to “push the boundaries of analog photography,” according to the gallery.
Opening Reception 6.p.m.-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, during the Fort Mason Art Walk. • 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, Jan. 20-24. Free. Haines Gallery, 2 Marina Blvd., Building C, S.F. 415-397-8114. www.hainesgallery.com
Arion Press in San Francisco is a publishing treasure, still committed to the time-consuming, analog process of handcrafting collectible books, each with original artwork. (Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle)
Arion Press Open House
The 52-year-old boutique art press is the last facility of its kind in the U.S., with its combined type foundry, press room and bindery that produces three small printings of art books a year. Come explore the production facility, see their latest editions including Clare Rojas’ 2025 illustrated version of Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” and learn more about this hidden gem.
1-5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24. Free. Arion Press. Arion Press, 2 Marina Blvd. Landmark Building B, Suite 100, S.F. www.arionpress.com
“Stratagems” (installation photo), 2024, CDs, concrete, stainless steel by artist Tara Donovan (Melissa Goodwin/© Tara Donovan)
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco at the TransAmerica Pyramid Center + San Francisco Art Week Hub
The ICA SF launches its new nomadic museum model with “Tara Donovan: Stratagems” in the Annex Gallery and “Lily Kwong: Earthseed Dome” in Redwood Park at the TransAmerica Pyramid Center.
SF Art Week and ICA SF will also present a dedicated SF Art Week Hub on-site, giving artgoers a space to rest or participate in a full schedule of talks and specials events throughout the week.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. through Monday, Jan. 26. Free. Transamerica Pyramid Center, 600 Montgomery St, S.F. www.icasf.org
This article originally published at San Francisco Art Week 2026: The essential guide to fairs, shows and events.
