Located in San Francisco, the Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary arts campus comprises three city blocks and is home to 15 independently owned art galleries and arts nonprofits located across two building and featuring dozens of exhibitions annually. View all current exhibitions here.

In addition to Minnesota Street Project, the campus is home to Chef Heena Patel’s acclaimed Indian restaurant Besharam, showcasing regional Gujarati cuisine, as well as Minnesota Street Project Foundation’s 1201 Exhibition Warehouse. 

Spring Exhibition Highlights Include:

"The Blinding Light" January 11 - April 19, 2025  / (Slash Art)

“The more complex the object we are attempting to apprehend, the more important it is to have different sets of eyes, so that these rays of light converge and we can see the One through the many.”– Benjamín Labatut

There’s more to reality than meets the eye. In his nonfiction novel When We Cease to Understand the World, writer Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey through some of the most consequential scientific discoveries of the 20th Century, which ushered in the age of Quantum Physics. With each discovery, anew set of questions emerges. Thus, Labatut concludes, any search for ultimate truths will lead you, again and again, to uncertainty or the unknown.

The Blinding Light chooses to dwell in a place akin to the quantum realm, where things are out of focus and less defined. The exhibition brings together a group of national and international artists who navigate and blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, and between dominant official narratives and first-person experiences. Working across sculpture, moving image, and printed matter, they present speculative stories and counter histories of resistance and survival——from revisiting moments of colonial contact to reclaiming embodied knowledge——to bring forth the possibilities of forgotten events and challenge fixed historical and political accounts.

Jane Springwater: Parallax March 8 April 26, 2025 at Municipal Bonds

Municipal Bonds is pleased to present Parallax, an exhibition of new and recent works by Jane Springwater, on view March 8–April 26, 2025. This marks the San Francisco-based artist’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery, following her celebrated duo show last year.Named for the optical phenomenon in which an object appears to shift depending on one’s vantage point, Parallax explores how repetition, structure, and variation shape perception. Across Springwater’s drawings and prints, precision and fluidity meet as forms expand, contract, and subtly realign. Working exclusively with ink on paper, she constructs intricate sequences of hand-drawn marks: some bound to geometric systems, others developing through organic motifs. Repetition provides both stability and transformation—grids offer a structural foundation, while shifts in density and placement generate an underlying sense of movement. As Springwater describes, “I devise rule-based systems to make works that are both highly ordered and free flowing.”

"INDEX" March 8 - April 26, 2025 at Casemore Gallery

Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce INDEX, a group exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, prints, and mixed media works by NIAD Art Center artists Karen May, Marlon Mullen, Maria Radilla, Shawn Sanders, Danny Thach, Jonathan Valdivias, and Arstanda Billy White alongside Theo Baransky, Alex Bradley Cohen, Michael Hall, Chris Johanson, Corita Kent, Sahar Khoury, Christopher Knowles, Michael Mangino, Alicia McCarthy, Ruby Neri, and Evelyn Reyes.

Dr. Esther Mahlangu: When Heart and Mind Agree March 15- May 3, 2025 at Jenkins Johnson Gallery

“I paint what is in my heart and what my heart tells me. I also paint what my brain tells me because I know it comes from deep down in the ancestral pools. When heart and mind agree, I know my spirit is in the right place.”

– Dr. Esther Mahlangu, in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, in Esther Mahlangu: To Paint Is In My Heart (2025, Thames & Hudson).

Jenkins Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce When Heart and Mind Agree, a solo exhibition of legendary South African artist and cultural ambassador Dr. Esther Mahlangu.

I always knew it was you out there March 8- April 8, 2025 at Bass & Reiner

In I always knew it was you out there, each painting contains dozens of perspectives and compositions that ripple, shift, and unravel in all directions at once.

Recalling the ‘angle of totality,’ a technique developed by 10th century artist Guo Xi to create multiple viewpoints in a single painting, these landscapes invite the viewer to wander through a world outside of distance and time. To hover over a cliff, look at a river a thousand miles away, and touch it.

The paintings take inspiration from a collaboration with San Francisco-based poet Patrick Holian. Holian’s poem, called ‘Cavalry,’ explores the shape of desire and loss, playing out over shifting landscapes and uncertain time. The language of the poem appears in the title of each painting (and in the name of this show) and is often written into the paintings themselves. This introduces yet another perspective, as the language of the poem recasts each painting in new light.

James David Lee (b. 1983) is a painter and bookmaker who lives and works in San Francisco. Lee studied book arts at Yale University, art history at the Sorbonne University in Paris, classical Chinese literature at National Taiwan University, and holds a JD from Stanford Law School.

This Must Be The Place March 1-April 18, 2025 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Her tightly constructed and highly detailed works capture the feeling of these spaces, evoking the memory of place—often a departure from what is real. Finlayson blends her knowledge of painting and printmaking, attributing her style to a background in silkscreen and lithography. Her pieces pay homage to the likes of Corita Kent, Henri Matisse, and Stuart Davis by borrowing similar bright palettes, repetitive patterns, and simplified forms.

RBG at 50: Focus on Ceramics February 8-March 29 at Rena Bransten Gallery

In honor of our 50th anniversary, Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present the first in a series of exhibitions which celebrate the gallery’s history and early roots. In homage to our inception as a ceramics gallery which showed predominantly California artists, we present RBG at 50: Focus on Ceramics, with work by Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, Ron Nagle, Richard Shaw, Dennis Gallagher, Ann Agee, Akio Takamori, Jun Kaneko, & Derek Weisberg, among others.

To Those Who Create the Future February 1- March 29, 2025 at Themes + Projects

For our winter 2025 exhibition season, Themes+Projects gallery presents, "To Those Who Create the Future" by Davey Whitcraft. This new exhibition continues Davey’s exploration of landscape abstractions through luminous color fields. In 2024, Davey traveled to lithium mining sites in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Salton Sea in California, and oil fields across the Mojave desert. Davey's art reflects lithium mining's impact on the earth—distorting landscapes, mirroring the land's physical alteration from lithium extraction, and visually recording the environmental impact—prompting reflection on human activity and nature.

Enduring Stories: Sculptures by Xiaoze Xie February 8- March 29, 2025 at Anglim/ Trimble Gallery

In 1900, a small, sealed chamber hiding more than 50,000 pieces of Buddhist scripture, secular documents, embroidery, silk paintings and other cultural relics from the 4th to 11th centuries A.D. was discovered in the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, China. After its discovery, European explorers purchased relics at dishonest prices, and most of the artifacts were scattered throughout the world. Cave 17, once housing more than six hundred years of history and culture, is now empty. "Enduring Stories: Sculptures by Xiaoze Xie" unites two groups of research-based work: resin sculptures from Xie’s project "Amber of History", inspired by the troubled story of the Library Cave’s once encyclopedic content, and porcelain works from "Forbidden Memories", a project exploring banned books and censorship in different sociopolitical contexts throughout Chinese history. The exhibition offers a glimpse into the Library Cave, honoring preserved historical records while mourning those lost, creating a space to experience Buddhist cosmology, and exploring the vulnerability of history and culture.

New + Known January 29-March 29, 2025 at Nancy Toomey Fine Art

Nancy Toomey Fine Art is pleased to announce a group exhibition titled New + Known on view from January 29 to March 29, 2025, with works by Miya Ando, Lisa Bartleson, Jud Bergeron, Casper Brindle, Brian Dettmer, Dennis Ekstedt, Peter Halasz, Eric Johnson, Maria Park, Mark Perlman, Matthew Picton, Gregg Renfrow, Michael Russell, Robert Sagerman, and Alex Weinstein.

You Are A Paradise Enclosed January 11- April 19, 2025 at / (Slash)

You Are a Paradise Enclosed is a site-specific installation by artist Katie Revilla that includes sculpture, ephemera, and sound. With the wish to heal seven generations of her family, past and future, the artist brings elements from a wide range of sources, disciplines, and histories into dialogue and collaboration. Found and family photos, ocean water, and her father’s totaled car radio and subwoofer sit together, all bathed in yellow light. Rather than defining a cohesive map or narrative, she invites viewers to consider each item individually and speculate about, even fabricate, the connections between them. Through her installation, Revilla aims to create an inheritance that protects her interiority and defends against the pressure to define and reveal oneself.

Perhaps Interiors February 15- March 29, 2025 at Jack Fischer Gallery

Jack Fischer Gallery is pleased to announce a two-person show titled Perhaps Interiors. We are exhibiting the work of two artists employing very different mediums: collage and painting. Paintings are by Amy Pleasant, whose exuberance in color and form appears to want to break free from the confines of the canvas. In contrast, we are also showing collages by Catie O’Leary, where we are encouraged to embark on a search of ever deeper introspection.

Images:

Raven Chacon, Compass, 2021, score

Municipal Bonds, Jane Springwater, Timed Exposure, 2024, ink on paper (unique hand drawing), 48 5/8 x 48 5/8 inches

Casemore Gallery, Marlon Mullen, Untitled, 2013