Barry McGee — Modus Operandi, The School / Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, May 30 – November 28, 2026. A survey of repetition as method across the gallery’s roster, staged in a converted schoolhouse upstate; the press release singles out McGee’s practice as one where “repetition is a way of thinking.”
Sahar Khoury — Prospect 2026, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, June 11 – November 8, 2026. MCASD’s recurring survey of artists it sees as defining the moment; Khoury’s sculpture occupies the Foster Family Gallery.
Yulia Pinkusevich — Oblivion Blues, Kutlesa Gallery, New York, September 24 – November 7, 2026. Her first solo with the gallery, continuing the elemental fire and ash imagery of recent years.
Lucy Puls — Righting, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, September 9 – October 10, 2026. Photographs of bank-owned homes taken after the 2009 financial crisis, physically altered with gouache, cast resin, mica and minerals.
Saif Azzuz — Entryways, ICA Philadelphia, September 2026 – September 12, 2027. A site-specific installation engaging ICA’s large street-facing windows with mural-size imagery rooted in Indigenous land stewardship and local flora and fauna.
Liam Everett — the passenger, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, September 10 – October 29, 2026.
Lava Thomas — Lineage, and Sadie Barnette — 28, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, September 10 – October 24, 2026.
Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz — The Tramp, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, June 10 – November 21, 2026. Their first West Coast institutional exhibition, centered on a newly commissioned film following characters modeled on Chaplin’s “Tramp” through Oakland and Half Moon Bay, alongside painting, prints, and installation.
Al Farrow — It’s Not Dark Yet, and Chester Arnold — A Brief Summary of My So-Called Life, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, through August 15, 2026. Two concurrent solo shows; closing event on August 15 includes a conversation between the two artists.
Isabella Kirkland — Critters, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, July 11 – August 15, 2026. Sculpted creatures — ants, hummingbirds, spiders, armadillos, lizards — built from organic and collected materials.
Ben Peterson — Tropic of Cancer Reading Room, presented by Colpa Press at Et al., San Francisco, July 24 – August 30, 2026.
Mitsu Okubo — Milk Feet, Bass & Reiner, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, July 11 – August 28, 2026.
Lindsey White — New & Recent Signs!, Casemore Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, July 23 – August 29, 2026.
Quintessa Matranga — Near Poets, re.riddle, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, July 23 – August 29, 2026. Group show in which each artist situates a painting within an imagined historical room.
Kate Goka, Leah Rosenberg, Julia Schwartz, and René Smith — 2026 Juried Members’ Exhibition, “I have considered the lilies, or, Everything is fine and alright forever,” Berkeley Art Center, through August 15, 2026. A 60-artist juried show selected from 300+ applicants, curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour.
Éamon McGivern — Introductions 2026, Root Division, San Francisco, August 5 – September 19, 2026. Root Division’s 19th annual juried exhibition of 12 emerging, unrepresented artists.
David Best — Eyes and Ears, di Rosa, Napa, August 8 – December 6, 2026. New, more intimate-scale sculptural work departing from Best’s monumental temple projects — figures built from latex prosthetics and found objects.
Todd Hido — Many Small Decisions, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, August 1 – September 6, 2026. On the 25th anniversary of House Hunting, this solo show brings together photographs of homes at night alongside recent collages and works on paper.
Sadie Barnette — I didn’t make art about you because you were a Black Panther I made art about you because you are my dad, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, August 1, 2026 – January 3, 2027.
Marcel Pardo Ariza — Las Frutas del Labor, BAMPFA Art Wall, Berkeley, August 5, 2026 – July 11, 2027. A large-scale photographic collage mural honoring BAMPFA’s own art handlers.
Woody De Othello — coming forth by day, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, August 12 – December 5, 2026. Traveling from PAMM; the only California venue for this exhibition.
Craig Calderwood — Omen Studies, SFMOMA Bay Area Walls, San Francisco, opened July 11, 2026, ongoing. A mural depicting an oleander tree as witness to urban beautification pressures, surveillance, and the erasure of queer spaces in the Mission District.
Barry McGee and Liam Everett — Summer Highlights, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, July 9 – August 27, 2026. A 26-artist group show presenting historical and contemporary works engaged with the conceptual and physical representations of summer.
Rebekah Goldstein — The Shape of Looking, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, July 10 – September 5, 2026. Three-person show with painters Ricardo Mazal and David Simpson; Goldstein’s shaped canvases join work exploring associative and perceptual shifts in color, material, and process.
Amy Trachtenberg — Abstract Objects of Devotion, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, July 24 – October 17, 2026. Solo exhibition spanning sculpture, painting, installation, and language.
Deborah Oropallo, Arleene Correa Valencia, and Stephanie Syjuco — Double Bind: Belonging and Its Discontents, Fridman Gallery, New York, June 30 – August 7, 2026. Curated by Catharine Clark; 11 artists examining how artists negotiate the conditions under which belonging is granted, withheld, or made precarious. Correa Valencia contributes textile compositions on immigrant family memory; Syjuco shows Applicant Photos (Migrants).
Em Kettner (and Sahar Khoury) — Lucky Number Seven, Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco, June 30 – August 15, 2026. A 26-artist group show celebrating the gallery’s 7th anniversary, bringing together its entire program of represented artists; Kettner shows small-scale tapestries, ceramic sculptures, and glazed porcelain tiles set in hand-carved walnut.
Fred Dewitt, Dana Hemenway + Lee Materazzi, Sahar Khoury, and Cathy Lu — Giant Steps, Personal Space, Vallejo, through July 19, 2026. Ceramics group show curated by Reniel Del Rosario; nine artists challenge assumptions about ceramics as functional or static. The title references John Coltrane’s Giant Steps.
Muzae Sesay — Breaking Down Realities, Tiwani Contemporary, London, May 28 – August 8, 2026. Group show with Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Hadassa Ngamba, and Dawit L. Petros examining the notion of “value” — ethical, political, economic, environmental — in relation to colonial infrastructures and global capital flows.
Xandra Ibarra — Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 4 – August 2, 2026. A 12-artist group show confronting race, gender, and whiteness in Western nude imagery; Ibarra performed Nude Laughing on April 16 — walking nude through the museum continuously laughing, dragging pantyhose filled with symbols of femininity.
Luke Butler, Jim Campbell, Janet Delaney, Kota Ezawa, David Huffman, Sahar Khoury, Sean McFarland, Barry McGee, Klea McKenna, Julio César Morales, Ranu Mukherjee, Chelsea Ryoko Wong, Stephanie Syjuco, Suné Woods, and Rupy C. Tut — Slice of the Pie: Fourteen Bay Area Galleries & What Makes Them Different, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, May 28 – August 15, 2026. A collaborative exhibition featuring 40+ artists from fourteen of the Bay Area’s most influential galleries.
Mildred Howard — Poetics of Memory, first major museum retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California, June 12 – October 18, 2026. A career survey spanning five decades, with new work alongside reconfigured installations including Crossings (1997) and Blackbird in a Red Sky (2005).
Woody De Othello — Guardian Spirit, Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, May 5, 2026 – March 8, 2027. Four large-scale bronze sculptures and three towering redwood totems (up to 18 feet tall) installed across Pier 1 and DUMBO — De Othello’s first solo public art exhibition in New York City.
Saif Azzuz — Outlooks: weych-pues / tàkhòne [where the rivers meet], Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, through November 9, 2026. A nearly 25-foot-long sculptural assemblage in the form of a giant sturgeon, made of steel, aluminum, salvaged car parts, and natural materials — Azzuz’s first outdoor public project. The title is written in Yurok and Lenape, connecting the two peoples’ ancestral waterways.
Chanell Stone — Undulation of a Rupture, San Diego Museum of Art, through August 16, 2026. Large-scale monochromatic photographs exploring the Mississippi River as a conduit for tracing ancestry and reckoning with the waterway’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Masako Miki — Shapeshifters, Sprites, and Spirits, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, May 29 – August 15, 2026. Miki’s first solo exhibition in Texas transforms the gallery into a landscape of supernatural beings drawn from Japanese folklore and yōkai traditions.
Lucas Foglia — What We’ve Been Up To: People, Denver Art Museum, February 8 – October 25, 2026. A group photography exhibition of more than sixty works, with Foglia among a dozen-plus artists tracing human connections to nature and to one another. Foglia also has work in Promise and Peril: Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, through November 15, 2026.
Katy Grannan — Faces in the Crowd, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, through July 13, 2026. A group photography exhibition exploring how photographers have recorded urban human experience; Grannan is among the featured photographers.
Sadie Barnette — How to Fly, California African American Museum (CAAM), Los Angeles, through October 3, 2027. A site-specific photomural in CAAM’s atrium combining photographs of California locations with family archive imagery, set against an ombre rainbow backdrop with Barnette’s signature glitter and rhinestone motifs.
Trina Michelle Robinson — Open Your Eyes to Water, two-venue solo show at 500 Capp Street and Root Division, San Francisco, through May 16, 2026. Curated by PJ Policarpio. A decade-spanning living installation tracing Black migration from Senegal to Kentucky to Chicago to California, including an expanded version of Elegy for Nancy (2022). Reviewed by Hunter Ridenour in KQED.
Stephanie Syjuco — Present Tense (Roll Call), solo Art Wall commission at BAMPFA, Berkeley, through June 28, 2026. A 63 × 30-foot text-based installation drawing on the Bancroft Library and Ethnic Studies Library archives.
Sahar Khoury — Weights & Measures, solo exhibition at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, through June 20, 2026. Khoury’s first West Coast solo museum exhibition and largest presentation to date, curated by Susie Kantor. Khoury is a 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellow and a 2026–2029 Eureka Fellow.
Masako Miki — Midnight March, solo exhibition at MassArt Art Museum, Boston (traveling from ICA San Francisco), through May 31, 2026. The most expansive presentation of Miki’s work to date — a fully site-responsive immersive environment populated by her felted yokai sculptures.
Enrique Chagoya, Kota Ezawa, Doug Hall, Mildred Howard, Paul Kos, Stephanie Syjuco, and Lindsey White are included in People Make This Place: SFAI Stories at SFMOMA.
John Zurier has a solo exhibition, along – between, currently on view at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin, which opened May 1, 2026.
David Maisel has work in several concurrent group exhibitions: Altered Lands and the Anthropocene at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno (March 28 – September 20, 2026), and From Here to the Horizon at the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside (March 21 – August 2, 2026).
Ana Teresa Fernández has a permanent public sculpture, Mareas, on ongoing view at Pier 27 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, unveiled January 15, 2026. Her exhibition Under Pressure is also on view at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.
Todd Hido opened a solo exhibition, Atmospheric, at Galeria Alta in Milan in conjunction with MIA Photo Fair 2026 in April 2026.
Justin Caguiat — Change Ringing, Serpentine South, London, October 8, 2026 – January 10, 2027. Caguiat’s first UK institutional exhibition: a site-responsive installation of painting, sculpture, printmaking, sound and film, including thermochromic paintings that shift with heat and light and bronze bells rung in mechanically sequenced change-ringing patterns.
Cheryl Dunye — Career Achievement Award and 30th-anniversary screening of The Watermelon Woman, Chicago International Film Festival, Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, October 16, 2026. Dunye attends in person; part of the festival’s celebration of thirty years of its Black Perspectives program.
Andrea Higgins — Self-Portraits, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, October 17 – November 25, 2026. Abstract “portraits” built from thousands of small marks replicating the weave and pattern of fabric, here turned on herself rather than on the political wives and literary textiles of earlier series.
Andrea Higgins, Miguel Arzabe, Terri Friedman, and Ruth Laskey — Tangled Web: Weaving as a Conceptual Practice, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, October 17 – November 25, 2026. A group show running concurrently with Higgins’ solo, drawing out form, language and storytelling in artists who treat weaving as a conceptual rather than purely material practice.
Chelsea Ryoko Wong — Solo exhibition, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, October 28 – December 19, 2026.