Open for free on Fridays and Saturdays from 12-5pm. Closed for install from January 10 to January 20, 2026.
San Francisco–based artist and electrician Rico Duenas is back at 500 Capp Street with It’s a Lamp, a solo exhibition presented in the foundation’s concept store, The Accordion Shop. Featuring never-before-seen works, the exhibition continues Duenas’ ongoing dialogue with the late artist David Ireland, nearly five years after his celebrated project Light Repair. Read More
Catherine Wagner: Blue Reverie
Catherine Wagner proposes an immersive architectural takeover of the David Ireland House, evoking discourse between the two artists through the material, experiential, and curatorial excavation of the space. Read More
Trina Michelle Robinson:
Open Your Eyes to Water
500 Capp Street and Root Division present Open Your Eyes to Water, a solo exhibition of the work of San Francisco-based visual artist Trina Michelle Robinson that spans both venues. Read More
Experiencing Catherine Wagner’s Blue Reverie project at 500 Capp is a memory trigger. Not only because David Ireland’s house is a place that is so full of history and memories burnished into the surface of the shimmering walls. There are the cracks of use and the patina of age within a transparent seal, and now […] Read More
Programming at 500 Capp Street is supported by Teiger Foundation, The Paule Anglim Fund, Grants for the Arts, California Humanities, Zellerbach Family Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Sanger Family Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Mary Crocker Trust, The San Francisco Arts Commission’s Shaping Legacy Project, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative.
500 Capp Street is W.A.G.E. certified
David Ireland
1930 – 2009
American artist David Ireland is admired internationally for a diverse body of work concerned with the beauty inherent in everyday things and the making of art as a part of daily life.
The David Ireland House
David Ireland’s residence at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco’s Mission District is widely considered the centerpiece of his prolific career.