Open Hours are Friday-Saturday 12-5pm and are free.


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

Memory Pieces by Glen Helfand

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

2026 International Artist in Residency: Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez

500 Capp Street is proud to announce Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez (she/her/ella) as our 2026 Artist in Residence. We are deeply grateful to the many remarkable artists who responded to this year’s open call. This year, our call brought us an incredibly strong cohort of artists with whom we look forward to working with in the future. Our 2026 Artist in Residence was juried by Jo-ey Tang, Julio César Morales, Amy Berk, and MJ Brown. 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.

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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.