Milk Teeth with Annie Albagli

Annie Albagli’s artist residency at 500 Capp Street focuses on an origin story – where myth and materiality collide in the form of a score, engagement dinners with other mothers, and a sculptural installation at the 500 Capp Street dining room. More info

Know Chance with Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan

Join artists Timothy Berry and Jeremy Morgan for a conversation about the role of chance in art-making. Timothy will share insights from his Felix Culpa Suite, 2015 created in collaboration with Magnolia Editions, based on the 10 most endangered species on earth. Together, they’ll meditate on the role of chance in our lives, specifically in regard to “art-making”. More Info

A Reading and Conversation With Tom Marioni

One of California’s celebrated figures of conceptual art, Tom Marioni shares stories and reads anecdotes from his new book. More info

500 Capp Street Collections and Archive Fellows Final Project

Maintenance Actions for Dis/Repair, features a collection of archival ephemera that enlivens the history of artist-led politics and activism across institutions and art organizations in the Bay Area. Featuring pieces from the SFAI Archives, Kearny Street Workshop, Galeria dela Raza and the SFMOMA Library. Read more

500 Capp Street partners with Berkeley Art Center and features Canyon Cinema!

Anthony McCall, Line Describing A Cone, 1973.
Courtesy of Canyon Cinema.

Thank you for an extraordinary weekend of creativity and collaboration. Over 100+ artists supported two vibrant organizations in a shared mission of fostering sustainability and planting seeds within our Bay Area arts ecosystem.

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Collaborating With The Muses Part One with Mildred Howard

A key figure in the Bay Area art scene for over 50 years, artist Mildred Howard launches a trio of exhibitions through the Bay this Fall. Howard will show her 2021 film “The Time and Space of Now” at 500 Capp Street on Sept 21. Exhibited for the month will be an excerpt of the large-scale installation accompaniment to the film. More Info

The Andy Warhol Foundation Honors 500 Capp Street through “The Philanthropy Factory”

We are happy to announce that 500 Capp Street has been selected to participate in the inaugural “Philanthropy Factory,” a new initiative honoring Andy Warhol’s philanthropic legacy by providing recent grantees an opportunity to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Andy Warhol Foundation’s collection. More Info

Our Summer Hours

This summer we are happy to bring back our free self-guided tours on Saturday. Book your tickets!

Hear From our 2023-2024 Collections and Archive Fellows

Our 2023-2024 Collections and Archive Fellows are Alexander An-Tai Hwang, and Lesdi C. Goussen Robleto. The inaugural fellowships are made possible with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation. More info here

Marcel Pardo Ariza featured in KQED

500 Capp Street Becomes a Trans Sanctuary in Marcel Pardo Ariza’s ‘Orquídeas’. Read more on this link

500 Capp Street receives prestigious grant

We are excited to announce that 500 Capp Street is a recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts spring 2023 grant for multi-year programming!


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.