Opening July 4, 2025: Ant Farm: Still Burning
This Summer, 500 Capp Street celebrates the 50th anniversary Media Burn, the infamous performance and video work by radical art and architecture collective Ant Farm. Read More
Mildred Howard: Collaborating With the Muses Part Two
2025 Guggenheim Fellow Mildred Howard returns to 500 Capp Street this Juneteenth for Collaborating With the Muses: Part Two, presenting a never-before-seen suite of new works titled Untold Histories/Hidden Truths. Read More
25/25ths
Thursday, February 20, 7-9 pm will be an evening celebrating 25/25ths, a self-published art book. More info here
500 Capp Street announces new collective leadership structure
500 Capp Street announces the adoption of a forward-looking vision for collective leadership at The David Ireland House, representing a more inclusive and contemporary pathway for institutional management in the art world. For the first time, a collective of five people will be sharing oversight of the organization as co-leaders. Read More
Programming at 500 Capp Street is supported by Teiger Foundation, 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 and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
500 Capp Street is W.A.G.E. certified
Collaborating With The Muses Part Two – Programming
This summer 500 Capp Street leads a series of free programs in conjunction with Mildred Howard’s Collaborating With The Muses Part Two. This series brings together artists, local voices and culture-bearers to engage ancestral memory, civic monuments, and collective truth-telling. Read More
Mildred Howard Awarded 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship
We are thrilled to congratulate the icon Mildred Howard on being awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship! 500 Capp Street is proud to have played a key role in the development of Mildred Howard’s recent Guggenheim Fellowship, having supported her proposal and the early shaping of Collaboration with the Muses. Read More
Join Minoosh Zomorodinia and WEAD Women Eco Artists Dialog for an afternoon of collective action, reflection, and dialogue, inspired by the intersection of art, ecology, and community. This event pays homage to Jo Hanson, a feminist pioneer and WEAD co founder who turned sweeping her San Francisco sidewalk into a public art practice, and David Ireland, whose conceptual engagement with the broom as a sculptural object is immortalized in his piece at SFMOMA. Read More
Our Newest International Artist Resident
500 Capp Street is pleased to announce our 2024-2025 International Artist Residency recipients, SHIMURAbros based in Tokyo and Berlin. More info here
500 Capp Street receives prestigious grants
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.