2025 – 2026 International Artist Residency Applications now open!
500 Capp Street is pleased to announce the yearly open call for an Artist Residency. The 2025-2026 Artist Residency at 500 Capp Street will be an open call to international and U.S. based artists with generous multi-year support from the Sanger Family Foundation. International artists are extremely encouraged to apply. Click here to apply!
Catherine Wagner’s Blue Reverie
Opening to the public October 4th from 5:30-7:30pm. 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. More information soon!
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
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 Franknthaler Climate Initiative.
500 Capp Street is W.A.G.E. certified
The Fall Invitational
500 Capp Street, Et al., and Slash are excited to announce our first joint fundraising event, The Fall Invitational. Join us as we come together in collaboration to celebrate the Bay Area arts community and raise funds to sustain our future programming. Read More
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
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
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.