Hosfelt Gallery in
San Francisco
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,
California
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was founded in 1996 by Todd Hosfelt to exhibit contemporary international artists working in all media.
History
Hosfelt Gallery was founded by Todd Hosfelt in 1996, at 95 Federal Street in San Francisco, adjacent to the visual arts residency program
Capp Street Project. In 1999 the gallery moved to a space in San Francisco's
South of Market
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SoMa is home to many of ...
neighborhood on 430 Clementina Street. Designed in 1999 by Fougeron Architecture and Endres Ware Engineers, the architect was awarded for her work on the space.
In 2006, the gallery opened an additional venue, a space at 531 West 36th Street, in
Manhattan
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. In 2012 the gallery expanded to a new San Francisco space at 260 Utah Street.
Hosfelt Gallery was among the first to exhibit such critically acclaimed artists as
Shahzia Sikander,
,
Shirin Neshat
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,
and
Jim Campbell.
In 2011, the gallery exhibited work by the late Beat artist
Jay DeFeo
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which was the first exhibition of her work on the West Coast in fifteen years.
[Roth, David]
"Jay DeFeo @ Hosfelt"
''Square Cylinder'', September 24, 2011
Artists represented
Hosfelt Gallery represents emerging to established local and international contemporary artists, including:
Jim Campbell,
Russell Crotty,
Isabella Kirkland
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,
Stefan Kürten,
Michael Light
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,
Marco Maggi, John O'Reilly,
Liliana Porter, Alan Rath and
William T. Wiley.
Since its inception, a focus of Hosfelt's program has been emerging artists. These include Chris Ballantyne,
Rina Banerjee
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,
Julie Chang
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, Reed Danziger,
Anoka Faruqee, Jutta Haeckel, Emil Lukas,
Driss Ouadahi,
Lordy Rodriguez
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,
Gideon Rubin and Andrew Schoultz.
References
External links
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Art museums and galleries in San Francisco
1996 establishments in California
Art museums and galleries established in 1996
South of Market, San Francisco