Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is an American

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museum that opened in October 2022, and was initially located in the

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neighborhood of

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, California. By October 2024, it moved to the

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of San Francisco. Admission is free.

About

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is a non-collecting institution with a 11,000-square-foot gallery space that opened in October 2022 at 901 Minnesota Street, funded through

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–based donors. Donors of the opening of ICA SF included Deborah and

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, Pamela and

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, and Kaitlyn and

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. The space was designed after the European ''

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'', specializing in displaying temporary, boundary-pushing art.

Ali Gass Alison "Ali" Gass is an American curator and museum director. She is the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. She has served as the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, Smart Museum of Art, and ...

is the founding director. In 2024, ICA SF announced plans to relocated from its original Dogpatch neighborhood to a larger five-story modernist building known locally as “the Cube” at 345 Montgomery Street in the city’s

, expanding exhibition space from 11,000 square feet to 26,000 square feet.

Exhibitions

The opening programming was a solo exhibition by

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artist

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's, "This Burning World"; and a group exhibition curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, of work by Oakland-based artists Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan.

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Official website
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