Past
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Chicago
Thomas Kong, Ed Oh, Sungho Bae, Efrat Hakimi and Guanyu Xu 28 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 Presented by Casemore Gallery and 062 Casemore Gallery is thrilled to partner with Chicago, Illinois, gallery 062 to present Chicago, an exhibition of works from artists Sungho Bae, Efrat Hakimi, Thomas Kong, Ed Oh and Guanyu Xu. Originally conceived as a solo show of Thomas Kong’s work, his passing in... Read more -
Lindsey White: "Fantastico!"
1 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce Fantastico!, Lindsey White’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is named for the iconic local party supply store, which served San Francisco for 64 years and closed in 2020. Fantastico! continues to inspire White’s practice, and the store’s often handmade and carefully... Read more -
TODD HIDO
Some Polar Expiation, an Enormous Cat, a Complete Collection of Cinematic Houses at Night, a Starlet, a Mentor, Some Assorted Reveries & a Message from the Future 4 May - 13 Jul 2024 Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce the largest survey exhibition of Todd Hido’s photographs ever assembled, including pictures from his most recent body of work, The End Sends Advance Warning, a very rare presentation of his complete House Hunting pictures, and a selection of additional key images from throughout his career. Read more -
Mane 'n Tail
curated by Charles Lee 6 Apr - 11 May 2024 Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Mane ‘n Tail, an exhibition featuring large-scale painting, sculpture, film, and photography by Bay-Area artists Devynn Barnes, Susannah Israel, Lizzy Montana Myers, and Charles Lee, who also curated the exhibition. In these works, the artists explore the complex dynamics and eccentricities... Read more -
Sean McFarland: Alluvial Fan, Strange Attractor
13 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 Opening reception: January 13, 2024, 6-8 PM Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Alluvial Fan, Strange Attractor , an exhibition of works by Sean McFarland including the artist’s first-ever large-scale sculpture. In this new exhibition, McFarland continues his investigation of the interplay, deep complexity, and beauty of the earth as... Read more -
Quantum Foam
7 Oct - 9 Dec 2023 QUANTUM FOAM Dan Davis, Phillip Maisel, Henna Vainio October 7— December 9, 2023 Opening reception: Saturday, October 7, 5-7 PM Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Quantum Foam, an exhibition of new and recent works by Dan Davis, Phillip Maisel, and Henna Vainio. This exhibiton was organized by gallery artist... Read more -
Jeff Wall, A Sudden Gust Of Wind (After Hokusai)
29 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 Casemore Gallery is pleased to partner with TBW Books to present A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) by Jeff Wall. The original, a transparency in a light box that is part of the permanent collection at Tate Modern, is not simply a photograph, and similarly this scale reproduction is... Read more -
Around Swimmers
29 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 Around Swimmers Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Todd Hido, Raymond Meeks, Lindsey White, Suné Woods Viewing Room Casemore Gallery presents a selection of Larry Sultan's 1978-1982 series Swimmers to commemorate the recent publication of the series by MACK. In addition to Swimmers, a selection of works by Jim Goldberg, Todd... Read more -
Raymond Saunders: Painting and Works on Paper
3 Jun - 8 Jul 2023 Casemore Gallery Raymond Saunders Paintings and Works on Paper June 3-July 8, 2023 Viewing Room Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Paintings and Works on Paper, a new exhibition by Oakland-based artist Raymond Saunders. This is the gallery’s second exhibition of Saunders’ works, having presented Raymond Saunders: Oakland/Paris in collaboration... Read more -
Sonya Rapoport: Force Fields
1 Apr - 13 May 2023 Force Fields Sonya Rapoport April 1st – May 13th, 2023 Opening Reception: 5 – 7pm, Saturday, April 1st, 2023 Force Fields Viewing Room Casemore Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015), recognized as a pioneer of computer art. The exhibition explores the evolution of her... Read more -
Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive
14 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 Casemore Gallery and Small Works present a collaborative exhibition of works by Kanoa Zimmerman from his series Free Dive and Bodysurfers. On view in the main gallery are seven large-scale optical silver gelatin prints from Free Dive; the smaller gallery room presents seven additional images from Bodysurfers. Kanoa Zimmerman’s work... Read more -
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
1 Oct - 3 Dec 2022 October 1 – December 3, 2022 Opening Reception | First Saturday | October 1 | 5-7pm For the first time, the Rena Bransten Gallery and the Casemore Gallery are co-presenting the sprawling, sometimes serious and sometimes riotous exhibition, “Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate.” Taking place in both Gallery spaces,... Read more -
Daisuke Yokota: Sediments
11 Jun - 13 Aug 2022 Read more -
Considered Interactions
16 Apr - 28 May 2022 Considered Interactions
April 16 - May 28, 2022
Opening: Saturday, April 16, 12-5pm
John Divola
Larry Sultan
Tarah Douglas
Steve Kahn
Raymond Meeks and Adrianna Ault
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Sonya Rapoport: Fabric Paintings
11 Dec 2021 - 26 Feb 2022 Casemore Gallery is pleased to present Sonya Rapoport: Fabric Paintings opening on Saturday, December 11th, 2021, with a reception from 3-5pm. The exhibition features rarely-seen sculptural canvases and bold painting on patterned fabric by the late Bay Area artist Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015). First shown in 1967, Rapoport ’ s ‘... Read more -
Lindsey White 'How To Get On Cable Television'
17 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Read more -
Dispatcher
Yale Photography MFA 2021 31 Jul - 28 Aug 2021 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Dispatcher, the 2021 Yale MFA Photography thesis exhibition to San Francisco, with a public opening on Saturday, July 31, 2021 from 12-5pm.
Working in mediums ranging from photography, collage, video, installation and text-based practice, the work in the exhibition reframes the definition of photography from a tool from which to create through, to an act of sublime material autonomy, beyond the limitation of the camera.
This unique version of the 2021 Yale MFA Photography exhibition, created for San Francisco, presents an emphasis on place and memory, on the evidence of being, on the markers of time and geographic place, while considering the material trace that exists apart and beyond the photographic document. Read more -
Raymond Saunders 40 Years: Paris/Oakland
1 May - 26 Jun 2021 Exhibition dates per locations: 654 Howard Street San Francisco through June 12, 2021 1275 Minnesota Street San Francisco through June 26, 2021 Casemore Kirkeby and Andrew Kreps Gallery are pleased to announce 40 Years: Paris/Oakland, an exhibition of works by Raymond Saunders at 657 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA and... Read more -
As Far as You Can, Tell the Truth
25 Jan - 10 Apr 2021 As interest in creating alternative narratives of varying measure grows, ‘truth’, as it relates to reality, has become an inconvenient impediment for a progression of agendas. The truth, becoming all the more elusive, has since become the most powerful course correction to date. In this exhibition an expression of truth... Read more -
Polaroids: Steve Kahn (1974-77)
24 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present a selection of previously unseen Polaroids by Steve Kahn (1943-2018) taken while residing in Los Angeles during the years of 1974-77. These polaroids are equal studies and complete works demonstrating Kahn’s early conceptual approach to photography and providing the impetus for his notable bodies... Read more -
Offline
25 Jul - 30 Sep 2020 A group exhibition examining social dissolution through still life. A pause in dependency, a surrender of instantaneous access. A stagnant heatwave hangs over the city. Offline presents photographs from the 1970s-current as an examination of social dissolution over the passage of time, creating an exhibition as a homage to city... Read more -
4.5 billion years a lifetime
Sean McFarland 11 Jan - 28 Mar 2020 Measuring begins in our limits. In 1789, Horace-Benedict de Saussure created the cyanometer, a circle of small squares of blue, arranged in a gradient. This circle was held up to the sky at different altitudes. After matching the density of blue in various locations, de Saussure was able to accurately... Read more -
Newsroom
7 Sep - 16 Nov 2019 Casemore Kirkeby presents Newsroom by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, with additional works by Dru Donovan, Jim Goldberg, Hank Willis Thomas and Carmen Winant, on view from September 7, 2019 through November 16, 2019. During Newsroom, a newly produced portfolio of gelatin silver prints made from Sultan and Mandel’s original... Read more -
Sonder
Raymond Meeks 1 Jun - 17 Aug 2019 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Sonder, an exhibition of recent photographic work by Raymond Meeks. Over the course of multiple summers, Meeks ventured the few miles from his home in the Catskill Mountain region of New York to a wooded place known in the area as Furlong, a gathering... Read more -
Handless Operative
13 Apr - 26 May 2019 Jennifer Brandon Whitney Hubbs Fumiko Imano Anouk Kruithof Owen Kydd Sean McFarland Melanie Schiff David Benjamin Sherry Larry Sultan Hiroshi Takizawa Awoiska van der Molen Lindsey White Organized by Petra Bibeau Works in Handless Operative explore the photograph as an object of agency through viewership. Through this identification exists the... Read more -
Bright Black World
Todd Hido 2 Feb - 6 Apr 2019 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Bright Black World, an exhibition of new work by Todd Hido exploring the dark topography of the Northern European landscape, highlighting Hido’s first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography and environmental concern. A new... Read more -
An Aesthetic Response
Sonya Rapoport 12 - 26 Jan 2019 In 1970, Berkeley, California based artist Sonya Rapoport was using traditional media to produce paintings on canvas. By the end of the decade she was programming computers to analyze and plot data, creating works on paper that function as portraits of her data body. This wide ranging exhibition of paintings... Read more -
Hey Fuckface
John Gossage 30 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce the opening on Friday, November 30th, of Hey Fuckface by John Gossage, a body of work conceived in 1984 and produced in 1989. Concerning the toxicity of several pre-Superfund sites located in Staten Island and Syracuse, New York, Gossage documented the locations by driving... Read more -
This Body Is Alive
Suné Woods 8 Sep - 17 Nov 2018 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce the opening on Saturday, September 8th of This Body Is Alive, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by Los Angeles-based artist Suné Woods. As a complete installation encompassing the main gallery, This Body Is Alive applies an optical foundation to the body using... Read more -
Becoming Blue
Anouk Kruithof 4 Aug - 1 Sep 2018 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Becoming Blue, a unique installation of performance-based portrait photography from Anouk Kruithof, a project spanning 2006-2009. Kruithof’s series Becoming Blue comprises 21 portraits and three spatial stills. They are presented in different formats and reveal Kruithof’s highly exceptional approach to the topic of portrait... Read more -
Convergent Parallel
Deanna Templeton and Ed Templeton 20 Jul - 1 Sep 2018 In science the convergent parallel design occurs when researchers collect two sets of data independently and then later combine them for cross reference and analysis. This title is perfect for the way Deanna and I work separately and independently although often in close proximity, sometimes even shoot the same events... Read more -
Chapel and Church, Images from The Last Son, 1971-1975
Jim Goldberg 2 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 The Last Son is Goldberg’s second book in a personal, three-part series weaving together an assemblage of visual memories that chart his own Bildungsroman. Goldberg, the youngest son of a wholesale candy distributor, traces his dreams alongside those of his father as he traverses the past through photographic and written... Read more -
Status
Awoiska van der Molen 2 Jun - 14 Jul 2018 Casemore Kirkeby presents, STATUS, a previously unseen sequence of work by Awoiska van der Molen. The exhibition consists of new photographic works complemented with a selection of pre-existing work from the past nine years. Rooted in the tradition of analogue photography and hand-printing, Awoiska van der Molen’s process is informed... Read more -
Stasis, Corridors, 1969-1980
Steve Kahn 10 Mar - 26 May 2018 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Stasis, Corridors: 1969-1980, an exhibition spanning several bodies of work and photographic approaches pursued by Steve Kahn between 1969 and 1980. The exhibition acts as a timeline, covering a critical point of evolution for Kahn as a photographer, a time when he transitioned from... Read more -
Stutter Shutter
Whitney Hubbs 27 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce Stutter Shutter, a solo exhibition of 13 photographs by Whitney Hubbs. Stutter Shutter presents photographs of theatrical constructions made using a variety of reflective metallic fabrics, tin foil, paper cut outs, and other everyday materials and objects. The materials in these works are folded,... Read more -
Option to the Death of Freedom
4 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 The contemporary role of option provides an illusion to allay a sense of entrapment in our daily structure quieting a never-ending loop of collapsed feedback by promise of change reliant on option. In regards to this illusionary state (that one is free to decide upon change when presented with what... Read more -
Echo
Sean McFarland 9 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 “We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.” (William H. Gass) In Echo Sean McFarland continues his investigation into landscape as subject and its representation. Resolved as a... Read more -
Doublespeak: Yale MFA Photography 2017
11 Aug - 23 Sep 2017 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Doublespeak, a selection of over fifty new works by Yale University’s 2017 MFA Photography graduates. The exhibition features work by Farah Al Qasimi, Bek Andersen, Lance Brewer, Harry Griffin, Matthew Leifheit, Walker Olesen, Res, Anna Shimshak, Danna Singer, and Chau Tran, who explore moments... Read more -
Order of Appearance
Jim Jocoy 16 Jun - 19 Aug 2017 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Jim Jocoy: Order of Appearance, an intimate and revealing selection of images embracing the burgeoning San Francisco punk club scene from 1977-1980. The exhibition opens Friday, June 16th and continues through Saturday August 19th, with an opening reception on Friday, June 16th from 6-8pm... Read more -
Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour Invisibility
Anouk Kruithof 16 Jun - 19 Aug 2017 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Anouk Kruithof ‘s Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour Invisibility, an installation of approximately 3,500 found colored books. This is the work’s first installation in the United States, and its eleventh iteration worldwide. Throughout the year of 2008, Kruithof collected these 3,500 books,... Read more -
Editorial Works
Larry Sultan 13 Apr - 10 Jun 2017 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Larry Sultan: Editorial Works, a selection of images – many never before exhibited – taken from editorial and commercial assignments the late photographer Larry Sultan shot for Interview, W, and Wallpaper magazines, as well as ad campaigns for Bottega Veneta, Kate Spade, and others.... Read more -
#EVIDENCE
Anouk Kruithof 12 Jan - 8 Apr 2017 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Anouk Kruithof #EVIDENCE, the first solo exhibition in the United States for the Dutch artist, whose multilayered, interdisciplinary approach encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist-books, text, performance, and interventions in the public domain. In the past several years, Kruithof has emerged as a fresh voice... Read more -
Viviane Sassen Pikin Slee & Elspeth Diederix In These Shadows
4 Nov - 23 Dec 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Viviane Sassen Pikin Slee & Elspeth Diederix In These Shadows, an exhibition of photographic works by two Dutch artists and longtime friends who live and work in Amsterdam. The exhibition opens alongside Viviane Sassen’s participation in the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program , a... Read more -
Intimate Distance
Todd Hido 17 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Todd Hido, Intimate Distance. Intimate Distance is Hido’s first mid-career survey to date and opens in conjunction with the release of his monograph from Aperture of the same title. The monograph is Hido’s first publication to approach the full breadth of his oeuvre chronologically.... Read more -
Mural Triptychs & Door/Window Constructions
Steve Kahn 6 Aug - 10 Sep 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Steve Kahn: Mural Triptychs and Door/Window Constructions, a selection of Kahn’s critically acclaimed photographs and photographic constructions from the 1970s, exhibited together for the first time in over 35 years. Collectively referred to as “The Hollywood Suites,” Kahn’s project began in a run-down apartment... Read more -
New Material
13 May - 24 Jul 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present New Material, an exhibition of eight acclaimed young artists from Japan engaged in new photographic approaches that combine the highly experimental with the deeply personal. Featured in the exhibition are works by Kenta Cobayashi, Motoyuki Daifu, Fumiko Imano, Yoshi Kametani, Momo Okabe, Hiroshi Takizawa,... Read more -
Time Image
Owen Kydd 18 Mar - 7 May 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce Owen Kydd: Time Image, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new location at 1275 Minnesota Street. The exhibition will open on Friday, March 18th, as part of the grand opening of Minnesota Street Project. Over the past several years, Owen Kydd has captivated viewers... Read more -
Signal Shift
Brittany Atkinson, Aspen Mays, Sean McFarland 6 Nov 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to announce SIGNAL SHIFT, a group exhibition featuring photographic works by Bay-Area artists Brittany Atkinson, Aspen Mays, and Sean McFarland. From Morse code to binary code, signals can form the basis of meaningful communication, as well as the fabric through which information is transmitted and received.... Read more
