Slash is an artist-run 501c(3) nonprofit exhibition space founded by Ana İpek Saygı in 2018 to advance and promote the expanding field of contemporary art in San Francisco. Slash brings together local, national, and international artists through guest-curated and open call-based exhibitions, accompanied by publications and public programs.
Our main gallery programming supports the work of Bay Area-based, independent curators as they organize thematically relevant exhibitions that introduce globally exhibiting artists to Bay Area audiences, bringing them into dialogue with early-career artists and local artists. We work with our Advisory Committee and past curators to identify guest curators with strong artistic visions, roots in Bay Area, and connections to international communities. We collaborate closely with each guest curator to support their vision, enabling them to invite artists to explore new ideas and create works across disciplines. We acknowledge that local curators play a central role in holding together the ecosystem for artists in the region and hope to help sustain their practices alongside those of artists. Exhibitions are accompanied by public programs and publications featuring essays by commissioned art writers, scholars, and poets.
/room/ is the small project space adjacent to our main gallery dedicated to exhibiting work by local, emerging artists selected from annual open calls by guest jurors. Selected artists are invited to exhibit experimental solo projects developed collaboratively from their submitted proposals, accompanied by public programs. /room/ creates a supportive onramp for local artists earlier in their careers by offering them a platform to exhibit their work parallel to more established artists on view in the main gallery.
Slash exhibitions are free to the public. Our public programs are free or priced to ensure accessibility.
Slash Advisory Committee Members: Dorothy R. Santos, Jo-ey Tang, Sam Vernon, and Tanya Zimbardo.
Slash Staff: Tuğçe Evirgen Özmen (she/her), Creative Lead | Efe Özmen (he/they), Exhibitions Manager | Ana İpek Saygı (she/her), Director | Maxine Schoefer-Wulf (she/her), Deputy Director | Dylan Sherman (he/they), Program Coordinator
Please support Slash by making a donation or by purchasing one of our editions.
Slash Artists
JOJO ABOT, Nibha Akireddy, Kenneth Anger, Sholeh Asgary, Aycoobo (Wilson Rodríguez), Megan Bent, Anna Betbeze, April Bey, Libby Black, Tyra Huyana Blackwater, Lee Blalock, Cristine Blanco, Sydney Cain, Viviana Carlos, Bryan Castro, Raven Chacon, Hung-Lun Chen, Takming Chuang, Ishan Clemenco, Bruce Conner, Lynse A. Cooper, Crystal Cortez, Jillian Crochet, Kenturah Davis, Manon de Boer, Jovencio de la Paz, Nhung Đinh, Patricia Domínguez, Katie Dorame, Mark T. Duffy, Ricki Dwyer, Joy Episalla, Kota Ezawa, Morgan Fisher, Claire Fontaine, Bill Fontana, Gabriel Garza, Shanequa Gay, Vanesa Gingold, Santino Gonzales, Hannah Greely, Nilbar Güreş, Michelle Handelman, Languid Hands (Rabz Lansiquot & Imani Mason Jordan), HydeFM, Tyra Huyana Blackwater, Gavin Kenyon, Sahar Khoury, Sarah Kirnon, Suzanne Kite, Mathew Kneebone, Heesoo Kwon, Piotr Łakomy, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Latipa, Mimi Lauter, Charles Lee, Dionne Lee, Jason Matthew Lee, mario lemafa, Lacey Lennon, Jen Liu, Cathy Lu, Yeni Mao, Calvin Marcus, Ian Markell, Adam Marnie, Jamie Maxtone-Graham, Nhật Minh (neé Frédéric Dialynas Sanchez), Mareiwa Miller, Helen Mirra, Delcy Morelos, Courtney Desiree Morris, Matt Morris, Cinque Mubarak, Ranu Mukherjee, Asa Nakagawa, Amy Nathan, Judit Navratil, Shervone Neckles, Sabrina Nelson, Richard-Jonathan Nelson, Nancy Nguyen, Natani Notah, Miguel Novelo, Isabel Nuño de Buen, J Rivera Pansa, Ricardo Partida, Mitzi Pederson, Corey Pickett, Đinh Thị Thắm Poong, Narges Poursadeqi, Beril Or, Fault Radio, Sean Raspet, Katie Revilla, Carlos Reyes, Gregory Rick, Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Martha Rosler, Analia Saban, Cooper Salmon, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Maria Silk, Suzanne Silver, Sivan Silver-Swartz, Rachel Mari Simkover, Fin Simonetti, Abram Stern, Most Dismal Swamp, Chelsea Thompto, Emerson Uýra, Ana Vaz, brontë velez, Cecilia Vicuña, Hannah Waiters, Xiaowei R. Wang, Eric Wesley, Faith Wilding, Lisa Williamson, Wendi Yan, Brenna Youngblood, Maryam Yousif
Slash Curators
Juana Berrío, Naz Cuguoğlu, Ashara Ekundayo, Drew Heitzler, Việt Lê, Bob Linder, Amanda Nudelman, Ninth Planet (DB Amorin / Whit Forrester / Trisha Lagaso Goldberg), Aay Preston-Myint, Cloaca Projects (marcella faustini + Charlie Leese), Dorothy R. Santos, Astria Suparak, Margaret Tedesco, Sam Vernon, Diego Villalobos, Leila Weefur, Tanya Zimbardo
/room/ Jurors
Nicolás Colón, Michelle Handelman, Aaron Harbour, Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova, Jackie Im, Philisha Kay, Lian Ladia, Micki Meng, Ranu Mukherjee, Nkiruka Oparah, Fernanda Partida Ochoa, Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Dorothy R. Santos, Vivian Sming, Maryam Yousif