/ (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), Communications and Exhibitions Coordinator
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