-
Mobius Operandi performance
Oliver DiCicco, Barry Underwood, Earth Engines
12/12/2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm at Johansson Projects
-
Travis Louie
Lifetime Companions
12/12/2009 - 1/2/2010 at The Shooting Gallery
Opening December 12th 2009 7-11pm The Shooting Gallery is proud to present Lifetime Companions, new works by Travis Louie. This will mark Louie’s ... More info
-
Fanee
Sweatin' to tha Oldies
12/12/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Gallery Three
Opening December 12th, 2009 7-11pm Gallery Three is proud to present Sweatin’ to tha Oldies by Fanee. This collection of new works uses sexual ... More info
-
Group show
Winter Group Show
12/12/2009 - 1/2/2010 at White Walls
White Walls is proud to present the Winter Group Show opening December 12th 2009. No themes or undertones to this exhibit, just the best art from the ... More info
-
As X Approaches Infinity
12/12/2009 - 1/10/2010 at Krowswork
Opening December 12th, 5-9pm Krowswork inaugurates its program with “As X → ∞” (As X Approaches Infinity),* an exhibition of videos and ... More info
-
Group show
Back to Front
12/12/2009 - 1/16/2010 at Queen's Nails Projects
Opening and Reception on Saturday December 12th, 2009 7:00-10:00 p.m. Free and open to the public Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday from 12:00 to ...
-
Nelleke Beltjens
Apparently
12/12/2009 - 1/23/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
Reception for the artist: Saturday, 12 December, 4-6pm In her sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Dutch artist Nelleke Beltjens presents ... More info
-
Arngunnur Yr
Distant
12/12/2009 - 1/23/2010 at Hosfelt Gallery
Reception: Saturday, 12 December, 4-6pm Arngunnur Yr lives in Oakland, but returns to lead hikes in the mountains of her native Iceland each summer. ... More info
-
RED: Berkeley Art Center Members Showcase
An annual tradition, Berkeley Art Center’s members showcase includes work in all media from Berkeley Art Center’s artist level members, presented ... More info
-
Amy Keefer
On Being Blue
12/12/2009 - 1/30/2010 at She Works Flexible Now
December 12, 6-9pm She works Flexible now is delighted to present the work of East bay area artist Amy Keefer in her solo show debut, ‘On being ... More info
-
Taravat Talepasand
Situation Critical
12/12/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Marx & Zavattero
Opening reception for the artist: Saturday, December 12, beginning at 5:00 PM In Situation Critical, Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand’s ...
-
Holiday Sale Event
12/12/2009 11:00am - 3:00pm at Chinese Culture Center
This Saturday, December 12th, 2009 The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco will be hosting a special pre-holidays sale event! This event is open ... More info
-
Mills College MFA Fall Open Studios
12/12/2009 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Mills College Graduate Art Studios 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613 The current MFA students in the Mills College studio art program are ... More info
-
Iu Mien
12/12/2009 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is proud to present our most recent exhibit: Iu Mien at Peralta Hacienda. Since 2003, a group of Mien ... More info
-
New Location Opening Celebration
12/12/2009 3:00pm - 6:00pm at Paulson Press
Paulson Press recently relocated from 10th Street to 4th Street and Channing in Berkeley. Please join us for the opening celebration for the new ... More info
-
Super 8 Hanukkah Festival
12/12/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at Contemporary Jewish Museum
One Night. Eight Ways to Burn Bright. Fire up the Jewish Festival of Lights this year with a Maccabee mash-up like no other. The Hub of the JCCSF ... More info
-
The Under 100 'H' Sale
12/12/2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm at Root Division
ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! This is not your mother’s holiday sale, although she might really like it. Some of the Bay Areas’ finest local artisans and ... More info
-
Lisa Mezzacappa's Nightshade and Phillip Greenlief & Jon Raskin 1+1
12/12/2009 8:00pm - 10:00pm at Meridian Gallery
Meridian Gallery presents a performance by Lisa Mezzacappa’s stellar ensemble of improvisers, Nightshade, performing a series of wordless chamber ... More info
-
Catherine Galasso
Lighting Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
12/12/2009 8:00pm - 12/13/2009 8:00pm
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, a multimedia dance, theater and projected video performance Lightning Never Strikes ... More info
Ongoing events
-
Moby Dick
9/22/2009 - 12/12/2009 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
-
Immediate Future
10/9/2009 - 12/12/2009 at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
-
Group show
Bellwether
10/17/2009 - 12/12/2009 at Southern Exposure
-
Mary Conrad
Lapidary Terrarium
11/7/2009 - 12/12/2009 at Michael Rosenthal Gallery
-
Glenna Cole Allee
Refractions
11/9/2009 - 12/12/2009
-
Tabi Tabi Po
11/13/2009 - 12/12/2009 at 1:AM Gallery
-
African American Quilt Exhibition
9/24/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
-
Merch Art
9/24/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Richard L. Nelson Gallery, UC Davis
-
Joshua Churchill, Peggy Cyphers
Until the Bright Logic is Won Unwishpering as a Mirror is Believed
11/13/2009 - 12/13/2009 at Noma Gallery
-
Kay Bradner, Stan Peterson
Tender Observations + Found Fables
11/1/2009 - 12/14/2009 at Donna Seager Gallery
-
Intro to Movietelling (Neo-Benshi) with Dennis Somera
11/3/2009 7:00pm - 12/15/2009 9:00pm at Kearny Street Workshop
-
Camilla Newhagen
My Husband
11/20/2009 - 12/16/2009 at BellJar
-
Stan Heller
In 3D
11/14/2009 - 12/17/2009 at Mission: Comics & Art
-
Howard Hersh
Howard Hersh
11/11/2009 - 12/18/2009 at Andrea Schwartz Gallery
-
Robert Minervini
A Means to an End
10/24/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery
-
Counterpoint 2009, The Beginning: 7 West Coast Artists Using Photography
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Togonon Gallery
-
pick
Laurie Reid
Eight Days Improv
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
-
Lauren Cohen, Markus Linnenbrink
EVERYTHINGEVERYWHEREALLTHETIME
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Patricia Sweetow Gallery
-
Marc Katano
Half-light
11/5/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery
-
Ara Peterson
Turns into Stone
11/6/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Ratio 3
-
JIGSAWMENTALLAMA
11/12/2009 - 12/19/2009 at David Cunningham Projects
-
The Color Show: New Work by Nine Bay Area Artists
12/4/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Slate Art & Design
-
Group show
Side 2 Side
12/10/2009 - 12/19/2009 at Fecal Face Dot Gallery
-
Material Witness
7/22/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
-
Eric Gill
Iconographer
10/11/2009 - 12/20/2009
-
pick
Omer Fast
MATRIX 230
10/25/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Berkeley Art Museum
-
Serena Cole
I Want to be Adored
11/6/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Triple Base Gallery
-
Holidayland Gift Sale
11/27/2009 - 12/20/2009 at Blankspace Gallery
-
Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios
11/28/2009 - 12/20/2009
-
Joe Rees
Transformer
11/20/2009 - 12/22/2009 at Steven Wolf Fine Arts
-
Karrie Hovey
...the Garden Grows
10/26/2009 - 12/23/2009
-
Don Voisine
Paintings
11/4/2009 - 12/23/2009 at Gregory Lind Gallery
-
Berkeley Potters Guild Holiday Ceramic Sale
11/21/2009 - 12/24/2009
-
Small Works! Art for Under a Hundred Bucks
12/4/2009 - 12/24/2009 at Royal NoneSuch Gallery
-
pick
Group show
Double Exposure (two): Balanced Roles
12/5/2009 - 12/24/2009 at Rowan Morrison Gallery
-
Robert Sagerman
Workings
11/5/2009 - 12/30/2009 at Brian Gross Fine Art
-
Theodora Varney Jones
Reflections / Small Scale Works
11/17/2009 - 12/30/2009 at Don Soker Contemporary Art
-
Brian Andrews
Imposed Order(s)
12/3/2009 - 12/30/2009
-
Lauren DiCioccio
Lauren DiCioccio
11/5/2009 - 12/31/2009 at Jack Fischer Gallery
-
Joy Broom, Jerry Leisure
Alchemy
12/3/2009 - 12/31/2009 at A440 Gallery
-
Walter Robinson
[sic]
11/5/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Catharine Clark Gallery
-
Sean Kennedy
Sean Kennedy
11/13/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Jancar Jones Gallery
-
Brion Nuda Rosch
Brion Nuda Rosch
11/21/2009 - 1/2/2010 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
-
pick
Dusty Hayes
11/14/2009 - 1/3/2010 at 2nd Floor Projects
-
A Selection of Bay Area Figurative Paintings & Drawings 1950s to the Present
12/5/2009 - 1/3/2010 at ArtZone 461 Gallery
-
Six Centuries of Printmaking, Part II: 1800s to the Present
12/5/2009 - 1/3/2010 at ArtZone 461 Gallery
-
Sandra Lee Gallery Holiday Party & Art Sale
12/1/2009 - 1/4/2010 at Sandra Lee Gallery
-
Printed Matter 7
12/5/2009 - 1/6/2010 at Giant Robot
-
pick
Group show
Swipple and Gold
12/10/2009 - 1/7/2010 at Ever Gold
-
Sean Cheetham, Penelope Krebs
Sean Cheetham + Penelope Krebs
11/7/2009 - 1/8/2010 at Lincart
-
Paul Madonna
Album 01: In What Era Will You Get Stuck?
11/13/2009 - 1/8/2010 at Electric Works
-
pick
Oliver DiCicco, Barry Underwood
Earth Engines
11/21/2009 - 1/9/2010 at Johansson Projects
-
Fresh Produce: 9th Annual Invitational Group Exhibit and Art Sale
12/4/2009 - 1/9/2010 at Anno Domini
-
Dora Hsiung
Chromatic Constructions: Contemporary Fiber Art
9/12/2009 - 1/10/2010 at Chinese Culture Center
-
Toban Nichols
The Tragedy Collection
12/1/2009 - 1/10/2010
-
Matchbox Show
12/11/2009 - 1/10/2010 at Soap Gallery
-
Toban Nichols
Oppobrium
12/11/2009 - 1/10/2010 at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
-
Jessalyn Aaland
Hello How Are You
12/10/2009 - 1/14/2010
-
Project Wrecking Ball
9/25/2009 - 1/15/2010 at Varnish Fine Art
-
Juried Annual 2010
11/24/2009 - 1/15/2010 at Pro Arts at Oakland Art Gallery
-
Micah LeBrun
Resurface
12/3/2009 - 1/15/2010 at 111 Minna Gallery
-
Americana: Montana
12/8/2009 - 1/16/2010 at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
-
Invisible Homes
12/11/2009 - 1/22/2010 at SomArts
-
pick
One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran
11/4/2009 - 1/23/2010 at Intersection for the Arts
-
Group show
Afterlife
11/7/2009 - 1/23/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
-
Pablo Guardiola
Primero La Caja
12/5/2009 - 1/23/2010
-
Holly Boruck, Jacob Tillman
FA LA LA (ma non troppo)
12/10/2009 - 1/23/2010 at Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
-
The Open Source Embroidery
10/1/2009 - 1/24/2010 at Museum of Craft and Folk Art
-
Group show
Shop/Show
12/11/2009 - 1/24/2010 at Swarm Gallery
-
pick
Everyday Miracles (Extended) - Phase 2
11/13/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI
-
Dorothea Tanning
Beyond the Esplanade
11/19/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Frey Norris Gallery
-
Group show
New Images of Man and Woman
12/4/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Alphonse Berber Gallery
-
pick
Conrad Ruiz
Cold, Hard and Wet
12/11/2009 - 1/30/2010 at Silverman Gallery
-
When Lives Become Form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the Present
11/5/2009 - 1/31/2010 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
-
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Earth
8/26/2009 - 2/7/2010 at Berkeley Art Museum
-
Fernando Botero
The Abu Ghraib Series
9/23/2009 - 2/7/2010 at Berkeley Art Museum
-
Ari Marcopoulos
Within Arm’s Reach
9/23/2009 - 2/7/2010 at Berkeley Art Museum
-
The Arts of Java and Bali: Objects of Belief, Ritual and Performance
11/19/2009 - 2/7/2010
-
Group show
Altered States: The Collection in Context
10/31/2009 - 2/20/2010 at di Rosa
-
Theodora Varney Jones
Manifold
11/7/2009 - 2/20/2010 at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
-
pick
Acid Rough Luxe
11/3/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Aurobora Press
-
Jerry Ross Barrish
Empathy
11/19/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Sculpturesite Gallery
-
Group show
On View: New Work from Kala
12/10/2009 - 2/27/2010 at Kala Art Institute and Gallery
What’s new
-
the ART of Graffiti "Sketching Letters" Class by Nate1
4/10/2010 12:30pm - 3:30pm at 1:AM Gallery
-
Stencil Class by Roman
4/14/2010 5:30pm - 4/21/2010 7:00pm at 1:AM Gallery
-
Renee Prisble Una
Breathe
3/26/2010 - 6/25/2010 at CIIS Main Building
-
Suné Woods
Bountiful Darkness
3/31/2010 - 4/28/2010 at CIIS Minna Street Center
-
Evri Kwong
No Fooling
4/1/2010 - 4/30/2010 at Sandra Lee Gallery
-
Lisa Curet, Keira Kotler, Indira Martina Morre
Lisa Curet, Keira Kotler, Indira Martina Morre
3/18/2010 - 4/23/2010 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
-
Allison Adams, Pia Stern
Allison Adams, Pia Stern
3/18/2010 - 4/23/2010 at SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason
-
John McNamara
John McNamara
3/12/2010 10:00am - 4/7/2010 4:00pm at Gallery Bergelli
Happenstand is a lackadaisical venture
Always double check event times and locations with an official source as details may have changed since posting here