Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is an American
contemporary art museum that opened in October 2022, and is located in the
Dogpatch neighborhood of
San Francisco, California.[1][2] Admission is free.[3]
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, funded through
Silicon Valley-based donors.[3][4][5] Donors of the opening of ICA SF included Deborah and
Andy Rappaport, Pamela and
David Hornik, and Kaitlyn and
Mike Krieger.[6][7][8] The space was designed after the European kunsthalle, specializing in displaying temporary, boundary-pushing art.[9]Ali Gass is the founding director.[10][11]
The opening programming was a solo exhibition by Choctaw-Cherokee artist
Jeffrey Gibson'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.[12][13][14]