Established in 1991, Catharine Clark Gallery is among the leading West Coast contemporary art galleries. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary representative for an acclaimed roster of international artists, including Masami Teraoka, Stephanie Syjuco, Marie Watt, Nina Katchadourian, Arleene Correa Valencia, Julie Heffernan, and Sandow Birk. Exhibitions change every eight weeks, and each is accompanied by a time-based media or video work presented in the Gallery’s dedicated Media Room. The Gallery works with fine art presses and co-publishes original prints, which are presented in our works on paper gallery. Since 1994, the Gallery has been a member of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association (SFADA), and in 2023, the Gallery joined the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).
Gallery exhibitions have garnered critical attention from press, including the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vogue. Works by gallery artists have been collected by international institutions including the Tate; National Gallery of Australia; Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Library of Congress; Smithsonian American Art Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum; Walker Art Center; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Asian Art Museum; and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University.
In 2016, Catharine Clark founded BOXBLUR, which is an initiative fiscally sponsored by Dance Film SF. The organization’s mission is to produce and support performance and ephemeral projects in response to visual artists’ work. Artist and performer-collaborators include Rufus Wainwright, Shinji Eshima, Sarah Cahill, EOS Ensemble, Catherine Galasso, Benjamin Freemantle, Adji Cissoko, Michael Montgomery, Emma Lanier, Cauveri Suresh, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique, Indira Allegra, Kambui Olujimi, Jen Bervin, Amy Trachtenberg, and Shimon Attie, among many others.
In 2023, Catharine Clark Gallery doubled its space and established EXiT, a jewel box art boutique that reimagines the museum or gallery gift shop as a space to lounge, explore, and engage. Its unique inventory features artist multiples, books, homewares, gifts and unique objects.
Located within San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, the Gallery is situated in proximity to prominent arts venues such as California College of the Arts (CCA), the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Museum of Craft and Design, and Minnesota Street Project. In 2023, the Gallery expanded into a 9,200 square foot, ground-floor location, with added space for exhibitions and performances.
Catharine Clark Gallery encourages its visitors to educate themselves about Indigenous and Native communities and histories, both regionally and nationwide. Here are several key organizations that the gallery supports; we encourage you to donate and to learn more about their advocacy:
Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin: https://www.coastmiwokofmarin.org/
Federal Indians of Graton Rancheria: https://gratonrancheria.com/
Muwekma Ohlone Tribe: https://www.muwekma.org/index.html
Ramaytush Land Trust: https://www.ramaytush.org/land-trust.html
The Cultural Conservancy: https://www.nativeland.org/
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center: https://www.niwrc.org/policy-center/mmiwr
Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/chumash-heritage/
Forge Project: https://forgeproject.com/
The Christensen Fund: https://www.christensenfund.org/
Museum of the American Indian: https://www.marinindian.com/
National Museum of the American Indian: https://americanindian.si.edu/
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Window installation by Jon Rubin, An art school that is riddled with doubt, 2018 – ongoing.
