Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined
April 19–June 15, 2025
Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined takes inspiration from passports and other travel-related ephemera, highlighting nearly 30 artists’ books that document both the promises and limitations of the passport, while considering key concepts of nationality, boundary, and place.
Open•Set 2025
January 18–March 23, 2025
Sponsored by the American Academy of Bookbinding (Telluride, CO), OPEN•SET is a prestigious exhibition celebrating the art of finely crafted design bookbindings. The exhibition features an impressive range of works from both emerging bookbinders and seasoned professionals.
David King Publications 1977–2019
On View: October 25–December 22, 2024
David King (1948–2019) was an English artist, graphic designer, and musician best known for designing the Crass symbol. His many varied projects encompassed drawing, photography, sculpture, film, video, radio plays, and more. King was a core member of the New York no wave band Arsenal, and later the San Francisco post-punk bands Sleeping Dogs and Brain Rust. He generated hundreds of flyers for these bands and others during the period of 1977–1988, as well as creating logos, brand identities, and posters for nightclubs like Danceteria, Pravda, and the Peppermint Lounge in New York and the I-Beam in San Francisco.
Remember Me: American Carved Stone Books from the Ian Berke Collection
April 27–June 23, 2024
Craft & Conceptual Art: Reshaping the Legacy of Artists' Books
April 15–Sunday, June 18, 2023
Cognitive Distance: the Bookworks and Thoughtforms of Timothy C. Ely
October 26, 2022–Sunday, January 8, 2023
Book / Art / Artifact: Work from the CA Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers
Saturday, June 11–Sunday, August 28, 2022
Finding Common Ground: Sowing the Seeds of Community & Collaboration
November 5, 2021–January 16, 2022
Rising Together: an Exhibition of Zines, Artists’ Books and Prints with a Social Conscience
February 12–Sunday, May 9, 2021
(retro)(intro)spection: moving past into the forwardPrimary tabs
February 7, 2020–May 31, 2020
Turning Over An Old Leaf: Contemporary Palm Leaf Work In South And Southeast Asia
October 25, 2019–January, 19, 2020
Drop Dead Gorgeous: Fine Bindings of La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation
September 6–October 6, 2019
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Proposals are reviewed by SFCB staff approximately three times per year. A core goal of the SFCB exhibition program is to provide opportunities to emerging and mid-career curators; individuals from diverse backgrounds working in the field/mediums of artists' books, printmaking, letterpress, papermaking, and related arts are invited to submit proposals. Proposals for group exhibitions are given priority; we do not accept proposals for solo exhibitions.
