Sat April 19th Open 11 AM–5 PM
Enjoy this digital journey through our history with the launch of our first online archive. Please reach out if you have intel to share that can help us build this archive!
Public Art
Woman, Life, Freedom
Taravat Talepasand
2024–2025
In recognition of this movement to recognize women’s rights, Iranian-American artist Taravat Talepasand developed this neon sculpture, featuring the phrase in both English and Farsi.
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Public Art
Ceasefire Now!
Jeffrey Cheung
2024–2025
A public artwork meant to inspire a sense of communal solidarity.
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Public Art
Hyakki Yagho, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons – One Million Years of Journey with Ruby Red Fox and Their Company
Masako Miki
2023–2025
This work takes inspiration from Japanese folklore and asks viewers to pause and reflect on the provocative narrative and their connection to it.
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Public Art
Audio Archive Booth
Sholeh Asgary
2023
Engage with artist Sholeh Asgary’s Audio Archive Booth to record stories, reflections, experiences, hopes, dreams, pasts, and futures of the Iranian diaspora.
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Public Art
Insufficient Memory
Sean Fader
2023
An interactive Google Earth map which allows you to engage with a digital memorial to LGBTQ+ lives.
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Public Art
UNDO MEN
Sanctuary City Project
2023–2024
This work shines light on the power of the student-led pro-immigrant movement while examining the impact of policies on the lives of the undocumented community.
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Public Art
June Grant: WANDERLUST, A Joyful Noise
Presented by YBCA
2022–2023
A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.
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Public Art
On the Horizon: Bucket Brigade
Anna Teresa Fernandez presented by YBCA
Sunday, October 9, 2022, 11:30 AM
Join us as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Mission St. in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades.
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Public Art
Let’s Build from Here
Innosanto Nagara
2022-2025
A site-specific public artwork highlighting the power of collaborative future-building.
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Public Art
Now We Are Here
Fredericko Alvarado
July 15, 2021–September 11, 2022
A site-specific mural in YBCA’s Grand Lobby inspired by the Wiphala flag.
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Public Art
Tend Your Orchard
Cece Carpio and Miguel “Bounce” Perez of Trust Your Struggle
2021–2023
A new mural on YBCA’s glass passageway in collaboration with SOMA Pilipinas.
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Public Art
love @ first line
Anna Sergeeva
2021–2025
A new site-specific public artwork by Anna Sergeeva featuring the first lines of love poems.
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Public Art
MOURNING IS AN ACT OF LOVE
SF Urban Film Fest
February 12—May 10, 2021
Films, photos, and participatory art ask us to reconsider memorials making, and reimagine how we build public experiences that are rooted in our histories, acknowledge our grief, and use love to inspire us to work together for our collective future.
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Exhibitions
AFTER LIFE (we survive)
Presented by YBCA
November 9, 2020–February 7, 2021
A new multimedia public art experience that brings artists together to explore speculative and real modes of survival.
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Public Art
The Monument as Living Memory
Presented by YBCA
October 12, 2020–April 18, 2022
This work illustrates the closure, dismantling, and restructuring of institutions, the toppling of monuments, and the uprising of a palpable collective spirit across our country.
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Public Art
Tosha Stimage: Infinite center, infinite sun
Presented by The Lawn Art Project & YBCA
September 25 – October 25, 2020
The first of a series of installations for the public to take part in, curated by YBCA for the Lawn Art Project.
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Public Art
Justin Brice Guariglia: WE ARE THE ASTEROID III
Presented by YBCA
December 9, 2019–April 30, 2020
Guariglia’s solar-powered LED highway message board draws audiences into lively discussions about the climate crisis.
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Public Art
Andrea Bowers: Climate Change is Real
Presented by YBCA
September 7–18, 2018
A public art project commissioned for the Global Climate Action Summit.
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Public Art
Jerome Reyes: Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)
Presented by YBCA
June 21, 2017-June 21, 2021
Abeyance honors three Bay Area natives by sharing their stories of migration, displacement, and resilience.
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Performances
Last Blue Couch in the Sky
Kim Epifano presented by YBCA
June 2–4, 2017
Featuring site-specific dance and performance happenings in the street, on fire escapes, and throughout public space.
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Public Art
Statement marquee from Escuela de Arte Útil (School of Useful Art)
Tania Bruguera
2017–2025
YBCA continues to activate the marquee with timely and responsive messages generated from artists and community partners.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Lightswarm
Presented by YBCA
October 24, 2014–October 31, 2016
A stunning facade installation of 430 individual modules, employing sound sensors and LED lights to produce a spectacular light show in a state of perpetual flux.
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Public Art
Future Cities Lab: Murmur Wall
Presented by YBCA
May 21, 2014–May 31, 2017
An extraordinary combination of sculpture, light installation and data collector.
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Public Art
Kota Ezawa: Boardwalk
Presented by YBCA
June 28, 2013–November 30, 2015
Kota Ezawa rebuilds in YBCA’s Sculpture Court a side view of the Seaside Heights boardwalk on the New Jersey shore, which was devastated during Hurricane Sandy.
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Public Art
Taraneh Hemami: Free
Presented by YBCA
August 20, 2011–September 1, 2013
A site specific public work invoking peace and freedom across geographies.
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