
Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents
THE 2025 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
July 10 – 13, 2025
Public Hours:
Opening Night Preview! Thursday, July 10: 6pm - 10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am - 5pm
Free and open to the public
1150 25th Street
1275 Minnesota Street
1201 Minnesota Street
1240 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
2025 EXHIBITORS
* First-time SFABF exhibitorA is A (CA) *
Amaya Productions (CA) *
Anjelica Colliard (CA) *
Aperture (NY)
Arion Press (CA)
Artbook | D.A.P. (NY)
Aventures Ltd Press (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
AZETAguia (Nicaragua)
B.B.Press (CA/Mexico)
BASEMENT (CA)
Bathers Library (CA)
Bill Daniel /
Bayshore Industrial Photographic (CA) *
BLUM Books (CA)
Bong Sadhu (Japan) *
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
BOVINE PRESS (IL) *
Bronze Age (United Kingdom)
But Whole Press (CA)
‘cademy (NY)
Calipso Press (NY)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Case Publishing / shashasha (Japan)
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts (CA)
Cherub Dream Records (CA) *
Club del Prado (Spain)
colour bloc creativ | cbc press (CA) *
Colpa Press (CA)
commune (Japan)
Company Studio (CA)
Cone Shape Top (CA)
conventional projects (CA)
Conveyor Editions (NJ)
courtney sennish (CA) *
Creative Growth Art Center (CA)
Creativity Explored (CA)
Curious Publishing (CA)
Current Editions (CA)
Dark Entries Editions (CA)
Datz Press (South Korea)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
Deep Time Press (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels
Editions (CA)
D.R.Y (CA)
Downtown Book Club (CA) *
East Bay Booksellers (CA) *
Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)
Eggy Press (CA)
Errant Press (CA)
EVERYTHING MATTERS Press (OR) *
EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery (CA)
FAWW (United Kingdom)
Fillip (Canada)
Floss Editions (CA)
For the Birds Trapped in Airports (CA)
Friends of the
San Francisco Public Library (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
Gold Rain (MO)
Grafis Nusantara (Indonesia) *
GRL GRP (CA)
Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)
Handshake (Spain) *
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Heavy Manners Library (CA)
Hi-Bred (MD)
Hobo Books (Spain) *
Homie House Press (MD)
illetante books (CA)
Impresos Mexico (Mexico) *
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Kareem Michael
Worrell (MA)
KATE LASTER (CA)
KGP MONOLITH (NY)
KIDTOFER (NY)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (RI)
La Chancleta Voladora +
Raya Editorial (CA/Colombia)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Last Gasp (CA)
Letterform Archive (CA)
Little Big Man Books (CA)
Los Sumergidos (NY/Mexico) *
McSweeney's (CA)
Miau Ediciones (Mexico) *
Modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph
Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL (United Kingdom)
Morgann Trumbull Projects (CA) *
Most Ancient (OR)
Nathaniel Russell (IN) *
National Monument Press (CA)
Nationale (OR)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Ocean Escalanti (CA) *
PageMasters (United Kingdom) *
Pamplemousse Magazine (CA) *
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Poppy Press (CA)
Prelinger Library (CA)
Proyecto Piranha (Argentina) *
Publishing Neighbors (South Korea) *
Push Pull Editions /
COMPOSIT Press (OR) *
QRWHZGUB (CA)
Quality Time (CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
RITE Editions (CA)
Saint Lucy (MD)
San Francisco Center for the Book (CA)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
SARA (Mexico)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Secret Riso Club (NY)
Set Margins'
publications (Netherlands)
Setanta books (United Kingdom)
siglio (MA)
Slash (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
SNU Design (South Korea) *
Special Effects (CA)
Stephen Parks (Constant Ritual) (NC) *
StreetSalad (CA)
SUPER LABO (Japan)
TBW BOOKS (CA)
te editions (NY)
The Eriskay Connection (Netherlands) *
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
THE ICE PLANT (CA)
THE QUARTERLY REPORT (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tyler Rico (TX) *
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
William Stout
Architectural Books (CA)
WORK/PLAY (IL)
Written Names
Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
x_x (Argentina)
Zatara Press (VA)
For a third year in a row, Minnesota Street Project Foundation is thrilled to present the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF).
SFABF is an annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. Open to the public July 11 through July 13, 2025, with a preview on Thursday, July 10 from 6 to 10 p.m. SFABF was founded in 2016 as a joint collaboration between Colpa Press, Park Life, and Minnesota Street Project.
Exhibitor applications are now closed. The deadline was Friday, March 21, 11:59 PST. In reviewing applications, our committee will try to represent a diverse range of publishing practices. Questions? Email info@sfartbookfair.com.
Minnesota Street Project Foundation is a non-profit organization that relies on community support to sustain artist-focused programs, exhibitions, and cultural events like the SFABF.
Become a sustainer of SFABF with a contribution to Minnesota Street Project Foundation today, and help us keep this event free, accessible and open to the public.
DONATE TODAY
If you would like to volunteer at the fair, please email volunteering@sfartbookfair.com.
For press inquiries, please email info@minnesotastreetproject.org.
SFABF 2025 branding and identity by Quality Time.
SPONSORS
The 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair would like to thank our generous sponsors:

Preview Sponsors:
Eames Institute, William Stout Architectural Books
Sponsors:
Chronicle Books, Dogpatch Business Association
Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic, KEXP
In-kind Sponsors:
Abbey Party Rents, American Bookbinders Museum, Lightsource SF, Outpost Studio SF, Poppy Press, Shapco Printing, Small Works
The SFABF is presented by:
Minnesota Street Project Foundation: Emma-Caitlin Cooper, Lisa Ellsworth, Trinity West
With additional support from: Temi Adamolekun, Wendy Chang
Director, SF Art Book Fair: Gaelan McKeown
Programming Curator, The Lounge: David Senior
Branding and Identity: Quality Time
Opening night music provided by: Fault Radio
Minnesota Street Project Foundation extends thanks to:
Jamie Alexander, Luca Antonucci, David Kasprzak
Miranda Morris, Steve Polta
Sarah Hotchkiss, Sean McFarland
Iain McKay
Deborah and Andy Rappaport
Minnesota Street Project: Segfred Amoyan, Sarah Austin, Cherisse Baird, Julie Casemor, Aimee Le Duc, Michael Rubel, Jonathan Runcio, Jamie Sandoval, Jaelynn Walls
Minnesota Street Project Art Services
Minnesota Street Project Galleries: Casemore Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary
Additional thanks to: Besharam, Romer Young
Special thanks to all of the SFABF25 volunteers!
THE 2024 SF ART BOOK FAIR
Presented by Minnesota Street Project FoundationJuly 18 – 21, 2024
1150 25th St. / 1275 Minnesota St. / 1201 Minnesota St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
Public Hours:
Preview: Thursday, July 18: 6:00–10:00 pm
Friday, July 19: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Saturday, July 20: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, July 21: 11:00 am–5:00 pm

Photo by Andre Hussaker.
2024 EXHIBITORS
222 Press (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
Gold Rain (Mexico) |
GRL GRP (CA) |
Groove Merchant (CA) |
Hat & Beard Press (CA) |
Hesse Press (CA) |
Hi-Bred (MD) |
Homie House Press (MD) |
Hot Books (CA) |
THE ICE PLANT (CA) |
illetante books (CA) |
Inventory Press (CA) |
Irrelevant Press (NY/CA) |
Issue Press (MI) |
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA) |
KATE LASTER (CA) |
Kidtofer (CA) |

2024 PROGRAMMING
Download the 2024 SFABF program guide.
Our Director of Programming is David Senior.
THE LOUNGE AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST.
Friday, July 19
1-2pm
Citizen Printer, with Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Kelly Walters
Through the use of bold language, graphic typography, and colorful layers, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s letterpress prints embody an intensity that catches the eye and provokes the mind. Curated by Fridaydesigner and author Kelly Walters, Citizen Printer, a solo exhibition at Letterform Archive includes a wide variety of printed artifacts such as broadsides, maps, church fans, handbills, and oversized posters produced throughout Kennedy’s career. Walters joins Kennedy for a special conversation at the SF Art Book Fair on Friday. Then join us on Saturday, July 20 for a reception at the Archive. See lettarc.org for details.
2-3pm
Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing.
Zach Clark, National Monument Press with Amy Burek, Awkward Ladies Club
Lindsay Buchman, Seaton Street Press, Erica Wilk, Moniker Press, Rodrigo Alasua, SARA
Within the last decade, Riso has shifted from a niche method for printing low cost underground ephemera to a fully embraced and ubiquitous method for creating artist publications. Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing is a panel discussion featuring the curators and a selection of participating artists from the show of the same name, opening this weekend at the San Francisco Center for The Book. This talk and the corresponding exhibition present multiple points of view around what makes Risograph publishing exciting and important at this moment in time. Presented by National Monument Press.
3-4pm
What is a book? with Alan Sobrino
"Everything is a book. Books are books. A building is a book. The last kiss is a book. The deepest part of the pool is a book. A map is a book about books. A scream in the shower is a book. Palm trees are books. Almonds are also a book. I am a book." Books are typically approached in a straight timeline that tries to capture all of its forms. "What is a book?" will explore the book as a social object, peeling its layers and reflecting the possibilities, forms, and shapes a book can achieve. Presented by Errant Press.
4-5pm
From Handmade to Big Trade: Language Barrier + Auspicious Books Discuss Different Publishing Channels and How to Find Them.
Trinie Dalton and Abby Banks will discuss their personal histories of making artists’ books and handmade publications starting in the 1990s, particularly within frameworks of shaping indie projects into trade editions for commercial publishing houses. Through examples of some favorite zines and unconventional book-making tools, they’ll share histories of their designs highlighting eras and renovations of fun antique reproduction techniques like xerography and analog photography.
5-6pm
In Community, with Pia Camil
In celebration of Pia Camil: Friendly Fires, Inventory Press invites you to join artist Pia Camil for a talk & cabaret-inspired performance with local collaborators.
Saturday, July 20
12-1pm
Forty Creeks in Forty Minutes: an audiovisual tour of the San Francisco-San Pablo Bay system
Join the Society of Submerged Culture's Lauren Hartman and Jon Fischer on an audiovisual tour of the San Francisco-San Pablo Bay system. This guided tour will traverse the network of creeks that drain the entire Bay Area, from mountainous redwood forests to some of the most urbanized parts of California. It will coincide with the release of "The Forty Creeks Project," a limited edition box set that includes screen-printed art objects and a new atlas commemorating the essential creeks of the San Francisco Bay Area watershed.
1-2pm
The Evanesced [Tarot Deck] with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle a.k.a. Olomidara Yaya will be performing a live reading from The Evanesced [Tarot Deck + Guidebook]. This new artist's book is inspired by Hinkle/Yaya's The Evanesced Series, an expansive body of work featuring hundreds of drawings and paintings that the artist calls un-portraits, along with a suite of site-specific performances. The project interrogates the erasure of Black womxn historically and presently, standing in solidarity with #SayHerName and various intersections of what it means to be femme, especially Black and femme. Presented by KACH Studio Press and Sming Sming Books.
2-3pm
REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, with Craig Steely
To celebrate the release of REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, the 40th effort of LAND AND SEA, Craig Steely will discuss, among other things, his ideas in relation to common hierarchical notions of architecture. REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE, as an object, collects Craig's sketches, models and finished homes and presents them in a non-hierarchical frame, equally championing the idea, the magic, the spark, and the process, as well as finished dwellings. Presented by LAND AND SEA.
3-4pm
LIVING ARCHIVES: how book arts community refuses complete burnout, with Kate Laster
The practice of keeping records may be associated with institutional control or private comfort but it continues to also be an act of survival. What happens when burnout burns out? This visual studies lecture explores the history and present of cycles of burnout and endurance in book, print and movement work. From scanner beds, printing zines, to studios in the woods producing accessible protest art, our radical art ancestors have taken up space in book margins, founded alternative presses, gathered at meetups, made counter-monuments and rallied in community. The process of persistence is embedded in a vast bibliography far outside of the canon: this is the future of collective liberation.
4-5pm
Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown, with Kim Beil and Alexander Nemerov
Join Kim Beil in conversation with Alexander Nemerov on the mysteries of found photographs. Attendees who buy a copy of Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown will receive their own mysterious vintage photograph selected by the author. Beil teaches art history at Stanford University and her writing on photography appears in the Atlantic, the Believer, Cabinet and the New York Times among other publications. Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford and is the author, most recently, of The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s, as well as Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York. Presented by Park Life.
5-6pm
“Hi Babe, It’s Me. You.” — Sam McGuire and MARBIE in conversation on the intersection of queer identity, creativity, and skate
To celebrate photographer Sam McGuire’s debut monograph “Hi Babe, It’s Me. You” (Paragon Books), the author joins contemporary artist MARBIE in conversation about their experiences navigating and finding success beyond the skate industry as queer creatives. Sam left his small Iowa hometown to spend a decade on the road documenting professional skaters, driven by a desire to find himself and explore the exotic locations he saw in magazines. He found success working for Nike, Adidas, and Converse, yet struggled with the fear that his career could be ruined if he ever came out. MARBIE also faced challenges in seeking queer representation in skateboarding. A severe leg injury pushed her out of the skate world, but with the rise of queer and women-centered skate crews like Unity Skateboarding, MARBIE returned to find support and a growing audience for her visual art. Presented by Paragon Book and Hashimoto Contemporary.
Sunday, July 21
12-1pm
Organizing Power: Unionizing for Arts Workers
All working people have rights, whether we work at an art museum, a bookstore, or a school. Nationwide, arts workers have begun to unionize—they’ve enhanced their rights and improved their workplaces. But it can be difficult to know how to get started. Organizing Power is a series of Risograph-printed booklets which provide tools for union formation tailored to arts workers. Join artist Jessalyn Aaland and Bay Area arts workers and union organizers Matt Kennedy, Amy Lange, and Erin Schilling to learn about their experiences at institutions like SFMOMA, CCA, and the Oakland Museum of California. Presented by Current Editions.
1-2pm
Handle with Care with Art Handlxrs*, a book launch event and conversation with Bay Area based art handlxrs
This panel will explore the future of art handling and the importance of care, organizing, and diversity in the art world. The conversation will feature Bella Manfredi, Yoni Asega, and the Co-Founders of Art Handlxrs* Marcel Pardo Ariza and Ambrose Trataris with a focus on uplifting individual and collective efforts that improve the conditions and sustainability of the industry. Join this event to celebrate and learn more about this new publication by Art Handlxrs* (available through But Whole Press - table H05) with editions profiling art handlxrs in San Francisco, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and New York.
2-3pm
Working together, talking together with Lynn Marie Kirby, Jordan Stein, and Tanya Zimbardo
On the occasion of the new X Artists’ Books (XAB) publication Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, XAB co-presents with / (Slash) a trialogue with Kirby, Jordan Stein and Tanya Zimbardo.This book explores Kirby’s work through a collection of newly commissioned writing and previously published essays by Etel Adnan, Barbara McBane, Charlie Hewison, Glenn Phillips, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jordan Stein, Jalal Toufic, Carolina Magis Weinberg, Tanya Zimbardo, and interviews with Kirby and Lissa Gibbs, Alexandra Grant, Megan Kiskaddon, Rachel Ralph, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. In lieu of standard photo documentation, the book includes Kirby’s black & white “scans.”
3-4pm
Mondo Vision with Bart Nagel and R.U. Sirius
Join us for a talk about Mondo 2000, the iconic cyberculture magazine published from 1984 to 1998. The discussion will feature co-founder and editor R.U. Sirius and art director Bart Nagel, moderated by Dr. J. Christian Greer. Mondo Vision: A Pictorial Survey of Mondo 2000 is a new publication by Colpa Press.
THE MEDIA ROOM AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST.
Ongoing - LOOP
Some time, some place
presented by Lynn Marie Kirby and X Artists’ Books
This looping program features the work of contributors to Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, X Artists’ Books’ most recent publication. Artists include: Kirby, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jalal Toufic, and Carolina Magis Weinberg.
PROJECT SPACE A - 2nd Floor - 1275 Minnesota St.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts / San Francisco Arts Commission
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people. MCCLA is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts organization committed to the collaborative vision of Latino art forms and to making the arts accessible as essential to the community's development and well-being.
The project space is organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission and in conjunction with the exhibition Una Voz Publica: A Public Voice on view at City Hall through September 27, 2024.
PROJECT SPACE B - 1st Floor - Room B - 1275 Minnesota St.
Eames Institute
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is a nonprofit public charity that advances the dynamic legacy of Charles and Ray Eames. By sharing the things the Eameses made and loved, along with their joyful and rigorous approach to life and work, we seek to inspire creative problem-solving that positively shapes our world. The Eames Institute holds one of the most significant and comprehensive collections of Eames designs and related ephemera in the world—the majority of which originates from the Eameses themselves, and their office at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California. The collection encompasses early correspondence and artwork that predate their meeting, unique prototypes and process materials, industrial products, printed communications, and even treasured personal effects. During SFABF the Institute will bring the collection to life through artifacts, photography, and a new series of printed catalogs.
Creativity Explored will be present to sign the book Art is Art, celebrating the organization’s 40th anniversary, and artist Tucker Nichols will be on site to sign copies of Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say. Watch this space for times and details.
presented by Lynn Marie Kirby and X Artists’ Books
This looping program features the work of contributors to Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby, X Artists’ Books’ most recent publication. Artists include: Kirby, Etienne Kallos, Lynne Sachs, Jeffrey Skoller, Jalal Toufic, and Carolina Magis Weinberg.
PROJECT SPACE A - 2nd Floor - 1275 Minnesota St.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts / San Francisco Arts Commission
The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Central and South American, and Caribbean people. MCCLA is a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts organization committed to the collaborative vision of Latino art forms and to making the arts accessible as essential to the community's development and well-being.
The project space is organized in collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission and in conjunction with the exhibition Una Voz Publica: A Public Voice on view at City Hall through September 27, 2024.
PROJECT SPACE B - 1st Floor - Room B - 1275 Minnesota St.
Eames Institute
The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is a nonprofit public charity that advances the dynamic legacy of Charles and Ray Eames. By sharing the things the Eameses made and loved, along with their joyful and rigorous approach to life and work, we seek to inspire creative problem-solving that positively shapes our world. The Eames Institute holds one of the most significant and comprehensive collections of Eames designs and related ephemera in the world—the majority of which originates from the Eameses themselves, and their office at 901 Washington Boulevard in Venice, California. The collection encompasses early correspondence and artwork that predate their meeting, unique prototypes and process materials, industrial products, printed communications, and even treasured personal effects. During SFABF the Institute will bring the collection to life through artifacts, photography, and a new series of printed catalogs.
CHRONICLE BOOKS ARTIST BOOK SIGNING ACTIVATION
Room D - 1275 Minnesota St.
Creativity Explored will be present to sign the book Art is Art, celebrating the organization’s 40th anniversary, and artist Tucker Nichols will be on site to sign copies of Flowers for Things I Don’t Know How to Say. Watch this space for times and details.
SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES
Friday, July 19
Table E10 - 12pm - Dark Entries Editions - DARK ENTRIES COLLECTED MUSIC GRAPHICS by Eloise Leigh, published by Dark Entries Editions. Signing and Launch.
Table C09 - 1pm - Saint Lucy Books - Klea McKenna - Witnesss Mark. Signing.
Table A21 - 1pm - Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens, EarthLabSF - Assuming the Ecosexual Position—The Earth as Lover. Signing.
1201 Minnesota St. - 1:30pm - Aperture - Ed Templeton - Wires Crossed. Signing.
Table D01 - 2pm - Documerica Books & Light Squared Media - Course of the Empire, published by Steidl & Midnight La Frontera, published by TBW. Signing.
Table D05 - 4pm - SUPER LABO - City Confessions #3 PARIS by Ed Templeton, published by SUPER LABO. Signing.
Saturday, July 20
Table G08 - 11am-1pm - Deep Time Press - Madeline Cass poster signing.
Table E01 - 12pm - Paragon Books - "Sketchbook 5" by Felicia Chiao. Launch & signing.
Table E01 - 3:30pm - Paragon Books - "Hi Babe, It's Me. You" by Sam McGuire. Deluxe edition launch & signing.
Table A22 - 1pm - azulejo arte impressa - The settler’s town is a well fed town. Its belly is always full of good things. by Amanda Teixeira. Launch.
Table D10 - 1pm - Datz Press - This Earthen Door by Amanda Marchand & Leah Sobsey, published by Datz Press. Signing.
Chronicle Books (D Room) - 1-3 pm - Contributor to the book ART IS ART, Creativity Explored artist Vincent Jackson, will sign books with Lead Teacher, Francis Kohler.
Table E10 - 2pm - Dark Entries Editions - outside.sex by daniel case, published by Dark Entries Editions. Signing.
Table D03 - 2pm - Deadbeat Club - Standstill by Ward Long, published by Deadbeat Club. Signing.
Table D03 - 3pm - Deadbeat Club - Lost Dog by Ian Bates, published by Deadbeat Club. Signing.
Table D10 - 3pm - Datz Press - Paper Constructs by Diane Pierce, published by Datz Press. Signing.
Chronicle Books (D Room) - 3-4 pm - Tucker Nichols, author of FLOWERS FOR THINGS I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY will be available to sign books.
Table A20 - 3pm - TBW Books - Juggling Is Easy by Peggy Nolan, published by TBW Books. Signing.
Table D09 - 3pm - Nazraeli Press - ATL and other Mark Steinmetz titles published by Nazraeli Press. Signing.
Table D09 - 4pm - Nazraeli Press - The End Sends Advance Warning and other titles by Todd Hido, published by Nazraeli Press. Signing.
Sunday, July 21
Table E01 - 12pm - Paragon Books - Chuck Sperry book signing & print release.
PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
Saturday, July 20, from 1-3pm
Book signing for Hype Means Nothing at Themes+Projects
Book signing for Hype Means Nothing is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between artist, Ashleigh Sumner and designer, Shaun Roberts. This beautifully illustrated book documents timely projects such as, The Covid Diaries along with selected works from 2017 to 2023. The unique monograph features in-depth artist commentary in addition to essays by curators and patrons. Shaun Roberts’ keen design provides stunning photography of an artist at work. The book signing coincides with Summer’s solo exhibition, Touch the Sky, at Themes+Projects.
SFArtsED Pop-Up: All Weekend
During the SFABF, we’ll have lots of art-making activities and makers-tables for the duration of the fair, including book-making, collage, shrinky-dink art and takeaways, button making stations, and much more. Designed by SFArtsED Artist Mentors, all makers activities will be free for all ages! Also in the gallery, our Artist Mentors will be hosting pop-ups with limited edition and unique works for sale.

1201 MINNESOTA ST.
Thursday, July 18, 6-8pm; Friday, July 19, 12-5pm; Saturday, July 20, 12-5pm; Sunday, July 21, 12-4pm
Xerox Party hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
This cumulative, collaborative art installation invites all ages. Celebrate the revolutionary impact of the photocopier on printmaking and create copy machine art alongside participating artists, then display your work in the Foundation’s 1201 Minnesota Street exhibition warehouse. Visit minnesotastreetproject.org for participating artist schedules and more information.
Saturday, July 20, 12-1:30pm
Make a Zine! (Ages 13 & under)
With Irrelevant Press and People I’ve Loved
Start them young. Create a zine or mini art book (parents welcome!) with different supplied materials and formats. With nothing off the table see what can be created. Drop-ins OK.
1240 MINNESOTA ST.
Saturday, July 20, 1-4pm
Open Studios at the Artist Studios, hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Meet the studio artists, experience their work, and learn how this program is impacting the Bay Area art scene. Walk-in registration is welcome, but pre-registration at minnesotastreetproject.org is encouraged, as space is limited.
OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW
Join us Thursday, July 18, 6-10pm for our opening night preview of the 2024 SFABF. Music and DJs provided by Fault Radio.
OFF-SITE
Friday, July 19, 6-8pm
Opening reception for Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing
Curated by Amy Burek and Zach Clark
July 13–October 6, 2024
San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
In the past 10 years, Risograph printing has shifted from being a niche printing method to a fully realized and ubiquitous method for creating artist publications and ephemera for micro and small press publishers. The exhibition Unfolding Duplications: Contemporary Risograph Publishing brings together artists and publishers from across North America who use Risograph printing as a central element in their works. The publications in Unfolding Duplications range from accessible comics and zines to limited fine press editions, underscoring the broad spectrum of artistic possibilities that Risograph printing offers.
Emphasizing the intersection of concept and Risograph's unique print methods illustrates the potential of Risograph printing as a medium for exploring and conveying meaningful narratives. Bringing together contemporary Risograph artists and publishers of the past five years, Unfolding Duplications offers insights into a specific printing technology and how it can evolve into a medium for creative expression while retaining the spirit of innovation and experimentation.
Friday, July 19, 7pm
Et al., 2831a Mission Street, San Francsico, CA 94110
A release event for ‘Cybele Lyle: Sense of Space (in 3 parts)’ celebrating Cybele’s Lyle’s new monograph. Lyle will discuss the book; refreshments will be served.
Friday, July 19, 9pm-1:30am
SFABF AFTER PARTY - BAR PART TIME - 496 14th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
Join us at Bar Part Time to celebrate the 7th edition of the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Music by Jeremy Castillo.
Saturday, July 20, 9pm
DARK ENTRIES ANNIVERSARY PARTY - 900 Marin St. San Francisco, CA 94124
Celebrate one of our exhibitors, Dark Entries, at their 15 year anniversary party at the Midway. Tickets available here. Featuring music by Bill Converse, Group Rhoda, Dax Pierson, Carlos Souffront, and Pre Op Trans.
2024 PUBLICATION GRANT

This year we were happy to present our 2024 SFABF Publication Grant, courtesy of Edition One Books, to Zatara Press. Zatara Press was selected from our pool of exhibitors and will receive $5000 in printing credit at Edition One Books.
Zatara Press is an independent, small press, photography book publishing company created in 2014 by Andrew Fedynak. Through unique designs and direct collaborations with artists, Zatara makes photo books that are poetic art objects.
Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.
Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant, 2022 Publication Grant and 2023 Publication Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past!
2024 SPONSORS
The 2024 San Francisco Art Book Fair would like to thank our generous sponsors:
Presented by:
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Sponsors:
Chronicle Books, Dogpatch Wealth, Waymo, San Francsico Center for the Book and Independent Arts & Media
Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic
In-kind Sponsors:
Shapco Printing, Forthrite Printing, Edition One and Lightsource SF
Supporting Galleries:
Anglim / Trimble, Casemore Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary and SFArtsED
In-kind Bar Sponsors: Curious Elixirs, Local Motion Canned Vodka Soda, Fort Point Beer Compan, Culture Pop, Blue Bin Wines and Waterloo
Food and Beverage Vendors: De La Calle, El Fuego, Kabob Trolley, Mozzeria, Sunrise Deli, The Pop Nation and Excelsior Coffee
Opening night music and DJs provided by Fault Radio
The SFABF is organized by:
Minnesota Street Project Foundation: Lisa Ellsworth, Joyce Grimm, Caitlin Kirkpatrick and Rachel Sample
Minnesota Street Project: Sarah Austin, Julie Casemore, Aimee LeDuc, Justin Mata, Jonathan Runcio and Michael Rubel
Minnesota Street Project Art Services
Colpa Press: Luca Antonucci
Project Coordinator: Gaelan McKeown
Programming Director: David Senior
Art Director: David Kasprazak
Special thanks to Jamie Alexander, Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Bill Proctor, Derek Song, Heather Fisk, Shannon Trimble, Ken Harman, Eleanor Harwood, Heesoo Kwon, Craig Calderwood, and all of our volunteers!
THE 2023 SF ART BOOK FAIR
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation1201 + 1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Thursday, July 13: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 14: 11am – 6pm
Saturday, July 15: 11am – 6pm
Sunday, July 16: 11am – 5pm

Photo: Aaron Wojack
2023 EXHIBITORS
A Magic Mountain (CA)
Afterlife Press (CA)
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe (Canada)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Anal Magazine (Mexico)
And Aaron Krach (NY)
Animal Sleep Stories (OR)
Aperture (NY)
Arion Press (CA)
Aventures Ltd Press (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
B.B. Press (CA)
Basement (CA)
Blum & Poe (CA)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
Bronze Age (UK)
But Whole Press (CA)
cademy (NY)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Canyon Cinema Foundation (CA)
CCA COMIC COHORT (CA)
CCA Small Press (CA)
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts (CA)
Christopher Kardambikis and
Paper Cuts (D.C.)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Cita Press (CA)
Club del Prado (Argentina)
Cold Cube Press (NY)
The Codex Foundation (CA)
Colour Code (Canada)
Colpa Press (CA)
commune (Japan)
Company Studio (CA)
Cone Shape Top (CA)
Container Corps (OR)
conventional projects (CA)
Creative Growth (CA)
Creativity Explored (CA)
Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)
Curious Publishing (CA)
Dalé Zine ® (FL)
Datz Press (South Korea)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
Deep Time Press (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
diasporan savant press (GA)
Division Leap (OR)
Documerica Books &
Light Squared Media (CA)
DRY. (CA)
Each and Every Press (MI)
East of Borneo (CA)
edgar bryan books (CA)
Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)
Eggy (CA)
Entropy Editions (MN)
Et al. (CA)
Eternal Now (CA)
Evil Twin (CA)
FAWW GALLERY (UK)
Fillip (Canada)
Fish Juice (CA)
Floss Editions (CA)
For The Birds Trapped in Airports /
Speculation Bookshop (CA)
Forgotten Youth Records (CA)
Friends of the San Francisco
Public Library (CA)
Fugitive Materials (NY)
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
Gabriel Edwards (CA)
Gallery 16 Editions (CA)
Garage Publishing (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
GRL GRP (CA)
Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)
Handy Hand Goods (CA)
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Headlands Center for the Arts (CA)
Hi-Bred (CA)
Homie House Press (MD)
HOMOCATS (NY)
horse gurl press (OR)
Hotam Press (Canada)
The Ice Plant (CA)
IDEAL Surf (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Illustoria Magazine (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)
Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)
KAHL Editions (UK)
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)
KGP | MONOLITH (NY)
Kidtofer (CA)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (CA)
Laguna Collective (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)
Louis M Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL Books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Nino Mier Gallery (CA)
nueoi (CA)
OMMU (Greece)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Plunge (CA)
Poppy Press (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Raya Editorial +
La Chancleta Voladora (Colombia - CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
Revista Balam (Argentina)
RITE Editions (CA)
S.A.R.A. (Mexico)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
Saleem M’Boge (CA)
Savi Factory and Friends (CA)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Setanta Books (UK)
Shlag Lab (France)
Shortt Editions (FL)
siglio (NY)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
/ (Slash) (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Special Effects (CA)
The Spooky Haus (CA)
stop.gap (CA)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Taxonomy Press (MI)
TBW Books (CA)
te magazine (CA)
Telematic Media Arts (CA)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tomorrow Today (CA)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Who Press'd Press (PA)
William Stout Architectural Books (CA)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
Zatara Press (VA)
A Magic Mountain (CA)
Afterlife Press (CA)
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe (Canada)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Anal Magazine (Mexico)
And Aaron Krach (NY)
Animal Sleep Stories (OR)
Aperture (NY)
Arion Press (CA)
Aventures Ltd Press (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
B.B. Press (CA)
Basement (CA)
Blum & Poe (CA)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
Bronze Age (UK)
But Whole Press (CA)
cademy (NY)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Canyon Cinema Foundation (CA)
CCA COMIC COHORT (CA)
CCA Small Press (CA)
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts (CA)
Christopher Kardambikis and
Paper Cuts (D.C.)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Cita Press (CA)
Club del Prado (Argentina)
Cold Cube Press (NY)
The Codex Foundation (CA)
Colour Code (Canada)
Colpa Press (CA)
commune (Japan)
Company Studio (CA)
Cone Shape Top (CA)
Container Corps (OR)
conventional projects (CA)
Creative Growth (CA)
Creativity Explored (CA)
Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)
Curious Publishing (CA)
Dalé Zine ® (FL)
Datz Press (South Korea)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
Deep Time Press (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
diasporan savant press (GA)
Division Leap (OR)
Documerica Books &
Light Squared Media (CA)
DRY. (CA)
Each and Every Press (MI)
East of Borneo (CA)
edgar bryan books (CA)
Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)
Eggy (CA)
Entropy Editions (MN)
Et al. (CA)
Eternal Now (CA)
Evil Twin (CA)
FAWW GALLERY (UK)
Fillip (Canada)
Fish Juice (CA)
Floss Editions (CA)
For The Birds Trapped in Airports /
Speculation Bookshop (CA)
Forgotten Youth Records (CA)
Friends of the San Francisco
Public Library (CA)
Fugitive Materials (NY)
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
Gabriel Edwards (CA)
Gallery 16 Editions (CA)
Garage Publishing (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
GRL GRP (CA)
Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)
Handy Hand Goods (CA)
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Headlands Center for the Arts (CA)
Hi-Bred (CA)
Homie House Press (MD)
HOMOCATS (NY)
horse gurl press (OR)
Hotam Press (Canada)
The Ice Plant (CA)
IDEAL Surf (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Illustoria Magazine (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)
Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)
KAHL Editions (UK)
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)
KGP | MONOLITH (NY)
Kidtofer (CA)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (CA)
Laguna Collective (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)
Louis M Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL Books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Nino Mier Gallery (CA)
nueoi (CA)
OMMU (Greece)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Plunge (CA)
Poppy Press (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Raya Editorial +
La Chancleta Voladora (Colombia - CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
Revista Balam (Argentina)
RITE Editions (CA)
S.A.R.A. (Mexico)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
Saleem M’Boge (CA)
Savi Factory and Friends (CA)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Setanta Books (UK)
Shlag Lab (France)
Shortt Editions (FL)
siglio (NY)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
/ (Slash) (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Special Effects (CA)
The Spooky Haus (CA)
stop.gap (CA)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Taxonomy Press (MI)
TBW Books (CA)
te magazine (CA)
Telematic Media Arts (CA)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tomorrow Today (CA)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Who Press'd Press (PA)
William Stout Architectural Books (CA)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
Zatara Press (VA)
IDEAL Surf (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Illustoria Magazine (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)
Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)
KAHL Editions (UK)
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)
KGP | MONOLITH (NY)
Kidtofer (CA)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (CA)
Laguna Collective (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)
Louis M Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL Books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Nino Mier Gallery (CA)
nueoi (CA)
OMMU (Greece)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Plunge (CA)
Poppy Press (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Raya Editorial +
La Chancleta Voladora (Colombia - CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
Revista Balam (Argentina)
RITE Editions (CA)
S.A.R.A. (Mexico)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
Saleem M’Boge (CA)
Savi Factory and Friends (CA)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Setanta Books (UK)
Shlag Lab (France)
Shortt Editions (FL)
siglio (NY)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
/ (Slash) (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Special Effects (CA)
The Spooky Haus (CA)
stop.gap (CA)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Taxonomy Press (MI)
TBW Books (CA)
te magazine (CA)
Telematic Media Arts (CA)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tomorrow Today (CA)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Who Press'd Press (PA)
William Stout Architectural Books (CA)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
Zatara Press (VA)

Photo: Aaron Wojack
2023 PROGRAMMING
Our Director of Programming is David Senior.
To download the 2023 SFABF program guide, click here.
THE LOUNGE
Friday, July 14
11am-12pm
Cyberfeminism Index, with a performative reading by Mindy Seu, who will be joining remotely, followed by an in-person discussion with Kishonna Gray
Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism, academic articles, hackerspaces, software education, net art, and more. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy. Presented by Inventory Press.
1-2pm
The Molotov’s Poetry: Queer, Trans, and Feminist Self-Publishing, with golden dreamsong
In the last fifty years, self-publishing has been critical in the dissemination of a number of seminal queer and feminist works, including Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Larry Mitchell’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions. Diasporan Savant Press’s golden dreamsong would like to take you on a tour of some of their favorite examples of feminist, queer, and trans works published by small publishing houses throughout history, as well as contemporary independent publishers keeping the tradition alive! Presented by Diasporan Savant Press.
2-3pm
40 Years of Zines, Monographs, and Collaborative Art Publications by Creativity Explored Artists
Creativity Explored presents over two dozen artful books, zines, and collaborative projects by artists with developmental disabilities. Meet several Creativity Explored artists and learn about their growing contributions to the world of art publishing. Featuring Fears of Your Life and Imaginationally, both by Michael Bernard Loggins, Lancescapes by Colter Jacobson, Tell You What series by NY Times best-selling author Beth Lisick, Wonderful Blackiful People by CE’s Blackiful Collective, and a selection of original art books.
3-4pm
New Life in the Public Domain, with Jessi Haley
Our cultural heritages contain a vast trove of material that can inform understanding of our current moment and inspire new work. Readers and creators can get their hands on tens of thousands of books, images, and other media in the public domain–all free to consume and adapt. Curation and accessibility are essential to finding and nurturing the legacies of works by marginalized and avant-garde artists. How can designers and artists draw from this body of work? Cita Press is an open access, design-focused feminist press that honors the principles of decentralization, collective knowledge production, and equitable access to knowledge. Join us for an exploration of how we can help those works breathe new life into our present. Presented by Cita Press.
4-5pm
Gregory Rick: Book Launch Event, in coversation with Chris Grunder
Headlands Center for the Arts presents the publication of artist Gregory Rick’s first artist monograph, which features a new commissioned essay by artist, writer, and educator Brooks Turner along with new paintings completed during Rick’s time at Headlands. This publication is the culminating project of the artist’s 2022-2023 Tournesol Award, an award which recognizes one Bay Area painter each year with a generous cash prize and a yearlong studio residency. The event features an intimate conversation between the artist and Chris Grunder. It will be followed by a book signing.
5-6pm
A brief history of Mexico’s LGBTQ+ Publications, with Ricardo Velmor
Mexico’s LGBTQ+ movement has been enriched and spread out through time, thanks to independent publications. Many of them were made by the same people who first walked in the streets to fight for rights and freedoms of this community. However, the first mentions of LGBTQ+ people in printed matter were all about judging, demonizing and criminalizing sexual behaviors different from heteronormativity. Both sides are part of Mexican LGBTQ+ history and both will be part of this discussion by Ricardo Velmor, featuring materials from a growing archive of Mexican LGBTQ+ publications called Archivo Anal. Presented by Anal Magazine.
Saturday, July 15
11am-12pm
Saturday Morning Cartoons with Koak
Koak shares a selection of her favorite pioneering and experimental animations from the 1930s-1990s including the likes of Charley Bowers, Ladislas Starevich, Norman McClaren, Jan Švankmajer, and others (approx. run time 1hr). Presented by Altman Siegel.
11am-12pm
How To Breathe Underwater, breathwork with Rohini Moradi and edition by Carissa Potter.
Meet us outside the lounge at 11am and together we will walk to a green spot for some relaxation and magic. Presented by Rite Editions & People I've Loved.
12-1pm
Personal Projects: Strategies for Publishing, with Gabriela Hasbun, Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellan
Join photographer Gabriela Hasbun to discuss the creation of her first print publication with Chronicle books, THE NEW BLACK WEST: Photographs from America’s only touring Black Rodeo. Hasbun will be joined by Janet Delaney and Kelsey McClellan to discuss the ins and outs of pitching your work to publishers after creating a long-term photographic project.
1-2pm
On Latin American Expanded Photography, with Luis Cobelo
Expanded photography has hybridization, fragmentation, and constant resignification as its fundamental characteristics, where the limits between the traditional pictorial representation and the production of images by the territories of abstraction can coexist with artistic, documentary, or journalistic practice. There is more than ever a need to expand from the image in a historic moment, where Latin America is redefining itself inwards, in community, and towards the world.
Raya Editorial and La Chancleta Voladora are independent publishers, created by Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo and Luis Cobelo, that focus on the design and promotion of photobooks & zines by authors who use photography to reflect on human and political tensions by using mixed techniques and visual narratives. Through the way we face and carry out our artistic photographic projects, our understanding of ourselves expands, and all of this multiplies necessary reflections and a better and broader understanding of our Latin American continent.
2-3pm
Social Documentary Photography & The Humanist Vision, with Ken Light and Wessam Al-Badry
Documentary photography aims to witness and shed light on social issues and injustices. It focuses on capturing images that tell stories and provoke dialogue about important political and cultural topics. Ken Light and Wesaam Al-Badry both work in this tradition and are driven by their desire to create awareness and stimulate change through their photographs and projects. Light’s photobooks have long been a part of this tradition as well. He has been actively involved in the field of photography for five decades as photographer and Professor at UC Berkeley. His powerful photographs explore innumerable social and political issues as seen through his numerous books, including Delta Time, Texas Death Row, Midnight La Frontera and Course of the Empire. Wesaam Al-Badry, an Iraqi refugee, multi-talented visual artist and part of the new contemporary generation of social photographers, will discuss with Ken the practice of this powerful medium for storytelling and advocating for social change as witnessed through their photos and publications. Presented by Documerica Books.
3-4pm
A TIME MACHINE: From personal to community archives, with Adriana Monsalve, Alex Arzt, and Marc Fischer, moderated by Lindsay Buchman
While it has been written about extensively, the archive continues to circulate in contemporary art discourse. Image-making, publishing, and the history of print coalesce into a complex, provisional space. Through this lens, A TIME MACHINE examines how archival histories inform artists’ books by asking independent publishers Adriana Monsalve (Homie House Press), Alex Arzt (A Magic Mountain), and Marc Fischer (Half Letterpress / Temporary Services) about the urgency and role of archives in their work. This conversation explores what we might learn from the suture between past, present, and future while centering on how personal and community archives continue to inspire generations of artists’ books. Presented by Seaton Street Press.
4-5pm
Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán: Brown Eyes from Russell Street
Join us for a conversation with Héctor Muñoz- Guzmán and Vivian Sming, in celebration of the launch of Brown Eyes from Russell Street. Brown Eyes from Russell Street traces Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán’s artistic practice during a transformative and critical period in his life— contending with isolation, mental health struggles, hospitalization, and alcoholism. The book weaves together ideas, memories, thoughts that provide continual sources of reflection, illustrating the range of Muñoz- Guzmán’s experiences—growing up in South Berkeley, attending RISD, being diagnosed with bipolar, working in the agave fields of Tepatitlán, and staying connected to family. Whether the subject is community, depression, or agrarian life, Muñoz-Guzmán treats them with the same attention, care, and grace, recognizing that all of these people, places, and states of mind inform who he is as a person today. Presented by Sming Sming Books.
5-6pm
Kawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, with Shook and Mario Bellatin
With longtime collaborator Shook, Mexican prose stylist and Documenta guest curator Mario Bellatin presents a performative reading of Gato Negro’s new bilingual edition of Kawabata, the Writer, the Travesti Philosopher, and the Fish, a genre-fluid—and previously unpublished—text and cryptic key to Bellatin’s iconic plague novela Beauty Salon. Presented by Gato Negro Press.
Sunday, July 16
12-1pm
Is now the time for joyous rage?
with Selam Bekele, Jacqueline Francis, Jeanne Finley, Charles Lee, and Trina Michelle Robinson
Is Now The Time For Joyous Rage? is the fourth book in A Series of Open Questions, which is published by the Wattis and Sternberg Press, and distributed by MIT Press. Each reader includes newly commissioned texts and an edited selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis’s year- long research seasons. The title of each book comes in the form of a question. The fourth issue is informed by themes found in the work of Lorraine O’Grady, including diaspora, Black female subjectivity, racial hybridity, translation, intersectional feminism, institutional critique, Black representation in the art world, archives, music, Conceptualism, and performance art. For this launch event, several contributors have chosen to highlight a piece from the book (other than their own). In a series of short presentations, they read and/or introduce the piece and why they chose it.
1-2pm
Where digital and analog meet: the many worlds of Most Ancient books
What is the significance of analog books in an increasingly digital world and how can digital experiences expand narrative conventions? Veronica Graham founded Most Ancient in 2010 and since then has experimented with interactive narrative and nonlinear storytelling in comics and exploration games. The projects explore ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and activism. At SFABF she will discuss “Diatribes,” a virtual reality experience and companion printed publications that explore fears about climate change.
2-3pm
Transforming Ephemera Into Evidence, with Catalina Cariaga and Catherine Ceniza Choy
A conversation between Oakland-based Filipina American poet Catalina Cariaga and Asian American historian and ethnic studies scholar Catherine Ceniza Choy on the occasion of “Notes on Cultural Evidence,” the multidisciplinary exhibition and reading room curated by PJ Gubatina Policarpio, on view in the Slash library through August 19, 2023. The exhibition is anchored in the out-of-print but influential poetry collection “Cultural Evidence” (1999, Subpress Collective) by Catalina Cariaga. Catherine Ceniza Choy wrote the accompanying essay for the exhibition. Presented by / (slash).
3-4pm
Taxonomies of Labor Within Small and Self Publishing, with Vivian Sming,
Carissa Potter, John DeMerritt and moderated by Zach Clark
Art books take many forms. Under the same umbrella term, one may come across fine press handmade artist books, large-scale production coffee table books, urgently made zines, forms of ephemera that push the idea of what a book even is, and endless other forms that fit somewhere in between. Behind any one art book is a publisher or artist taking on a number of tasks to bring the project from conception to tangible object. Publishers may work largely as project managers and financial backers or practice a more holistic publishing approach, touching the book in every stage of its creation. A group of publishers from the fair, Vivian Sming of Sming Sming Books, Carissa Potter of People I've Loved, John DeMerritt of DeMerritt Pauwels Editions with Zach Clark of National Monument Press will discuss the various types of labor they perform in the creation of their books to form a non-hierarchical taxonomy of the labor involved in small & self publishing. Presented by National Monument Press.
MEDIA ROOM
Ongoing - LOOP
Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!
presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE Journal of Experimental Media
Clocking in at 508 pages, Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live!—published 2023 by San Francisco Cinematheque an INCITE Journal of Experimental Media (SFABF —documents the life and work of acclaimed filmmaker and curator Craig Baldwin (b. Oakland CA, 1952), an inspiring and influential figure in contemporary media arts. Meticulously detailed, with contributions from over 50 writers, artists, illustrators and ideologues, Avant to Live! is the first critical text to examine the artist’s films analytically as a coherent and meaningful body of work and critical artist’s statement while also examining the cultural impact of Baldwin’s Other Cinema curatorial project. In celebration of this publication, Cinematheque and INCITE present this five-film survey of Baldwin’s work, including Stolen Movie (1976), Bulletin (2015), Wild Gunman (1979), Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991) and Sonic Outlaws (1995). Please visit SFABF Table E04 to pick up a copy of Avant to Live!
TENNESSEE ST.
Friday, July 14, 11am-2pm
Typographic Spirograph: Experimental Letterforms with Savi Factory + Friends: Savithri Velaga and Maria Cardenas
Participants will use a spirograph drawing tool created specifically for typography; the resulting letterforms converge analog geometry alongside moments of improvisational drawing. This workshop structure will allow visitors to continually engage with the tool in an informal outdoor setting, and hands-on demos throughout the activity will provide a combination of free-form experimentation and individual instruction.
Saturday, July 15, 11am-12pm
Zine making with Illustoria
Come make an accordion-style zine with Illustoria! Illustoria is an art and storytelling magazine for creative kids and their grownups. They will have magazines to cut up for collage making, and all sorts of drawing tools so you can create the zine of your dreams.
Saturday, July 15, 1-3pm
Drop-In-Zine-Making with Curious Publishing
Learn how to make your own paper collage zine using the saddle-stitch technique! Feast your eyes on vintage magazines and colorful paper swatches to cut, glue, and assemble your very own creation with us. All supplies provided. Drop in any time during the program!

Photo: Aaron Wojack
PROJECT SPACE - 2nd Floor
FAWW Gallery, also known as Forget About White Walls, is a leader in the screen print art community. It cultivates the next generation of art collectors, offering unique silk screen prints, zines, and art-related publications. Committed to inclusivity, the gallery supports diverse artists globally, hosting lively openings with renowned DJs. FAWW fosters artistic innovation and increases artists' visibility. They champion collaboration, empathy, and community involvement. Beyond visual arts, the gallery endorses cutting-edge music and film. FAWW aims to make art approachable, inspiring, and transformative, actively contributing to cultural development.
PARTICIPATING GALLERIES
Friday, July 14, 3pm
“IN C” - K.R.M. Mooney
Altman Siegel - 1150 25th St.
In conjunction with his solo exhibition auxil, artist K.R.M. Mooney will stage a performance of Terry Riley’s 1964 composition “In C” at Altman Siegel on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 3:00 pm. Described as the first minimalist composition of its kind, “In C” consists of 53 melodic fragments and numbered musical phrases which can be combined and recombined to start at varying times with no specific duration. Purposely lacking a definitive form, its significance is underpinned by its improvised and performative nature as to undergo constant renewal. Focused on wind and breath activated instruments, this re-performance, coupled with the sculptures on view, will explore nature of exchange within the interpersonal realm.
Saturday, July 15, 12-2pm
Flowers and Their Meanings book signing event with author/artist Karen Azoulay
Themes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)
Uncover the secret meanings behind your bouquets and floral arrangements in Karen Azoulay's new book, Flowers and Their Meanings. Stop by to pick up a signed copy! The book contains stunning illustrated explorations of the Victorian language of flowers, including the multicultural history, rituals, and mythology behind over 600 flowers, herbs, and trees.
Karen Azoulay is a Canadian born, Brooklyn-based artist and author whose projects have been featured and reviewed in publications such as the New York Times, New Yorker, Hyperallergic, and Vogue. Azoulay incorporates performance, photography, sculpture and video into her art. She has a fascination with floral symbolism and secret messages are often embedded in her work. Inspired by “feminine” motifs, Azoulay explores cultural phenomena that have historically been overlooked with the purpose of recontextualizing and championing them.
Saturday, July 15, 2-5pm
Live Drawing with Charlo
Themes+Projects gallery (2nd Floor, #205)
Stop by Themes+Projects gallery from 2pm to 5pm to see Charlo create unique drawings live! Charlo's objective as an artist is to create joy, optimism, and build community through his work. This event also coincides with his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, currently on view at Themes+Projects.
Charlo is a multimedia artist and designer. He emigrated from Monterrey, Mexico in 2013, and is currently based in Denver, Colorado. In 2020, using the NextDoor app, he connected with fellow residents of the greater Denver community who invited him to paint murals onto their garage doors. As part of his Make Alleys Great Again project, he brought unity and joy to communities through his five dozen alleyway murals. In 2021, in partnership with Nextdoor and the New York Stock Exchange, he produced a live mural entitled The Joy of Being Together. In August of 2022, Charlo made his debut as a keynote speaker at TEDxMileHigh allowing him to tell his story to a much wider audience. Currently, his solo exhibition, Looking for Clouds, is on view at Themes+Projects gallery through August 26, 2023.
SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES
Friday, July 14
Table E06 - 11am-6pm - Nathaniel Russell Coloring Book - Gallery 16
Table D05 - 1pm - Course of the Empire by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A43 - 1pm - Flowers by Tucker Nichols, published by Nieves - Park Life
Table E06 - 2-3pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16
Table D05 - 4pm - Midnight La Frontera by Ken Light - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A26 - 5pm - TE AMO by Luis Cobelo - La Chancleta Voladora
Saturday, July 15
Table Z75 - 12-1pm - Words for White People: An Etymylogical Kit - Diasporan Savant Press
Table A40 - 1pm - Book signing with Taylor Galloway, I Can Feel You Dreaming - Deadbeat Club
Table E06 - 1-2pm - Book signing with Hal Fischer, The Gay Semiotics - Gallery 16
Table B06 - 2pm - High Contrast by Sarah Hotchkiss - Colpa Press
Table D05 - 2pm - Picturing Resistance by Melanie Light: Moments and Movements of Social Change - Documerica Books/Light Squared Media
Table A40 - 4pm - Book signing with Patrick O’Dell, Big River - Deadbeat Club
Table Z26 - Uncreative Writing by Taylor Swift - Wasted Books
Sunday, July 16
Table E07 - 11:30am-12:30pm - The Sperry Collectible Card Set: Poster Series 2 by Chuck Sperry - Paragon Books
OFFSITE
Friday, July 14, 10:00am
Caitlin Cherry: The Regolith Was Boiling exhibition tour
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
360 Kansas Street, San Francisco
Wattis Assistant Curator Diego Villalobos, who organized Caitlin Cherry's solo exhibition The Regolith Was Boiling, gives a public tour of the exhibition.
The Regolith Was Boiling is a site-specific installation of large-scale oil paintings and digitally produced prints inspired by the architecture of the Wattis Institute. Conceived as a mural, where an overall visual ripple effect connects individual parts to a larger whole, Cherry has taken countless vignettes from popular social media platforms, Google Image Search, and Getty Images, each one featuring a female celebrity from the Black diaspora. Painted in the artist's distinct style of chromatic distortions and dizzying overabundance, this installation emphasizes the depersonalization of celebrities and dilutes their iconographic status by placing them within a visual sea of others. Coffee and bagels are served.
What can we learn from artists today? CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts is a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute dedicated to reflecting on this question through temporary exhibitions, public events, and in-depth research. It is part of California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Friday, July 14, 6pm-later
...Tomorrow another dream will start
Et al etc. & Et al. books
2831a Mission Street, San Francisco
Et al. is pleased to invite you to a party celebrating the San Francisco Art Book Fair and the opening
of ...Tomorrow another dream will start - an exhibition curated by Wild Life Archive.
...Tomorrow another dream will start presents a survey of 1980’s nightclub ephemera from
the Mediterranean island of Ibiza, focused primarily on the promotional posters distributed throughout
the island during the summer season to publicize some of the world’s most renowned nightclubs of
the era including Pacha, Amnesia, KU and Glory’s to name a few.
The Balearic Islands had long been a bohemian escape attracting both pleasure seekers and those in
search of refuge from repressive political regimes. Ibiza in particular became a utopian
paradise offering new arrivals both sanctuary and likeminded community. Hedonistic pursuits
were soundtracked via jazz bars during the 1950’s, psychedelic happenings in the 1960’s and with
the arrival of nightclubs on the island in the 1970s. By the 1980’s both free spirited holiday makers
and the European jet-set had joined the party, further enhancing the uniquely decadent atmosphere
that could be found nightly across the islands dance floors. Patrons danced with wild abandon under
the stars at open air disco’s like KU and Amnesia while listening to the local DJs eclectic mix of
genres encompassing pop, rock, classical, new beat, house and flamenco among others, a discerning
anything-goes selection that would in time become known as the Balearic Beat.
The posters themselves were offset printed in small quantities and used only for
promotional purposes. The poster design, briefed in-house or commissioned to a freelance artist was
most often a mix of hand drawn illustration and graphic design centered around the club logo and
theme of the night e.g. ’Luna Lena’, ‘Summer Dream’ and ‘Noche Romantica’. The few posters that
remain in private hands today help to further document the collective history of dance music culture.
They also act as memories, inspiration and are beautiful pieces of art in their own right.
Soundtrack: Khotin
Graphic design: Daniel Lucas
Friday, July 14, 6-9pm
I Can Feel You Dreaming: Taylor Galloway
Book and Job Gallery
838 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Book and Job Gallery invite you to I Can Feel You Dreaming featuring work from Taylor Galloway’s latest release of the same name from Deadbeat Club. The pictures in Taylor Galloway’s I Can Feel You Dreaming are glimpses of things, sometimes slippery, peripheral, brief, furtive shadows in the margins; they’re slowly unraveling threads that you can’t quite follow back to anything, but that nonetheless feel like clues, pieces of a forensic puzzle; they’re trance visions, or something you briefly noticed while looking for something else. Perhaps they remind you of channel surfing through the foothills of sleep as you toss and turn in a motel bed, slowly emerging from a fever dream or hangover.
Taylor Galloway is a photographer based in Los Angeles, CA. Galloway’s photographs explore the ideas of memory, navigation, and one’s own place in their journey. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe.
Friday, July 14, 7:30pm
A Barcode Scanner, Book Launch and Film Screening
Medicine for Nightmares
3036 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
On Friday the 14th of July at 7:30pm, Gato Negro Ediciones will be having a book launch presentation at Medicine for Nightmares together with Zêdan Xelef and Shook for their new edition of the book: A Barcode Scanner. And a screening of the film adaptation of the title poem, created by Shook, Zêdan's longtime collaborator and co-translator of the book.
Friday, July 14, 7-10pm
Isabella Manfredi: sew your echo
staircase
148 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
sew your echo is a nostalgic rumination on object, place, and relationship. Artist Isabella Manfredi repurposes found footage of her family ranch to create an original film and textile-based artworks. Through stitching, printmaking, and carpentry, Manfredi presents artifacts as a conduit for memory.
Isabella Manfredi works in printmaking, sewing and poetry; creating sculptural installations that can be worn for years. There are nods to workwear, entropy, familial identity and nostalgia within her work. While she strives to craft a utilitarian object; she aims for her work to exist within and outside the gallery space. Graduating from University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor's degree in Art Practice and with a Minor in Journalism, she lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 18, 6-8pm
Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks
July 15-Oct. 1, 2023
San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
San Francisco Center for the Book’s latest exhibition, Datz Press: Contemporary Voices in Global Photobooks showcases ten years of collaboration and artist book production between Datz Press and artists such as Linda Connor, Alyssa Fujita Karoui, Young Suh, and Gap Chul Lee. Over forty-five photobooks ranging from special edition volumes to handling copies of exhibited work will be displayed.
Datz Press is an artist book publisher and community space based in Seoul, South Korea. Focused on working with photographers, designers, and bookmakers, Datz Press creates, publishes, and exhibits works centered on photography, operating a bookmaking studio to support artists who want to self-publish their work. Director Sangyon Joo also oversees the Datz Museum of Art and a book project space called D'ARK ROOM; her comprehensive vision of artists’ photo books includes artists living and working across many countries and cultures while creating compelling work.

Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan of LAND AND SEA.
2023 PUBLICATION GRANT
This year we were happy to present our 2023 SFABF Publication Grant, courtesy of Edition One Books, to LAND AND SEA.
LAND AND SEA was selected from our pool of exhibitors and will receive $5000 in printing credit at Edition One Books.
LAND AND SEA is a small press and project space in Oakland, California founded in 2010 by artists Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan. They collaborate with a wide array of artists to produce books and records that share images, ideas, and/or sounds that otherwise might go unseen/unheard. Recent projects from LAND AND SEA include ARCHIVE - a book by Leonie Guyer, EMPATHY - a cassette by SF-based musician Joel St. Julien, small yellow center a sun - a collection of artwork and poems by nkiruka oparah and Maxine Schoefer-Wulf, and SEASONS - a collection of stories and poems related to winter, spring, summer and fall, as an accompaniment to the current exhibition at Rebecca Camacho Presents. Upcoming releases include REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE by architect - Craig Steely. REAL AND MAKE BELIEVE is a collection of Craig Steely’s explorations into where architecture can be found - not just in the finished homes and structures, but sketches and models as well. Personal and generous, this catalog presents his recent work within a non-hierarchical framework. THE STUD - Working closely with Chloe Miller, STUD bartender and STUD Pin Archive coordinator, THE STUD is a collection of pin backs/buttons and ephemera found in boxes in the basement of the historic SF gay bar THE STUD.
Edition One Books works with design professionals, photographers, artists and other creative types to manufacture highly customized, top-quality books. They are focused on building longterm relationships with their customers, and strive to offer a more personalized book production service for small to medium runs.
Check out our 2020 Publishing Grant and 2022 Publication Grant to see publishers we have supported in the past!

Photo: Aaron Wojack
2023 SPONSORS
The 2023 SFABF was organized by Park Life, Colpa and Minnesota Street Project.
SFABF’s 2023 branding and identity by David Kasprzak.
Presenting Sponsor:
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Supporting Sponsors:
San Francisco Arts Commission, Independent Arts and Media, Chronicle Books and San Francsico Center for the Book
Media Sponsor:
Hyperallergic and KQED
In-kind Sponsors:
Shapco Printing, Edition One, Lightsource SF
Special thanks to Deborah and Andy Rappaport, Michael Rubel, Rachel Sample, Caitlin Kirkpatrick, Cherisse Baird, Julie Casemore, Aidan Williams, Morgan Stanley, Anglim Trimble, bitforms gallery, Hashimoto Contemporary, Marbie, Lauren D’Amato, Ruby Wine Bar and all our volunteers!
The 2023 SFABF wouldn’t have been possible without the support of the San Francsico Arts Commission as administered through Independent Arts and Media.