SF Art Book Fair

PROGRAMMING

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OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW

Join us Thursday, July 23, 6pm - 10pm for our opening night preview of the 2026 SFABF, with music by Fault Radio.

Featuring:
Chulita Vinyl Club
Farbod (Geographic North)
280 Project
DJ Dials

Fault Radio is the ultimate advocate for our local community, acting as a dynamic bridge between the Bay Area’s thriving arts scene and the broader music world.

THE LOUNGE AT 1201 MINNESOTA ST.

Curated by David Senior, Director of Library at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Friday, July 24

11am - 12pm
Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care: a Q&A between Huiyin Zhou and Adriana Monsalve

Nostalgia often denotes a past tense: a sense of sentimental or wistful longing for things, memories, and objects that are already gone. For Huiyin Zhou, nostalgia rests in the future: “I archive and rescue moments as they are happening, predicting the grief that will come after they disappear.” Beyond irrecoverable loss, how can nostalgia’s tender teachings enable us to recognize the uniqueness of each moment while it is still here? Weaving together photo prints, Polaroids, handwriting, and other ephemera, Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care draws from Zhou’s daily encounters in BIPOC and queer communities. Rooted in feminist sensibilities, the book explores photo archiving as care work and an act of grieving, providing a memory sanctuary amidst the hauntings of loss, erasure, and structural violence.

Presented by Homie House Press

12pm - 1pm
Artists, Collectors, and Copyright—Current Controversies and Lessons with Simon J. Frankel

Simon J. Frankel, co-author of Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts published by Cambridge University Press, will discuss recent copyright developments and controversies of interest to visual artists and those who publish and collect their works. Topics will include the 2023 Supreme Court decision in the Warhol v. Goldsmith case and practical implications for artists, collectors, and publishers; copyright implications of the use of artworks for training generative AI engines; ownership of copyright in visual works generated by AI; copyright’s work for hire doctrine and its implications; and recent cases concerning artists’ moral rights.

1pm - 2pm
Methods of Publishing in South Korea with Chris Hamamoto and Yeju Choi

This talk will introduce South Korea's independent publishing scene and explore its connection to a broader East Asian publishing community through the framework of the exhibition, Methods of Publishing, curated and designed by students from Seoul National University’s Visual Design Department, on view at SFABF. The presentation will share insights into a small part of the vast network of designers, publishers, printers, and distributors that make up South Korea's publishing industry.

Presented by SNU Design

2pm - 3pm
Bookstore as Verb: Publishing, Hosting, and Social Space

As bookstores, publishers, and artist-run spaces gather for SFABF, this conversation explores the growing overlap between publishing and space-making. Across many cities, bookstores have evolved beyond retail into sites for exhibitions, workshops, archives, and community gathering, while independent publishers increasingly create physical spaces of their own. Beginning with short presentations from invited guests, the discussion will examine bookstores as spaces of hosting, cultural infrastructure, and collective imagination, reflecting on independent publishing, community labor, sustainability, and the role of physical gathering spaces in a digital age.

Presented by Now place 此间

3pm - 4pm
Facilitating A Community Space IRL: A discussion with Tiat & Heavy Manners Library

Community space founders Matthew James-Wilson (Heavy Manners Library) and Ash Herr (Tiat) discuss their journeys opening brick and mortars in Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. Born as a response to how the internet has impacted the arts and education, both founders will touch on their intentions running spaces built to connect artists in physical space.

Presented by Heavy Manners Library

4pm - 5pm
Sam Francis and Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy with Susan L. Power, Beth Ann Whittaker, and Dorothée Perret

In celebration of the worldwide launch of Sam Francis and Yves Michaud in Dialogue: Painting, Poetry, and Philosophy, a bilingual compendium uniting texts and interviews that testify to the sustained exchange between the artist and the philosopher during the last decade of Sam Francis’s career, DoPe Press is organizing a panel discussion moderated by John Seed, author, curator and art critic, with the book production team: Susan L. Power, Ph.D., project editor and translator, Beth Ann Whittaker, production coordinator, Associate Director of the Sam Francis Foundation, and Founding Director of Plain Sight Archive, and Dorothée Perret, book designer and Founding Director of DoPe Press. The book provides the point of departure for a conversation touching upon magic and chaos, artistic commitment, poetry, and philosophy in painting, among other topics at the heart of Sam Francis and Yves Michaud’s exchanges.

Presented by DoPe Press

5pm - 6pm
Quilt Sounds with Nish Harjani, Cordy Joan, Rhae Dawn, and Matt Brownell

Transmissions Quilts is a project that delivers bespoke gift quilts to individually nominated trans people. Under the guidance of Cone Shape Top, Transmissions has produced Quilt Sounds, an ambient album of music responding to quilts, that furthers a connection between the two mediums. This event offers the public a chance to listen to the full Quilt Sounds album with brief remarks from album artists Nish Harjani, Cordy Joan, and Rhae Dawn. Cone Shape Top Imprint is releasing Quilt Sounds at the 2026 SF Art Book Fair.

Presented by Transmissions Quilts and Cone Shape Top

Saturday, July 25

12pm - 1pm
Composit Press: A New Educational Photobook Publishing Model at Oregon State University with Evan Baden, Colleen Mullins, and Jules McGaw

In 2024, Evan Baden, a faculty member at Oregon State University, founded a new concept in photography book publishing. Composit Press, housed in the Art Department at Oregon State University, is a student-staffed printing press and bindery, focused on photographic and collaborative publications. Evan Baden, Colleen Mullins, and Jules McGaw will talk about this educational model in the context of Mullins' forthcoming book. Mullins will share about working with the press, McGaw will speak about designing with the artist, and Baden will elaborate on the formation and operation of this exciting new model.

1pm - 2pm
After School with Angela Chen

Join artist and writer Angela Chen for a talk and reading of her debut text-image book, After School《課後》. After School《課後》brings together autobiography, photographs, collage, and archival documents to unpack the culture of buxiban (after-school tutoring centers) in predominantly East Asian communities in the San Gabriel Valley, CA. The book tells the story of her family’s struggle to run Futurelink, a buxiban business, against the historical backdrop of anti-Asian discrimination and considers the “after-school” as a paradoxical space of discipline and care, assimilation and cultural preservation, competition and community. Attendees will receive a free copy of Chen’s offshoot publication, After School Workbook, to fill out and take home.

Presented by Eggy Press

2pm - 3pm
Borders: Crossing the Threshold a conversation with Mónica Lozano and Luis Cobelo

Borders by Mónica Lozano explores migration, displacement, and the emotional experience of living between borders. Through studio-recreated portraits inspired by the stories and testimonies of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who attempted to cross borders in search of a better life, the book reflects on themes of identity, memory, survival, and the fragile idea of home. This conversation between Mónica Lozano and Luis Cobelo addresses the creative process behind the project and the making of the photobook, understanding borders not only as political divisions, but as deeply human and emotional spaces that continue to shape lives around the world.

Presented by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop)

3pm - 4pm
Virtual Crush Artist Series: Melissa Broder - So Sad Today (Reading and Q&A with LaTurbo Avedon)

In conjunction with the group exhibition, Virtual Crush, on view at Slash, author, essayist, and poet Melissa Broder presents a reading from So Sad Today, marking the ten-year anniversary of this landmark essay collection. First conceived in 2012 as an anonymous Twitter account—an unfiltered channel for Broder's anxiety, desire, and ultra-dark humor that drew a following of hundreds of thousands before she revealed herself as its author—@sosadtoday became one of the defining voices of confessional life online. The 2016 book, So Sad Today: Personal Essays, carried that raw, intimate candor into long form, cementing the project as an enduring portrait of the 2010s networked self. Broder's current Substack work appears in Virtual Crush, LaTurbo Avedon's group exhibition on the simulated body, identity, and intimacy. Following the reading, Melissa will be joined by avatar-artist and Virtual Crush curator, LaTurbo Avedon, for a brief Q&A.

Presented by Slash

4pm - 5pm
Library Noise with Amar Lal and Matt Carney

Join Bathers Library for two experimental sound performances from our series of artist instructional projects: Amar Lal will perform a piece based on an experimental score, and Matt Carney will perform a variation on his sensory narrative generation project, air light water moon shadow sky.

Presented by Bathers Library

Sunday, July 26

11am - 12pm
A Decade of SFABF with Jamie Alexander, Luca Antonucci, and David Kasprzak, moderated by David Senior

Join the founders of the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF), Jamie Alexander of Park Life, Luca Antonucci of Colpa Press, and David Kasprzak, in discussion with David Senior, Director of Library at SFMOMA, as we commemorate 10 years of SFABF! Reflecting on the global phenomenon of art book fairs over the last decade, the conversation considers the SFABF’s distinct place in a network of artists, publishers, and other book fairs. Illustrating the characteristically local aspects of this fair as a unique community gathering for SF Bay Area artists, designers, and publishers, the conversation is backgrounded by images of SFABF over the years.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

12pm - 1pm
Resonances with Ashwini Bhat and Tausif Noor

EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery hosts a conversation between artist Ashwini Bhat and BAMPFA Curatorial Associate Tausif Noor celebrating the release of Bhat’s new monograph, Resonances. Co-published by Radius Books and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, the volume documents the transdisciplinary artist's long-term exploration of California's ecology amidst climate change and environmental shift. Drawing from her background in literature and dance, Bhat uses her work to investigate profound connections between the human body and the natural world.

Presented by EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery

1pm - 2pm
Helen Shewolfe Tseng: Trickster at the End of a World

Follow Helen Shewolfe Tseng into the tall grasses of uncertainty and the spaces between realms in her new artist book, Trickster at the End of a World. Guided by an obsession with coyotes and in search of things lost, Tseng positions the highly adaptive wild canid and its oft-mythologized archetype of the Trickster as a mirror, foil, and portal. Traveling down side paths and through loopholes to examine wilderness, entanglement, and dwelling in the margins, Trickster at the End of a World is a field guide for relearning how to be an animal in the aftermath of rupture.

Presented by Sming Sming Books

2pm - 3pm
Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California with David Jacob Kramer and Michael Schmelling

Half a century ago, a legion of young idealists dropped out of society and went “back to the land,” creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Premiering at SFABF, David Jacob Kramer and Michael Schmelling’s book, Handmade Utopia: Architectural Vestiges of the Back-to-the-Land Movement (D.A.P & Edition Patrick Frey), tracks down the rogue souls still committed to this way of life and captures their handbuilt, otherworldly residences. The audacious hope that drove the movement remains evergreen. Join Michael Schmelling and David Jacob Kramer as they present a slideshow and discuss the current pulse of the movement and its legacy.

Presented by D.A.P.

3pm - 4pm
The Anti-Influencer-Influencer: What Bill Owens Can Teach Photographers Today with Bill Owens and Stephen Goldblatt

Bill Owens has spent more than five decades proving that extraordinary stories can be found in ordinary places. Best known for his groundbreaking photobook, Suburbia, Owens helped shape generations of documentary photographers by turning his camera toward everyday moments that others overlooked. Today, he continues to document the seemingly unremarkable with humor, humanity, and a deep appreciation for the small details of daily life. This conversation will explore what photographers, collectors, and artists can learn from a lifetime of curiosity, and why paying attention to the world around us may be the most important creative tool of all. Moderated by Stephen Goldblatt, Curator of @Photobookfinds.

4pm - 5pm
Holy Dirt by Tino

Holy Dirt is an album about remembering and preservation. Through loop-based guitars, fractured synthesizers, and handmade field recordings captured in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 2020-2026, Tino soundtracks a subterranean road trip where memories and melodies blur with the sounds of home. Join the artist for a special listening program to hear the recently released, limited edition 12” vinyl album, published by Deep Time Press.

Presented by Deep Time Press

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1st Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

Autonomous Agents: Screening Program presented by KADIST

Presented alongside KADIST’s recent publication, Autonomous Agents, this screening program features video artworks from the KADIST Collection by three artists who are also included in the book: Lou Fauroux (France), Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst (Germany/US), and Interspecifics (Mexico). As in the 15 artist interviews that comprise the book, this short program combines nuanced, poignant, and critical perspectives by artists who use LLMs in notably different ways. Surveying themes of environmental visualization, trauma and intimacy, post-collapse commodity, and digital dependency, the videos offer distinct perspectives on how digital systems shape contemporary life. Copies of Autonomous Agents will be available for purchase.

Lou Fauroux
Vol. 1 The Porn Selector (2023)
Digital color film, stereo sound
14:00 mins

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
I’M HERE 17.12.2022 5:44 (2023)
AI generated video, sound
5:44 mins

Interspecifics
Aire v.3 CDMX (2020)
HD video, sound
10:00 mins

Total run time: 29:44 mins (looped)

All artworks courtesy of the artist(s), KADIST collection.

KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization that believes artists make an important contribution to a progressive society through their artwork, which often addresses key issues relevant to the present day. Dedicated to exhibiting the work of artists in its collection, KADIST affirms contemporary art’s role within social discourse and facilitates new connections across cultures.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 2nd Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

KOMIYAMA TOKYO

KOMIYAMA TOKYO presents a curated selection of Japanese art books, photography, graphic design, fashion, queer art, and subcultural publications from the 1960s to the present. Focusing on postwar and contemporary visual culture, their installation explores the relationship between printed matter and artistic expression in Japan. Alongside rare and collectible books are vintage posters, ephemera, and original artworks that reflect the evolution of Japanese aesthetics and counterculture across generations. By bringing together publications and original materials in one space, KOMIYAMA TOKYO aims to create a dialogue between archive, design, and contemporary art practice, highlighting both internationally recognized artists and lesser-known creators whose works have shaped Japan’s creative landscape.

Established in 1939, Komiyama Tokyo Bookstore is a Tokyo-based rare book dealer located in Jimbocho, the world’s largest book district. Renowned internationally for its curated collection of vintage art books, the bookstore has spent over 80 years developing a distinctive selection shaped by deep expertise and enduring passion.

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1150 25th St.

Letterpress Printing & Collaborative Installation presented by Arion Press

As one of the earliest forms of self-publishing, letterpress printing is both craft and democratic practice. In addition to presenting a display that showcases the craft and collaboration that goes into every Arion book, the Press will bring portable letterpresses to SFABF. Visitors are invited to print and participate in a cumulative installation that will be assembled over four days.

Arion Press is the last unified hot-metal type foundry, letterpress workshop, and bindery in the United States. Founded in 1974 and located at San Francisco's Fort Mason, Arion invites contemporary artists to reimagine literary classics in collaboration with our team of bookmakers. Through their publications, public programs, and educational opportunities—which include paid craft apprenticeships and the King Artist Residency—Arion Press preserves, celebrates, and champions traditional book craft in a digital era.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 1150 25th St.

Beyond the Studio: Print as Self-Organized Culture presented by FAWW GALLERY

Beyond the Studio: Print as Self-Organized Culture is a research-based project and exhibition exploring a decade of underground print culture across a decentralized network of European screen print studios, publishers, artists, musicians, and collectors. Presented by FAWW GALLERY, Beyond the Studio examines how independent printmaking practices have evolved far beyond the production of posters and publications, giving rise to an entire self-organized subculture shaped through collaboration, circulation, and collective exchange.

Forget About White Walls, otherwise known as FAWW GALLERY, is a London-based curatorial platform and gallery that has spent over a decade working within the underground worlds of printmaking, experimental graphic design, and club culture across Europe. Through exhibitions, publications, and collaborative projects, the gallery foregrounds experimental approaches to visual culture and the self-organized networks that sustain them beyond traditional institutional frameworks.

PROJECT SPACE 3 - 1150 25th St.

Methods of Publishing presented by SNU Design

Seoul National University Design (SNU Design) presents a print-on-demand publication and installation exploring independent designers-publishers from around the world, with a focus on comparing design culture and publishing practices in South Korea and the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication will be available on site and is free to print while supplies last. The exhibition also features works by students, alumni, and faculty, highlighting the wide range of graphic design research, experimentation, and production taking place at Seoul National University.

SNU Design collects work from students and recent alumni from Seoul National University, including individual practitioners and student organizations such as <111>, the student print club, and Tool(), the creative coding club interested in web-to-print publications. Seoul National University is a research university based in Seoul, South Korea.

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES

Friday, July 24

12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books.

12pm, Homie House Press, Booth Z23: Signing and launch of Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care by huiyin zhou, published by Homie House Press.

3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop).

4pm - 6pm, Landslide Books, Booth D14: Signing and launch of Discommunication by Yoshi Yubai, published by Landslide Books.

Saturday, July 25

12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books.

12:30pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Borders by Mónica Lozano, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop).

1pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of JANG by Michael Jang.

1pm - 3pm, Casemore Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St.: Signing and special edition print release with Bill Owens.

1pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of Stray Sod by Maria Lax, published by Setanta books.

1pm, TBW Books, Booth A06: Signing of Swan Moon's Swan Moon by Swan Moon, published by TBW Books.

2pm, Artbook | D.A.P., Booth A07: Signing of This Book is a Camera by Kelli Anderson, published by Katherine Small Gallery.

2pm, Colpa Press, Booth B04: Signing of No. 46, by Benjamin Vilmain, published by Colpa Press.

2pm, Deep Time Press, Booth C08: Signing and launch of Rock Clock by Sean McFarland, published by Deep Time Press.

2pm - 4pm, Haddock Studio, Gallery 209: Launch of Scales of Measures.

2pm, Homie House Press, Booth Z23: Signing of Nostalgia Is The Ghost Of Care by huiyin zhou, published by Homie House Press.

2pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing (advanced copies) of It Will Hold you by Alex Ramos, published by Nazraeli press.

2pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of OK BW by Jason Lee.

2:30pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of The Ramble by Arthur Tress, published by Stanley/Barker

3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop).

3pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing of Tales of the City by Joshua Amirthasingh, published by Nazraeli press.

3pm, Setanta Books, Booth C01: Signing of Migration Patterns by Brandon Ruffin, published by Setanta books.

3pm, Triangle Books / Dreieck Bücher, Booth A17: Signing and launch of Collages by Peter Sutherland, published by Triangle Books.

4pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of A Perfect Medium by Bob Farese, Jr., published by MW Editions.

Sunday, July 26

12pm - 2pm, Chronicle Books, 1201 Minnesota St.: Signing and launch of It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O'Malley, published by Chronicle Books.

12pm - 2pm, Casemore Gallery, 1275 Minnesota St.: Signing and special edition print release with Bill Owens.

1pm, Nazraeli press, Booth C02: Signing of The End Sends Advance Warning and House Hunting by Todd Hido, published by Nazraeli Press.

2pm, MAKAN, Booth A42: Signing of Desert Notes by Samantha Jensen, published by MAKAN.

2pm, MW Editions, Booth C06: Signing of Knot by Forrest Gander and Jack Shear, published by MW editions and Copper Canyon Press.

3pm, La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop), Booth A21: Signing of Álbum El Informador 1996-1999 by Luis Cobelo, published by La Chancleta Voladora (The Flying Flip Flop).

1201 MINNESOTA ST.

Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

Thru THICK and THIN, Rose D’Amato

Thru THICK and THIN (2026) is a layered installation of windows, billboard structures, reflective paintings, and 8mm film surveying the typographic landscape of San Francisco's recent past. In D'Amato's practice, streets become a metaphorical extension of time's transient nature, where objects, imbued with the marks of labor and human touch, transcend their materiality. Each work is not only a product of its physical creation, but reflects the history and influences that have shaped it. Through this interplay of space, time, and process, Thru THICK and THIN encapsulates the essence of craftsmanship as both a temporal and timeless pursuit.

For the Opening Night Preview on Thursday, July 23, DJ TUFF and Nicolas Torres will spin a selection of vinyl records in dialogue with the installation.

Rose D’Amato (b. 1991, Los Angeles, CA) is a pinstriper and painter living and working in San Francisco, CA. D’Amato uses painting to create a personal archive of both the hand-painted signs in the built environment and the lettering she’s called on to paint for those around her. As a second-generation sign painter, D’Amato engages techniques inherited and learned through a years-long commitment to her family’s trade, working with airbrush, gold leaf, and hand lettering to create her own representations of their practices in motion. She hopes to hold and honor the visual histories of California subcultures in her artistic work.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Thru THICK and THIN will remain on view Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through August 8, 2026 at Minnesota Street Project Foundation.

Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

ART BEFORE DISHES by Susan O’Malley

From her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self series, ART BEFORE DISHES (2015) by the beloved artist Susan O’Malley (1976-2015) makes its debut as a large-scale mural installation on the exterior of 1201 Minnesota Street. What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? This is the question artist Susan O'Malley asked more than a hundred ordinary people of all ages, ultimately transforming their responses into vibrant text-based prints, posters, and murals made publicly accessible and redistributed back into the community.

A call to action and words to live by—heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always fiercely compassionate, O’Malley’s work unveils the wisdom we hold inside ourselves right now.

Artwork courtesy of the Estate of Susan O’Malley and Romer Young Gallery

Susan O’Malley (1976–2015) was an internationally exhibited artist and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. From posters to pep talks, billboards to vending machines, O’Malley used simple and recognizable tools of engagement to connect people to one another. In her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self project, she interviewed people of all ages and transformed their words into bold artwork that has been shared widely as a book, prints, and public installations. The impact of O’Malley’s work has travelled far and wide, with public projects across the United States—San Francisco, New York, Nashville—and around the globe in the United Kingdom, Poland, and Denmark. Her work has been exhibited at alternative spaces and cultural institutions, including SFMOMA, Oakland Museum of California, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Diego Airport, Montalvo Art Center, Kala Art Institute, and Palo Alto Art Center. Her participatory installation Finding Your Center, was featured at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. O’Malley’s project A Healing Walk is permanently installed at the Montalvo Arts Center. Her career spanning monograph, It Will Be More Beautiful Than You Could Ever Imagine: The Art of Susan O’Malley (Chronicle Books, 2026) presents all her major works in vibrant color alongside essays from Bay Area art luminaries.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

ART BEFORE DISHES (2015) will remain on view through October 31, 2026 at Minnesota Street Project Foundation.

Thursday, July 23: 6-10 p.m.
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

Chronicle Books

Join Chronicle Books for multiple book signings celebrating the launch of their latest publication, IT WILL BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE: THE ART OF SUSAN O’MALLEY, a vibrantly colorful 288-page monograph, bringing all of Susan O’Malley’s major projects together for the first time and featuring essays contributed by 24 SF Bay Area curators, artists, and collaborators. Purchase your copy of the book and have it signed by contributors to the project, including Jonn Herschend (THE THING Quarterly) and local artist Leah Rosenberg, among other luminaries who will be at the Chronicle Books booth Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12pm - 2pm.

Inspired by the enduring magic of books, Chronicle Books cultivates and distributes exceptional publishing that is instantly recognizable for its spirit and creativity. Their collaborations spark the passions of adults and children worldwide, encouraging them to explore, connect, and see things differently.

Saturday, July 25: 12pm - 3pm
Screen Printing Workshop

Discover the screen-printing work of Bay Area artist Susan O'Malley (1976–2015) at this hands-on workshop for all ages. Participants will create a 5 × 7 screen-printed postcard using one of O'Malley's original designs—ART BEFORE DISHES (2015) or BE YOU (2015)—from her Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self series.

Presented in conjunction with SFABF26 and the debut mural installation of O'Malley's ART BEFORE DISHES (2015), this workshop is made possible through a partnership with the Estate of Susan O'Malley and Romer Young Gallery. Special thanks to Erina Davidson, Emily Harter, and Ellen Lake of Kala Art Institute. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Kala Art Institute.

Saturday, Jul 25: 7pm - 10pm
Spiritual Surveillance EP launch with Cone Shape Top

With performances by:
Daria Lourd
IDHAZ
bastiengoat
bodyworkbodywork

Visuals by Jeffrey Yip of Macro Waves

Celebrating a new musical direction and the first release under her full name, Daria Lourd (aka Bored Lord) brings together a lineup of close friends who are emblematic of the current Bay Area electronic music scene. Expect ambient, downtempo, experimental performances accompanied by visuals from Jeffrey Yip of Macro Waves for an immersive experience.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Cone Shape Top

Sunday, July 26: 12pm - 4pm
Billboard Techniques Workshop with Rose D’Amato

Participate in a hands-on drop-in workshop for all ages exploring early advertisement and billboard techniques through tool use and painting. D’Amato will share insight into how the ghost signs of San Francisco came to be through the perspective of their original painters. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

1275 MINNESOTA ST.

Friday, July 24: 12pm - 5pm
Origami Zine-in-a-Box with C.K.Itamura
San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota St

Join SFArtsED artist-mentor C.K.Itamura and create a unique origami zine-in-a-box. Learn how to use Japanese origami, colorful papers, and a small box to make an expandable caterpillar-style zine that you can fill with your own stories, illustrations, manga, poetry, and more. This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and San Francisco Arts Education Project

Friday, July 24: 12pm - 5pm
Woodblock Printing Workshop with Joe Ferriso
San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota St

Join SF Bay Area artist and toy designer (Jafies Joiners) Joe Ferriso for a woodblock printing workshop combining pattern, paint, and play! Visitors are encouraged to experiment with mark-making to create geometric patterns and design and build colorful and symbolic worlds on paper. Use Ferriso’s custom-made wood stamps and create your own print to take home. Then, make your mark on the wall, contributing to a collaborative installation that other SFABF visitors can enjoy all weekend! Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and San Francisco Arts Education Project

Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

SFArtsED Family Artmaking Table & Artist-Mentor Pop-Up
San Francisco Arts Education Project, 1275 Minnesota Street

Join SFArtsED and participate in free artmaking activities with your family, featuring printing, collage, bookmaking, and paper-based activities designed and facilitated by SFArtsED artist-mentors (who will also be sharing one-of-a-kind and editioned prints and other works for sale). Drop-in visitors of all ages are welcome.

Saturday, July 25: 2pm - 4pm
Exhibition Walkthrough and Book Launch with Architect Tommy Haddock
Gallery 209, 1275 Minnesota St

Scales and Measures is a comprehensive book and exhibition surveying the first decade of work by the architecture and design office Haddock Studio since its founding in San Francisco in 2016. Welcoming visitors into a space that is serious about play, the exhibition brings together photographs, furniture, models, sketches, drawings, mock-ups, and material fragments, tracing how, through collaborative design, ideas become buildings and objects across scales, media, and disciplines. Come for the exhibition walkthrough to meet the architects and take home a book!

1150 25th ST.

Thursday, July 23: 6pm - 10pm
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

Et al.
Slash, 1150 25th St

Et al., a gallery and bookstore in the Mission District of San Francisco, presents a selection of “very nice” books, along with hundreds of five-dollar books. We'll also be joined in the library of Slash by friends San Francisco Review of Whatever.

Thursday, July 23: 5pm - 7pm
Opening reception of 印象/Impressions in /room/
Slash, 1150 25th St

Join Slash for the opening reception of 印象/Impressions, an installation in /room/ by violist, teacher, and artist Angie Zheng 郑晴 that deconstructs existing hierarchies between composer, performer, and audience, releasing expectations of linearity in process. The installation is centered on four of Zheng’s sound and print-based projects, configured into a multi-channel orchestrated listening experience.

MINNESOTA GROVE

Saturday, July 25: 12pm - 1pm
Sunday, July 26L 12pm - 1pm

Modular Typography Cyanotypes a hands-on activity & lecture with Kelli Anderson

Join graphic designer and author Kelli Anderson for a two-part workshop mimicking a lesson from Josef Albers' classroom at the Bauhaus, where he developed an alphabet/puzzle called Kombinations-Schrift. With his students, Albers used Kombinations-Schrift to contemplate how letters could be crafted from a minimum number of modules/parts while remaining harmonious and easy to read. In the first part of the workshop, participants will craft letterforms using 11 tiny, geometric building blocks taken from Anderson’s interactive book, Alphabet in Motion. These designs will then be placed atop light-sensitive paper and exposed to sunlight, creating a cyanotype. The second half of the workshop will further explore Albers' letterform puzzle, and how the concept of modularity informed art and design in the 20th century. Space is limited. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and D.A.P.

Thanks to the Dogpatch & NW Potrero Hill Green Benefit District.

OFF-SITE

Thursday, July 23: 9pm - 1am
SFABF After Party
Bar Part Time, 496 14th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
$10 cover at the door

Join us at Bar Part Time as we celebrate the opening night of the 2026 San Francisco Art Book Fair with music by Jeremy Castillo.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Friday, July 24: 9:30am - 11:30 am
Coffee and Art at the Wattis - a Walkthrough of Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp
The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 145 Hooper St, San Francisco, CA 94107
(Exhibition walkthrough at 10am)

Join the Wattis for coffee, breakfast treats, and a walkthrough of the exhibition, Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp—the first West Coast institutional exhibition of artists Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz. At the heart of the exhibition is a film inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s beloved character, “The Tramp,” a mischievous vagrant living on the margins. The artists have created an encompassing environment for the exhibition: deconstructed production sets are repurposed as furniture, while drawings, production stills, paintings, prints, and ephemera are presented alongside the film.

Friday, July 24: 6pm–8pm
Closing party for the Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in the Postbook Age exhibition
San Francisco Center for the Book, 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Free and open to the public

When the SF Art Book Fair wraps up for the day, stop by San Francisco Center for the Book for a last look at the exhibition, Futurity Library: Disobedient Artists' Books in a Postbook Age. This open house and closing party offers SFABF exhibitors and visitors the opportunity to see works and books by contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of what a codex can be.

Friday, July 24: 5pm - 8pm
Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson
Et al. etc., 2831a Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Join Colpa Press for the opening reception and book launch of Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson. Peterson’s exhibition of new work consists of ceramic sculptures fired and painted to resemble archaeological objects or architectural fragments alongside drawings and maquettes made from cereal boxes. The publication is a full color, section-sewn limited edition of 200 with a screen-printed cardboard cover.

Tropic of Cancer: New Work by Ben Peterson will remain on view at Et al etc. through August 30, 2026.

Friday, July 24: 5pm - 8pm
Book Release Party
EYRC Architects, 797 22nd St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Join San Francisco-based design studio Quality Time to celebrate their launch of three new publications. Noise, by John Lithgow, is an illustrated collection of sonic explorations marking the first in his series of marchine curated books. Savithri Velaga's research-based text, Punisher, chronicles different modes of punishment throughout history, and Elliot Lannes' Song of Myself is an anthology of personal essays from six contributors about their favorite songs. Wine and other refreshments will be provided.

Friday, July 24: 6pm - 10pm
SFABF26 Happy Hour
Ruby Wine, 1419 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94107

Keep the fun going! Come for a “happy hour” (or two, or three…) at Ruby Wine and celebrate 10 years of SFABF with us.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents
THE 2026 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
July 23 – 26, 2026

Thursday, July 23: 6 - 10pm
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

Free and open to the public

1150 25th Street
1275 Minnesota Street
1201 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

2026 EXHIBITORS

PROGRAMMING

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW

THE LOUNGE AT 1201 MINNESOTA ST.

Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25

Sunday, July 26

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1st Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 2nd Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1150 25th St.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 1150 25th St.

PROJECT SPACE 3 - 1150 25th St.

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES

1201 MINNESOTA ST.

1275 MINNESOTA ST.

1150 25th ST.

MINNESOTA GROVE

OFF-SITE

SPONSORS

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Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents THE 2026 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIRJuly 23 – 26, 2026

Thursday, July 23: 6 - 10pm Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm Free and open to the public 1150 25th Street 1275 Minnesota Street 1201 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 94107

2026 EXHIBITORS

PROGRAMMING

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW

THE LOUNGE AT 1201 MINNESOTA ST.

Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25

Sunday, July 26

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1st Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 2nd Floor, 1275 Minnesota St.

PROJECT SPACE 1 - 1150 25th St.

PROJECT SPACE 2 - 1150 25th St.

PROJECT SPACE 3 - 1150 25th St.

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES

1201 MINNESOTA ST.

1275 MINNESOTA ST.

1150 25th ST.

MINNESOTA GROVE

OFF-SITE

SPONSORS

FAQ

Getting here:

Site Maps: Food/Beverage/Bars:

Accessibility:

Minnesota Street Project Foundation presents
THE 2026 SAN FRANCISCO ART BOOK FAIR
July 23 – 26, 2026

Thursday, July 23: 6 - 10pm
Friday, July 24: 11am - 6pm
Saturday, July 25: 11am - 6pm
Sunday, July 26: 11am - 5pm

Free and open to the public

1150 25th Street
1275 Minnesota Street
1201 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Site Maps:

Food/Beverage/Bars: