SF Art Book Fair

PROGRAMMING

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, 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.

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

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.

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 Street, 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 Street, 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

THE 2025 SF ART BOOK FAIR

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation
July 10 – 13, 2025
1150 25th St. / 1275 Minnesota St. / 1201 Minnesota St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Public Hours:
Preview: Thursday, July 10: 6:00–10:00 pm
Friday, July 11: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Saturday, July 12: 11:00 am–6:00 pm
Sunday, July 13: 11:00 am–5:00 pm

Photo by Lizzy Myers.

2025 EXHIBITORS

* First-time SFABF exhibitor

A 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) *
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) *
Chronicle Books (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)
Downtown Book Club (CA) *
D.R.Y (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)

2025 PROGRAMMING

Download the 2025 SFABF program guide.

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW

SPONSORED BY THE EAMES INSTITUTE OF INFINITE CURIOSITY & WILLIAM STOUT ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS

Join us Thursday, July 10, 6-10pm for our opening night preview of the 2025 SFABF, with music by Fault Radio.

Featuring:
Discodelic
Jeremy Castillo
Three6Sashia
Alex Shen

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 1275 MINNESOTA ST.

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

Friday, July 11

12pm –1pm
Books are Dead, with Alan Sobrino
In today’s world almost anyone can print their own book and soon there will be more authors than readers. On the other hand, the rise of digital libraries place millions of books just a few clicks away. The book, as we know it, is terminally ill and soon will disappear. What does it mean? What can we expect in the future? Which books will survive? Can we save the book?
Presented by Errant Press

1pm - 2pm
Growing a New Hope: The importance of publications on ecology and the natural world with Ocean Escalanti
Independent publishers are stepping up to the plate with books on sustainability, homesteading, and natural world know-how in a time of rising food costs and the loss of plant knowledge. We are post-pandemic and pre-recession civilians in a world where eco-nihilism is at an all time high and these publications are hoping to inspire folks to reconnect with community and nature. Come celebrate these publishers and join the conversation as we explore the many ways in which these zines, books, and monthly observers are upholding stewardship by teaching the community valuable tools on urban foraging, food growing, and counter urgency.

2pm - 3pm
Starting a community library from scratch with Matthew James-Wilson
Heavy Manners Library founder Matthew James-Wilson discusses the process of opening up his lending library, community space, and book store in Echo Park Los Angeles, and gives advice for those looking to start their own DIY space. Learn about common pitfalls, helpful resources, and community building techniques that have made Heavy Manners possible over the past four years.

3pm - 4pm
Design, Delivered: Ten Years of Publishing at Letterform Archive with Lucie Parker and Rob Saunders
To mark its 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive looks back at a decade of publishing innovation, from grassroots Kickstarters to worldwide distribution. Lucie Parker and Rob Saunders share how the Archive’s publishing program grew into a powerful tool for storytelling, education, and design preservation, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how they bring the past to life through print.
Presented by Letterform Archive

4pm - 5pm
Two or Three Things, an ongoing lecture series with Lindsey White and Jon Rubin
Roughly every three months, THE QUARTERLY REPORT selects seven contributors and asks them to provide material of what they are thinking about when they are not working. Each issue involves individuals from a variety of fields: artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, scientists, travel show hosts, and even auto-shop mechanics. Two or Three things is an ongoing lecture series that expands upon the periodical and presents these experiences in front of an audience. This lecture will feature artist Lindsey White, who will discuss her ongoing collection of photos of comedian Phyllis Diller, and artist/educator Jon Rubin, who will discuss his premises for the ideal of the Art School.

5pm - 6pm
Love Letters with Kelly Ording and Maria Otero
Join artist Kelly Ording and Maria Otero, co-founder of Oakland's independent publishing project, Land and Sea, for a conversation on Kelly Ording’s new book Love Letters. This book documents the artist's four-year creative arc, highlighting the development of the artist's unique style and mastery of their chosen medium over this period. The book captures the experimentation, shifts in technique, and refinement of themes that define the artist's artistic progression.
Presented by Land and Sea

Saturday, July 12

11am – 12pm
Va a Llover Toda La Noche (It’s Going to Rain All Night) with Alicia Vera and Luis Cobelo
Join Alicia Vera and Luis Cobelo as they discuss Va a Llover Toda La Noche (It’s Going to Rain All Night), Alicia’s debut photobook and a deeply intimate exploration of memory, loss, and caregiving. The project centers on Alicia’s relationship with her mother, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and unfolds through photographs, handwritten notes, journal entries, and Super 8 stills. Alicia and Luis will reflect on the process of transforming personal archives into a visual narrative—one that moves beyond the individual to touch the collective. The conversation will explore how visual storytelling creates space for vulnerability, love, and connection. Alicia Vera is a photographer based between Mexico City and Miami. Luis Cobelo is a photographer and founder of La Chancleta Voladora, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco.

12pm - 1pm
Story Time Window with Ebti and William Clark
What stories do windows tell?
Windows are witnesses who are watching life unfold.
What stories do windows have to tell?

This is the OG window, the window of all windows. One window that started a whole body of work going on for years in an artist's practice. The stories Ebti will read are about these windows, what they mean and how the work developed from the OG window to a book like A Window In Time / فترة زمنية . After sharing her stories, Ebti will have a conversation with William Clark, Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University, about the window as a motif in literature and the arts, diving deeper into the history of the word, how humans have related to windows and how to work in repetition in long term projects.
Presented by ‘cademy

1pm - 2pm
Love Is The Drug: a film screening & book production discussion with Heather Edney, Liz Roberts & Zach Clark
Heather Edney is a first wave harm reductionist and drug user organizer. Love Is The Drug is a short film by Liz Roberts, combining Heather's archive of community health education ephemera with contemporary 16mm footage filmed in Santa Cruz. Sucking Dick for Syringes is a collection of personal texts by Heather, published by National Monument Press. This program will include a screening of the film, followed by a discussion about the creation of multiple projects through cross media collaboration.

2pm - 3pm
Tuning Our Storyorgans with Patrick Michael Ballard
Through puppetry and performance, fool magician and artist Patrick Michael Ballard will be giving a demonstration of handcrafted dowsing tools, living objects, and paraversal playthings from his project Azguyaenquainan!—a wunderkammer of psychomagical parlor games. Among the collection will be the Ottodokki, a deck of cards and zine, which can be used to guide reflection, get to know a stranger, help structure a dream sequence in a tabletop role-playing game, or for telling collective stories with a twist.
Presented by Sming Sming Books

3pm - 4pm
DANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes with Love Bailey
A conversation with Love Bailey and Nick Haymes about the deeply intimate visual memoir that traces 14 years of Love Bailey’s transition, her art, and the life-saving impact of gender-affirming care. Equally an entertainer and activist, Bailey is based in Temecula—a notably conservative region of Southern California—where she founded the Savage Ranch, a desert-based safe house, residence, and gathering place for friends, family, and extended members of the LGBT+ community. The book celebrates the resilience, beauty, and radical creativity of trans life. At a time when rights are under attack, this collaboration is a living archive of why we must protect gender-affirming care and uplift the legacy of queer art.
Presented by Kodoji Books

4pm - 5pm
Self Realization Fellows: Photography and Collaboration with Adrian Martinez of illetante books, Book & Job Gallery, and Josh Schaedel and Wyatt Naoki Conlon of The Fulcrum Press.
How does one sustain a personal photography practice? How about a publishing imprint—and why not throw in a gallery? The answer is with plenty of mutual support. Join two sets of photographers that are managing all of these feats (and more) between their respective lives in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Above all else, the panelists hope to inspire and encourage a new crop of artists to endeavor similar aspirations in the ever-changing landscape of image-based work. Moderated by Alex Landry, Curatorial Assistant of Photography at SFMOMA.

5pm - 6pm
Our commons are free, with Ben Kinmont
Ben Kinmont talks about his current art project, Our commons are free, which looks at the printing history of the San Francisco Diggers, the radical community actors who emerged within the countercultural movement of the 1960s. Discussing the group’s innovative street sheets and printing operations, Kinmont tracks the Diggers’ push for new societies based on “free” ideals of individualism, community care, and a rejection of consumer capitalism. Our commons are free is on view through August 10th at The Store House (Building D) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. During the exhibition, Kinmont will also activate his Street press in and around San Francisco, including at SFABF25 (Saturday, July 12, 12-4pm).

Sunday, July 13

11am – 12pm
FREE WORMS: Artist Game Workshop with Alexandra Pink and Helen Shewolfe Tseng
The Bathers Library game series invites artists from various disciplines to create experimental instructions-based artworks, which are risograph printed in limited runs and presented in catalog envelopes. For this workshop, Helen and Alexandra will present their interactive publications and lead participants through the creation of a site-specific game called “The Worm,” which visitors can play during the fair.
Presented by Bathers Library

12pm - 1pm
Highlighting Artists’ Books of the Arab Diaspora: Storytelling, Memory, and Resistance with Maymanah Farhat, Andrea Shaker and Jennie Hinchcliff
This summer, San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) presents Mourning and Melancholy: Artists’ Books from the Arab World and Its Diaspora, an exhibition highlighting artists' books, ephemera, zines, and video art. The show examines how artists connected to the Arab world use book forms to chronicle, protest, and subvert the modern conflicts that have devastated the region and displaced millions. This panel discussion, expanding on the themes of the exhibition, features the curator Maymanah Farhat and artist Andrea Shaker. Farhat shares her extensive expertise in contemporary Arab-American art and printmaking, while Shaker offers insight into her practice of reclamation and resistance. The discussion, moderated by SFCB’s Director of Exhibitions Jennie Hinchcliff, explores bookworks as sites of memory, identity, and activism.
Presented by San Francisco Center for the Book

1pm - 2pm
A Conversation with artists Ala Ebtekar, Binh Danh, and Stephanie Syjuco, moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA
Through collaboration with Santa Fe-based nonprofit Radius Books, each artist has created a distinctive monograph that functions as an artist book. These publications are designed around the unique qualities of each artist's practice, resulting in engaging works that serve as repositories for their creative processes. The conversation will explore how these artists transformed their practices into book form, examining the relationship between artistic vision and publication design. Join us as these artists share insights about their collaborative experiences and the unique challenges of translating visual work into the printed medium.
Presented by EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery and Radius Books

2pm - 3pm
Are humans the only dreamers on Earth?: A conversation between Rodrigo Hernández and David Peña-Guzmán, moderated by Diego Villalobos
Marking the publication of the catalog (co-published with BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE) for artist Rodrigo Hernández's exhibition, with what eyes? (2023-2024) at the Wattis, join the artist and philosopher David Peña-Guzmán in conversation. Together, they will discuss the unique experience of a nonhuman animal and how it can transfer to the realm of visual art, allowing us to reconsider how we inhabit and perceive space. Like the exhibition and catalog, this conversation starts with the question posed by Peña-Guzmán: Are humans the only dreamers on Earth?
Presented by the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

3pm - 4pm
Soft Core with Brittany Newell and Maria Silk
A conversation between San Francisco writer and performer Brittany Newell and artist Maria Silk. Newell and Silk, who are longtime collaborators, will discuss Newell’s most recent novel Soft Core (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2025). Soft Core is a love story centered on Ruth, a stripper who lives in San Francisco with her ex-boyfriend Dino until she comes home from the club one day and finds that he has disappeared. The book tracks Ruth’s everyday life and emotional landscape as she looks for Dino and becomes increasingly unmoored from reality. Following a reading from the novel, Newell and Silk will draw on their own shared experience as performers in the City’s drag scene to connect the book to larger topics related to performance, nightlife, and San Francisco. The conversation will be followed by a book signing.
Presented by Slash

4pm - 5pm
INCENDIARY TEXT: MANIFESTOS & OTHER MISSIVES THAT SURVIVE REGIMES with Kate Laster
From Magnus Hirschfeld to Queer Nation, from Taller de Gráfica Popular to JUSTSEEDS — artist, educator & critical historian Kate Laster presents an art history lecture that is meant to embolden community and highlight the webs of artist labor that connect anti-fascist movement work from the past to now.

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

Eames Institute Reading Room
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 SFABF25, the Eames Institute will bring a selection of furniture from their collection, creating a public reading room.

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

Flag Works presented by SNU Design
Flags are symbols of personal identity as well as political devices. Capturing and commenting on these topics within Korean society today, this exhibition presents a curated selection of flags by current students and faculty, and recent alumni of the Department of Design at Seoul National University Design School (SNU Design) in South Korea. Works include citizen-made protest flags and flags made in a cross-cultural exchange between students from San Francisco and Seoul. SNU Design engages in various forms of visual research and experimentation with the book format, resulting in independent publishing projects, talks, and exhibitions.

CHRONICLE BOOKS - Booth C17

Join Chronicle Books for multiple book signings celebrating art and design. 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.

On Thursday, July 10 at 6pm, join Marilyn Chase for a signing of Everything She Touched: Ruth Asawa. On Saturday, July 12 at 2pm, artist, author, and designer Jessica Hische will sign copies of the latest edition of her career-spanning book, In Progress: See Inside a Renowned Lettering Artist's Creative Process. On Sunday, July 13 at 1pm, join artist and author Clarissa Potter for a signing of her book, It’s Okay to Feel Things Deeply. In celebration of the weirdness and isolation of being alive right now, Potter is also offering what she refers to as “uncomfortably long hugs” in-keeping with the overly forceful affection for which she is known. Visitors are invited to participate at will until a sense of “enoughness” is fulfilled.

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES

Thursday, July 10

6pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of Everything She Touched: Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase

7pm, Aperture, Booth A20: Signing of Cargo by Richard Misrach.

Friday, July 11

4pm - 6pm, McSweeney's, Booth A44: Signing of Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols, published by McSweeney's.

4pm - 6pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of THE JOY IS IN CAPTURING THE JOURNEY by Ray Barbee.

5pm, Deadbeat Club, Booth E07: Signing of Sunshine Terrace by Emily Shur, published by Deadbeat Club.

Saturday, July 12

11am, Poppy Press, Booth F04: Signing of Written on the Wind by Tim Lahan, published by Poppy Press.

12pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Reservoir by Mimi Plumb, published by Nazraeli Press.

12:30pm, La Chancleta Voladora, Booth A30: Signing of Va a llover toda la noche (It’s Going to Rain all Night) by Alicia Vera.

1pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of DARK LIGHT by Hendrik Paul, published by Datz Press.

1pm, Club del Prado, Booth H03: Signing of Asakusa by Yoshi Yubai.

1pm, Cone Shape Top, Booth B07: Signing and meet & greet. Join Falkor, celebrity dog and cultural phenomenon, for a special book signing with Cone Shape Top. Celebrate his evolution from pet icon to self published author as he connects with fans for a meet & greet event and shares his children’s book in a rare and interactive experience.

1pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Tales from the City by Joshua Amirthasingh, published by Nazraeli Press.

1pm - 3pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of THE JOY IS IN CAPTURING THE JOURNEY by Ray Barbee.

1:30pm, Current Editions, Booth H12: Signing & launch of Like Nothing on Earth by Paul Morgan, published by Current Editions.

2pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of the latest edition of In Progress: See Inside a Renowned Lettering Artist's Creative Process by Jessica Hische.

2pm, Company Studio, Booth A40: Signing of Little Kingdoms by Justin Peroff (of Broken Social Scene).

2pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of The Little Jungle Book by Linda Connor, published by Datz Press.

2pm, Deadbeat Club, Booth E07: Signing of Poems by Christopher Robin Duncan, published by Deadbeat Club.

2pm, Deep Time Press, Booth G05: Signing & launch of Glimmer by Leah Koransky, published by Deep Time Press.

2pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Todd Hido books, published by Nazraeli Press

2pm, Park Life, Booth A15: Signing of Kevin Cooley - The Wizard of Awe.

2pm, The Eriskay Connection, Booth A39: Signing of Creatures Found by Adam Thorman, published by The Eriskay Connection.

2:30pm, Nazraeli Press, Booth E06: Signing of Fleeting Gestures by RJ Muna, published by Nazraeli Press.

3pm, Aperture, Booth A20: Signing & launch of the new expanded edition of Intimate Distance by Todd Hido.

3pm, ‘cademy, Booth H06: Signing of Black's Beach by Joshua Moreno, published by 'cademy.

3pm, Datz Press, Booth D09: Signing of A Conversation with the World by Lonnie Graham, published by Datz Press.

3pm - 5pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Launch of LET IT KILL YOU by Ben McQueen

3pm, Everything Matters Press, Booth H11: Launch of Cruising Diaries by Daniel Sanchez-Torres.

3pm, Saint Lucy Books, Booth C05: Signing of Ensnaring the Moment: On the intersection of poetry and photography, edited by Leah Ollman.

4pm, Kodoji Press, Booth A01: Signing & launch of DANCING ON THE FAULT LINE by Nick Haymes, published by Kodoji Press

5pm, Bronze Age, Booth A22: Signing of Mauled To Death by J.A. Bæblade.

5pm - 6pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Launch of Kill me Softly by HOT FUDGE.

Sunday, July 13

1pm, Chronicle Books, Booth C17: Signing of It’s Okay to Feel Things Deeply by Carissa Potter.

1pm - 3pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of LET IT KILL YOU by Ben McQeen.

3pm, Slash, Booth A14: Signing of Soft Core by Brittany Newell, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

3pm - 5pm, SUPER LABO, Booth E01: Signing of Kill me Softly by HOT FUDGE.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES

Altman Siegel
Anglim / Trimble Gallery
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Jack Fischer Gallery
Municipal Bonds
Nancy Toomey Fine Art
Rena Bransten Gallery
re.riddle
Themes + Projects
Slash

1201 MINNESOTA ST.

Thursday, July 10: 6–10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am–6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am–6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am–5pm

2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist Exhibition
View the West Coast debut of the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards Shortlist—an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the evolving narrative of photography. Now in its 12th year, the awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year. The shortlist represents more than just the most highly produced, classically beautiful books—it is also an expression of the possibilities of bookmaking across a broad spectrum of resources, intentions, and storytelling techniques.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Thursday, July 10: 6–10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am–6pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am–6pm
Sunday, July 13: 11am–5pm

The Stoutmobile
William Stout Architectural Books brings its storied collection beyond the walls of its beloved Jackson Square bookstore with the debut of The Stoutmobile at SFABF25. For 50 years, Stout has been a vital source for books on architecture, art, design, and visual culture, serving generations of designers, artists, and readers worldwide. The Stoutmobile reimagines this spirit of discovery as a traveling outpost curated specifically for wider audiences. Visitors will find an edited selection of rare, out-of-print, and newly published titles alongside a range of archival catalogs, artist books, and cultural ephemera. The Stoutmobile extends the bookstore's ethos into public space, creating opportunities for dialogue, serendipity, and tactile engagement with books as objects.
Presented by William Stout Architectural Books

Thursday, July 10: 6pm – 10pm
Friday, July 11: 11am – 4pm
Saturday, July 12: 11am – 6pm

Screening Program curated by San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque is a 64-year-old nonprofit dedicated to the cultivation of the international field of avant-garde cinema through curated exhibitions, publications, and archives projects. Cinematheque's work inspires aesthetic dialog between artists, stimulates critical discourse and encourages appreciation of artist-made cinema across the broader cultural landscape. As part of SFABF, Cinematheque will activate the Screening Gallery through the presentation of twenty-nine multi-channel film/video works presented across nearly 70 feet of gallery space including installation work and single-channel film work expanded and remixed for this weekend only. Programs curated by Steve Polta. For complete details, visit: www.sfcinematheque.org/cinematheque-sfabf25/

Thursday, July 10

6pm
Cauleen Smith, Blue Scrubs, Yellow Scrubs, Trustees All Above / Orange Jumpsuit (2019), 24 mins.

6:30pm
Makino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.
Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.
Total run-time: 42 mins.

7:15pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. *
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 10 mins. looped
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 61 mins.

8:30pm
Peter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.

Friday, July 11

11am
Cauleen Smith, Blue Scrubs, Yellow Scrubs, Trustees All Above / Orange Jumpsuit (2019), 24 mins.
Zach Iannazzi, Wild Pitch (2025), 5 mins.
Esperanza Collado, Trágame nube (el cuerpo establece el ritmo) / The Word Was Deleted (2023), 13 mins.
Matt Whitman, Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 4; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 5; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 8; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 9 (2019), 16 mins. looped
Ayanna Dozier, Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (2023) / Bounded Intimacy (2024) / It's Just Business, Baby (2023), 6 mins.
P. Staff, Pure Means (2021), 5 mins.
Total run-time: 69 mins.

12:30pm
Peter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.
Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 11 mins.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyote / Xiuhtecuhtli / Ritual / Mictlantecuhtli (2023), 16 mins.
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 10 mins. looped
Michael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins.
Total run-time: 52 mins.

1:45pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. *
Peter Burr, PATTERN LANGUAGE (2016), 11 mins.
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 62 mins.

3:15pm
Makino Takashi, Memento Stella (2018), 12 mins.
Makino Takashi, cinéma concret (2015), 30 mins.
Total run-time: 42 mins.

Saturday, July 12

11am
Peter Burr, THE CONTINUOUS MONUMENT (2021), 72 mins.

12:45pm
Michael Snow, WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don’t Have the Time (2003), 15 mins. *
Peter Burr, PATTERN LANGUAGE (2016), 11 mins.
Jeanne Liotta, Climate Fictions (2017), 4 mins.
Scott Stark, Shimmering Spectacles (2015), 8 mins.
Aura Satz, Warnings in Waiting (2023), 24 mins.
Total run-time: 62 mins.

4pm
Esperanza Collado, Trágame nube (el cuerpo establece el ritmo) / The Word Was Deleted (2023), 13 mins.
Ayanna Dozier, Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (2023) / Bounded Intimacy (2024) / It's Just Business, Baby (2023), 6 mins.
Zach Iannazzi, Wild Pitch (2025), 5 mins.
Matt Whitman, Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 4; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 5; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 8; Film digitalia, profile pictures, No. 9 (2019), 16 mins. looped
P. Staff, Pure Means (2021), 5 mins.
Total run-time: 45 mins.

5pm
Peter Burr, DROP CITY (2019), 7 mins.
Jodie Mack, Stained Glass Daydream (2025), 11 mins.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, Coyote / Xiuhtecuhtli / Ritual / Mictlantecuhtli (2023), 16 mins.
Matt Whitman, HOW MUCH LONGER (ON BALLOONS) / CAN'T ANSWER YOU ANY MORE (ON FACES) / MARY (ON FLOWERS) / PHONE IN HAND (ON BALLOONS WITH A SHEET OVER DEAD BELONGINGS) / ALL HER PRECIOUS JPEGS (ON YELLOW) (2019), 10 mins. looped
Michael Damm, Field Guide to San Lorenzo Creek, Castro Valley, California (2025), 8 mins.
Total run-time: 52 mins.

All works courtesy of the artist unless otherwise indicated.
*Four-channel presentation exclusive to SFABF with permission from the Estate of Michael Snow. Courtesy of the Estate of Michael Snow.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

Friday, July 11: 4pm - 6pm
Exquisite Corpse Book-Making with the American Bookbinders Museum
Invented by French Surrealists, the Exquisite Corpse is a game of collaboration and creativity, inviting artists to draw, write, or make a collage together, without seeing each other’s work until the end–when the individual contributions come together in a singular artform! In this workshop, create and stitch together a mix-and-match book of figurative drawings (including drawings by artist Nathaniel Russell), to absurdly imaginative outcomes! This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public. Space is limited.

Saturday, July 12: 2pm - 4pm
LEGO® Letterpress with Arion Press
Join Arion Press and learn about letterpress printing! Participants will design and create a print using LEGO® bricks, inks, and a tabletop letterpress. This family friendly, drop-in workshop is free and open to the public (children must be 6+ years of age). Space is limited.

Saturday, July 12: 7pm
SOUND AND VISION with LAND AND SEA, in conjunction with Latitudes
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Brooklyn, NY)
Peaces (Oakland, CA)
Joel St. Julien (San Francisco, CA)
The Urxed (Los Angeles, CA)

LAND AND SEA, in conjunction with Latitudes, is pleased to present a night of sound and vision, bringing together past presenting artist/musicians to celebrate the launch of their most recent effort–a limited edition 7" record, PEACES, from Oakland-based duo Peaces (Zekarias Musele Thompson and Joshua Wismans). Joining the celebration, Aventures LTD will present their recent release, TRIPS, a limited edition cassette by The Urxed (Robert Laird Barber). This is a family affair. All are welcome.

LAND AND SEA is an independent publisher of books, records, zines, and cassette tapes run by Maria Otero and Christopher Robin Duncan.

Other Minds is a global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about fine innovative music by composers from all over the world.

$20 suggested donation.
Presented by Other Minds

Sunday, July 13: 11am – 5pm
SFABF x KUSF Rock‘N’Swap
KUSF’s Rock’N’Swap pop-up record fair dates back to 1983 as a destination event for music lovers and collectors. Everyone from passionate collectors to the simply curious can dive into hundreds of crates to browse and shop records, CDs, tapes, music memorabilia, and posters from over 40 vendors, offering a variety of genres from jazz to rock and roll and everything in between. Come discover bargains along with hard-to-find rarities and collector’s items. Curated by Miranda Morris.
Co-presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Noise Pop

Sunday, July 13: 11:30am – 12:30pm
West Coast Launch of Peace Makers in the Summer Time with Creative Growth
Marking the season, Creative Growth is bringing us the West Coast launch of Peace Makers in the Summer Time, a collaborative record by Creative Growth artist William Scott and Studio Route 29 artist BJ Armour. This special release, blending visual art and music, will kick off the SFABF x KUSF Rock’N’Swap event. Through this project, Scott and Armour explore themes of unity, resilience, and community, offering a new way to experience their work.

Creative Growth Art Center, based in Oakland, California, is a globally recognized nonprofit supporting artists with developmental disabilities through a professional studio and gallery program. For over 50 years, Creative Growth has championed inclusivity and creativity, offering artists the space, materials, and support to develop their practice and share their work with the world.
Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation.

Sunday, July 13: 1pm – 5pm
Listening Room with Discogs

Join Discogs, the world’s leading music discovery and record-collecting platform, for the Listening Room, where artists chat about their favorite albums and the stories behind each. Special guests will drop the needle on their personal selection of records, played live. Part conversation, part high-fidelity audio experience, the Listening Room is a space for sharing a love of vinyl.

Walk-in registration is welcome; pre-registration is recommended, as space is limited.

Pre-register here.

Presented by Minnesota Street Project Foundation and Noise Pop

1240 MINNESOTA ST.

Saturday, July 12: 12pm, 1pm, 2pm
Open Studios

Visit the private Artists Studios at 1240 Minnesota Street and connect with some of the career artists working year-round behind closed doors. The Artists Studios, which is a program operated by Minnesota Street Project Foundation, provides 43 below-market rate studio spaces and several shared facilities, including a wood shop, ceramics area, wet dark room, digital print lab, analog print room, and staging gallery. Learn how this long-running program that started in 2016 continues to support the San Francisco Bay Area arts community.

As part of Open Studios, studio artists Klea McKenna and Trina Michelle Robinson will be on site demonstrating shaped-plate Intaglio printing techniques on a newly acquired etching press. Visitors can learn about the process in-passing and collaborate informally in making a unique shaped-plate Intaglio print.

Walk-in registration is welcome; pre-registration is recommended, as space is limited.
Pre-register here.

Hosted by Minnesota Street Project Foundation

STREET ACTIVATION

Saturday, July 12: 12pm – 4pm
Ben Kinmont's Street press activation

Ben Kinmont’s Our commons are free presents an exhibition portrait of the San Francisco Diggers through their publications. Radical community actors who emerged within the Haight Ashbury counterculture of the 1960s, the Diggers used mimeographs and offset printing to establish a “free” economy: free food, free medical care, free goods, free housing, and free information. These publications served to build community, share resources, and empower revolutionary living.

Kinmont brings his Street press, on view in the exhibition, to the neighborhood to print and give away Eric Noble’s A short history of the San Francisco Diggers, a 38-page illustrated essay written by Noble for Our commons are free; six different San Francisco Digger flyers from 1967; and a more recent street sheet written by original Digger Billy Murcott, Noble, and Kinmont.

Our commons are free is on view through August 10th at The Store House (Building D) at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture.

OFF-SITE

Thursday, July 10: 9pm - 1am
SFABF25 AFTER PARTY
OFF NIGHT at El Valenciano, 1153 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Join us out on the wooden dance floor at OFF NIGHT to celebrate the 2025 San Francisco Art Book Fair. Music by Jeremy Castillo and Pascual. No cover!

Friday, July 11: 6pm - 8:30pm
SFABF25 Industry Night with Et al.
Et al. & Et al. books, 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Our friends at Et al. invite SFABF25 exhibitors, friends, and family to industry night. Make your way across town to the Mission District for pizza, beer, and even more art books! Free pizza for SFABF25 exhibitors with a badge.

2025 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, Babylon Burning, Lightsource SF, Outpost Studio SF, Poppy Press, Shapco Printing, Small Works, Tiny Splendor

In-Kind Bar Sponsors:
Best Day Brewing, Culture Pop, Fort Point Beer Co., Marine Layer Wines, Missing Thorn, Salt Point, Una Lou, Waterloo

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!

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

ARCHIVE

THE 2025 SF ART BOOK FAIR

2025 EXHIBITORS

KATE LASTER (CA)

KGP MONOLITH (NY)

KIDTOFER (NY)

Kodoji Press (Switzerland)

2025 PROGRAMMING

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW

THE LOUNGE AT 1275 MINNESOTA ST.

Friday, July 11

Saturday, July 12

Sunday, July 13

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

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

CHRONICLE BOOKS - Booth C17

SIGNINGS & LAUNCHES

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES

1201 MINNESOTA ST.

1240 MINNESOTA ST.

STREET ACTIVATION

OFF-SITE

2025 SPONSORS

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