Hosfelt Gallery in

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was founded in 1996 by Todd Hosfelt to exhibit contemporary international artists working in all media.

History

Hosfelt Gallery was founded by Todd Hosfelt in 1996, at 95 Federal Street in San Francisco, adjacent to the visual arts residency program

Capp Street Project Capp Street Project is an artist residency program that was originally located at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco, California. CSP was established as a program to nurture experimental art making in 1983 with the first visual arts residency in the ...

. In 1999 the gallery moved to a space in San Francisco's

South of Market South of Market (SoMa) is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, situated just south of Market Street. It contains several sub-neighborhoods including South Beach, Yerba Buena, and Rincon Hill. SoMa is home to many of the city's museums ...

neighborhood on 430 Clementina Street. Designed in 1999 by Fougeron Architecture and Endres Ware Engineers, the architect was awarded for her work on the space. In 2006, the gallery opened an additional venue, a space at 531 West 36th Street, in

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. In 2012 the gallery expanded to a new San Francisco space at 260 Utah Street. Hosfelt Gallery was among the first to exhibit such critically acclaimed artists as

Shahzia Sikander Shahzia Sikander (born 1969, in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani-American visual artist. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video. Sikander currently lives ...

, Stefan Kürten, Shirin Neshat,

Marco Maggi Marco Maggi (born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a New York- and Uruguay-based artist whose work incorporates common materials such as office paper, aluminum foil, graphite, and apples to create micro drawings, sculptures, and ...

and Jim Campbell. In 2011, the gallery exhibited work by the late Beat artist

Jay DeFeo Jay DeFeo (March 31, 1929 – November 11, 1989) was a visual artist who first became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work ''The Rose' ...

which was the first exhibition of her work on the West Coast in fifteen years.Roth, David
"Jay DeFeo @ Hosfelt"
''Square Cylinder'', September 24, 2011

Artists represented

Hosfelt Gallery represents emerging to established local and international contemporary artists, including:

Liliana Porter Liliana Porter (born 1941) is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Education and teaching experience Porter was born in B ...

Russell Crotty Russell Crotty (born 1956, San Rafael) is a Southern California based artist whose work has been shown internationally and across the United States. His work incorporates astronomical, landscape, and surfing themes. Especially known for drawings o ...

, Jim Campbell, John O'Reilly,

Michael Light Michael Light (born 1963) is a San Francisco-based photographer and book maker whose work focuses on landscape, the environment, and American culture's relationship to both.Knight, Christopher''Los Angeles Times'', August 4, 2000. Retrieved Oc ...

, Stefan Kürten, Alan Rath, and

William T. Wiley William Thomas Wiley (October 21, 1937April 25, 2021) was an American artist. His work spanned a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance, and pinball. At least some of Wiley's work has been referred to as ...

. Since its inception, a focus of Hosfelt's program has been emerging artists. These include Andrew Schoultz,

Rina Banerjee Rina Banerjee (born 1963) is an Indian-American artist and sculptor."Bio"
Rinabanerjee.com, Retrieved online 17 October 201 ...

Anoka Faruqee Anoka Faruqee (born 1972) is a Bangladeshi descent American painter, born in Ann Arbor, MI to Bangladeshi parents. In 2011 Faruqee was appointed associate professor of painting and printmaking at Yale University. She earned her BA from Yale in 199 ...

, Emil Lukas,

Gideon Rubin Gideon Rubin (born 1973) is an Israeli-British artist who works with themes such as childhood, family and memory. The grandson of the Israeli painter Reuven Rubin, and the son of diplomat David Rubin and curator of The Rubin Museum since 1983, Ca ...

, Jutta Haeckel,

Driss Ouadahi Driss Ouadahi (born 1959 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a contemporary Algerian painter and architect who trained, works, and lives in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ouadahi's work features abstracted architectural forms found in real Algerian housing structure ...

Julie Chang Julie Ju-young Chang was the Entertainment Anchor for ''Good Day L.A.'' and Fox 11 Morning News on KTTV in Los Angeles, joining the station in November 2012 to May 2020. Previously, she was the entertainment anchor for the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. new ...

, Chris Ballantyne, and

Lordy Rodriguez Lordy Rodriguez (born 1976 in Quezon City, Philippines) is a contemporary artist who uses cartography and maps to reconfigure factual locations and create fictional assemblage pieces. Inspired by family road trips across the country, Rodriguez was ...

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