Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is an American

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museum that opened in October 2022, and is located in the

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neighborhood of

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, California. Admission is free.

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The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco is a non-collecting institution with a 11,000-square-foot gallery space that opened in October 2022, funded through

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-based donors. Donors of the opening of ICA SF included Deborah and

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, Pamela and

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, and Kaitlyn and

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. The space was designed after the European ''

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'', specializing in displaying temporary, boundary-pushing art.

Ali Gass Alison "Ali" Gass is an American curator and museum director. She is the founding director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco. She has served as the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, Smart Museum of Art, and ...

is the founding director. The opening programming was a solo exhibition by Choctaw-Cherokee artist

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's, "This Burning World"; and a group exhibition curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, of work by Oakland-based artists

Liz Hernández Elizabeth Hernández (born 1993) is a Mexican-born American visual artist and designer. She works many mediums including in painting, murals, ceramics, and embossed aluminum sculpture. She lives in Oakland, California. Biography Her husband an ...

and Ryan Whelan.

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