San Francisco Art Galleries in 2026: First Thursday, Where to Go, and What Has Closed

San Francisco’s gallery map has changed fast. Since late 2025 a run of well-known galleries has closed, the downtown cluster around 49 Geary Street has thinned, and the energy has moved to Dogpatch, Fort Mason and a revived art walk in the Tenderloin. This guide is where to go now, with current shows and their closing dates, and it links every closure to our closure tracker.

First Thursday in 2026

The First Thursday that is active in 2026 is the SF First Thursdays art walk in the Tenderloin and Lower Nob Hill: the first Thursday of every month, 6 to 9pm, with about two dozen regular venues and a handful of rotating ones, among them Modern Eden, the Bob Mizer Museum, KnK Contemporary, Ryan Graff Contemporary, Swim Gallery and TENDESF. The next one is Thursday 1 October 2026.

SF First Thursdays: map and venues

The older downtown First Thursday, centred on 49 Geary Street, is a different matter. The San Francisco Art Dealers Association no longer lists it on its site, and several of its galleries have gone: Haines moved to Fort Mason in 2022 and Scott Nichols left the city in 2019. Check a gallery’s own page before assuming it is open late. Don’t confuse it with Downtown First Thursdays on 2nd Street, which is a street party, not a gallery walk.

Where to go now

Minnesota Street Project, Dogpatch

The densest place in the city to see commercial galleries: many of them share one converted warehouse at 1275 Minnesota Street. It has lost Altman Siegel, Anglim/Trimble and Jack Fischer since late 2025, but galleries including Casemore, Jenkins Johnson, Hashimoto Contemporary, Eleanor Harwood, Themes + Projects, Municipal Bonds and Nancy Toomey are there, with new shows in September and October. Minnesota Street Project itself is free to visit.

Fort Mason

Haines Gallery is in Building C, and SF Camerawork, which announced it was closing in August 2026 and then reopened on 9 September under a new board, is in Building A.

Downtown and Chinatown

Fraenkel Gallery at 49 Geary is still the city’s essential photography gallery. Jessica Silverman is on Grant Avenue at the edge of Chinatown, Gallery Wendi Norris on Jackson Street, and Berggruen Gallery on Hawthorne Street near SFMOMA.

Free, museum-scale shows

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ galleries are free every Wednesday. The Museum of the African Diaspora is free on the second Saturday of the month, and reopens on 30 September with a new show. The San Francisco Arts Commission shows work at its Main Gallery in the War Memorial Veterans Building and in City Hall.

Current shows and when they close

45 shows, soonest-closing first. Dates are from each gallery’s or museum’s own exhibition page.

What has closed or moved

These are the galleries people still look for. Each link goes to the closure record, with the date and the evidence.

• Altman Siegel, Anglim/Trimble and Jack Fischer Gallery (Minnesota Street Project)
• Rena Bransten Gallery and Ratio 3
• Pier 24 Photography and KADIST San Francisco
• Anthony Meier Fine Arts (moved to Mill Valley)
• Haines Gallery (moved to Fort Mason) and Scott Nichols Gallery (moved out of the city)
• ICA San Francisco (no permanent space)

Also worth knowing: the Contemporary Jewish Museum has been temporarily closed since December 2024, and the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts closed in January 2026. We will add them to the tracker if either closure becomes permanent.

More: the directory of galleries and museums, free museum days and Art & Culture events.

Checked on 17 September 2026 against each gallery’s and museum’s own exhibition page, sffirstthursdays.org, the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, Fort Mason Center, and SF Camerawork. Closures and moves are verified against the SF Treasurer business register by address. This list is re-checked every two weeks.