500 Capp Street Foundation

500 Capp Street Foundation We are currently closed for installation and will re-open on June 24, 2023

The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco is the historic home turned work of art created by the late, pioneering conceptual artist David Ireland. The House presents exhibitions and educational programs celebrating Ireland’s artistic legacy, and hosts collaborative events to strengthen San Francisco’s cultural community—bringing together artists, scholars, teachers, students, and the public—as Ireland’s home did during his lifetime.

Join us at 500 Capp Street on March 15 for Community Building, Melting Pot, Bahar—a celebration of renewal, unity, and t...
02/28/2025

Join us at 500 Capp Street on March 15 for Community Building, Melting Pot, Bahar—a celebration of renewal, unity, and togetherness. Honoring Nowruz and Ramadan, we’ll gather to cook, reflect, and break Iftar at sundown with Minoosh Zomorodinia and Shirini Bakes.

Please register via link in our bio. ✨

Announcing the Accordion Shop, an artist-focused concept store located in the iconic San Francisco home-turned-sculpture...
02/26/2025

Announcing the Accordion Shop, an artist-focused concept store located in the iconic San Francisco home-turned-sculpture, the David Ireland House. Operated by the 500 Capp Street Foundation, the shop offers a curated selection of local and international artists exploring new modes of living through art, architecture, and design.

Including works by Patrick Carroll, Christopher Duncan, SHIMURABros, Rico Duenas, David Ireland, Freddy Lopez, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Isabela Manfredi, and Virginia Overton.

Open hours Friday and Saturday 12 - 5 pm and by appointment.

Looking for something to do this week? We’ve got a lineup of events you won’t want to miss!Thursday (Feb 20, 6 PM): Join...
02/20/2025

Looking for something to do this week? We’ve got a lineup of events you won’t want to miss!

Thursday (Feb 20, 6 PM): Join us for an intimate evening as we launch of 25/25ths - with readings by Dan Ake and Natalia Vigil

Friday & Saturday (12–5 PM): Swing by during open hours to experience Minoosh Zomorodinia’s Spirit Gleaning — an exhibition that explores themes of migration, land, and sustenance.

Saturday (Feb 22, 12–3 PM): Join us for Community Building Through Foraging, Walking & Eating — neighborhood walk and conversation on food, memory, and connection guided by Spirit Gleaning’s Minoosh Zomorodinia.

Get your tickets through the link in our bio.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Images courtesy of the artists

Join us Saturday, Feb 22 (12–3pm) at 500 Capp Street for community building, foraging, and food sharing! Start with refr...
02/13/2025

Join us Saturday, Feb 22 (12–3pm) at 500 Capp Street for community building, foraging, and food sharing! Start with refreshments, then join Minoosh Zomorodinia for a guided neighborhood walk at 12:30. Bring a food or spice container (or recipe) with personal, cultural, or ancestral meaning to add to our Earth and Fire altars. Let’s explore how nourishment connects us through memory, place, and justice—comfortable shoes recommended!

Tickets through the link in our bio

Join us for an intimate evening celebrating 25/25ths, a self-published artist book about the collaboration of conceptual...
02/09/2025

Join us for an intimate evening celebrating 25/25ths, a self-published artist book about the collaboration of conceptual artists Dan Ake and Peter Vigil. Ake’s and Vigil’s collaborative practice in the SF art community traversed performance, sculpture and installation for decades. The book, 25/25ths is a poetic and photographic artist book published in collaboration with Dan Ake and Natalia Vigil.

Thurs. February 20, 2025, 7pm to 9pm. Poetry reading at 8pm. Get your tickets on the link in our bio.

Twenty-five years ago, two friends and artistic collaborators, Dan Ake and Peter Vigil, embarked on a project to celebrate 25 years of their friendship, exploring their individual photography and poetry practices. Peter passed away before they could complete it. Twenty-five years later, Natalia, Pete’s eldest daughter, joined Dan in bringing 25/25ths into being.
Experience the power of friendship, creativity, and love traversing the boundaries of art, life, and death.
We invite you to commemorate 25/25ths with a reading of Pete’s poems by Raquel Vigil, Amelia Vigil, Amanda Vigil, Natalia Vigil and Miles Ake, a photo installation of Dan and Pete’s collaborative art pieces, a film installation by Pete and Amanda, and a display of archival memorabilia and more. All images courtesy of Dan Ake 1972-1991.

Today is a special day at 500 Capp Street. You will get a chance to have an intimate discussion with our featured artist...
01/23/2025

Today is a special day at 500 Capp Street. You will get a chance to have an intimate discussion with our featured artist one on one. Moments like this are so special at 500 Capp. Join us for Afternoon Tea With Minoosh Zomorodinia today Thursday, January 23, 2025; 4-5pm in time for SF Art Week. Minoosh Zomorodinia, is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator based in the Bay Area, delves into the intricate relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Through the lens of psychogeography and daily rituals, she documents the passage of time across various environments. Her work seeks to redefine borders, challenge the legacies of land colonization, and illuminate the deep interconnectedness between humanity and the natural world.

Zomorodinia has received several awards, residences, and grants including the YBCA 100, the Lucas Artists Fellowship, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Kala Media Fellowship Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi Residency, Recology Artist Residency, the Alternative Exposure Award, and California Art Council Grants. She has exhibited locally and internationally at Asian Art Museum San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Berkeley Art Center, Pori Art Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, and many more. Her work has been featured in the SF Chronicle, Hyperallergic, SFWeekly, KQED and many other media outlets. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

500 Capp Street is pleased to announce our 2024-2025 International Artist Residency recipients, SHIMURAbros based in Tok...
11/26/2024

500 Capp Street is pleased to announce our 2024-2025 International Artist Residency recipients, SHIMURAbros based in Tokyo and Berlin. The Japanese artist-duo relocated to Berlin in 2014 on a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation, where they are currently researchers at the studio of Olafur Eliasson . just arrived in San Francisco, spending their two-month residency from November to December of this year. Please extend your warm welcome to them if you happen to see them in the house! With the additional support of the Individual fellowship grant of the they are researching on the life and motivations of Beate Sirota Gordon who has contributed to women’s rights in the Japanese constitution. Beate Sirota Gordon was an Oakland resident in 1939 upon her attendance to Mills College studying Modern Languages. The 500 Capp Street yearly international artist residency is generously supported by the Sanger Family Foundation. In addition to this years support is the Individual Fellowship grant from the Asian Cultural Council. ———————————————————————————-L-R Photo courtesy of SHIMURAbros and the Tokyo Gallery +BTAP

SHIMURAbros, Kentaro and Yuka at the Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Japan, 2024.

SILVER SCREEN - Hanabi. Single Screen Video Installation, 2018. Installation view: Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art, Japan

Specious Rainbow, 2023. Installation view: Tokyo Gallery +BTAP, Japan

X-Ray Train, 2007-2009, Installation Image (black and white / X-Ray CT) special liquid crystal film, iron, wire, PC, projector, Japan

Light Odyssey, 2017. Copper, Stainless Steel, Optical Glass, POLA Art Museum, Hakone, Japan

Found the Rainbow in the Cloud, 2024. Installation View: Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Japan

Join us next Monday, October 28th, for a very special conversation between Milk Teeth’s Annie Albagli and curator Amanda...
10/22/2024

Join us next Monday, October 28th, for a very special conversation between Milk Teeth’s Annie Albagli and curator Amanda Nudelman!

The talk will begin at 6pm and will take place here at 500 Capp Street. Register for free through the link in our bio!

Amanda Nudelman is a curator and writer based in the Bay Area and currently a Director, Artist Relations at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. She was the closing Exhibitions and Public Programs Curator at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts and previously held positions at KADIST, San Francisco and UNTITLED, ART. Recent exhibitions and programs have been presented at / (Slash) (San Francisco), Wattis Institute (San Francisco), e-flux (New York), Royal Nonesuch Gallery (Oakland), swissnex (San Francisco), and Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin). Her writing has appeared in Creative Villages Journal, CSPA Quarterly, and Blackout Magazine. She holds a MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Due to popular demand, we will be screening Mildred Howard’s experimental film The Time and Space of Now. A talk moderat...
10/09/2024

Due to popular demand, we will be screening Mildred Howard’s experimental film The Time and Space of Now. A talk moderated by Elena Gross also features Mildred Howard joined by Dewey Crumpler to talk about the film.

Register now through the link in our bio and use the code “friendsandfamily” for free tickets!

Join us for a special talk with Tim Berry and Jeremy Morgan on the role of chance in art-making, this Saturday at 3pm!Th...
09/27/2024

Join us for a special talk with Tim Berry and Jeremy Morgan on the role of chance in art-making, this Saturday at 3pm!

The talk will be accompanied by a curated exhibition in the Paule Anglim Archive Room of prints and pieces from the artists’ archives and our collection of experimental prints made by David Ireland

Register now through the link in our bio!
Use code “friendsandfamily” at checkout for free tickets

As part of the exhibition, Milk Teeth, Albagli is organizing a September 26 premiere of a collective performance score b...
08/27/2024

As part of the exhibition, Milk Teeth, Albagli is organizing a September 26 premiere of a collective performance score by artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, led by interdisciplinary artist, Rachel Lastimosa. We are putting out a call to our community, for those connected to the act of mothering to join us in a chant about water.

If you are interested please fill out the google form in our bio.

Notice: From 08/25/2024 to 09/12/2024 the second floor and dining room of the David Ireland House will be closed for the...
08/27/2024

Notice: From 08/25/2024 to 09/12/2024 the second floor and dining room of the David Ireland House will be closed for the installation of our fall exhibitions.

During this time we will be pausing our guided tours, which will come back on September 12. We will still be open for visitors for our Free Self-Guided Saturdays, where you can visit our Accordion Shop and our Archival Show “Maintenance Actions for Dis/Repair”.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

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500 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA
94110

Opening Hours

Friday 2pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

(415)8729240

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