Haines Gallery

06/03/2026

shares the story behind Sunburned GSP #860, created in the Arctic Circle in summer 2015.

The 25-panel work is featured in Chris McCaw: Double Day, now on view at SF Camerawork through June 21. Don’t miss the opening reception on June 6, 5–7 PM.

06/02/2026

A recent acquisition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts highlights the depth of contemporary photography, including work by David Maisel —recognized for his investigations of landscape, industry, and environmental transformation.

Maisel’s work continues this inquiry in Once the Ocean Floor, currently on view at Haines Gallery. hainesgallery.com/exhibitions/98-once-the-ocean-floor/

Learn more via the article.
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Nearly 2,000 photographs enter VMFA’s permanent art collection.

06/01/2026

Haines will be closed on June 2 and 3 for a private event.

Here are just a few of the incredible exhibitions taking place around San Francisco and the Bay Area we recommend visiting while we're away. We'll see you back at the gallery on Thursday, June 4.

🔶 Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto, curated by Maggie Dethloff and on view through September 14 at Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
🔶 Moving San Francisco: Views from the SFMTA - San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Photo Archive 1903 - Now, presented by San Francisco Arts Commission and on view through November 25 at City Hall.
🔶 Rupy C. Tut The Picnic Potluck, a public work at City College of San Francisco, presented by ICA San Francisco
🔶 Machismosa, curated by Aleo Landeta, opening June 3 at Root Division

Images
- Miljohn Ruperto, What God Hath Wrought (Kairos), from the series The Great Disappointment, in progress. Three animations with VR (color, sound). Courtesy of the artist and Micki Meng Gallery, San Francisco.
- Installation view, Moving San Francisco Photo By Aaron Wojack
- Rupy C Tut, The Picnic Potluck, Installation Photo by Nicholas Lea Bruno
- Daniel Arthur Mendoza, An Open and Fearless Capacity for Joy and a Fuller Eros (detail), 2022

05/28/2026

PhotoAlliance’s Community Benefit Dinner & Fundraising Auction takes place on Thursday, June 11 at the Trocadero Clubhouse at.

Founded by LindaConnor in 2002, PhotoAlliance continues to support the Bay Area photographic community through public lectures, workshops, and other programs.

This year’s auction includes works by Connor and Meghann Riepenhoff, alongside 20 other photographers.

Get your tickets and join in the auction: https://www.photoalliance.org/2026-photoalliance-community-benefit-dinner

Join us for the return of our annual Community Benefit Dinner, in combination with a Fundraising Auction. The location will be at the beautiful Trocadero Clubhouse in Stern Grove, SF. You won’t want to miss a wonderful evening full of friends, food, and photography.

05/27/2026

We’re pleased to announce the acquisition of by… Miranda Priestly?

Works on paper by the celebrated Cuban artist appeared in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Cultured Magazine recently interviewed F***y Pereire, the film’s fine art coordinator for The Devil Wears Prada 2, about how she places art in the homes of the wealthy—and fictional.

Read more: https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/05/05/film-wealth-consultant-fanny-pereire-devil-wears-prada/

05/25/2026

“There is this new world being born, this world in which we think differently about nature, about race, about gender; in which we are much more adamant about a quality in human rights; in which we understand we were never separate from nature.”

Meghann Riepenhoff’s work appears behind author and activist Rebecca Solnit in a recent interview with CNN about activism, change, and hope.

Solnit wrote the text for Riepenhoff’s latest monograph, Ice—extending an ongoing dialogue between their practices.

Watch the interview: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/tv/video/amanpour-solnit

Author and activist Rebecca Solnit speaks to Christiane Amanpour about her new book “The Beginning Comes After the End”.

05/22/2026

Aimé Mpane Visual Artist Artiste Visuel is featured in the Pavilion of the Democratic Republic of Congo at the 2026 .

Seize the Fire brings together nine artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its diaspora, reflecting a vision rooted in Congolese languages and cosmologies while addressing a global audience. Mpane’s sculptural work, made from thousands of matchstick stems, explores the lingering effects of colonial violence through deeply material and symbolic processes.

The Venice Biennale is on view through November 22, 2026.

Learn more about the DRC’s presentation in Venice here: https://africanscolumn.com/seize-the-fire-the-drc-pavilion-ignites-a-radical-collective-imagination-at-the-61st-venice-biennale/

05/21/2026

Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at MAXXI L'Aquila is featured in Designboom, tracing a five-decade practice shaped by memory, catastrophe, and resilience.

The presentation brings together works from the artist’s early years in New York to recent sculptures produced in Ukraine, foregrounding an ongoing engagement with history and its afterlives.

Read the article: https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-memory-catastrophe-resilience-maxxi-laquila-exhibition/

Ai Weiwei’s return in maxxi L’Aquila is shaped by reconstruction Ai Weiwei reflects on cities marked by trauma with a sense of familiarity, arriving in MAXXI L’Aquila as it continues its long recovery from the 2009 earthquake. The artist notes the ‘tremendous effort to rebuild and reconstru...

05/21/2026

This summer, SF Camerawork and Haines Gallery collaborate on two consecutive solo exhibitions: : Double Day and : Bay Panel.

Both artists share early ties to SF Camerawork, making these presentations both a recognition of their evolving practices and a reflection of the organization’s long-standing role in supporting Bay Area photography.

On view at SF Camerawork at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Plan your visit to experience both exhibitions. https://sfcamerawork.org/