In 2018, artist Micki Meng founded a non-profit publication and research hub challenging the existing frameworks available in the art industry. She sought stewardship from leading art figures including Susanne Ghez, Hank Willis Thomas, Laura Owens, Sonya Yu, Franklin Sirmans, Nion McEvoy, and others who served on the Board. As a publication, the organization commissioned texts by notable writers including Nathaniel Mackey, Olivian Cha, and Rita Gonzalez.
In 2019, Meng was offered a hand-me-down space by the artist community, and Friends Indeed was born. Our first gallery location was founded as an absurdly small experimental vitrine featuring works for sale by leading local and international contemporary artists. The gallery borders San Francisco’s historic Chinatown and downtown Financial District, beneath a Philip Johnson designed building, overlooked by the three Corporate Goddesses. In Fall 2021, the gallery expanded to a warehouse in Bayview. The new gallery is near the ICA San Francisco, where Meng is a founding partner. In 2023, Micki Meng opened a guerrilla apartment gallery and artist house at IM PEI Towers in New York City, and most recently its first location and cooperative house in Paris, across from the Centre Pompidou.
Friends Indeed is founded by Micki Meng with Eric Li and Nazlı Ercan, and became Micki Meng in 2021.
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Rights of Nature
Micki Meng dedicates a portion of its annual profit, time and activity towards ecological care through Art into Acres, Conservation Imperatives, and Earth Kind.
Locations
Chinatown
716 Sacramento Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Valet garage parking is available across from the gallery at 650 Sacramento Street.
Dogpatch
Private Viewings Only
Easy street parking.
New York
IM PEI Towers
Paris
Ongoing
Mailing Address
2442 45th Ave
San Francisco, CA 94116
Gallery Hours
By appointment
Happily by appointment to office@mickimeng.com
Sales Inquiries:
Micki Meng
micki@mickimeng.com
Press Inquiries:
archive@mickimeng.com
Team
Micki Meng is a dealer, curator and artist advocate working on the West Coast in a global context for over fifteen years. She has held gallery positions at Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Altman Siegel, San Francisco; and curatorial roles with The Brick, 12th Istanbul Biennale, 9th Shanghai Biennale and The Wattis Institute where she also served as Assistant Director for five years while managing the renown Capp Street Artist Residency. She is founder of &Art&, a publishing and nomadic partnership initiative sourcing solutions for artists in the contemporary moment. She has also been involved as a patron and on councils including Steering Committee of Further Triennial, Dia Art Foundation, SculptureCenter's International Council, Performa, Artist's Space, Cantor Arts Center, Artadia’s founding chapter in San Francisco, Headlands Center for the Arts, de Young Museum's Curator's Forum, SFMOMA’s Contemporaries Forum, Berkeley Art Museum, Commonweal, ValueCulture, YBCA's Art+Action Committee, Zoo Labs, San Francisco Arts Commission, Community Council at Salmon Creek Farm, Founder of Patrons for Experimental Progress, a co-founder of 8-bridges, and co-initiator of A Cool Million. As an educator, she has taught and lectured in MFA and Curatorial programs including California College of the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford, and Yale. She frequently advocates next generation support for her core interest: planetary health through art and science, and volunteers in Philanthropy for Art into Acres and Conservation Imperatives, environmental initiatives founded by Haley Mellin. She is a member of the Earth Kind community.
Press
Florie Hutchinson
Finance, Ethics, and Special Projects
Adaline Lang
Gallery Assistant
Grace Weber
Design & Co-Founders
Eric Li & Nazlı Ercan
The gallery accepts tax-deductible contributions through our fiscal sponsor HERE.
EIN: 94-1593216
