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  • Artist Talk with Omari Douglin and Anthony Huberman, Director and Chief Curator of CCA Wattis Institute
    January 24, 2023 12:00 PM-12:00 PM

    Micki Meng is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Omari Douglin and Anthony Huberman, Director and Chief Curator of CCA Wattis Institute.

    Omari Douglin: The People of New York City is on view at Micki Meng Bayview until January 23, 2023.

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  • Artist Talk with Pachi Muruchu and Bana Kattan, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
    November 02, 2022 12:00 PM-01:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Pachi Muruchu and Bana Kattan, Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

    Pachi Muruchu: Sumak Yachay is on view at Friends Indeed Chinatown from October 27 - December 2, 2022.⁠

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  • Lauren Quin: Sagittal Fours at Pond Society, Shanghai
    September 24, 2022 12:00 AM-October 31, 2022 12:00 AM

    Pond Society is pleased to present a solo exhibition, Sagittal Fours, featuring the recent work of artist Lauren Quin.

  • SFAI faculty member Carlos Villa’s hybrid legacy honored in two shows
    August 18, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • Artist Talk with Anne Buckwalter and Veronica Roberts, Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
    July 13, 2022 01:00 PM-02:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery and Rebecca Camacho Presents are pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Anne Buckwalter and Veronica Roberts, Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, on Tuesday, July 12th at 1 PM PST.

    Anne Buckwalter: Two Story House is on view in Chinatown from June 25 - July 30, 2022.⁠

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  • Sarah Miska in W Mag
    May 19, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • A Talk with Gabriella Boyd and Andrea Andersson, Chief Curator at Rivers Institute
    April 27, 2022 12:00 PM-01:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Gabriella Boyd and Andrea Andersson, Chief Curator at Rivers Institute, on Tuesday, April 26th at 12 PM PST.

    Gabriella Boyd: Signal is on view at Friends Indeed Bayview from March 31 - May 13, 2022.⁠

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  • Sula Bermúdez-Silverman in Contemporary Art Daily
    April 20, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • Carlos Villa in Hyperallergic
    April 17, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • Gabriella Boyd in Flaunt
    March 31, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • Livien Yin in South China Morning Post
    March 22, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • Livien Yin in Brooklyn Rail
    March 18, 2022 12:00 AM

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  • A Talk with Sula Bermúdez-Silverman and María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
    March 01, 2022 12:00 PM-01:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Sula Bermúdez-Silverman and María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), on Tuesday, March 1st at 12 PM PST.

    Sula Bermúdez-Silverman: Here Be Dragons is on view from February 25 - March 25, 2022.⁠

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  • Gabriel Mills in PLATFORM
    February 28, 2022 12:00 AM

    Gabriel Mills is always synthesizing. From looking through the history of art to modern digital culture, Mills finds inspiration just about everywhere. The artist spoke with Platform about the malleable meaning of words and how great aesthetic experiences can alter our perceptions.

  • Mother and Child in Flaunt
    December 16, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Mother and Child in Brooklyn Rail
    December 08, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Miljohn Ruperto wins 2021 Gold Art Prize
    December 07, 2021 12:00 PM

    Congratulations to Miljohn Ruperto and all the winners of the inaugural Gold Art Prize co-founded by Kelly Huang and Gold House.

  • Lauren Quin in Cultured
    December 07, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Miljohn Ruperto in Jakarta Bienniale 2021
    November 21, 2021 12:00 AM-January 21, 2022 12:00 AM

    Miljohn Ruperto is featured at the Jakarta Bienniale 2021 — presentation ESOK, with Ulrik Heltoft & Erik Chongsoo Kim​.

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  • A Talk with Artist Gabriel Mills and Monetta White
    September 01, 2021 03:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Gabriel Mills and Monetta White, Executive Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), on Wednesday, September 1st at 3 PM PST.

    Gabriel Mills: SONATA HALF LIGHT is on view from August 25 - September 26, 2021.⁠

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  • Tina Braegger in Contemporary Art Daily
    August 11, 2021 09:00 AM

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  • Artist Spotlight: Jiab Prachakul
    July 21, 2021 12:00 PM

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  • Michon Sanders in New York Times T Magazine
    July 16, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • In the Studio With Lauren Quin, the Painter Doing Abstraction Her Own Way
    July 08, 2021 12:00 PM

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  • Tina Braegger and Jordan Stein in conversation
    July 08, 2021 12:00 AM

    Tina Braegger, Slouching towards Bethlehem, 2021. Detail. Oil on canvas, 76 3/4 x 110 1/4 inches.


    Tina Braegger and Jordan Stein in conversation on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition in San Francisco titled History of the Grateful Dead.

  • Livien Yin on 8-bridges
    June 01, 2021 12:00 AM-June 30, 2021 12:00 AM

    For June on 8-bridges, Friends Indeed Gallery presents new work by Livien Yin.

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  • A Talk with Artist Mario Moore and Victoria Sung from Walker Art Center
    May 26, 2021 12:00 AM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between artist Mario Moore and Victoria Sung, Associate Curator of the Walker Art Center, on Wednesday, May 26th on The Myth Industry, up through June 25, 2021. ⁠

    The Myth Industry is on view from May 13 - June 25, 2021.⁠

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  • "Appearance of Isabel Rosario Cooper" by Miljohn Ruperto Featured in Talk by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
    April 23, 2021 12:00 AM


    A clip from "Appearance of Isabel Rosario Cooper," by Miljohn Ruperto featured in a talk by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez on her new book, Empire's Mistress: Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper. Interviewed by Theodore S. Gonzalves and hosted by UH Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.

    Gonzalez's book centers on Filipino actress, Isabel Rosario Cooper, tracking her film career in the Philippines and Hollywood and her complicated relationship with Douglas MacArthur, while dismantling the influences of colonialism in telling and interpreting Cooper's life story.

  • SF Chronicle Datebook Pick: Gloria Wong - Three Tongues
    April 23, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • 48hills: Daily Scenes Reveal Complex Family Identities in Gloria Wong's 'Three Tongues'
    April 14, 2021 05:50 PM

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  • The New Lens: Amid Violence and Isolation, a Vital Exploration of the Asian Diaspora
    April 07, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Representation, Art, and Film: Jiab Prachakul with Lisa Joy, Celeste Truffaut-Wong, and Kim Nguyen
    April 01, 2021 12:00 PM-01:00 PM

    Friends Indeed is pleased to host a lunchtime virtual talk on representation, art, and film with Thai painter Jiab Prachakul, whose debut U.S. show 14 Years is currently on view in San Francisco; Celeste Truffaut-Wong, an independent film festival screener who was raised in the world of film; and Lisa Joy, Emmy Award® -nominated writer, director and producer of West World. The talk will be moderated by Kim Nguyen, Curator and Head of Programs at the CCA Wattis Institute. ⁠

    14 Years is on view from February 1 - April 30, 2021.⁠

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  • The Genius List: Jiab Prachakul
    March 19, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Frieze: Jiab Prachakul's '14 Years' in Top 5 Shows to See in the US and Canada
    March 19, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Tall Tales of Carlos Villa: Patrick Flores and Kari Rittenbach with Aleesa Alexander
    March 18, 2021 06:00 PM-07:00 PM


    On Thursday, March 18th, 2021 at 6pm PST, Friends Indeed is pleased to host a talk on the legacy of San Francisco artist Carlos Villa (1936-2013). The conversation is between Patrick Flores, Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network and Artistic Director of the 2019-2020 Singapore Biennale; noted critic and curator Kari Rittenbach; and Aleesa Alexander, co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative and Assistant Curator of American Art at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Carlos Villa: Walks of Life is on view from February 8 - March 26, 2021.

  • Frieze: Jiab Prachakul Reveals Herself through Her Subjects
    March 11, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Carla: Candice Lin
    February 23, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • The Ruby SF: Artist Talk with Jiab Prachakul
    February 19, 2021 12:00 PM

    The Ruby SF will host a lunchtime discussion between the artist Jiab Prachakul and Ruby members Sunisa Manning and Linda Mai Green, on the occasion of Jiab’s first U.S. solo exhibition with Friends Indeed Gallery, 14 Years, which runs from February 1 - April 30, 2021 at Four One Nine in San Francisco's SoMA district.

    The Ruby SF is an arts & letters–focused work and gathering space for women and non-binary artists and writers.

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  • Artnet News: How Jiab Prachakul Went From Self-Taught Painter to Sought-After Star—All Before Her First Solo Show
    February 19, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Future Continuous: Present Stream Ep. 1
    February 12, 2021 12:00 AM


    Episode 1: Viral Memory of Future Continuous: Present Stream includes interviews with writer, urbanist, and media historian Norman M. Klein, artists Miljohn Ruperto and Candice Lin, and neurobiologist Jason Shepherd. Video works excerpted in Episode 1 include Ordinal SW/NE (2017) by Miljohn Ruperto and Rini Yun Keagy and Toxic Semiotics (2020) by Candice Lin.​

    Future Continuous: Present Stream is an online series of episodes featuring contemporary artists and scholars exploring parallel and competing visions of what the future holds for both art and the world it lives in. This series was developed with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and partnering organization JOAN Los Angeles. Future Continuous: Present Stream is created by Daniel R. Small and produced by David Matorin.

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  • A Circular Kind of Movement: A Conversation About the Works of Carlos Villa: Mary Valledor & Sherwin Rio
    February 05, 2021 12:00 AM

    Leo Valledor and Carlos Villa goofing around in Valledor’s Manhattan apartment, c. mid-1960s. Courtesy of Mary Valledor.


    Carlos Villa’s dedication to art and the concerns of his era touched many. His intentioned refusal defined what it means to be an Artist’s Artist, an expression commonly used today. Villa's integrity sequestered him to San Francisco, a city with an undercurrent for reform beyond the gaze.

    It’s not easy to determine where to begin when introducing Villa's expansive legacy. The pleasure of getting to know an artist takes a lifetime and more. In lieu of a press release, we are pleased to share a conversation between Mary Valledor and Sherwin Rio. Valledor is an inspiring educator who heads the Estate of Carlos Villa. Rio is an interdisciplinary artist working between Brooklyn and San Francisco. This interview will be followed by a series of talks around the artist’s life and work, ahead of his traveling career-retrospective at the Asian Art Museum and his inclusion in the next Prospect Biennale.

  • Jiab Prachakul in New York Times T Magazine
    February 03, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Hyperallergic: Painting a Portrait Is “Like Falling in Love,” Says Jiab Prachakul
    January 27, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Jiab Prachakul in The Futurist Thailand (online magazine)
    January 26, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Jiab Prachakul: BP Portrait Award 2020 Panel Discussion
    January 14, 2021 12:00 AM


    Lead Curator of Art Madeline Ward is joined by panelists including artists Jiab Prachakul (winner of the 2020 BP Portrait Award First Prize), Egbert Modderman (winner of the Young Artist Award), finalist Jennifer MacRae and National Portrait Gallery Associate Curator Rosie Broadley.

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  • SF Chronicle Datebook Pick: Jiab Prachakul's '14 Years'
    January 11, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Jiab Prachakul in Modern Luxury
    December 02, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • Patty Chang in MY BODY, MY RULES
    November 19, 2020 12:00 AM-September 05, 2021 12:00 AM

    Patty Chang participates in a group show MY BODY, MY RULES at Pérez Art Museum Miami.

  • Hyperallergic: Processing Our 2020 Feelings With Patty Chang
    November 17, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • Smithsonian Archives: Oral History interview with Carlos Villa, 1995
    November 17, 2020 12:00 AM


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  • Carla: Patty Chang
    November 15, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • Contemporary Art Daily: Patty Chang
    November 05, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • It's Nice That: For Jiab Prachakul, there is more to portraiture than producing the beautiful
    November 05, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • Patty Chang: UCLA Department of Art Lecture
    October 31, 2020 06:30 PM


    L.A.–based artist Patty Chang works in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Fri Art Fribourg, Switzerland; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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  • Part One: Exploration event with Eamon Ore-Giron
    October 29, 2020 06:00 PM

    Artist Eamon Ore-Giron will present a selection of film clips, artist videos, and footage documenting different indigenous and folkloric performances that have influenced his practice. Amongst them, he will feature “Crudo” by Miguel Angel Ríos, and Miguel Calderon’s “Camaleón” and “Inverted Star.”

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  • Carl Cheng in Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions
    October 24, 2020 12:00 AM-February 21, 2021 12:00 AM

    Carl Cheng participates in a group show Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Switzerland.

  • ARTnews: Patty Chang’s Affecting Videos and Photographs Find Emotion in Breast Milk, Death, and More
    October 23, 2020 01:30 PM

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  • Artist Eamon Ore-Giron in conversation with poet and scholar Edgar Garcia
    October 22, 2020 04:00 PM

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  • Milk and Water: A Conversation with Patty Chang and Astrida Neimanis
    October 22, 2020 03:00 PM


    Join artist Patty Chang in a special conversation with Astrida Neimanis, author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, marking the opening of Patty Chang’s exhibition Milk Debt at 18th Street Arts Center. Neimanis and Chang will discuss confluences in their respective practices in the shadow of both a global pandemic and climate catastrophe. Their conversation charts a route through messy questions of toxic embodiment, mothers and their labors, environmental justice, and the banality of planetary collapse. How, they wonder, might the shifting scale of our fears can teach us something about what matters?

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  • Variable West Reviews Patty Chang
    October 22, 2020 03:00 AM

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  • 8-Bridges: Bridging the Bay Area Art World: Panel #1
    October 21, 2020 06:00 PM

    Join 8-bridges for a lively Zoom discussion with the directors of three Bay Area institutions: Julie Rodrigues Widholm (the new Director of Berkeley Art Museum), Alison Gass (the new Director of ICA San Jose) and Jay Xu (Director of Asian Art Museum since 2008). Chaired by art sociologist Sarah Thornton, the session will discuss curatorial agendas and building bridges between audiences.

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  • Patty Chang at 18th Street Arts Center
    October 19, 2020 12:00 AM-January 22, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Opening for Patty Chang, Que Sera Sera (Reserve an Appointment Here)
    October 01, 2020 06:00 PM-08:00 PM



    If I had it to do over again, I would assign other stages of mourning to the scripted five steps of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Perhaps the leap between depression and acceptance seemed too big a gulf to bridge. Between them, I would add in no fixed order: repositioning, integrating, shapeshifting, imagination, enchantment, trance, transmogrification, invocation, mystification, and bewilderment. When the time comes, because I am sure it will, I'll test them out, and let you know how it goes.

    Love,

    Patricia

  • Art Asia Pacific: Miljohn Ruperto
    October 01, 2020 12:00 AM

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  • Bay Area Galleries Band Together to Launch Communal Online Platform
    September 18, 2020 03:25 PM

    Founded by a committee including Altman Siegel, Fraenkel Gallery, Friends Indeed, Gagosian, Jessica Silverman, Pace Palo Alto, Ratio 3, and art-market operatives Sophia Kinell and Sarah Wendell Sherrill, 8-bridges will offer monthly rotating exhibitions by Bay Area galleries.

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  • LA-based artist Lauren Quin in conversation with Miriam Katzeff from Artists Space
    September 15, 2020 02:00 PM-03:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present a virtual talk between Lauren Quin and Miriam Katzeff on Tuesday, September 15th to expand on the exhibition Lathe and Marrow, Quin's first solo exhibition in San Francisco on view through Friday, September 18th, 2020. CLICK HERE to view the entire talk.

  • Candice Lin featured in Carla
    September 08, 2020 12:00 AM

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    The Artist will have a solo show at Friends Indeed opening November 2020, ahead of her first museum solo exhibition co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

  • A Virtual Talk with artist Stephanie H. Shih, curator Aleesa Alexander, and food critic Soleil Ho
    September 01, 2020 05:00 PM-06:00 PM

    Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present A-Z: Artists at Large, a new global talk series focused on contemporary Asian art and its diasporas. CLICK HERE to view the entire talk.

    Our first conversation will take place on Tuesday, September 1st at 5PM PST / 8PM EST / 8AM GMT ahead of the closing for Stephanie H. Shih's exhibition Same Same with Perrotin the day after. Same Same includes two new bodies of work from an ongoing series about shared nostalgia and the Asian American pantry. The artist will be in conversation with Aleesa Alexander, Assistant Curator of American Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and Soleil Ho, former host of the award winning podcast Racist Sandwich, current host of Extra Spicy, and food critic for the SF Chronicle.

  • Jiab Prachakul on the Cover of Vogue Thailand
    September 01, 2020 12:00 PM-12:00 PM

    All 26 Vogues Unite for the First Time Ever on the Hope Issue.

  • Patty Chang is featured in the Summer 2020 issue of X-TRA
    August 14, 2020 11:00 AM

    Patty Chang is featured in the Summer 2020 issue of X-TRA. The artist will have a solo exhibition at the gallery from October 1 - November 6, 2020, curated by Nancy Lim, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.

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  • Eamon Ore-Giron in Frieze
    August 06, 2020 11:00 AM

    The Sacred Synthesis of Eamon Ore-Giron
    by Natasha Boas

  • Announcing New Work by Sung Jik
    July 28, 2020 08:00 AM-August 01, 2020 06:00 PM

  • Eamon Ore-Giron in Conversation with Diana Nawi
    June 25, 2020 04:00 PM-05:00 PM

    To launch Eamon Ore-Giron's show with Friends Indeed, the artist will be in conversation with Diana Nawi, co-Artistic Director of Prospect.5 Biennial in New Orleans. Click here to RSVP.

  • Eamon Ore-Giron Named to Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University
    June 18, 2020 12:00 AM

    In the Stanford tradition of providing a home for art and artists who advance dialogue on contemporary issues, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will welcome visual artist Eamon Ore-Giron to campus for the 2020-2021 Presidential Residency on the Future of the Arts.

    The residency will culminate in an exhibition of Ore-Giron’s work in spring 2021, giving new context to objects already on view at the Anderson Collection.

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  • Photograph Magazine — Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft: Voynich Botanical Studies at Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco
    March 31, 2020 12:00 PM

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  • Artforum Critic's Picks — Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft: “Voynich Botanical Studies”
    January 21, 2020 12:00 PM

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  • Opening Reception for Miljohn Ruperto & Ulrik Heltoft: Voynich Botanical Studies
    January 10, 2020 02:00 PM-04:00 PM

  • Outrunning the Race: Opening Reception
    November 02, 2019 01:00 PM-03:00 PM

    A show contemplating the limitations of consciousness.

    Featuring Tauba Auerbach and Hiro Kone, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Donna Haraway, Michael Jang, David Kasprzak, Nion McEvoy Jr., Eamon Ore-Giron, Gala Porras-Kim, Jesse Schlesinger, Gabriel Sierra, Smashing Pumpkins, Bradley Ward, and David Weiss.

    Image: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoconcanción A, 2016. Collage. Framed Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (59.7 x 74.9 x 3.8 cm) Image Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (49.5 x 64.8 cm)

  • Oversharing: Opening and Inaugural Reception
    September 28, 2019 02:00 PM-05:00 PM

    Join us for the opening celebration of Oversharing. The exhibition is on view from September 13–October 25, 2019 from Wed–Fri, 11am–4pm and by appointment. This is the inaugural show at Friends Indeed Gallery.

  • Oversharing: Collector’s Preview
    September 13, 2019 11:00 AM-04:00 PM

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