SWAP THING
A Community Clothing Swap
Sunday, August 3, 2025
ICA San Francisco
345 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94104
A HAPPENING, AN ACTION:
12 - 4 PM
In partnership with host venue ICA San Francisco, Swap Circle, Reuse Alliance, Sustainable Fashion Alliance, and Mushi Wooseong James
Cathy Lu's Peripheral Visions installation at The Armory Show was featured in five publications for best booth at The Armory.
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In conjunction with her premiere solo museum exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Art, My Hellmouth, Lauren Quin spoke with writer Juliana Halpert, who wrote an essay for the exhibition, on March 2, 2023.
In tandem, NMOCA will release Quin’s first comprehensive monographic publication, featuring a director’s foreword by JoAnne Northrup, an essay by Fanny Singer, and an interview with the artist by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced the recipients of the 2023 Art+Technology grants. The grant includes a monetary award and support for the projects, which use new technologies to foster innovation. Patty Chang and David Kelley will explore legal and ecological considerations of deep-sea mining.
Jeanne Gerrity wrote on Estephania Puerta's exhibition Tragada at the gallery's Chinatown location for Artforum's summer 2023 critic's picks.
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.
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.
Pond Society is pleased to present a solo exhibition, Sagittal Fours, featuring the recent work of artist Lauren Quin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations to Miljohn Ruperto and all the winners of the inaugural Gold Art Prize co-founded by Kelly Huang and Gold House.
Miljohn Ruperto is featured at the Jakarta Bienniale 2021 — presentation ESOK, with Ulrik Heltoft & Erik Chongsoo Kim.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leo Valledor and Carlos Villa goofing around in Valledor’s Manhattan apartment, c. mid-1960s. Courtesy of Mary Valledor.
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.
Patty Chang participates in a group show MY BODY, MY RULES at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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.
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.”
Carl Cheng participates in a group show Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Switzerland.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The Sacred Synthesis of Eamon Ore-Giron
by Natasha Boas
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.
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.
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)
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.
