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International
selection including participating galleries from 14 countries and 25 cities
announced
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The Collector and Press
Preview will take place 5-7pm on Thursday, January 26th
· Public opening January 27-29 at Festival Pavilion,
Fort Mason, San Francisco
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Images and press accreditation
to the preview and/or to book interviews contact
[email protected]San
Francisco, CA, January 11, 2017: PHOTOFAIRS is pleased to
announce the participating galleries for its inaugural US edition in San
Francisco, opening to the public from January 27-29 at Fort Mason’s Festival
Pavilion. Complementing the Bay Area’s already strong photographic legacy,
PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco will feature a selection of 34 national and international
galleries, representing 14 countries and 25 cities worldwide.
Drawing on the international reach
from the
majority of the participating galleries who have exhibition spaces outside of
the United States, the curated environment will bring together blue-chip
vintage material alongside contemporary photographic works of art. Collectors
and art-buyers alike should expect to experience a breadth of unique
(non-editioned) photography that will be emphasized across many of the fair’s public programs
and platforms.
Positioned to be a prime West Coast
destination for discovering and collecting fine art photography, the fair will
focus on presenting international artists never before seen in the Bay Area,
and will see the debut of new work by artists including Cortis &
Sonderegger, Ahmet
Ertuğ, Martin Kollar, Anja Niemi, Eric Pillot, Wang
Ningde, Joran Sullican, Ester Vonplon and Tyler Udall. PHOTOFAIRS will also celebrate significant
photographic talents from the United States’ West Coast, highlighting such
artists as John Chiara, Jim Campbell, Paul Fusco, Mona Kuhnand
SFMOMA’s prestigious SECA award winner Sean McFarland.
2017
GALLERIES
The participating
galleries will be located in two sectors, Mainand Platform. The
Main sector represents galleries both new and established. The Platform
sector represents galleries participating in their first United States-based
art fair.
Main Galleries
andriesse eyck galerie (Amsterdam)
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York)
CAMERA WORK (Berlin)
Casemore Kirkeby (San Francisco)
CHOI & LAGER Gallery (Cologne & Seoul)
Danziger Gallery (New York)
De Soto Gallery (Venice Beach)
DIVISON Gallery (Montreal & Toronto)
Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York & Zurich)
EUQINOMprojects (San Francisco)
Fahey/Klein Gallery (Los Angeles)
Flowers Gallery (London, New York &
Hong Kong)
Galerie DUMONTEIL (Paris, Shanghai & New York)
Galerie & Edition Stephan
Witschi (Zurich)
In The Gallery (Copenhagen)
Klowden Mann (Culver City)
M97 Gallery (Shanghai)
Magnum Photos (London, Paris & New
York)
Mohsen Gallery (Tehran)
Peter Fetterman (Santa Monica)
Photo12 Galerie (Santa Monica & Paris)
Ratio 3 (San Francisco)
Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco)
Robert Mann Gallery (New York)
The Little Black Gallery (London)
Theme+Projects (San Francisco)
Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing & Xiamen)
Tristan Hoare (London)
Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai)
Upfor (Portland)
Highlight works by
European artists include, Martin Kollar (Galerie & Edition Stephan Witschi, Zurich); Tina Berning &
Michelangelo di Baptista, Peter
Lindbergh and Anderson & Low (CAMERA WORK, Berlin); Yves Marchand
& Romain Meffre and Alejandro Guijarro (Tristan Hoare, London); Eric Pillot and Willy
Rizzo (Galerie DUMONTEIL, Paris, Shanghai & New York); Denis Darzacq (De Soto Gallery, Venice Beach); Valérie Belin (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York & Zurich); and Charlotte Dumas (andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam).
From Asia and the
Middle East, celebrated Japanese artists Sohei Nishino (Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery,
New York), Yuki
Onodera and
Aki Lumi (Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai) and Osamu
Yokonami (De Soto Gallery, Venice Beach) will be presented,
along with South Korean and Chinese photographers Boomoon and Shen
Wei (Flowers Gallery, London, New York &
Hong Kong); Birdhead and Jungjin Lee (Galerie & Edition Stephan Witschi, Zurich); RongRong &
Inri and Yang Fudong (Three Shadows +3 Gallery, Beijing & Xiamen), and Middle
Eastern-based artists Shariar Tavakoli, Mehdi Abdolkarimi and Mehrdad Afsari (Mohsen Gallery, Tehran).
Artists from Latin
America include Vik
Muniz and Abelardo Morell (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York & Zürich), alongside a special
solo presentation of Rodrigo Valenzuela’s moving and still image work (Upfor, Portland / Klowden Mann, Culver City).
Key talent from the
West Coast and across the United States will include Paul Fusco (Danziger Gallery, New
York), Buck Ellison (Ratio 3, San Francisco), Jim Campbell (Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery,
New York), Jeff Brouws and Robert Heinecken (Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco), Tidd Hido
(Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco), Tabitha Soren and McNair Evans (EUQINOMprojects, San Francisco), Randy
Hayes (Theme+Projects, San Francisco) along with Mona Kuhn (EUQINOMprojects, San Francisco, and Flowers
Gallery, London, New York & Hong
Kong), and many more.
Platform Galleries
East Wing (Dubai)
ELIPSIS PROJECTS (London & Istanbul)
Pan-View Gallery (Zhengzhou)
Rubber Factory (New York)
PUBLIC PROGRAM AND
ARTIST EVENTS
The PHOTOFAIRS
Public Program schedule will include installations,
panels, artist talks, book signings
and exhibitions, providing visitors
with opportunities to learn more about
the photographic medium. Throughout the
fair and the series of featured public programs, the role of the artist will
also be emphasized to give visitors the opportunity to further engage with
featured artists, as well as eminent curators from institutions including the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, J.
Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Moving Image, New Museum, Portland Art Musuem and San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
A key program theme of PHOTOFAIRS
concentrates on the new genre of unique collectable photography. Many of the
featured artists embracing this new genre will be at PHOTOFAIRS to discuss their work. Mark your calendars for Meet the
Artists of Insights on Saturday, January 28 from 4-5pm in the exhibition.
Those confirmed to attend are John Chiara, Christine Elfman, Chris McCaw,
Sean McFarland, Klea McKenna, Jacqueline Nordheim, Meghann Riepenhoff, and Noah
Wilson.
Key public programs
include:
Exhibition offering unique, non-editioned
works for private sale, curated by Alexander
Montague-Sparey, Artistic Director,
PHOTOFAIRS and Allie Haeusslein, Associate Director, Pier 24
Photography, San Francisco. Insights: New Approaches to Photography since
2000 - an exhibition presented in two
parts - focuses entirely on cutting-edge artists using photography to push the
boundaries of the medium. Artists include John Chiara, Christine Elfman, Sissi Farassat, Chris McCaw, Sean McFarland, Klea McKenna, Anja Niemi, Jacqueline Nordheim, Meghann Riepenhoff, Ester Vonplon, Shao Wenhuan, and Noah Wilson.
Artist Talks with Jim
Campbell, Paul Graham, Alejandro Guijarro, Mona Kuhn and Wang Ningde.
Panel Discussions with industry
experts Jason Eppink (Curator
of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image), Virginia Heckert (Curator
and Department Head, Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum), Zachary Kaplan (Executive
Director at Rhizome, New Museum), Michael Xufu Huang (Co-Founder M WOODS
Museum) Erin O’Toole (Curator, SFMOMA) and Tiffany
Zabludowicz (Collector and Curator).
Book Signings with artists Jungjin
Lee, Anja Niemi, Phenomena and Jordan Sullivan.
STAGED SECTOR:
LEAP Screen, Solo Artworks, and In-situ Installations
All of the work
presented in the Staged
sector explores the relationship between photography and other art forms. Celebrating
Chinese New Year and linking PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco to its sister fair in
Shanghai, China’s leading contemporary art magazine LEAP will
present the US début of LEAP Screen: What You See is Not What You See,
as part of the fair’s Staged sector.
Curated by LEAP
deputy editor He Jing, LEAP Screen will showcase the work of
11 exciting Chinese artists working at the cutting edge
of photography. Borrowing
Stella’s famous words, the project focuses instead on the observations of the
creators themselves. The artists’ visions of the world are also bound to
consciousness, understanding, memory and emotion. Video production itself can
be seen as a performance for the observer’s gaze.
What You See is Not What
You See seeks to capture and compile visions of the intersections among
generated images. Artists include
Cao Fei, Guo Xi, Hu Wei, Hu
Xiaoyuan, Jiang Zhi, Liu Yujia, Shen Xin, 3d group, Tong Yixin, Wang Tuo and
Xiang Zhenhua. In addition to Leap Screen, solo and in-situ presentations and
installations for Staged include:
Pace Art + Technology (Palo Alto) will
present Fragments at the entrance of the fair, the latest work
from in-demand London collective Random International.
Rubber Factory (New York) débuts Night
Finds You, the latest work from LA based writer and artist Jordan
Sullivan, which will be hung from the venue’s ceiling.
A
special installation of Scott McFarland’s large scale video work Shattered
Glass, Sunny with cloudy periods, 2016, will be presented by CHOI &
LAGER Gallery (Cologne & Seoul) and DIVISON Gallery (Montreal & Toronto)
Phenomena, a site-specific
installation and publication by Copenhagen-based artist collective Sara
Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen and Tobias Selneas Markussen, will be
presented by East Wing (Dubai).
The
US premier of No Name, the
latest work by Wang Ningde
one of China’s most exciting contemporary photographers, is brought to the fair
by Arts Partner XITEK.
KEY DATES: PHOTOFAIRS | San Francisco
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Press and Collectors’ Preview (by invitation
only): Thursday 26 January 2017, 5-7pm
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Opening Night (by invitation
only): Thursday 26 January 2017, 7-10pm
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Public Days: Friday, January 27 & Saturday, January 28,
11am-7pm / Sunday, January 29, 11am-5pm
Visitors
will enjoy a specially designed menu from San Francisco’s Stones
Throw, who
will host a pop up restaurant and bar at PHOTOFAIRS. Stones Throw is a
California-inspired restaurant by Hi Neighbor Restaurant Group, serving
elevated and inspired comfort cuisine. Wine will be provided by Healdsburg based Banshee Wines
both at the fair and during Opening Night.
For further information, images or interviews please contact:
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International inquiries: Jill Cotton, PR
Director, PHOTOFAIRS (London) M: +44 20 7886 3043
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US inquiries: Wendy Norris, Norris
Communications (San Francisco) M: +1 415 307 3853