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Inaugural Exhibition at Fondation Cartier’s New Paris Location
Peter Halley October 25, 2025 Berggruen Gallery congratulates artist Peter Halley on his inclusion in the opening exhibition of Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s newly... Read more -
Fragments of the Chinese Diaspora Converge in Stephanie Shih’s Mosaic Sculptures
Colossal | By Grace Ebert September 15, 2025 Known for trompe l’oeil ceramic sculptures of pantry staples and domestic life, Stephanie Shih has further entrenched her largely culinary-focused... Read more -
9 Great Bay Area art shows to see right now
San Francisco Standard | Sam Mondros July 11, 2025 Berggruen is celebrating its 55th anniversary with a landmark exhibition tracing its legacy as a powerhouse of modern and contemporary... Read more
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Val Britton & Stephanie H. Shih
2025 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Recipients July 9, 2025 Congratulations to artists Val Britton & Stephanie H. Shih 2025 POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION GRANT RECIPIENTS For more than three decades, the... Read more -
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: A Temperament, A Career of Flowers
Flaunt Magazine | Tara Anne Dalbow July 3, 2025 A Temperament, A Career of Flowers I need a new word.The problem with using words like “collage” or “painting” or... Read more -
The Frick’s New Restaurant Is a Work of Art, Too
ArtNet | By Andrew Russeth June 9, 2025 I have seen heaven, and it is at Westmoreland—cocktails, comfort food, and yes, art. There’s an Alex Katz line that... Read more
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A First Look at Westmoreland, the Frick’s New Jewel Box of a Café
Vogue | By Elise Taylor June 3, 2025 The March re-opening of the Frick Museum was one of the most anticipated New York City events in recent memory.... Read more -
The 2025 San Francisco Decorator Showcase Crowns Pacific Heights With Livable Glamour
Nob Hill Gazette | By Jennifer Massoni Pardini May 22, 2025 From Jon de la Cruz’s sixth San Francisco Decorator Showcase contribution — a textured two-part foyer and stair hall —... Read more -
New American Paintings. The Pacific Coast Issue #175
Curated by Jerry Saltz May 21, 2025 Congratulations to Heather Day on her selection for New American Paintings' Pacific Coast Issue #175. Curated by the legendary... Read more
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At the New Frick, Magicians Come Out of the Woodwork
The New York Times | By Patricia Leigh Brown April 1, 2025 Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum. Welcome to the... Read more -
A Bay Area Figurative Movement resurrection paints the Bay in hopeful hues
48 Hills | By Tom Molanphy March 20, 2025 Might we find connection via David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff's ethereal intimacy? Sitting for an interview in his... Read more -
Barry McGee Curates Some "Chitty Figures" From the Bay Area Art Scene
Juxtapoz | By Evan Pricco March 12, 2025 Even when seeing Barry McGee's works and curated installations in other cities around the world (recently the backroom at The... Read more
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Five must-see San Francisco art shows this spring
SF Examiner | By Max Blue March 6, 2025 San Francisco’s museums and galleries are springing into action this season with a slate of exhibitions you won’t want to... Read more -
IFPDA Print Fair Showcases Over 500 Years of Printmaking at the Park Avenue Armory
Hyperallergic | IFPDA March 4, 2025 From March 27–30, the IFPDA Print Fair will gather more than 70 exhibitors at the Park Avenue Armory in New... Read more -
Bay Area Gallery Highlights
SF/Arts | Curator Insight March 1, 2025 During the height of the mid-20th-century's Abstract Expressionist movement, which exercised outsized influence on U.S. painters, a handful of (soon... Read more
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Here Are 11 Exhibitions You Can't Miss While in San Francisco For FOG
Cultured Magazine January 20, 2025 When you have a moment to step outside the fair, make sure to put one (or all) of these shows... Read more -
9 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows This Season
Magnifissance Magazine January 13, 2025 9 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows This Season Magnifissance Magazine Bruce Cohen Berggruen Gallery Read more -
5 Art Fairs to See in 2025
The New York Times | By Ted Loos December 3, 2024 The art market rises and falls, but art fairs are forever — or at least they seem so sometimes, given... Read more
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Barry McGee Enters a New Era: ‘It’s a Rebirth, of Some Sort’
KQED | By Gabe Meline October 11, 2024 Inside Berggruen Gallery, at the opening of his first solo show in San Francisco since 2015, Barry McGee stood against... Read more -
15 Hidden Gems in San Francisco, CA You’ll Love, According to Locals
Redfin | by Sarah Ford September 6, 2024 San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind city filled with an endless selection of activities. Once you’ve completed your bucket list of... Read more -
8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in September
Galerie Magazine | by Paul Laster September 3, 2024 From a French artist’s take on American politics to lively experiments in color and composition. Rounding up the best gallery... Read more
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10 Contemporary Women Artists Channeling Helen Frankenthaler’s Abstract Expressionism
Artsy | by Salomé Gómez-Upegui August 22, 2024 Widely celebrated as one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, Helen Frankenthaler left an indelible mark... Read more -
Cut, Split, Horizon: Heather Day's Natural Abstraction
Juxtapoz | By Evan Pricco July 30, 2024 Heather Day moved to the desert and found a new inspiration to create landscape paintings. At first, these works look... Read more -
In Colorful Desert Paintings, Heather Day Creates (and Breaks) Her Own Rules
W Magazine | by Jacoba Urist August 1, 2024 Inside the painter’s Joshua Tree studio ahead of her debut solo show at San Francisco’s Berggruen Gallery. Miles down a... Read more
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Artist Michael Craig-Martin: ‘My big moment is now’
Financial Times | By Jan Dalley July 5, 2024 “I really like grown-up restaurants,” says Michael Craig-Martin. “I like tablecloths.” He strokes the white linen at Spring, in London’s... Read more -
Review of Darren Waterston: A Life in Fields
Visual Art Source | By DeWitt Cheng May 18, 2024 “I love the interchange between the beautiful and the monstrous.” – Darren Waterston I recently happened on a couple of... Read more -
Henri Matisse, 'Jazz,' Acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Berggruen Gallery May 14, 2024 Berggruen Gallery is proud to announce the acquisition of Henri Matisse, Jazz by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.... Read more
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6 Standout Artists Discovered at the Dallas Art Fair
Galerie Magazine | By Paul Laster April 8, 2024 Presenting 91 galleries from 17 countries and 48 cities, the Dallas Art Fair returned to the Fashion Industry Gallery in... Read more -
Stephanie H. Shih at Alexander Berggruen Gallery
Patron Magazine | By Nancy Cohen Israel April 1, 2024 Dr. Pepper, 7-11, and Funyuns are Texas icons. For Stephanie H. Shih, they also offer inspiration for the work she... Read more -
Color Theory: Artist Anna Kunz Uses the Power of Pigment to Spark Emotion
LUXE Interiors + Design | By Deborah Bishop March 14, 2024 For Chicago-based painter Anna Kunz, color never sits still. “In a composition, it moves and vibrates,” she says. “It’s alive... Read more
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In San Francisco for FOG? Don't Miss These 7 Exhibitions Around the City
Cultured Magazine | Sophie Lee January 17, 2024 Anyone who has weaved through endless rows of booths at an art fair knows there is limited exhibition space in... Read more -
8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows Around the U.S. in November
Galerie Magazine | By Paul Laster November 2, 2023 Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie journeyed from New York and Philadelphia to... Read more -
The Holiday Season Is Heating Up in November
Nob Hill Gazette | By Anh-MINH LE October 30, 2023 Don’t miss Jane Hammond‘s exhibition of new botanical collages at Berggruen Gallery. The works in Endless Forms Most Beautiful showcase... Read more
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They Still Make Art in Soho: Reformed “wild man” painter John Alexander and ceramicist Fiona Waterstreet’s loft life
CURBED | By Wendy Goodman October 24, 2023 Even after 44 years of living in New York City — 43 of them in this Soho loft— artist John... Read more -
Matt Kleberg at Berggruen Gallery
Square Cylinder | By Mark Van Proyen September 25, 2023 Usually, when we think of comedy in contemporary painting, the examples that come to mind are forthrightly satirical and figurative.... Read more -
8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in September
Galerie Magazine | By Paul Laster August 31, 2023 Rounding up the best gallery exhibitions across the United States each month, Galerie kicks off the fall art season with... Read more
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Elsa Hansen Oldham's Whimsical Hand-Embroidered Textiles Take Over Berggruen Gallery
Widewalls | Kame Hame July 29, 2023 The American artist Elsa Hansen Oldham has successfully combined the long tradition of American needlework with the digitized aesthetic resembling... Read more -
Arts Forecast: Fine shows in full bloom, from corpse flower to Cure songs
48 Hills | Marke Bieschke July 6, 2023 Thu 7/6 is First Thursdays at SFMOMA, when us residents can traipse about the galleries, open late, for free—including, I... Read more -
Manneken Press Publishes Anna Kunz's Collection Titled 'Echolocation'
Business Markets Insider | Press Release Newsfile May 11, 2023 Bloomington, Illinois-based fine art publisher, Manneken Press, publishes the latest collection of works by Anna Kunz titled, 'Echolocation'. Manneken Press,... Read more
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The Reflective, Playful Art Of Stephanie H. Shih
Service 95 | By Marianna Cerini April 17, 2023 Stephanie H. Shih credits the blossoming of her artistic career to a handful of dumplings and a bottle of Chinkiang... Read more -
The Many Colors of Anna Kunz
Chicago Gallery News | By Alison Reilly March 29, 2023 In 2022, Anna Kunz stepped down as Associate Professor in the Art and Art History department at Columbia College. Throughout... Read more -
Stephanie H. Shih’s ceramics imbue simple objects with meaning, beauty
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Letha Ch'ien March 9, 2023 Artist Stephanie H. Shih’s work is seemingly everywhere these days, but her latest show, “Greetings From Gold Mountain” at the... Read more
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San Francisco’s ‘unofficial art week’ returns. Here are 12 highlights not to miss
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo January 22, 2023 Over the past decade, the third week of January has become an unofficial art week in San Francisco. Anchored by... Read more -
At FOG Design and Art Fair, Efforts to Court the ‘Independent-Minded’ Collector Pay Off in Brisk Sales and a Buoyant Mood
Art Net | By Sarah Cascone January 19, 2023 The reports of the San Francisco art scene’s death are greatly exaggerated. That was the consensus at the opening night... Read more -
Ceramic Artist Stephanie H. Shih Recreates Food Products in Clay to Explore Cultural Identity
Creative Boom | By Olivia Atkins January 11, 2023 'Clay is the most direct route from what's in your head to what's in your hands,' said a friend of... Read more
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Sharón Zoldan Shares Her Miami 2022 Highlights
Whitewall | By Sharón Zoldan December 7, 2022 Charles Gaines at Max Hetzler and Berggruen, Art Basel Miami Beach Although the artist defers to a formulaic approach to... Read more -
Clare Kirkconnell | St. Helena artist’s paintings on exhibit in San Francisco
St. Helena Star | By Jesse Duarte August 23, 2022 For many of us the pandemic has been a time of frustrating isolation, misery and mental stagnation. For St. Helena... Read more -
The Pioneering Legacy of Henri Matisse's Jazz
Artsper Magazine | By Balasz Takac April 6, 2022 By the 1940s, jazz music gained a broader appreciation and became adorned despite being demonized by the Nazis. It influenced... Read more
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Wayne Thiebaud exhibition is a memorial that will leave you smiling
San Francisco Examiner | By Max Blue February 18, 2022 Thirty works by the late, great Bay Area painter are at the Berggruen Gallery The late Wayne Thiebaud, who passed... Read more -
7 Bay Area Arts and Entertainment Events to Check Out This Week
SF Chronicle | By Tony Bravo January 31, 2022 San Francisco native Peter Saul shares trippy visions of his hometown at the Berggruen Gallery Read more -
True Colors: The San Francisco Billionaire (Would-Be) Art Bonanza
Vanity Fair | By Nate Freeman January 21, 2022 True Colors is back for 2022 and on the ground in San Francisco, where Fog art fair asks the eternal... Read more
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A Look Into Peter Saul's "San Francisco"
Juxtapoz Magazine | By Evan Pricco January 12, 2022 San Francisco, as a landscape, is one of the most unique cities on earth. Only 7 x 7 miles, with... Read more -
The Best of The Art Show 2021
White Hot Magazine | By Paul Laster November 1, 2021 Presenting a lively selection of contemporary and modernist artworks by an international mix of artists, the 2021 edition of The... Read more -
Meet 7 Realist Painters Who Create Impossibly Vivid Still Lifes
1st Dibs | By Alexandra Zagalsky September 26, 2021 Here's how contemporary artists are updating the ancient techniques of realist still-life painting for the present day. The famed 20th-century... Read more
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Going Bicoastal
HAMPTONS Modern Luxury Magazine | By Rachel Feinblatt July 22, 2021 Inspired by fond memories of summer vacation in the Hamptons, John Berggruen, founder and owner of San Francisco-based art oasis... Read more -
Shades of Summer
Cultured Magazine | July Issue July 1, 2021 San Francisco's Berggruen Gallery is coming to the beach. From May 14 to Septemer 30, the pop-up gallery will exhibit... Read more -
The Hamptons Guide
Goop July 1, 2021 The Hamptons’ roster of greatest hits—Italian spreads at Nick & Toni’s, the lobster roll of a lifetime at Duryea’s, a... Read more
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Berggruen Gallery to Open East Hampton Location
ARTnews | By Claire Selvin and Tessa Solomon May 10, 2021 Berggruen Gallery to Open East Hampton Location. San Francisco–based Berggruen Gallery will be open a temporary exhibition space in East... Read more -
How Helen Frankenthaler’s Color-Soaked Canvases Won Over the Art Market
Artsy | By Justin Kamp April 19, 2021 This past June, at a Sotheby's dedicated online sale of works from the collection of Ginny Williams, Helen Frankenthaler's monumental... Read more -
Richard Diebenkorn | 7 Bay Area arts & entertainment events to check out this week
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo April 19, 2021 Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1948-1992 enters its final weeks at Berggruen Gallery, and a recent tour of... Read more
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Berggruen Gallery in East Hampton
ArtNet News | By Nate Freeman April 15, 2021 Spring is here and it’s almost time once again to ship off to the Hamptons for the season. And thanks... Read more -
Richard Diebenkorn | Art & Exhibits Datebook Pick
SF Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo February 18, 2021 The work of famed Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn returned to Berggruen Gallery for a ninth solo show this month,... Read more -
Bruce Cohen Explores Pandemic Interiors at Berggruen Gallery
San Francisco Chronicle | By Tony Bravo December 18, 2020 California artist Bruce Cohen presents his tenth solo exhibition with the Berggruen Gallery, titled Bruce Cohen 2020 . The show,... Read more
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Exhibition of recent paintings by California artist Bruce Cohen opens at Berggruen Gallery
ArtDaily December 6, 2020 Berggruen Gallery is presenting Bruce Cohen 2020 , an exhibition of recent paintings by California artist Bruce Cohen. This show... Read more -
‘Enjoy It When You Have It, But Don’t Have Too Much’: Artist Wayne Thiebaud on How to Savor Cake While Staying Healthy at 100 Years Old
ArtNet News | By Sarah Cascone November 13, 2020 The celebrated American painter's birthday is being marked in his hometown of Sacramento with a delightful retrospective. On November 15,... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud’s Vision of American Beauty As he turns 100, the California artist’s paintings of cakes, pies and other ordinary diner fare have become iconic
Wall Street Journal | By Emily Bobrow November 6, 2020 In 1960, when Wayne Thiebaud was turning 40, he had what he sensed was an artistic breakthrough. After years supporting... Read more
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Having His Cake and Eating It, Too
Alta | By Jessica Zack October 12, 2020 Wayne Thiebaud shook up the art world in 1962 with paintings that were joyous, confectionary, and uniquely Californian. Since then,... Read more -
Of course Wayne Thiebaud is planning to paint on his 100th birthday
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting October 7, 2020 Wayne Thiebaud will begin his 101st year by arising before first light, making the morning commute upstairs to his home... Read more -
Wayne Thiebaud saw the streets of San Francisco like no one else
San Francisco Chronicle | By Sam Whiting October 7, 2020 In 1972, Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud bought a second home on Potrero Hill and set about doing for the hilly... Read more
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The Constellation of Frank Stella
New York Times Style Magazine | By Megan O'Grady March 18, 2020 STARS — THE KIND that appear in the cosmos — have coordinates, not addresses, and the same is true for... Read more -
Do it for the ‘Gram: Predicting SF art week’s Instagram favorite
San Francisco Chronicle Datebook | By Tony Bravo January 20, 2020 There’s a game I play at art fairs: Predict what the social media standout will be, then check Instagram to... Read more -
10 Standout Dealers at FOG Design+Art
Architectural Digest | By David Nash January 17, 2020 Now in its seventh year, FOG Design+Art, San Francisco’s premier contemporary design fair, has clearly hit its stride with a... Read more
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The Top 8 Fall Art Shows for Architecture Lovers
Architectural Digest | By Liddy Berman September 12, 2019 On the West Coast, San Francisco’s Berggruen Gallery will open a historic Helen Frankenthaler show on September 26, drawing on... Read more -
The Women Who Invented Collage – Long Before Picasso and Co.
The Spectator | By Claudia Massie July 6, 2019 The women who invented collage – long before Picasso and co. Denied the opportunity to paint or sculpt, well-to-do ladies... Read more -
The Unexpected and Influential Berggruen Gallery
Living YBG May 9, 2019 Barely a stone’s throw from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, I recently discovered Berggruen Gallery, a three-story art... Read more
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Martin Puryear, Citizen-Sculptor
The New York Times | By Holland Cotter May 3, 2019 On the eve of the Venice Biennale, the artist’s shaping hand frames a view of his troubled, and troubling, homeland.... Read more -
The Arches of Old Penn Station Return in Diana Al-Hadid’s Subway Mosaics
Hyperallergic | By Zachary Small May 1, 2019 The permanent installations line the mezzanines at the 34th Street Penn Station stop with fluid line work and ghostly presence.... Read more -
As the Fog settled over SF, some asked, ‘Where’s the art?’
San Francisco Chronicle Date Book | By Charles Desmarais January 23, 2019 Berggruen Gallery’s invigorating exhibition of free-standing sculptures, wall works and drawings by Diana Al-Hadid looks complete unto itself, encompassing a... Read more
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Spencer Finch makes art of light at Berggruen
The San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais April 6, 2018 There are words a critic should use advisedly. “Entrancing” might be one. But how else to describe art that, like... Read more -
Fall Season Brings Rich Gallery Offerings
San Francisco Chronicle | By Charles Desmarais September 13, 2017 One sure sign the Bay Area art gallery scene has reached a new stage in its maturation: The sheer impossibility... Read more
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