Further Triennial

Announcing the 17 Community Impact Fund Grantees 🎉 500 Capp Street Foundation (@500Cappstreet ) • Black Panther Party Museum (@blackpantherpartymuseum ) • Bob Mizer Museum and Photographic Archives (@bobmizer ) • Chinese Historical Society of America (@chsamuseum ) • EastSide Arts Alliance (@eastsidecultural ) • Hip Hop For Change, Inc. (@hiphop4change ) • Indexical (@anindexofmusic ) • Kala Art Institute (@kalaartinstitute ) • Minnesota Street Project Foundation (@mspfoundation ) • Muni Raised Me (@muniraisedme ) • NAKA Dance Theater (@nakadancetheater ) • Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc. (@precitaeyes ) • Root Division (@rootdivision ) • Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (@santacruzmah ) • Slash (@slashartsf ); Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (@smallpresstraffic ) • and Southern Exposure (@southernexposuresf ). Images: 1. Grupo Artista Telar Maya Mam. Photo by Scott Tsuchitani (cropped). Courtesy of NAKA Dance Theater; 2. Hung Liu at Capp St Project 1988, photograph by Ben Blackwell (cropped). Courtesy of Kala Art Institute; 3. Gay Outlaw, Intersection, 2020. Concrete, terrazzo, 110 x 110 x 110. South Courtyard Terminal One, San Francisco International Airport. Courtesy 500 Capp Street; 4. Headshot of Maria Silk @silkymaria_ (cropped) by Robbie Sweeny @robbiesweeny

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 | 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗬𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮 𝗕𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝘀 (@ybca ): Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night | Bay Area–based Diedrick Brackens (@deedsweaves ) presents his first local solo show, featuring 15 weavings exploring tenderness, migration, and queer connection to the natural world. 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲 (@icasanjose ): Anoushka Mirchandani: My Body Was A River Once | Anoushka Mirchandani’s (@anoushka ) debut institutional exhibition, curated by Zoë Latzer, features new work that engages sight, sound, and smell to explore memory, matrilineage, and migration, as figures merge with nature, blurring body and landscape. 𝗢𝗮𝗸𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮 (@omca ): Good Fire: Tending Native Lands | Explores how Native communities in Northern California use “good fire” or cultural burning to sustain land and traditions. Through plants, regalia, and artworks, it reframes fire as essential to healthy ecosystems and community life. 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗺 (@asianartmuseum ): New Japanese Clay | Reimagines contemporary ceramics through bold form, color, and experimentation. Rooted in mingei yet driven by innovation, artists transform vessels into expressive works, exploring clay as both material and metaphor. 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗽 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 (@500cappstreet ): Trina Michelle Robinson: Open Your Eyes to Water | Robinson (@trina_m_robinson ) presents a living installation tracing lineage and Black migration across continents; in collaboration with Root Division (@rootdivision ), the work expands into a collective altar honoring ancestry and memory. #NorthernCalifornia #Art #BayAreaArts #ArtCommunity #Further

80+ exhibitions. 3 months. 1 region. So. Much. Art. Some people ask: What is Further, exactly? 👀 Today we’re excited to fill you in. Our first edition, Further Triennial: Around Here, lands in 2027—bringing together arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area to explore the creative life of Northern California: past, present, vivid, and a little strange (just how we like it). Expect new takes on skate culture, Funk art, California craft, Bay Area Dada, and Zen Buddhism. Explore local legends like Dewey Crumpler, Maija Peeples-Bright, Kota Ezawa, Gay Outlaw, Maria Silk, and Catherine Wagner. And discover the underground heroes and nonconformists who shaped this place. Some shows look back. Others look forward. All are grounded right here. Guess what, there’s more: ✨ An exhibition series curated by Zully Adler uncovering lost art histories 🚐 A retrofitted vintage vehicle turned roaming art hub 📍 Twelve weekends of events and performance across each region 💸 A new fund supporting community-rooted organizations Curious? Hit the link in bio and follow along. #FurtherTriennial #Further #NorCalArts #BayAreaArts #CaliforniaArts

Root Division is thrilled to share that we are a recipient of Further Triennial’s Community Impact Fund Grant. This grant will provide essential support towards our participation in the Triennial’s first edition, Around Here, which will bring together nearly 100 arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area to celebrate Northern California’s creative life. In Spring of 2027, Root Division will present Tahrir, a site-specific sonic installation by Bay Area–based Iranian artist @SholehAsgary and curated by @PJPolicarpio . In Arabic and Farsi, tahrir means “freedom” and refers to a Persian vocal technique marked by oscillating pitch shifts shaped by both sound and silence. Asgary translates this tradition into a spatial experience using a calibrated network of industrial fans scored to produce shifting tonal frequencies that evoke sirens, breath, and lamentation. At a moment of intensified global conflict, this project offers Bay Area audiences an urgently needed space for collective reckoning and reflection through contemporary art. We look forward to celebrating Northern California’s vibrant art historical past and present with you! @furthertriennial #FurtherTriennial

We were already excited to participate in @furthertriennial —a region-wide celebration of Northern California’s creative and cultural life launching in spring of 2027. Today we’re even more excited to announce that we’ve received funding to help support our exhibition through Further’s Community Impact Fund! The CIF invited culturally-rooted non-profit arts organizations across the Greater Bay Area to apply for a grant to support an exhibition on the art of Northern California during the Further Triennial. We’re glad to use this support to present two distinct projects: 📑The Typewriter is Holy the Poem is Holy January 15- May 24, 2027 LA-based artist Tim Youd will bring his 100 Novels Project to the MAH, featuring a live performance retyping Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Koolaid Acid Test and Beat Generation poetry. Alongside his performance, the MAH will host Con/Text: Exploring Language in Art, a exhibition of text-based works featuring Kristin Bauer, Francisca Benitez, Peter Madden, Ned Snider, and pieces from our permanent collection. 🪸Underwater Forest, Inside a Carceral Ecology March 12–May 23, 2027 Located at the historic Davenport Jail, artists Kalie Granier and Alex Olwal will construct an immersive kelp forest from hundreds of locally collected specimens to explore themes of ecology, control, and interdependence. Thank you to the Community Impact Fund for supporting these projects! #FurtherTriennial #CommunityImpactFund #FurtherTriennial2027 #norcalarts #bayareaarts

"March 10–June 10, 2027 is just around the corner, and the much-anticipated finer details of this celebration of Bay Area art — past and present — are finally coming into focus. Today, the triennial announced 17 recipients of its Community Impact Fund: grants of $20,000 each for arts organizations with QTBIPOC leadership and operating budgets under $2 million. The funds help ensure that smaller projects and spaces can participate in the triennial, alongside major players like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art." Thank you @kqedarts and @sahotchkiss for sharing this story announcing the Community Impact Fund Grantees! #FurtherTriennial #CommunityImpactFund #AroundHere

Slash is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the Further Triennial Community Impact Fund Grant. This grant will provide essential support toward the realization of our exhibition with artist and choreographer Maria Silk (@silkymaria_ ), debuting in spring 2027. It’s one of nearly 100 projects that arts organizations across the greater Bay Area are organizing for Around Here, the inaugural edition of the #FurtherTriennial, to celebrate Northern California’s creative life. ⁠ ⁠ Learn more about Silk’s project below, and stay tuned for more details soon!⁠ ⁠ “John and Billie go underground” is a solo project by Silk, made up of an exhibition and performance activation. Silk’s exhibition at Slash stems from the rumored existence of a network of tunnels underneath San Francisco connecting the city’s gay bars during Prohibition and anti-gay police raids. ⁠ ⁠ 🎥 by Sarah Wells

Minoosh Zomorodinia has a deep fascination with our connection to the land. Drawing on her experience as an Iranian immigrant, Zomorodinia uses movement, mapping, and emerging technologies to explore how landscapes hold both personal and shared histories, and how our relationships to place shift as environments and narratives change. For the inaugural edition of Further Triennial, Zomorodinia will present Spirit Gleaning, a two-part collaborative project unfolding between Djerassi Resident Artists Program, where she was an artist-in-residence in 2016, and Root Division, where the exhibition will take place. Returning to Djerassi’s 583-acre landscape in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Zomorodinia will engage the land through field research, video, photography, movement, and 3D scans, exploring the impact of climate change, fluctuating weather patterns, and wildfire on the ecology of the site. The resulting work will invite visitors into her process, offering a meditation on memory, migration, environmental change, and our rapidly shifting relationship to the landscapes we inhabit. #FurtherTriennial #Djerassi #RootDivision #MinooshZomorodinia #ContemporaryArt

After more than 20 years away from painting, expressionist artist Keka Enriquez, known for her radical experimentations on canvas, is picking up the brush again. This spring, she’s in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts (@headlandsarts ), creating new work for her first U.S. solo show—MATRIX 290 / Keka Enriquez—which will debut in December 2026 at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (@bampfa ) in collaboration with the Headlands as part of Further Triennial, and will be on view through April 25, 2027. The artist will also have a small satellite presentation at Headlands in the spring of 2027. An established painter in the Philippines, Enriquez paused her art practice after moving to the Bay Area in 1998, and began working as a recreational therapist in San Francisco. Now, she returns to her bold, expressive style—bringing vibrant, long-awaited new paintings to Bay Area audiences for the first time. Learn more about exhibitions debuting during Further and stay connected via the link in bio. #FurtherTriennial #HeadlandsCenterForTheArts #BAMPFA #KekaEnriquez #BayAreaArt

This past weekend, our founder Robin Wright joined the panel Curating Across Landscapes and Biennials at the San Francisco Art Fair, sharing a look at what’s ahead for Further Triennial. In a conversation moderated by curator Nato Thompson (@natothompson ), Robin, Jenny Gil (@jennygil79 ) (Executive Director of Desert X), and Mara Gladstone (@maragladstone ) (curator of the Philippine Pavilion for the 2026 Venice Biennale) explored what it really looks like to build exhibitions across cities, create global platforms for artists, and engage visitors in the cultural landscape of a place. As we ramp up toward the triennial, we’re excited to keep sharing the work we’re building together! #FurtherTriennial #SanFranciscoArtFair #ContemporaryArt #ArtCommunity

Sneak a peek 👀 at what’s coming in 2027 From large-scale installations to tiny creations, hidden histories and new voices, Further Triennial will be your trip through Northern California’s creative past and present. These pics are just a morsel of the 80+ exhibitions that will descend on the Greater Bay Area from March 10 to June 10, 2027––stretching from San Francisco to San Jose, Sacramento to Sonoma, Santa Cruz and the East Bay. There will be so much to see and do... more than any person can possibly take in. Much more on the horizon. Tune in and join the mailing list with the link-in-bio. #FurtherTriennial #Further #NorCalArts #BayAreaArts #CaliforniaArts

On view now at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (@bampfa ), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings is the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the artist’s groundbreaking work. Cha emigrated to the US from South Korea and enrolled at UC Berkeley in 1969, a place that was formative to her development as an artist. Working across performance, video, text, and installation, Cha became a defining voice in the experimental and conceptual art scenes of San Francisco, New York, and beyond. Her interdisciplinary practice—including her posthumously published book Dictée (1982)—reshaped how narrative, authorship, and audience could function in contemporary art. Grounded in her concept of “Multiple Telling with Multiple Offering,” the exhibition invites visitors into nonlinear pathways through themes of memory, displacement, and the mutability of language, and the first chance in more than two decades to explore this seminal artist’s work. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings is on view through April 19. #BAMPFA #TheresaHakKyungCha #ContemporaryArt #Further