Catharine Clark Gallery

Established in 1991, Catharine Clark Gallery exhibits contemporary art in all disciplines. In response to each exhibition, we also curate changing presentations of video and time-based genres within a dedicated media room. New exhibits open every six weeks. Catharine Clark Gallery serves as the primary dealer for an acclaimed roster of international artists, including Stephanie Syjuco, Marie Watt, Jen Bervin, Nina Katchadourian, Lenka Clayton, Sandow Birk, and Masami Teraoka.

The gallery’s program has garnered critical attention from publications: the New York Times, Yishu, Artforum, Tema Celeste, Art in America, Art News, Art Practical, Modern Painters, i-D/Vice, and Vogue. Gallery artists have exhibited at international venues and biennials: the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum, the Serpentine Gallery, the Frans Hals Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Mori Art Museum, the StadtReutlingen Museum, Manifesta 11, and the 56th Venice Biennale.

In 2016, Catharine Clark founded BOX BLUR, an initiative to bring visual and performing art into dialogue within the non-proscenium-based space of the gallery. In 2016, Margaret Jenkins Dance Company was commissioned to respond to Kambui Olujimi’s sculptural stages. In 2017, the EOS Ensemble was commissioned to perform Jeremy Turner’s score for Chris Doyle’s video; in 2018, Josephine Taylor and Kaveh Rastegar engaged in a multi-media collaboration with drawing, video, and music; and for 2019’s commission “How to Fall in Love in a Brothel,” artists Sunhui Chang, Ellen Sebastian Chang, and Maya Gurantz built a traditional Korean screened room that served as the setting for live performance. 2020’s commission featured a concert by Rufus Wainwright in response to Timothy Cummings’s work. In 2021, BOXBLUR and the Immersive Arts Alliance co-produce the debut West Coast presentation of Shimon Attie’s “Night Watch,” a week-long program featuring a 20-foot LED screen with video portraits of asylum seekers to the United States, which will travel atop a barge through the San Francisco Bay.