Your First Look at FOG Design+Art 2026 in San Francisco

Returning to the waterfront at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, FOG Design+Art 2026 opens its 12th edition this week, reaffirming its role as the intellectual and aesthetic anchor of San Francisco Art Week. Running January 22–25, with a Preview Gala on January 21 benefiting San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the fair brings together more than 60 galleries from around the world across Piers 2 and 3—alongside its largest presentation yet of FOG FOCUS, dedicated to emerging voices.

Long admired for its thoughtful pacing and West Coast sensibility, FOG favors depth over spectacle. Booths are conceived as exhibitions rather than displays, inviting sustained looking and dialogue across art, design, craft, and architecture. “Each year, FOG brings together an extraordinary group of galleries whose innovation and vision define the evolving landscape of design and contemporary art,” said fair director Sydney Blumenkranz, emphasizing the spirit of curiosity and collaboration that continues to define the fair. Below, Whitewall highlights the must-see presentations that capture the breadth of what to see at FOG Design+Art 2026.

Vielmetter Los Angeles Presents April Bey and Gio Swaby

Vielmetter Los Angeles presents a vibrant two-person booth featuring new works by April Bey and Gio Swaby. Both artists integrate textiles into richly figurative compositions that celebrate Blackness, femininity, and expansive approaches to pattern and color. Bey and Swaby—each drawing on Bahamian heritage while working between Los Angeles and Toronto—transform fabric into both material and metaphor, positioning textile as a powerful site of storytelling, identity, and futurity.

OMR—Material, Process, and Uncertainty

Making its debut at FOG, OMR brings together works by Pia Camil, Claudia Comte, José Dávila, Pablo Dávila, Artur Lescher, Sebastian Silva, and Troika. Rather than treating uncertainty as a theme, the booth approaches it as a working condition—foregrounding interruption, repetition, balance, and transformation across sculpture, painting, and systems-based practices. The presentation resists prediction, offering a space for reflection and sustained looking.

Jessica Silverman—Out of the Blue

San Francisco’s Jessica Silverman presents Out of the Blue, a sweeping group exhibition centered on the material, psychological, and metaphysical dimensions of the color blue. The booth unites works by Sadie Barnette, Andrea Bowers, Sam Falls, Loie Hollowell, Trevor Paglen, Rupy C. Tut, Pae White, and many others—demonstrating how a single chromatic focus can open onto questions of emotion, politics, and perception. The result is immersive, cerebral, and unmistakably of this moment.

Tina Kim Gallery, Presents Pacita Abad and Dansaekhwa Dialogues

Tina Kim Gallery returns to FOG Design+Art 2026 with a presentation bridging contemporary practices and the legacy of Korean Dansaekhwa. Highlights include works by Pacita Abad, among them a large abstract trapunto painting and a canvas from her Underwater Wilderness series. The presentation resonates deeply in San Francisco, where Abad first lived and studied, and where her retrospective traveled to SFMOMA in 2023—underscoring the artist’s enduring ties to the Bay Area.

Xavier Hufkens—A Cross-Generational Survey

Xavier Hufkens offers one of the fair’s most expansive group presentations, spanning multiple generations and movements. Works by Milton Avery, Louise Bourgeois, Alice Neel, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, Nicolas Party, Sterling Ruby, and Danh Vō unfold as a conversation across time—linking modernist foundations with contemporary experimentation and emotional immediacy.

David Zwirner—A Global Roster in Focus

David Zwirner brings a formidable roster to Fort Mason, including works by Francis Alÿs, Ruth Asawa, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Yayoi Kusama, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lisa Yuskavage, and Portia Zvavahera. The presentation balances conceptual rigor with visual intensity, reflecting the gallery’s ability to bridge historical significance and contemporary urgency within a single, cohesive booth.

François Ghebaly Presents Patricia Iglesias Peco

François Ghebaly presents a solo booth of works by Patricia Iglesias Peco, whose paintings imagine lush, unruly gardens of flora and fauna suspended between bloom and decay. Rendered in oil paint, her vegetal bodies twist and collide in compositions that are at once grotesque and seductive. Flowers become less metaphor than formal engine—allowing Iglesias Peco to explore color theory, movement, and painterly tension in scenes that pulse with perpetual becoming.

Anat Ebgi Presents Gloria Klein, Jordan Nassar, and Krzysztof Strzelecki

Anat Ebgi brings together three distinct yet resonant practices. Jordan Nassar’s mosaics and hand-embroidered textiles draw from Byzantine tilework and Palestinian tatreez embroidery, exploring heritage, homeland, and personal archaeology through pattern and craft. Krzysztof Strzelecki’s ceramic vessels depict homoerotic scenes drawn from fantasy, memory, and desire, creating a vivid world of longing and liberation. Gloria Klein’s abstract paintings, built through repetition and systemic order, push color and pattern toward psychological intensity—exposing tensions between structure and lived experience.

Megan Mulrooney Presents Nicolas Shake and Alma Berrow

Megan Mulrooney presents new works by Los Angeles–based artist Nicolas Shake and UK ceramicist Alma Berrow. Working across canvas and ceramics, both artists explore the tension between personal expression and collective ritual. Within San Francisco’s legacy of counterculture and alternative modes of living, the pairing takes on particular resonance—echoing the region’s histories of surf, punk, spiritual seeking, and aesthetic experimentation.

Perrotin Presents Young-Il Ahn

Perrotin returns to FOG Design+Art 2026 with a solo presentation of works by Korean-American artist Young-Il Ahn (1934–2020). Featuring the artist’s celebrated Water paintings alongside works from his California and Self Reflection series, the booth anticipates Ahn’s upcoming survey at Perrotin New York in 2026. Ahn’s radiant abstractions—shaped by decades in California—underscore his role as a trailblazing figure in postwar abstraction.

Lehmann Maupin—West Coast Focus, Global Reach

Lehmann Maupin presents a multimedia booth foregrounding West Coast artists, including photographs by Catherine Opie, wall-based photo sculptures by Todd Gray, a debut photograph by Alex Prager, and new paintings by Tammy Nguyen. Additional works by McArthur Binion, Kader Attia, Chantal Joffe, Nari Ward, and Billie Zangewa expand the presentation, weaving together questions of identity, representation, and material presence.

David Kordansky Gallery—An Expansive Group Presentation

David Kordansky Gallery presents a wide-ranging group booth featuring painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, glass, and works on paper. Artists including Sam Gilliam, Betty Woodman, Richard Tuttle, Mary Weatherford, Hilary Pecis, Derek Fordjour, and Ricky Swallow create a dense, energetic presentation that reflects the gallery’s commitment to both historical depth and contemporary experimentation.

Talks, Installations, and the Life of the Fair

Beyond the booths, FOG’s programming is integral to its identity. This year’s FOG Talks, presented by Zoox, feature eleven conversations spanning art, design, architecture, and technology, with participants including Jeffrey Gibson, Suzanne Jackson, Trevor Paglen, the Eames Institute, and architects Tom Kundig and Anne Fougeron. A discussion with leaders from Zoox and OpenAI brings questions of artificial intelligence and creative authorship into sharp focus.

FOG FOCUS on Pier 2 expands opportunities for discovery, while FOG MRKT, pop-ups like the Stout Bookmobile, and food destinations throughout the fair transform Fort Mason into a social as well as cultural hub. As SF Art Week unfolds across the city, FOG Design+Art 2026 once again sets the tone—measured, inquisitive, and deeply engaged with the Bay Area’s creative pulse.