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  • Presidio Habitats

    May 16, 2010 – May 15, 2011

    Ai Weiwei, <em>Western Screech Owl Habitats</em>, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
  • Presidio Habitats

    May 16, 2010 – May 15, 2011

    Jensen Architects, <em>Patience</em>, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
  • Presidio Habitats

    May 16, 2010 – May 15, 2011

    Philippe Becker Design, <em>Winged Wisdom</em>, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
  • International Orange

    May 25 – October 28, 2012

    Allison Smith, Fort Point Bunting, 2012 (installation view); photo: Ben Blackwell
  • International Orange

    May 25 – October 28, 2012

    Anandamayi Arnold, <em>Fiesta Queens</em>, 2012 (installation view); photo: Ben Blackwell
  • International Orange

    May 25 – October 28, 2012

    Abelardo Morell, <em>Vertigo</em>, 2012 (installation view); photo: Ben Blackwell
  • @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

    September 27, 2014 – April 26, 2015

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  • @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

    September 27, 2014 – April 26, 2015

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  • @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz

    September 27, 2014 – April 26, 2015

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  • Home Land Security

    September 10 – December 18, 2016

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  • Home Land Security

    September 10 – December 18, 2016

  • Home Land Security

    September 10 – December 18, 2016

Projects

Past

SanctuaryFort Mason Chapel (Upper Fort Mason, Franklin and Bay streets)October 07, 2017 – March 11, 2018

Thirty-six international artists consider the nature of sanctuary through an interactive installation of hand-woven rugs, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on this basic human need. More

Home Land SecurityFort Winfield Scott at Langdon CourtSeptember 10 – December 18, 2016

Eighteen artists and collectives from around the globe converge on the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, activating former military sites in the Presidio with artworks that examine security and the physical and psychological borders that we create, protect, and cross in its name. More

Ai Weiwei, Trace (detail)
@Large: Ai Weiwei on AlcatrazAlcatraz IslandSeptember 27, 2014 – April 26, 2015

Celebrated Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei raised urgent questions about freedom of expression and human rights in this exhibition of new work created for Alcatraz, a notorious penitentiary turned national park. Inviting visitors into historic spaces that had previously been off limits to the public, @Large revealed unexpected perspectives on Alcatraz and its layered legacy. More

Andy Goldsworthy, Spire, 2008
Art About Place: FOR-SITE Foundation at the PresidioPresidio of San FranciscoOctober 02, 2014 – March 08, 2015

The FOR-SITE Foundation’s acclaimed exhibitions and installations connect contemporary artists with compelling natural and historic sites to create new art about place. This exhibition looked back at six years of artistic collaborations within the Golden Gate National Recreational Area in partnership with the Presidio Trust, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service. More

Fort Point and the Golden Gate Bridge
International OrangeFort PointMay 25 – October 28, 2012

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, this exhibition at Fort Point offered fresh perspectives on an enduring landmark. It presented new work responding to the bridge as icon, historic structure, and conceptual inspiration. More

Patience (installation view)
Presidio HabitatsPresidio of San FranciscoMay 16, 2010 – May 15, 2011

Presidio Habitats was the first site-based art exhibition conceived for a national park. An international group of artists, architects, and design specialists were invited to create habitats for specific animal residents of the Presidio. More

The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project (installation view)
The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion ProjectOakland Museum of CaliforniaSeptember 11, 2010 – March 06, 2011

Developed in part during a FOR-SITE residency, Mark Dion's exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California was an imaginative expedition through the museum’s collections, drawing on overlooked orphans, curiosities, and surprising treasures. More

Pae White: In Between the Outside-In (installation view)
Pae White: In Between the Outside-InNew Langton ArtsMay 05 – July 18, 2009

Developed during a FOR-SITE residency, Pae White’s installation at New Langton Arts proposed new paradigms for art and landscape. White used topographical scans of plant life as conceptual source material for a series of morphing animations. More

Dust to Dust, Ashes to Ashes (installation view)
Chris Drury: Mushrooms | CloudsNevada Museum of ArtAugust 10 – October 05, 2008

Chris Drury’s exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art featured the large-scale wooden sculpture Cloud Pool Chamber, created in a FOR-SITE residency and made from diseased logs felled at Donner State Park near Truckee, California. More

Donner Pass (installation view)
Shi Guorui: Reproduction and Refashioningde Young MuseumMay 26 – September 23, 2007

Shi Guori's exhibition at the de Young Museum responded to the museum as a location and as a collection. Shi created two camera obscuras in the museum’s tower, as well as photograms of objects in the de Young’s holdings. More

Richard Long installing Sierra Nevada Line
Richard Long: The Path Is the Place Is the LineSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtJanuary 21 – April 25, 2006

Richard Long’s exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, developed during a FOR-SITE residency, documented and reflected on a 250-mile walk in the Sierra Nevada mountains, mainly along the Pacific Crest Trail. More

Anti-Mass Sculpture by Cornelia Parker
New Work by Cornelia ParkerYerba Buena Center for the ArtsNovember 19, 2005 – March 05, 2006

Cornelia Parker’s exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts featured a new work, created during a FOR-SITE residency, constructed from the charred timbers of a Baptist church that had been destroyed by arson. More

Projects

  • Overview
  • On View
  • Past
    • Sanctuary
    • Home Land Security
    • @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
    • Art About Place: FOR-SITE Foundation at the Presidio
    • International Orange
    • Presidio Habitats
    • The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project
    • Pae White: In Between the Outside-In
    • Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds
    • Shi Guorui: Reproduction and Refashioning
    • Richard Long: The Path Is the Place Is the Line
    • New Work by Cornelia Parker
  • Virtual Tour: Andy Goldsworthy in the Presidio
  • Artist Programs

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Goldsworthy in the Presidio

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At: Presidio of San Francisco

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  • Allison Stone talks Art in the Presidio

  • Art in the Parks and “Home Land Security”: A Partner’s Perspective

  • Q&A with “Home Land Security” Curator Cheryl Haines

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