About The Gallery
MICHELLE THOMAS FINE ART GALLERY + STUDIO, 40 29th Street, San Francisco, California, 94110
Michelle Thomas Fine Art Gallery sits at the intersection of Bernal Heights, Noe Valley, and the Mission in San Francisco. We feature emerging and established artists from around the world in dialogue with Bay Area icons working across media and genres. These artists are meticulous in their technique, compelled to make meaning from chaos and identify the profound in the pedestrian. The Gallery references a global, cosmopolitan heritage alongside Western art and design history—refusing marginality and the deskilled, folk, naive identity often imposed upon creatives from non-Western contexts. Our program flouts neat curatorial categories, with presentations prioritizing rare poetic concerns or marrying dissimilar materials to establish a singular aesthetic. Make an appointment to visit HERE.
Our team brings experience in fine arts program management, exhibition design, communications, and art education from their time at museums including the St Louis Art Museum, MoMA, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Works by presented artists are shown by museums and acquired by major collections including The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, The Columbus Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, UC Santa Cruz, Crocker Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
November 2, 2024-January 2024: DISTANT EXISTENCE: Paintings by Samuel Kampelman, opening party November 2, 7-9p
July 21-October 24, 2024: SAN FRANCISCO / PARIS / NEW YORK CITY: New work by René Shoemaker, opening party featuring sounds by Yollghu
April 6-July 10, 2024: HARDY HANSON: There Are Things to Come, featuring the artist's etchings, lithographs, and wall reliefs from 1978-2007
March 9+10, 2024: FLIGHT, a contemporary dance + social event featuring choreography by Erin Coyne, music by Nick Yokley, and performances by Bay Area dancers and musicians. Learn more about each artist HERE.
January 6, 2024: opening reception for SPECTRAL SHIFT (On view through March 28, 2024), featuring photography by Jenna Meacham and paintings by Michelle Sindha Thomas
September 23, 2023: opening reception for CALLE SANTO DOMINGO #10 (On view through Jan 2024), featuring photography by Alese Rivera-García and paintings by Michelle Sindha Thomas
May 13, 2023: opening reception for ON BEAUTY (On view through August 31, 2023), featuring Sophia de Young, Nirmala Thangam, and Michelle Sindha Thomas
January 29, 2023: Inaugural gallery exhibition featuring Juke Jose, Nora Aoyagi, Travis Kerkela, Summer Li, Nirmala Thangam, Kenlynn Wilson, and Michelle Sindha Thomas