Further Triennial: Spring 2027
About
In 2027, visual arts organizations across Northern California will premier exhibitions and programs that explore the creative life of the region. Some will spotlight contemporary artists, others will excavate untold histories, and still others will explore resonant themes and social issues.
The Triennial’s name pays quiet tribute to the bus that San Francisco’s Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters drove across the country, pollinating the United States with the spirit of counterculture.
It also exemplifies a broader attitude that is nurtured by our artists. Northern California is a place where unorthodox thinking, offbeat creativity, and unconventional identities seek new horizons. Many artists have journeyed westward until they hit the Pacific, but this did not stop them from advancing, through art, still further. By way of metaphysical growth, political transformation, artistic innovation, or self-creation, artists in Northern California push toward the unknown and unrealized.
Collaborating Organizations in San Francisco
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
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Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Haight Street Art Center
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
Minnesota Street Project Foundation
Museum of the African Diaspora
Recology Artist in Residence Program (AIR)
San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Public Library Exhibitions
SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive
Tamalpa Institute Center for the Halprin Work
Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Zully Adler, Executive Director
Zully (he/him) is a curator and historian focusing on modern art, music, and counterculture in California. His previous exhibitions and publications include Redd Ekks: X, Melvino Garretti, Betty Bailey, William T. Wiley: Con-Fusion-Ism, Charlie Nothing: State of the Ding, and Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess & California, co-curated with Nancy Lim at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is the recipient of the Watson Fellowship, the Marshall Scholarship, the Shorenstein Research Fellowship at SFMOMA, and the Clarendon Scholarship in support of his doctoral research at the University of Oxford.