Featuring works by the inaugural cohort of SHACK15 Artist Fellows and a curator’s tour of the work
Join us for the Opening Reception of the SHACK15 Artist Fellowship Exhibition featuring works by the inaugural cohort of SHACK15 Artist Fellows and a curator’s tour of the work. The opening reception runs from 5–8 pm on Tuesday, January 20th, and will feature works from Adrian Burrell, Abel Rodriguez, Em Kettner, Terri Friedman, Brontez Purnell, Keith Boadwee, and Joanne Keane Lopez, the winners of a new $20,000 prize, curated by acclaimed critic Andrew Berardini, and Margot Norton, the Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
The exhibition features work spanning painting, sculpture, textile weaving, installation, and performance-driven practices. Across generations and mediums, their works engage memory, kinship, land, and identity with both tenderness and formal rigor. The Fellows draw from deeply personal and collective histories: ancestral building traditions, the Great Migration, erotic economies of care, gang ephemera and queer survival, and decades of Bay Area queer visual culture. Together, the exhibition reflects a cross-section of Bay Area practices that are intellectually ambitious, materially inventive, and rooted in lived experience.
The seven recipients of the 2025 SHACK15 Art Prize: Abel Rodriguez, Brontez Purnell, Em Kettner, Joanna Keane Lopez, Terri Friedman, Adrian Burrell, and Keith Boadwee.
The opening reception is an opportunity to experience the exhibition, meet the artists, hear from the curators and connect with fellow members of the art and cultural community.
Join us at SHACK15, open to the public for a limited time during SF Art Week 2026.
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The SHACK15 Art Prize is an initiative rooted in care for the San Francisco Bay Area and the belief that local artists represent an integral part of the cultural fabric of our civic life.
Open Hours:
Tuesday, January 20 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, January 21 | 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Thursday, January 22 | 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday, January 23 | 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
About the SHACK15 Art Prize
The SHACK15 Art Prize, curated in partnership with Art Bae, represents an unprecedented investment in the Bay Area’s cultural future, offering $20,000 fellowships to seven regional artists to create new work culminating in a group exhibition during SF Art Week 2026.
About Art Bae
Art Bae, co-founded by Inga Bard, Andrew Berardini, and Lucas Foglia, helps Bay Area residents connect with art through criticism, events, and community engagement. Art Bae supports the local art ecology by amplifying artists and building cultural infrastructure. Visit artbae.info or follow @artbae.info on Instagram.
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This event is 21+
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About SHACK15
SHACK15 is a community for Founders, Innovators and Changemakers. Located on the third floor of the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building with panoramic views of the Bay, SHACK15 provides the stage for a diverse global community to gather and connect.
SHACK15 Location
We’re located on the 2nd floor of San Francisco's Ferry Building. Please use the elevator to come to the 2nd floor in the Ferry Building’s “Office Lobby” - located underneath the giant clock tower, on the left side of the main market entrance.