CULT / Aimee Friberg Exhibitions

CULT / Aimee Friberg Exhibitions CULT is a contemporary art gallery and performance space in San Francisco's mission district. CULT bridges formal, conceptual and process based works.

CULT is currently open by appointment only until further notice. calendly.com/cultexhibitions

New location: 1400 16th Street (at Carolina) Within Yves Behar’s award-winning global design firm Fuseproject. CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions is a contemporary art gallery for cutting edge work by emerging and established artists, founded in November 2013 by curator Aimee Friberg. CULT bridges formal, co

nceptual and process-based investigations, across all media. Since its inception, CULT has quickly become the leading gallery in San Francisco for rigorous work that is both experimental and forward-thinking. CULT engages a broad Bay Area and international audience with programming that encourages artists, especially from underrepresented groups, to take risks with their work. CULT is committed to supporting international and local artists, through onsite residencies, institutional collaborations, and a nutritive dialogue with the Bay Area public. Conceived as a commercial gallery that would engage its audience beyond the white cube, CULT has quickly become renowned for its provocative exhibition programming, as well as unorthodox performances, critical dialogues between artists, curators, and critics, and intimate dinners. CULT is not accepting unsolicited proposals or artist submissions at this time.

Happy Juneteenth! We’re grateful to the generations of Black artists, creators, and visionaries whose brilliance has sha...
06/20/2026

Happy Juneteenth!

We’re grateful to the generations of Black artists, creators, and visionaries whose brilliance has shaped our culture and enriched our communities. This day and every day, we celebrate their contributions, honor their legacy, and recognize the profound influence their work continues to have on our world. We’re blessed to have the opportunity to work with so many incredible makers.

🥀FLESH INTO BLOOM Opens Thursday 5/21🥀

Theresa Daddezio (New York)Daniela Terroba (Mexico City)Ruxue Zhang (SF)Abby St....
05/18/2026

🥀FLESH INTO BLOOM Opens Thursday 5/21🥀

Theresa Daddezio (New York)
Daniela Terroba (Mexico City)
Ruxue Zhang (SF)
Abby St. Claire (SF)

May 21 – July 11, 2026
Opening Reception on Thursday, May 21, 5–7 PM

CULT Aimee Friberg (1401 16th Street, San Francisco)
 
“My body
writes into your flesh…
Touching you I catch midnight
as moon fires set in my throat
I love you flesh into blossom”

(Excerpt: Recreation from The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde)
 
CULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to present Flesh into Bloom, featuring work by Daniela Terroba, Theresa Daddezio, Ruxue Zhang, and Abby St. Claire. Opening May 21 and running through July 11, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage the botanical and the body, exploring transformation as a material condition and perceptual experience. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, May 21, from 5–7 PM.

In this grouping of works, flesh is the seed, the root, the stem, the thorn, and the flower. We all bloom and decay with time as our witness. Across the exhibition, the female form and floral matter emerge as porous sites of investigation rather than fixed entities, where interior and exterior, structure and dissolution, sensation and memory remain in constant exchange. Forms swell, rupture, and recede. Boundaries become fluid, malleable, fertile. Surfaces hold traces of pressure, time, and touch, imprinting memory and documenting cycles.

Organic and synthetic elements intermingle, complicating distinctions between the natural and the constructed. The works invite consideration of an ecosystem both created and earthly, unfolding to encompass multiple states of being. Rather than presenting the body as singular or contained, the exhibition approaches it as a shifting field that expands into landscape, collapses into texture, and registers both the intimacy of lived experience and the vastness of biological and psychological processes. In this space, bloom is not only a moment of flowering but a state of becoming, where growth and decay, beauty and unease are held in tension.

Artists will be present for the opening reception.
More information at the link in our Bio.

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For our 2026 San Francisco Art Fair presentation, we are delighted to present a group of artists whose work holds tensio...
04/18/2026

For our 2026 San Francisco Art Fair presentation, we are delighted to present a group of artists whose work holds tension between the immaterial and the material.

The presentation gathers a constellation of a dozen artists whose practices dwell in liminal space—between ephemera and ground, body and spirit, memory and myth. Across painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and installation, material is approached not as fixed substance but as a threshold: a site where perception shifts and the unseen takes form.

Featuring works by Miya Ando, Amy Lincoln, Nicki Green, Kajahl, Justine Di Fiore, Jessica Jane Charleston, Mary Fernando Conrad, Adrian Pally, Anna Sidana, Anthony Peyton Young, and Rhonda Holberton.

Also featured is a selection of bespoke, handmade functional design stools and a table by Robert Saltonstall. In addition, CULT Aimee Friberg has curated a selection of large-scale works by Miya Ando for the upstairs VIP lounge.

The SF Art Fair runs through Sunday, April 19 at the Festival Pavillion at Fort Mason.

This presentation is in response to our 12-year anniversary exhibition The Veil Between, on view through April 24.

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1401 16th Street
San Francisco, CA
94117

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