A new operational plan has been announced by di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art that introduces a sustainable path forward for the organization, including a robust rental program that will create a more reliable business model, and the opening of a new exhibition space in San Francisco to serve visitors more widely.
The inaugural exhibition, Far Out: Northern California Art from the di Rosa Collection, will bring together works by artists including Joan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Jay DeFeo, Mildred Howard, and Peter Saul, among others to explore the myriad ways that artists working on the periphery of the mainstream art world have been progressive forces for material experimentation, creative dissent against authority, and innovation apart from art historical traditions, while also introducing those who may not be familiar with the collection.
Far Out will be followed by Jim Melchert: Where the Boundaries Are in October, the first retrospective of this pioneering figure in the history of conceptual ceramics paired with work by contemporary artists, and in January 2026 Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology, an exhibition from artists Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg that reimagines our past and collective futures through large-scale tree ring sculptures and artificial intelligence. Ancient Wisdom originated at the Skirball Cultural Center as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide.