After a two-year gap, the San Francisco Art Book Fair returns

on Jun 28, 2022

After a two-year hiatus, the San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) will return to Minnesota Street Project (the Project) this July. The fair opens on Thursday, July 14 with a special preview from 6-10pm and runs through Sunday, July 17. All four days are free and accessible to the public.

Over 130 publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, and galleries from across the world showcase a unique variety of artists' books, art catalogues, monographs, magazines, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples at this yearly event. SFBAF was founded in 2016 as a collaboration between Colpa Press, Minnesota Street Project, and Park Life with the goal of fostering the Bay Area's unique and diverse art publishing community while offering a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to new audiences.

This year's show will include an outdoor Zine Tent with 38 publishers devoted to accessible and imaginative forms of bookmaking. Over the weekend, David Senior, Chief of Library and Archives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), will coordinate a number of speeches, discussions, book launches, special projects, and autographs.

Presentations in the Lounge, movies and interactive events in the Media Room, and outdoor activities on Tennessee Street, including a visit by the art-cart Chispa displaying work by artists from Southeast San Francisco, are among the additional programming options. The Project Room will host an exhibition of ephemera and previously unseen photography by Jack Smith and the New York City Underground, Andy Warhol and his Cronies, and John Waters' Wonderful World. The exhibition is organised by SFABF exhibitor Boo-Hooray and includes guest curating by Groove Merchant Records' Chris Veltri.