SoMa Now

2010-2022

Revisiting a place I once called home creates a curious dissonance. During the 1980s I chronicled the early stages of gentrification in the South of Market district of San Francisco. Now, as I revisit my old neighborhood, rechristened SoMa by millennial marketers, I see a skyline bulging with new buildings. My former neighbors are eclipsed by both high-earning technology workers and those without homes whose tents line alleys and broad boulevards. In this new world I often feel as if I am standing in two places at once; the past infuses the present with both longing and confusion. 

In SoMa Now I sew together a complex narrative of a city I know well, blending fact and feeling to convey what is lost, what is gained and what remains in this new terrain. 

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Support
2020. Guggenheim Fellowship

Collections
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
Oakland Museum of California

Solo Exhibitions
2018. Hamburg Triennial, Germany (June-August)
2016. San Francisco Art Commission SFO Museum (March-May)

Group Exhibitions
2023-2024. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bay Area Now 9 Triennial Exhibition, San Francisco (October-May)
2019-2020. Bundeskunsthalle, California Dreams: San Francisco - A Portrait, Bonn, Germany
2017. Oakland Museum of California, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, Oakland, CA
2017. de Saisset Museum, Virgin Landscape: Representations of Women and the American West, Santa Clara, CA
2016. California Historical Society, Photographing South of Market, Ira Nowinski and Janet Delaney, San Francisco, CA
2016. Market Street, Inside 6th Street, Two Blocks of Art, San Francisco, CA
2015. Fresno Museum, Hanna S Barsam Photography Invitational: Urban California, Fresno, CA