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March 23, 2012

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SELECTED  EXHIBITIONS

2026

A Measure of Uncertainty,  Harvey Milk Photo Center
Luminance, KG+, Kyoto

2025

Change, LabaBay exhibition, Magnes Museum
Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
SF Photobook Fair, SF
REVEAL, Chochmat HaLev
Ephemeral Earth, Alameda Photo Festival
6 Feet Apart, Birdhouse Gallery (solo show)
Leftovers, The Curated Fridge
LabaBay fellowship, SF
Float Photo Magazine Instagram Takeover  
CPA Members’ Juried Exhibition 
Startup Art Fair, SF  

2024

Night Vision, Transmission Gallery
50|50,
Sanchez Art Center 
Memento Mori | Memento Vivere, Marin Art and Garden Center
Interface, OOO Creative Studio, KG+, Kyoto (solo show)
Home, The Drawing Room SF
Pretty In Pink, Gray Loft Gallery

2023

Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, AU (solo show)
Articulate Turns 13, Sydney, AU
Fraction Magazine (online)
Uncanny Beauty, Harvey Milk Photography Center
50|50, Sanchez Art Center
Lenscratch feature: 6 Feet Apart
6 Feet Apart, Transmission Gallery  (solo show)
Sea, The Drawing Room Annex

2022

The New World, Minnesota Street Project
Land, The Drawing Room Annex
Face to Face, Arc Studios

2021

Magnetic Pull, Arc Studios

2020

Motion Studies Dissected, KG+ Dojidai Gallery (Kyoto)  (solo show)
4 Fundraisers (AAACC, CoH, SF Camerawork +)
Motion Studies, Adobe Arts (solo show)
MFA Never, Root Division

2019

Marking Time, Harvey Milk Photo Center
Kyotographie KG+, Dojidai Gallery (Kyoto)
Startup Art Fair,  Hotel del Sol 

2018

Of Dreams and Reality, Berkeley Art Center
Home Show, PhotoAlliance
Floating Worlds, Bokeh Bokeh
AnthropoScene, ARC
48 Pillars, ARC
Making of a Beautiful Bridge, Photo Yokohama

2017

Housing, Senator Scott Wiener’s Office
Sukkah Studio, The Contemporary Jewish Museum
The Portfolio Walk, Photolucida Portland Art Museum
SFMOMA Artists Gallery Benefit Sale
Turing’s Echo, ProArts Gallery

2016

Vanishing Point, Mullen Brothers Imaging
ORDER + CHAOS, Arts Benicia (Juror: Brian Gross)
Summer National Juried Exhibition, MarinMOCA (Juror: Catherine Clark)
Head On Photo Festival “AddOn“, Sydney, Australia
Spotlight: Photography, ARC
In Motion
,
Harvey Milk Photo Center
Harvey Milk Photography Center Photo Lecture
CICA Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Korea

2015

COLLECT!, Berkeley Art Center
Conversation, Buccis
Upon Reflection, PHOTO Oakland
How the Light Gets In: Bay Area Photo, SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Motion Studies, Dzine (solo show)

2014

Motion Studies, 4×5 Gallery  (solo show)
Home, Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University

2013

Return to Simplicity, Piedmont Center for the Arts
Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
Reconsidering the Horizon, PHOTO Oakland

2012

POP!, Red Poppy Art House, SF
DIY: Photographers & Books, Cleveland Museum of Art
Bay Area Currents, Pro Arts, Curated by Renny Pritikin
WaterWorks, ARC Gallery, Curated by Ed Carey
Accident, PHOTO Oakland, Curated by René de Guzman
Digital Darkroom Slideshow Night, The Annenberg Space for Photography
Best of OPEN SHOW 2011, Apple Store (SF)

2011

FROM JAPAN TO JAPAN: Images of Japan by American Photographers, a benefit for Tohoku earthquake survivors, PHOTO Oakland
OPEN SHOW SF BAY AREA #25, Stanford University
Shadowshop, A project by Stephanie Syjuco, SFMOMA
FOTO: Pushing Boundaries, Juried by Ada Takahashi, ARC Gallery, SF
Follow-ed, a collection of books influenced and inspired by Ed Ruscha,
Winchester Gallery, UK
Habitat: Explorations of Home and Shelter in Contemporary Art, curated
by Carrie Lederer and Steven Pon, California Bank of Commerce

2010

Scene Unseen, Rayko Photo Center SF
Yokohama Photo Festival, Slideshow Screening Produced by Yoichi Nagata
Synthetic Environment, Mina Dresden Gallery
SMaLL, CordenPotts Gallery
Ari Salomon and Andy Vogt, SFMOMA Minna and Natoma windows (2 person show)

2009

One Shot x2, SF Photo Center Gallery at the Harvey Milk Arts Center
It’s Still Life, RayKo Photo Center
16th Annual SFMOMA Artists Gallery Warehouse Event
CCA’s Annual Photography Auction, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In association with Review Santa Fe
New Work, SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason, SF  (solo show)

2008

Annual Benefit Auction, SF Camerawork, SF
Insider/Outsider, Root Division, SF
Whimsy, Rayko Photo Center Gallery, SF
OPTIC ILLUSION, Southern Exposure Annual Art Auction
1 Shot x2, Calumet Gallery, SF
Recent Panoramic Photos, Uptown Night Club, Oakland, CA
Also: Honorable Mention: Photography.Book.Now

2007

10th Annual EMERGE, Gen Art, SF
Landscape Revisited, Mendocino Art Gallery, Mendocino, CA
IAPP Juried Panoramic Photography Contest, Valley Photo Center, Springfield, MA
Hey Hot Shot!, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
Our World, SF Art Commission, City Hall, SF
Ten by Ten, Mina Dresden Gallery, SF
Sixth International Festival of Photography, Łódź Art Center, Poland
soeX MARKS THE SPOT, Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction, SF
Also, finalist for: MyArtSpace New York, New York 2007 Competition

2006

SF-Paris Artist Exchange, Cachi Art Studio, SF
What Lies Beneath, ARTworkSF Gallery, SF
All Over the Map, Calumet Gallery, SF
One Shot, Harvey Milk Photography Center Gallery, SF

2005

Le Génie de La Bastille Invitational, Paris, France
Space Between, Hotel Triton, SF

2004

Artwalk, Embarcadero Center, SF

2003

Shifting Concrete, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1999

UNCERTAINLY/Deepend, Queen’s College Library, University of Melbourne

1998

Electric Prayer Wheel: a meditation on genocide, with Permi Gill, Manchester Metropolitan University, ISEA98, U.K.

1997

A Halber Entfer Zoogt Oichet Epes. (Half an Answer Also Says Something): A Shareware Collage of Yiddish Proverbs, (Floppy-disked based multimedia work), New Langton Holiday Store, SF
CONDITION: not a sickness, Intersection for the Arts, SF

1996

Got BGH?, public installations, SF
Interactive Video, UC Santa Barbara, “MacSummit” Conference (demonstration/performance)

1995

Cyberstroika, Southern Exposure, SF
The Library, New Langton Arts, SF
Current Work by Four Recent Alumni, Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA (with Mungo Thompson and Charles Goldman, curated by Andrea Hesse)

1994

Five Words At New Langton, New Langton Arts Musee d’Honneur, SF
6×9, Victoria Room in conjunction with Zyzzyva, SF

student exhibitions:
1993    Exemplary Contempor’y, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC, Juried
1993    P E E P S H O W, J.B. Hall Gallery, UCSC
1993    DEEPend, Bridge Gallery, UCSC
1993    Queer Art, GLB Resource Center, UCSC
1992    NOVAS, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UCSC, Juried
1991    Art Off the Hill, Artists Union, Downtown Santa Cruz (also 1992)
1991    Photo Guild Group Show, Bridge Gallery, UCSC (also 1992)
1990    Art Is What You Can Get Away With, Sluggo’s Cafe, UCSC (with Matt Offenbacher)
1989    Grossmont Art Competition, El Cajon Performing Arts Center, El Cajon, CA, Juried, Best-of-Show, First Place Photo
1988    Del Mar Exposition Arts Competition, Del Mar, CA, Juried, Second Place

COLLECTIONS
Susanne Wedewer-Pampus
Sharon and Michael Blasgen
Scott Atthowe
Beau Takahara
Connor Turnbull
Renee de Cossio
Justin Hall
Cleveland Museum of Art
Indie Photobook Library (at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library; Yale University)

LECTURES AND ARTIST TALKS
2026 UCLA World Arts and Culture (Performing the Museum): “Fred Wilson’s Visible Life”
2025 Cosumnes River College PHOTO 277, Creating a Digital Portfolio: “Websites for photographers” (with Hiroyo Kaneko)
(more listings coming soon)

 

For an older overview of my portfolios, download 2023 “catalog” PDF

Ari Salomon is a fine art photographer working in San Francisco.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

    4/21–5/3, 12–7pm (Opening: 4/22, 5-7pm)

Recent Exhibitions

  • A Measure of Uncertainty at Harvey Milk Photo Center
  • Change at the Magnes Collection
  • Pingyao International Photography Festival
  • SF Photobook Fair
  • Ephemeral Earth at Alameda Photo Festival

Recent Press

  • Burn Line featured in Forbes and J
  • “Lasting Evidence”: featured in Professional Photographer magazine
  • Float Magazine Instagram Takeover

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Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

    4/21–5/3, 12–7pm (Opening: 4/22, 5-7pm)

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Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto Luminous Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

Luminous: Lighting the Way — SAMURAI FOTO × BAPC at KG+ 2026 I’m in a group show with BAPC and SAMURAI FOTO — and also putting on a solo show in this amazing photo festival in Kyoto in April. It's my 4th time participating in the festival.

Link in bio…
Burn Line - detailed view of second version of the Burn Line - detailed view of second version of the couch image

#Pyrotype #BurnLineAri #PhotoSculpture #ExperimentalPhotography #ConceptualPhotography ArtAndMemory AlternativeProcess CNCArt CaliforniaWildfires ClimateChangeArt JewishFuturism
Interface #Interface #pareidolia #‎iseefaces #‎is Interface

#Interface #pareidolia #‎iseefaces #‎iseefaceseverywhere #veocaras facehunter faceclub interfaceari
Interface #Interface #pareidolia #‎iseefaces #‎is Interface

#Interface #pareidolia #‎iseefaces #‎iseefaceseverywhere #veocaras facehunter faceclub interfaceari
Kyoto announcement 🤍 Grateful to share the first Kyoto announcement 🤍

Grateful to share the first early listing of my upcoming Kyoto exhibitions this spring. My GOJO-AWARD Exhibition with gojoars (part of GOJO+ / KG+ Kyotographie) opens April 18, alongside “Luminous”, a group exhibition with @samuraifoto and @bapc.photo curated by Deborah Klochko.

More soon — but it feels special to mark the quiet beginning of sharing this new work.

#Kyotographie #KGPlus #GOJOPlus #KyotoArt #contemporaryphotography
This explains everything about the Kyoto photo fes This explains everything about the Kyoto photo fest "KG+" - and I suppose explains nothing! It is a nice try but I’m not sure how much it helps someone who is really new to the event.

The festival is so big, it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

Anyway I will be part of a group show in “KG+ open entry” but not sure yet if it will get the extra attention of “for collector” or the regular “pick up” or the “normal”...

My other show will be part of "KG+ Special”. More info on that soon.

thanks @kgplus and @gojo_plus
Excited to introduce @makiaizawa_ or @amu_arts_or Excited to introduce @makiaizawa_  or @amu_arts_org and @maryvirginiaswanson  at @codexfoundation - we were admiring the next level artistry of @veronikaschaepers and her conceptually powerful handmade books. What a fun event.
Mills College Art Museum tour with @stephaniehanor Mills College Art Museum tour with @stephaniehanor and my @bapcsf group. Thank you for taking us on such fascinating tour with lots of behind-the-scenes notes on this wide ranging collection of work.
@randy_colosky @tiffanyshlain @kengoldberg - my fa @randy_colosky @tiffanyshlain @kengoldberg - my favorite art works from the show @dirosaart in sf. Congrats!
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