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March 23, 2012

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SELECTED  EXHIBITIONS

2026

Burn Line, Nohga Hotel Kyoto, KG+ / GOJO+ Award (solo show)
Luminance,
KG+, Dojidai Gallery, Kyoto
A Measure of Uncertainty
,  Harvey Milk Photo Center

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
Rapid Express, 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

  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award

    April 18–May 17, 2026 Open everyday, 11am-5pm

  • 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

  • Burn Line at Nohga Hotel Kyoto — KG+ / GOJO+ Award

    April 18–May 17, 2026 Open everyday, 11am-5pm

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto

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

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31 写真:エド・ヘッカーマン 他16作家|工芸:臼井浩明 他8作家 Ed Heckerman a 31

写真:エド・ヘッカーマン 他16作家|工芸:臼井浩明 他8作家
Ed Heckerman and other 16 artists|Hiroaki Usui and other 8 artists
SHITSURAI -Offerings XII- PAUSE
PAUSE…
In contemplative photography, a crucial step to making an image is “understanding one’s perception.
” This means to still the mind, remain present with what is seen, and appreciate its essence.
It is an intentional pause…..

THE TERMINAL KYOTO
424 Iwatoyama-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto
Open: 4.18 Sat.–5.17 Sun.
Open Everyday
09:30 - 18:00
入場無料 | Free
キュレーター | Curators: ジョン・アイナーセン、中川周士 | John Einarsen, Shuji Nakagawa
30 - this is a great show with some thoughtful con 30 - this is a great show with some thoughtful conceptual photography. I really enjoyed it.

ユリア・メイナーツェン、チェン・チュアンドゥアン、ティナ・エングホフ、カタリーナ・ドゥーヴェ、ヤーコプ・ジン カーステン・ラーベ、ファビアン・ハンメルル 他2作家
Julia Mejnertsen, Chen Chuanduan, Tina Enghoff, Katharina Duve, Jakob Sinn, Carsten Rabe, Fabian Hammerl and other 2 artists.
Dwelling on Uncertain Ground: Essayistic Encounters between Fact and Fiction
Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
19-3 Yoshidakawaracho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8305, Japan
Open: 4.18 Sat.–5.17 Sun.
Closed: Mon. Tue. 4.29–5.6
12:00 - 17:30
Exhibition [31] this is in my favorite art center Exhibition [31] this is in my favorite art center / café in Kyoto - check out my YouTube channel for a video walk-through. I got to do a wonderful workshop on contemplative photography today with @edheck613 

写真:エド・ヘッカーマン 他16作家|工芸:臼井浩明 他8作家
Ed Heckerman and other 16 artists|Hiroaki Usui and other 8 artists
SHITSURAI -Offerings XII- PAUSE
PAUSE…
In contemplative photography, a crucial step to making an image is “understanding one’s perception.
” This means to still the mind, remain present with what is seen, and appreciate its essence.
It is an intentional pause.
It is difficult because our natural tendency is to rush, overthink, become distracted, or to grasp impulsively.
Tour: 84 Yuki Hamanaka YURAGI -Formless Forms Tour:
84 
Yuki Hamanaka YURAGI 
 -Formless Forms
Kyotographie KG+ 2026 tour: #123 “Dialogue of the Kyotographie KG+ 2026 tour: #123 “Dialogue of the Earth” New.

This is a great exhibit, outdoors in a shrine. I’m actually really glad I got to see it in the rain. This is a 13 minute long tour showing the whole exhibit and a little bonus exhibit next-door. This is a mostly Korean group of photographers, it’s a Korean photo festival that is participating in this Japanese photo festival. @kgplus @yukiiwanami @yipf_official
Katsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮 New Everything in this Katsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮 New

Everything in this garden was so beautifully done. It’s kind of crazy and I know how much work it is to keep things so simple and clean. Built in 1610. You have to reserve an advance and you have to take a tour and the tour guide was pretty stiff. I do really wish I could just walk around and sit and quietly enjoy this garden, but I’m grateful I got to see it.
Great scenography (exhibition design) in this show Great scenography (exhibition design) in this show sponsored by a French champagne brand. This is the fifth year they have sponsored a show for the festival. 
@sarishibat  is the artist - the work comes out of a residency done on the champagne grape farm in 🇫🇷.

The exhibition title Dotok Days derives from dotoku (literally “virtue of the soil”), a term used by Sōetsu Yanagi , founder of the Mingei movement, to describe the spiritual climate of Nanto. It means knowing that one cannot live without mutual support. It means entrusting oneself to a force far greater than anything one could plan. It means that the labours and prayers of unnamed people accumulate in the land, quietly supporting daily life from beneath.
OK, honestly, I was skeptical that I would like th OK, honestly, I was skeptical that I would like this exhibition of photos of famous people but the very first person was siouxsie Sue, who is my favorite - and that won me over. Of course the venue is so beautiful and the video of him talking about his work is very modest and heartfelt.
@kyotographie @antoncorbijn4real
Kg plus 09 @sakenomad has a beautiful exhibition i Kg plus 09
@sakenomad has a beautiful exhibition in the ace hotel featuring images from her research into sake brewing, and the development of how this local brewery has evolved through the generations
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