Ari Salomon: Fine Art Photography

Ari Salomon Fine Art Photography

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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

Recent Exhibitions

  • Luminous at KG+ Kyoto, with Samurai Foto
  • A Measure of Uncertainty at Harvey Milk Photo Center
  • Change at the Magnes Collection
  • Pingyao International Photography Festival
  • SF Photobook Fair

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

Instagram

Today is Sunday and the last day of the festival h Today is Sunday and the last day of the festival has arrived. Exhibition is open from 11 to 5. @nohgahotel.kiyomizu  @kgplus
BURN LINE NOHGA HOTEL KIYOMIZU KYOTO @nohgahotel.k BURN LINE
NOHGA HOTEL KIYOMIZU KYOTO @nohgahotel.kiyomizu 
EXHIBITION #29 @kgplus 

JÖTÖSHIKI
(ROOF-RAISING CEREMONY)
上棟式
A traditional Japanese ceremony held after a building’s framework is complete.
It expresses gratitude to those who built it, shows respect for the land, and prays for the safety, stability, and well-being of the people who will live and gather there.
This ofuda (paper talisman) from a local shrine is placed within the structure as a blessing-inviting protection and harmony as the home’s life begins.

REBUILDING WITH CARE
In the wake of fire, rebuilding is more than construction-it is a return.
Jötöshiki reminds us that every structure begins with respect for the land and hope for a safe future.
This exhibition space, too, is a temporary frame for healing— a place to honor what was lost, and to imagine what can grow.

I was so glad to include a few ritual elements in my installation. 

B1F GALLERY
LAST WEEK!
EXHIBITION ENDS MAY 17 SUNDAY

ABOUT JOTOSHIKI EMI
Also called jotosai, this roof-raising ceremony celebrates the completion of a building’s framework. It gives thanks, honors the land, and prays for the building’s safety and the well-being of all who will dwell within.
I made my own “Sekimori-ishi” using leftover charc I made my own “Sekimori-ishi” using leftover charcoal (failed Pyrotypes). The goal was simply to discourage visitors from trying to walk around the house. Nothing to see back there.... it was a fun last minute improvisation. 
Burn Line
アリ・サロモン | Ari Salomon
NOHGA HOTEL KIYOMIZU KYOTO
ロビー/メディテーションルーム
Lobby / Meditation Room (B1F)
Open: 4/18-5/17
Everyday 11:00-17:00
details at: AriSalomon.com (Link In bio)

@nohgahotel.kiyomizu @kgplus @gojo_plus
#kgplus
#kgplus2026
#kyotographie #kyotoart
#BurnLineAri
Healing through water and healing through fire. M Healing through water and healing through fire.

My solo exhibition in Kyoto ends this weekend. If you’re in town, you’re invited to come check it out - open 11 to 5 daily. Check out the video tour on my YouTube channel-I made tours of a handful of other exhibitions in the festival. While you’re at the hotel, check out the wonderful bakery in the lobby, my favorite item was the Matcha white chocolate scone. @cicon_by_nohgahotel @nohgahotel.kiyomizu @kgplus @gojo_plus
#suikinkutsu 
#kgplus2026
#kyotographie #kyotoart
#BurnLineAri
At the heart of the “Burn Line” installation is a At the heart of the “Burn Line” installation is a Suikinkitsu, a traditional Japanese acoustic device. The room is designed around it, and I was told I could cover it up with photographs, but I wanted to highlight it as the “hearth” of the house. To deepen the themes of transition and mourning, I surrounded this stone basin with carbonized wood and ritual charcoal, creating a somber, grounding centerpiece for the room. The installation invites you to sit and reflect on the material journey from wood to ash while listening to the delicate, subterranean echoes of the water koto. It’s designed as a kind of healing object around water and my work is a kind of healing object around fire so they compliment one another.

The exhibition is a meditation on process and loss, and I would love for you to experience it before it closes.

• Location: Nohga Hotel Kiyomizu Kyoto
• Exhibition: #29 (Gojō+ Award winner)
• Final Day: May 17th, 2026
#FineArtPhotography #Suikinkutsu #SekimoriIshi  #JapaneseGarden @kyoto__journal @gojo_plus @kgplus @kyotographie @nohgahotel.kiyomizu
@gojo_plus @kgplus @kg_photobookfair @nohgahotel.k @gojo_plus @kgplus @kg_photobookfair @nohgahotel.kiyomizu  this is the last week of my exhibition, which is open every day from 11 to 5 until May 17. #29 on the exhibition map.

You can also see my zine at the book fair.
An ocean of selfies. Thank you to all my kyotograp An ocean of selfies. Thank you to all my kyotographie friends for another great festival. My exhibition is up for one more week for anyone who is still in Kyoto. @nohgahotel.kiyomizu @gojo_plus
K7 JULIETTE AGNEL “The Scent of Light” Yuhisai Kou K7 JULIETTE AGNEL “The Scent of Light” Yuhisai Koudoukan - opens early - 09:30–16:30

This was an amazing exhibition in a beautiful beautiful building that actually has two tea rooms (in two styles @urasenke) in it. For an extra fee, they serve Matcha in the tea room. It’s not a full Tea Ceremony where they make the tea in front of you but it’s a mini Tea experience with a custom-made wagashi confectionary that was made just for the show and matches the aesthetics of the artist’s photographs. The photographs are beautiful, but the context of the exhibition design adds so much to the experience and of course that’s one of the greatest strengths of the kyotographie festival.
@kgplus Exhibition 43 MAI ITO @maiito13 “A New War @kgplus Exhibition 43 MAI ITO @maiito13 “A New Warmth” - incense store Kunjyukan Shogin lobby, Shoeido.  The exhibition is great and the incense store is a very fun experience.

She has beautiful images printed on glass that makes a interesting shadow. Other images are embedded in plastic on plastic and stacked up. Abstract nudes
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  • ends 5/17 📷Burn Line @ KG+ Kyoto