Curated State promotes Bay Area artists through alternative venues and projects.  Since the beginning of 2019, our business shifted to exclusively developing pop-up art shows featuring local artists in a variety of locations around the city: galleries, art buildings, and empty storefronts. In the decade that Curated State has existed, we have designed, handled, installed and managed nearly 100 discrete art exhibits showing the work of hundreds of artists. 

In 2020 we began a partnership with Renée DeCarlo of The Drawing Room to activate vacant storefront space and turn it into community art space.  Venues have included 2675 Mission St., 780 Valencia St. and currently 599 Valencia (formerly Harrington's).  We've curated dozens of large thematic group shows, along with supporting local non-profits including Art for AIDS, Hospitality House, First Exposures, Breakthrough SF, Litquake/Lit Crawl, the San Francisco Community Music Center, SF Skateclub, Larkin Street Youth Services and DrawBridge. We have also hosted ArtSpan’s Open Studios and Youth Open Studios as well as partnered with San Francisco Unified School District.

In the fall of 2023 we curated Too Squares Equals One, an exhibition of monotypes, drawings and sculpture by Tom Seligman and Canadian artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.  Tom & Michael are two old friends and old squares whose work is finally being brought together in this exhibition. They first met and worked together on the board of a foundation dedicated to supporting Indigenous communities and their rights in various regions of the world. In their artistic careers each has pursued a mixed media practice that irreverently explores identity, a shared love of iconography, and unexpected use of materials.

Our goal is to engage new audiences while strengthening neighborhood communities through thought-provoking and relevant curation, artistic process and dialogue, and also to heighten the human experience - both that of artist and audience. 

For more information, please email Courtney, or call at 415.254.4754