2nd Saturday September 2025: Introductions

Introductions 2025
Exhibition Dates: August 13 - September 20, 2025
Opening Reception: September 13, 2025

Launched in 2007, Introductions is one of Root Division’s signature exhibitions, showcasing the talents of twelve Bay Area artists without gallery representation. Artists are selected through a rigorous review process based on the conceptual and formal strength of their work. The resulting exhibition provides a snapshot of the Bay Area’s creative landscape, featuring a diverse range of media and subject matter, including but not limited to video, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, painting, and installation. A key pillar of Root Division’s gallery program, Introductions offers artists a platform to share their work to the public through an exhibition, public programming, and publication.

Remarking on the exhibition, juror Makeda Best states: “These artists metaphorically and sometimes literally record and interpret the world around them – “introducing” us to new ways of seeing the world, and prompting us to notice, to trace and to pull the common threads.”

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Paloma Bondi
April Camlin
Javier Roberto Carlos
England Hidalgo
Megan March
Lorena Molina
Katie Murken
Elaine Nguyen**
Meghna Sharma
Siana Smith
Zoe Spikerman
Amy Yoshitsu

** RD Alum

2025 JURORS

Makeda Best, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Oakland Museum of California
Cecilia Chia, Founder and Director, Glass Rice Gallery
Alison Guh, Assistant Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art