INTRODUCTIONS 2024

INTRODUCTIONS 2024

Established in 2007, Introductions is one of Root Division’s signature exhibitions, showcasing the talents of twelve emerging Bay Area artists without gallery representation. Artists are selected through a rigorous review process by a panel of three prominent arts professionals based on the conceptual and formal strength of their work. The resulting exhibition provides a snapshot of the Bay Area’s artistic landscape featuring a diverse range of media and subject matter.

Remarking on the exhibition, juror Matthew Villar Miranda states: “Root Division’s Introductions 2024, now in its remarkable 18th iteration, embodies the distinctly community-driven spirit of San Francisco’s art scene, as championed by the late Filipino American artist and native San Franciscan Carlos Villa (1963-2013). Reflecting on his return after a six-year sojourn in New York, Villa praised the Bay Area’s eclectic art scene: “Art has no horizon…It could come out in documentary form, it could come out in abstract forms, it could come out in poetic terms…artists as conduits to their communities.” In this spirit, Introductions 2024 features artists exploring identity, memory, place, and their intertransformations. Together, they embody narratives, (de/re)construct pasts,  alchemize the every day, and compellingly shift gravity towards our Bay Area.”

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS 

Clementine Keenan
Deena Qabazard
Grace Jin*
Jacob Li Dai Loong Rosenberg
jamil nasim**
Jessy Slim
Kevin Lopez
Kristiana Chan
luka vergoz
Sophia Ramirez
tamara suarez porras
Timna Naim

*RD Studio Artist

** RD Alum

2024 JURORS

Callie Jones, Co-Founder, COL Gallery, San Francisco
Ebti, Artist and Introductions alum (‘20)
Matthew Villar Miranda, Curatorial Associate, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Register for our 2nd Saturday reception here.