Bonnie Ora Sherk Retrospective

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) is planning a presentation of the first posthumous exhibition survey of work by artist Bonnie Ora Sherk (1945–2021), coming to Gallery 308, Landmark Building A in January 2024. Sherk was a pioneering New York City and San Francisco-based artist, environmental educator, and landscape planner whose longstanding engagement with the urban environment, youth, and community initiatives has gained new relevance in contemporary art and across sustainability initiatives.

This exhibition, guest curated by San Francisco-based Tanya Zimbardo, traces the development of Sherk’s commitment to art and ecology in the public sphere over a range of projects. Associated with the first generation of Conceptual art and performance in California, Sherk’s early performances and site-specific interventions in the 1970s will be represented through newly transferred film and video as well as rarely seen photographs and ephemera. Details of the exhibition will be available later in 2023.