Cushion Works
3320 18th Street
San Francisco, CA
info@cushionworks.info
415.793.3406

Open Fridays & Saturdays 12–5pm and by appointment.

Cushion Works assists artists at critical stages of their development through the production of exhibitions, publications, and programs. Rooted in radical Bay Area cultural traditions, Cushion Works privileges direct audience experience and strengthens community by generating conversation around art and its possibilities. By focusing on emerging and lesser-known artists, Cushion Works honors those who have yet to benefit from broader recognition and places them in historical and cultural context.

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Cushion Works is wheelchair accessible, though its bathrooms are not. Cushion Works acknowledges that it occupies traditional land of the Ohlone peoples. Forever free unless otherwise noted.

Subscribe to our newsletter. For more information, or to reserve a special appointment, email info@cushionworks.info. For an overview of the project, please consult Theadora Walsh’s Lost & Found from 2023.

History

Cushion Works was founded in 2017 as a just-in- time visual art exhibition space by curator and writer Jordan Stein. Driven by a desire for intimacy, it was open to friends, friends of friends, and community members through word of mouth.

Since then, Cushion Works has realized over 40 exhibitions, welcomed countless visitors, collaborated with talented guest curators,* and worked hard to remain nimble and artist-centric. Cushion Works has largely focused on the unrenowned, raising a flag for singular artists in the form of debut and mid-career exhibitions, rediscoveries and long-overdue celebrations. Along the way, we’ve also hosted readings, screenings, performances, conversations, and more, and published books.

While it’s the reviews of our peers that matter most, we’ve garnered press from the New Yorker, Artforum, Art News, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, Brooklyn Rail, Mission Local, SF Standard, and more.

*Ivan Muñiz Reed, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Nick Irvin, Connie Lewallen, Nancy Lim, Keith Wilson, Sampada Aranke, Zully Adler, and Dan Nadel.

Logo fashioned by M.T. Giddings.