Jessica Silverman

Jessica Silverman is an ambitious, innovative, and internationally renowned contemporary art gallery building artists’ careers and supporting art buyers keen on establishing and maintaining significant collections.

Silverman founded her eponymous gallery in 2008. She has an MA in Curatorial Practice from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts and a BFA from Otis College in Los Angeles. Silverman sat on the San Francisco Arts Commission for nine years and is happy to consult on public art projects.

The gallery represents artists at all stages of their careers who make museum-worthy art. Works by the gallery’s artists have been acquired by museums such as the Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Reina Sofia (Madrid), MoMA (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn (Washington D.C.), Pérez Art Museum Miami, MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, X Museum (Beijing) and, of course, museums in and near our hometown of San Francisco – SFMOMA, de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Stanford’s Cantor Art Center, etc.

Jessica Silverman shows regularly at Art Basel Miami Beach and intermittently at the Swiss, Parisian and Hong Kong editions of the art fair. The gallery also participates in the Frieze Fairs (especially Los Angeles and Seoul), the Armory (New York), and FOG Design + Art (San Francisco), among others. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).