decade

1950s

1950–52 1950

Roy De Forest attends the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute).

decade

1960s

1960

William T. Wiley earns his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

1962

William T. Wiley earns his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

1968

Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Karl Wirsum are included in the exhibition Now! Hairy Who Makes You Smell Good at the Hyde Park Art Center. It travels to the San Francisco Art Institute.

1969

Gladys Nilsson has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute’s Clay Street Gallery.

1969

Roy De Forest has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute.

decade

1970s

1970

Gladys Nilsson and Karl Wirsum are included in the group exhibition Surplus Slop from the Windy City at the San Francisco Art Institute. Wirsum creates a poster for the exhibition.

late 1970s 1974

Judith Barry pursues studies with Bertrand Augst at the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute.

1975

Jim Nutt has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute.

decade

1980s

1985

Catherine Opie earns her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

decade

2000s

2007

Lynn Hershman Leeson becomes chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Related tags