Genera#ion: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia: Minnesota Street Project - San Francisco

"GENERA#ION: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia, presents San Francisco’s first exhibition of contemporary art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This timely, cross-generational survey of artists working at the center of the Islamic world.

 

GENERA#ION marks the third stop on a multi-city Saudi artist’s tour of the United States, and is supported by The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (iThra) in partnership with prominent Saudi artists. The tour, which launched earlier this summer at the Station Museum in Houston, Texas before traveling to Aspen, Colorado, aims to generate people-to-people dialogue and a better understanding between the two nations. Following a run at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, the tour will continue to Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine and other major cities across the country.

 

As the world’s media reports a resurgent tide of religious intolerance and conflict, a tight-knit group of Saudi artists, both men and women, have acted upon a dream to discover the people and the diversity of America—from the East to West coast. Trekking across the U.S interstate highway system and major cities, these artists are on a mission to share not only their innate passion to create but also to learn from the local public’s reactions to their artworks."