Fog Art+Design Fair — spring design & art fair
- Exhibition and pop-ups showcasing galleries, designers, industry talks, and partner programs like the Chinese Culture Center and Black Art in America. - Runs this week with a packed schedule of booths, talks, and pop-up activations across the fair footprint. - Details and hours at sfstandard.com.
FOG Design+Art is a January fair, not an April one: the 2026 edition ran at Fort Mason Center from Jan. 22 through Jan. 25, with a Jan. 21 preview gala benefiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (fogfair.com) The public fair was open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. from Thursday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Single-day tickets started at $35 in advance, four-day passes at $95, and children 12 and under got in free. (sfmoma.org) FOG’s core pitch is that it mixes contemporary art and collectible design in one place, across Piers 2 and 3 at Fort Mason. Admission also covered FOG FOCUS, the fair’s section for earlier-career artists, and the FOG Talks program. (sfmoma.org) The 2026 edition was the fair’s 12th and brought together more than 60 galleries, including more than 20 international exhibitors and 15 from the Bay Area. Organizers said 16 galleries were showing at FOG FOCUS, its largest presentation to date. (fogfair.com) The exhibitor list stretched from David Zwirner, Gladstone, Hauser & Wirth, and Marian Goodman Gallery to Bay Area names including Berggruen Gallery, Crown Point Press, Fraenkel Gallery, Haines, Hosfelt Gallery, Jessica Silverman, and Jonathan Carver Moore. That lineup shows how FOG tries to serve both global collectors and San Francisco’s local gallery scene. (fogfair.com) Programming went beyond booths. FOG scheduled 11 talks and panels with figures including Jeffrey Gibson, Suzanne Jackson, Richard Misrach, Trevor Paglen, Sterling Ruby, Tom Kundig, Anne Fougeron, and Dave Eggers, plus a design conversation with leaders from Zoox and OpenAI. (fogfair.com) The fair also added pop-ups and side activations, including the Stout Bookmobile and Loquat bakery, while FOG MRKT in the Pier 3 entryway featured six vendors such as CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Quince at Home, MMclay, and Works In Progress. Those extras turned the event into a broader retail-and-programming hub rather than a straight booth fair. (fogfair.com) FOG FOCUS carried some of the fair’s lower-priced and more experimental work. One highlighted installation recreated artist Jasko Begovic’s Bernal Heights storefront studio as a working marketplace selling custom hats, painted sweatshirts, and wearable sculptures on site. (fogfair.com) Family programming was built into the weekend too. SFMOMA Family Programs and SCRAP! led a yarn-sculpture activity on Saturday, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum hosted a collage-making space on Sunday. (fogfair.com) By the time it closed on Jan. 25, organizers said FOG had posted its highest ticket sales to date, following a preview gala that drew more than 2,700 attendees. The next edition is already on the calendar for Jan. 20 through Jan. 24, 2027, back at Fort Mason. (fogfair.com; fogfair.com)
