Capp street

The Capp Street Project was established as an experimental art space in 1983 in San Francisco, California and was the first visual arts residency in the United States dedicated solely to the creation and presentation of new art installations.

The project was created by Ann Hatch who acquired a David Ireland designed house at 65 Capp Street in San Francisco. Although her original intention was to preserve the house as a work of art, a personal inquiry concerning patronage and the desire to nurture non-traditional art making processes, ultimately led in another direction. The artist-in-residency program was created and became central to Capp Street Project. Capp Street Project became part of the CCA Wattis Institute which is in turn part of the California College of the Arts in 1998 and is currently run by Jens Hoffmann, the Director of the CCA Wattis Institute.

Since its inception, Capp Street Project has given more than 100 local, national, and international artists the opportunity to create new work through its residency and public exhibition programs.

Some Past Capp Street Artists and their Projects:

Glen Seator, 1997. Seator's Approach was a full-scale indoor re-creation of the street and sidewalk outside Capp Street Project and of the street-facing facade of the gallery's first floor. Writing in the summer 1997 issue of ArtNews, critic Kenneth Baker called Seator's installation "one of the great gallery shows in this city's history." Seator's large-scale architectural installations have won international acclaim.

Ann Hamilton, 1989. In Privation and Excesses, Hamilton used 700,000 pennies, among other materials, to create a poetic exploration of systems and mediums of exchange. The installation was featured on the cover of Artforum, a career-making event for the artist.

Bill Viola, 1989. Viola's installation Sanctuary combined video, earth, and redwood trees to create an urban refuge. A renowned video artist, Viola was also awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.

Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, 1987. In the withDrawing Room: versions and subversions, the collaborators—who also have an architectural practice—explored themes of domesticity, architecture, the home, and the body of the imagined resident of the installation.

Artists who have participated in the residency:

Alavi, Seyed
Amacher, Maryanne
Andrews, Larry
Antoni, Janine
The Art Guys
Beck, Jerry
Bolton, Richard
Border Art Workshop
Byars, James Lee
Campbell, Jim
Cardoso, Maria Fernanda
Catalusci, Robert
Cathcart, James
Charlesworth, Bruce
Cheang, Shu Lea
Cheng, Carl
Chiarenza, Marie Antoinette
Chin, Mel
Cole, Willie
Collins, Timothy
Diller, Elizabeth
Ericson, Kate
Fantauzzi, Frank
Fox, Terry
Goode, Joe
Goto, Reicho
Greengold, Jane
Haha
Haigood, Joanna
Hamilton, Ann
Hatoum, Mona
Hauser, Daniel
Hill, Gary
Hoberman, Perry
Howard, Mildred
Jones, Bob
Kabakov, Ilya
Kang, Ik Joong
Kasten, Barbara
Kos, Paul
Labat, Tony
Lacy, Suzanne
Lipski, Donald
Liu, Hung
Logue, Joan
Lucier, Mary
Marioni, Tom
Martin, Howard
Maxwell, William Jackson
May, Tony
Meireles, Cildo
Munoz, Celia Alvarez
Navarre, Marie
Phillips, Liz
Ping, Huang Yong
Reeves, Daniel
Sarkis
Scofidio, Ricardo
Seator, Glen
Simkin, Phil
Simpson, Buster
Smith, Barbara T
Stone, George
Sun, May
Taho, Ritsuko
Templeton, Fiona
Torres, Francesc
Turrell, James
Van Elslander, Terence
Viola, Bill
Von Rydingsvard, Ursula
Wight, Gail
Wilson, Fred
Yanagi, Yukinori
Ziegler, Mel*

• CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
• California College of the Arts