Walter and McBean Galleries

The Walter and McBean Galleries were located at in Russian Hill, as part of the former San Francisco Art Institute's Chestnut campus.^[1][2] It has presented an influential program of exhibitions highlighting innovative work by emerging artists and experimental work by more established artists, from throughout the United States and abroad.^[3]

Directors

• Philip E. Linhares (from 1967 to 1972, and 1973 to 1977) he curated "important and often experimental shows during his ten-year tenure, including [...] solo exhibitions of Wally Hedrick, Bruce Conner, William T. Wiley, Imogen Cunningham, Gladys Nilsson, Carlos Villa, and Bruce Nauman."^[4] Linhares went on to work with Mills College, and became Chief Curator at the Oakland Museum of California in 1990.^[5]
• Helene Fried (in the 1980s)^[6]
• Karen Moss (from 1999 to 2004)^[7]
• Hou Hanrou (from 2006 to 2012)^[8]
• Andrew McClintock (interim director from August 2012 to September 2013),^[9] he co-curated the Gutai exhibition in 2013.^[10]
• Hesse McGraw (from June 2013 to August 2017)
• Katie Hood Morgan (from 2017 to September 2018)^[11]