SF Art Book Fair

The SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists' publications. The event is FREE and OPEN to the public and features artists' books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists' multiples. These works are presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the weekend, the fair hosts a diverse range of talks, discussions, book launches, on and off-site special projects, exhibitions and signings.

2023 EXHIBITORS (alphabetical order)

A Magic Mountain (CA)
Afterlife Press (CA)
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe (Canada)
Altman Siegel (CA)
Anal Magazine (Mexico)
And Aaron Krach (NY)
Animal Sleep Stories (OR)
Aperture (NY)
Arion Press (CA)
Aventures Ltd Press (NY)
Awkward Ladies Club (CA)
B.B. Press (CA)
Basement (CA)
Blum & Poe (CA)
BOMB Magazine (NY)
Book and Job Gallery (CA)
Bronze Age (UK)
But Whole Press (CA)
cademy (NY)
Can Can Press (Mexico)
Canyon Cinema Foundation (CA)
CCA COMIC COHORT (CA)
CCA Small Press (CA)
CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts (CA)
Christopher Kardambikis and
Paper Cuts (D.C.)
Chronicle Books (CA)
Cita Press (CA)
Club del Prado (Argentina)
Cold Cube Press (NY)
The Codex Foundation (CA)
Colour Code (Canada)
Colpa Press (CA)
commune (Japan)
Company Studio (CA)
Cone Shape Top (CA)
Container Corps (OR)
conventional projects (CA)
Creative Growth (CA)
Creativity Explored (CA)
Crisis Editions / Dane Press (Canada)
Curious Publishing (CA)
Dalé Zine ® (FL)
Datz Press (South Korea)
Deadbeat Club (CA)
Deep Time Press (CA)
DeMerritt Pauwels Editions (CA)
diasporan savant press (GA)
Division Leap (OR)
Documerica Books &
Light Squared Media (CA)
DRY. (CA)
Each and Every Press (MI)
East of Borneo (CA)
edgar bryan books (CA)
Ediciones Concordia Mx (Mexico)
Eggy (CA)
Entropy Editions (MN)
Et al. (CA)
Eternal Now (CA)
Evil Twin (CA)
FAWW GALLERY (UK)
Fillip (Canada)
Fish Juice (CA)
Floss Editions (CA)
For The Birds Trapped in Airports /
Speculation Bookshop (CA)
Forgotten Youth Records (CA)
Friends of the San Francisco
Public Library (CA)
Fugitive Materials (NY)
The Fulcrum Press (CA)
Gabriel Edwards (CA)
Gallery 16 Editions (CA)
Garage Publishing (CA)
Gato Negro Ediciones (Mexico)
GRL GRP (CA)
Groove Merchant San Francisco (CA)
Handy Hand Goods (CA)
Hat & Beard Press (CA)
Headlands Center for the Arts (CA)
Hi-Bred (CA)
Homie House Press (MD)
HOMOCATS (NY)
horse gurl press (OR)
Hotam Press (Canada)
The Ice Plant (CA)
IDEAL Surf (CA)
illetante books (CA)
Illustoria Magazine (CA)
Inventory Press (CA)
Irrelevant Press (CA)
Issue Press (MI)
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON (NY)
Jamiyla Lowe (Canada)
KAHL Editions (UK)
Kareem Michael Worrell (MA)
KGP | MONOLITH (NY)
Kidtofer (CA)
Kodoji Press (Switzerland)
Korean American Artist Collective (CA)
Laguna Collective (CA)
LAND AND SEA (CA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (CA)
Louis M Schmidt (CA)
Lower Falls (CA)
Margaux Bigou (French Polynesia)
Martian Press (CA)
modlitbooks (CA)
Monograph Bookwerks (OR)
More Human Editions (CA)
MÖREL Books (UK)
Most Ancient (CA)
National Monument Press (CA)
Nazraeli Press (CA)
New Documents (CA)
NIAD Art Center (CA)
Night Diver Press (CA)
NIGHTED (CA)
Nino Mier Gallery (CA)
nueoi (CA)
OMMU (Greece)
Paper Monument / n+1 (NY)
Paragon Books (CA)
Park Life (CA)
People I've Loved (CA)
Perimeter Editions (Australia)
Plunge (CA)
Poppy Press (CA)
Press Press (CA)
Raya Editorial +
La Chancleta Voladora (Colombia - CA)
RE/Search and Search & Destroy (CA)
Revista Balam (Argentina)
RITE Editions (CA)
S.A.R.A. (Mexico)
San Francisco Cinematheque (CA)
Saleem M'Boge (CA)
Savi Factory and Friends (CA)
Seaton Street Press (PA)
Secret Headquarters (CA)
Setanta Books (UK)
Shlag Lab (France)
Shortt Editions (FL)
siglio (NY)
Silver Sprocket (CA)
/ (Slash) (CA)
Sming Sming Books (CA)
Soberscove Press (IL)
Special Effects (CA)
The Spooky Haus (CA)
stop.gap (CA)
Strangeways Magazine (CA)
StreetSalad (CA)
Taxonomy Press (MI)
TBW Books (CA)
te magazine (CA)
Telematic Media Arts (CA)
THESE DAYS (CA)
Tiny Splendor (CA)
TIS books (NY)
Tomorrow Today (CA)
Triangle Books (Belgium)
Unity Press (CA)
Vacancy Projects (CA)
Visible Publications (CA)
Wasted Books (CA)
Who Press'd Press (PA)
William Stout Architectural Books (CA)
Written Names Fanzine (CA)
X Artists' Books (CA)
Zatara Press (VA)

The mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience.


Image Credit: SF Art Book Fair 2022, photo by Airyka Rockefeller.