A unique partnership with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) and Clear Channel
The San Francisco Arts Commission has commissioned new artworks from artists on an annual basis since 1992. Now in its 34th year, the Art on Market Street program has partnered with over 130 artists since its inception, commissioning over $1.2 million worth of art, showcasing a wide breadth of artistic styles, themes and topics centered around San Francisco.The 2026 Art on Market Street Poster Series "Now & Then: Living Memories" will focus on and highlight previously unrecorded, newly unearthed, and unconventional San Francisco histories.
Artists that will be featured this year include Adrian Arias, Amir Khadar, Colin Kimzey, and Vida Kuang.
"History Makes the Present Complete" by Vida Kuang
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"Dreaming People’s History" by Colin Choy Kimzey
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"Layers of the Mission: A Celebration of Memory and Resilience" by Adrian Arias
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About
Up to four artists are commissioned annually by the Arts Commission to create a series of at least six unique works of art that responds to a theme specific to San Francisco.
Posters are displayed along Market Street between 7th Street and the Embarcadero at 15 SFMTA transit shelters.
Past Themes:
- 2025: Overlapping Histories: Art on Market Street Poster Series, 1992–Present - People, Places, and Things - Multiple Artists
- 2024: San Francisco Bay Area Native Peoples - Artists: Jesse Hernandez, Kirti Bassendine, Calixto Robles, and Marcelo Potosi.
- 2023: Comics 2.0 - Artists: Peter and Maria Hoey, Rina Ayuyang, Minnie Phan and Triple Dream Comics.
- 2022: All Comics Year! - Artists: Frederick Nolad, Gaia WXYZ, Kayan Cheung-Miaw and Vida Kuang, and A.C. Esguerra
- 2021: Reconsider, Respond and Reimagine The Idea of Public Monuments - Artists: Katie Dorame, Skywatchers, Kimberley Acebo Arteche
- 2020: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ Pride - Artists: Sadie Barnette, Win Mixter, Marcel Pardo Ariza, Justin Hall
- 2019: Market Street 24/7 - Artists: Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Kate Rhoades, Jessalyn Aaland, Taraneh Hemami
- 2018: Sanctuary City - Artists: Miguel Arzabe, Rodney Ewing, Weston Teruya, Sofia Cordova
- 2017: Summer of Love - Artists: Deborah Aschheim, Sarah Hotchkiss, Kate Haug
- 2016: Utopian Visions: The Changing Face of Market Street - Artists: Jeff Canham, Lauren Bartone, Susan O'Malley, Tracey Snelling
- 2015: Birthday Bash: Celebrating 100 years of San Francisco City Hall - Artists: Andrea Bergen, Kelly Inouye
- 2014: Exposed - Artists: Anthony Discenza, Ranu Mukherjee
- 2012 - 2013: Celebrating Bay Area Arts
- Themes predating 2012 are not available
View the Art on Market Street Poster Archive Here.