The deYoung Museum features new artists from the 5 Bay Area counties

SAN FRANCISCO – Building on the enormous success of the inaugural iteration in 2020, The de Young Open returns this year as a newly established triennial, once again celebrating the diverse talents of the Bay Area arts community at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
 
The de Young Open is the only exhibition of its kind at a major American museum, inviting submissions from local artists via open call for review by a jury composed of both Bay Area artists and Fine Arts Museums’ curators. All artworks are juried anonymously and exclusively from digital images, without artist-identifying information, and selected for inclusion in the de Young’s largest exhibition on the basis of merit alone.
 
The 2020 call drew nearly 12,000 submissions and saw more than 800 artworks installed in The de Young Open that year, in what one participant called “a giant love letter to the people of the Bay Area.”