We (Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour) love Et al.. For over a decade we’ve dedicated a significant amount of our time and energy to the gallery and it’s related projects and programs. We’ve never made money with the gallery - we each have full-time jobs which, along with low rent in our home and the occasional sale has allowed us to keep the gallery going. Our current space has allowed us to stretch out both the gallery program, with its high ceilings and multiple rooms, and it’s added the opportunity to share this space with the community.

This last year or so has been increasingly tough financially, even as the project thrives with events and exhibitions we are as proud of as any we’ve organized over our project’s existence. There are innumerable

Recent events in the gallery
May 4 2023 through February 7 2025

Eileen Myles, Ceremonial Abyss, Matt Sussman, Tyrel Williams, Bob Glück, Elizabeth Robinson, Brian Kim Stefans, Courtney Bush, Violet Spurlock, Alli Warren, Scout Faller, Warm Spell, Ghost Dub, Camille Roy, Dean Ouellette, Jennifer Locke, DL Alvarez, Joanne McNeil, Robin Sloan, Susie Cagle, Gia Gonzales, Muriel Leung, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Land and Sea /The Stud, Creativity Explored, Cuneiform Press, Club Chicxulub, Ivanna Baranova, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Hans Wagner, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Grace Ambrose, Mishka, Josh Cheon, Jeremy Castillo, Susan Gevirtz, Ghazal Mosadeq, Priscilla Wathington, Eleni Stecopoulos, Ariel Resnikoff, Dorothy Santos, Anuradha Vikram, Imani Mason Jordan, Grant Williams-Yackel, Sin Wai Kim, and Leila Weefur, meital yaniv, Arrington de Dionyso, Chingiz Kam, Matt Robidoux, Christopher Robert Duncan, Benjamin Friedlander, J. Gordon Faylor, Jo Aurelio Giardini, Joanne McNeil, Robin Sloan, Susie Cagle, Violette Bule, Michel Otayek, Carrie Hunter, Laura Woltag, Jacob Kahn, Luke Schneider, Aux Meadows, Most Ancient, Anthony Discenza, Ana Saygi, Filip Kostic, Rhonda Holberton, Constance Debré, KRUPSKAYA, Noah Ross, Maria Sledmere, Jennifer Soong, The Ana, Sophie Appel, Jasmine Zhang, Cher Strauberry, Angie Sijun Lou, Scout Faller, soledad con carne, hector son of hector, erica lewis, Gillian Conoley, Truong Tran, Damon Potter, Gabrielle Civil, Eric Leigh, Elise Ficarra, Steve Dickison, Gay Outlaw, Theadora Walsh, Lupita Limón Corrales, Leena Joshi, Christina Svenson, Danielle Lawerence, Michael Hall, David Jacob Kramer, Ena Selimović, Sabrina Jaszi, Donohon Abdugafurova, Simone Bailey, Susan Thackrey, Evan Kennedy, Jason Morris, Peter Cole, Forrest Gander, and Norma Cole, Lit Crawl, Sophia Dahlin, Lucy Cotter, Gillian Conoley, Alex Keramidas, Ann Pedone, David Buuck, Marcus Ewert, Kota Ezawa, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Randall Mann, London Pinkney, Dodie Bellamy, Hedi El Kholti, Cecily Nicholson, Rebecca Kosick

Some History 

Et al. began as a loose curatorial project of Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour. They met in 2010 and began curating in Kevin Clarke’s MacArthur B Arthur Gallery in Oakland until it closed, then independently, then opening their first physical space with Facundo Arganaraz in 2013 in the basement of a drycleaners in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Since then, they’ve expanded their footprint in the original location, taking over first the upper and then the ground floor before the gallery’s closure in 2023. Et al. had a large space in Minnesota Street Projects when the building opened, a smaller space next to Ratio 3 gallery in the Mission, and now they operate the large 2831a Mission space wherein there are three potential exhibition spaces, a bookstore, and in various other spaces another commercial gallery, a publisher, and poetry non-profit Small Press Traffic.