Meet-the-Artist Tour: Trevor Paglen at Jessica Silverman
Meet the Artist Tour
Trevor Paglen
at Jessica Silverman
Hosted by 100 collectors
On the occasion of the opening of NODE, and following the closeby SFMOMA tours of Alejandro Cartagena’s exhibition, 100 collectors invites you to a meet-the-artist visit with Trevor Paglen at Jessica Silverman.
This event takes place during Paglen’s solo exhibition The Horizon Waved, and Nothing Was Certain: 2006–2026, marking his debut with the gallery.
Artist introductions will take place at 12:30 PM and again at 1:00 PM, allowing guests to join at either time slot and engage directly with the artist around the works on view.
Light lunch bites will be served at the gallery.
For those wishing to have a full lunch, we can share restaurant recommendations in nearby Chinatown.
Limited capacity. RSVP required.
About Trevor Paglen:
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. Paglen’s work has had one-person exhibitions at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Prada, Milan; the Barbican Centre, London; Vienna Secession, Vienna; and Protocinema Istanbul, and participated in group exhibitions the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and numerous other venues.
Paglen has launched an artwork into distant orbit around Earth in collaboration with Creative Time and MIT, contributed research and cinematography to the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, and created a radioactive public sculpture for the exclusion zone in Fukushima, Japan.
Paglen is the author of several books and numerous articles on subjects including experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, military symbology, photography, and visuality. Paglen’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times, Art Forum, and Aperture. In 2014, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award and in 2016, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Paglen was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017.
Paglen holds a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley, an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley.
About Jessica Silverman:
Jessica Silverman is an ambitious, innovative, and internationally renowned contemporary art gallery building artists’ careers and supporting art buyers keen on establishing and maintaining significant collections.
Silverman founded her eponymous gallery in 2008. She has an MA in Curatorial Practice from San Francisco’s California College of the Arts and a BFA from Otis College in Los Angeles. Silverman sat on the San Francisco Arts Commission for nine years and is happy to consult on public art projects.
The gallery represents artists at all stages of their careers who make museum-worthy art. Works by the gallery’s artists have been acquired by museums such as the Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Reina Sofia (Madrid), MoMA (New York), the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn (Washington D.C.), Pérez Art Museum Miami, MCA Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, X Museum (Beijing) and, of course, museums in and near our hometown of San Francisco – SFMOMA, de Young Museum, Asian Art Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Stanford’s Cantor Art Center, etc.
Jessica Silverman shows regularly at Art Basel Miami Beach and intermittently at the Swiss, Parisian and Hong Kong editions of the art fair. The gallery also participates in the Frieze Fairs (especially Los Angeles and Seoul), the Armory (New York), and FOG Design + Art (San Francisco), among others. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).
About 100 collectors:
100 collectors is a global club for contemporary and digital art collectors.
Founded by curators and art advisors, the club brings together collectors who want to collect with intention, beyond hype and speculation. We support collectors at every step of their collecting journey, offering educational context, guidance, art advisory and access.
Members benefit from curated editorial content, early access to artworks, and a strong international community. Online, through gated resources and discussions. Offline, through private events, guided visits, and intimate gatherings around major art fairs, exhibitions, and digital art conferences.
At its core, 100 collectors values thoughtful collecting, long-term support for artists, and meaningful engagement with art today.