1950s
Roy De Forest attends the California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute).
1960s
William T. Wiley earns his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute.
William T. Wiley earns his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.
Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, and Karl Wirsum are included in the exhibition Now! Hairy Who Makes You Smell Good at the Hyde Park Art Center. It travels to the San Francisco Art Institute.
Gladys Nilsson has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute's Clay Street Gallery.
Roy De Forest has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute.
1970s
Gladys Nilsson and Karl Wirsum are included in the group exhibition Surplus Slop from the Windy City at the San Francisco Art Institute. Wirsum creates a poster for the exhibition.
Judith Barry pursues studies with Bertrand Augst at the University of California, Berkeley, and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Jim Nutt has a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute.
1980s
Catherine Opie earns her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
2000s
Lynn Hershman Leeson becomes chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.