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Hotel des Arts | San Francisco

 

 

In June 2004, START SOMA launched an art gallery in HOTEL DES ARTS - a boutique 51 room art hotel in the heart of Union Square.

The San Francisco Examiner included a nice feature story on our inaugural opening. According to the article, San Francisco's first art hotel is a 'slick, gallery-type space showcasing the talents of local emerging artists', notable for its focus on 'edgy, affordable, original art'. 

 

 

 

PAINTED ROOMS

With our series of PAINTED ROOMS art shows, we extended the vision of the ART HOTEL pretty dramatically. The 'concept' for these shows is decidedly straightforward - we simply invited some of our favorite emerging artists in the world to paint some hotel rooms.

Floor to ceiling, and pretty much everything in between - with full autonomy to do whatever they wanted.

 

To date, the following artists have completed signature rooms in the Hotel des Arts:

Anthony Skirvin Josh Feldman
Apex Kelly Ording
Bask and Tes One Kelly Tunstall
Brad Alder Logan Hicks
Brian Barneclo Maria Gillespie
Brian Ermanski MATSU-MTP + MISK
Bryan Dawson Maya Hayuk
Casey O'Connell Neon
Damon Soule Norman Korpi
David Choe Punkadelik
Dave Kinsey Buff Monster
David DeRosa Sam Flores
Eric Orr Terrance Hughes
Jeremy Fish Tim Gaskin
Jet Martinez Vinyl Killer
Jimmy Soat Vulcan
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