About Us

City Art opened its doors at 828 Valencia St. in 1998 and has remained a constant in the radically changing Valencia corridor. The idea for the gallery emerged when several friends who were also artists wanted to create a viable formula for a group-operated business where they could regularly show their art and also open membership to other artists with quality work but who may not have had any viable outlets in which to show their art. A formula was worked out in which artists could "rent" a wall space for a month, and receive back at least 70 percent of any sales. To this day, this formula has been successful, more than covering rent and other gallery overhead without any paid employees. Artists themselves sit shifts any month in which they are showing, and also cover other ongoing maintenance duties.


Join us the First Friday of every month for our Opening Reception 7 -10 p.m.* (* Suspended during covid)