About Meg Shiffler

Meg Shiffler is a curator, writer, educator, and visionary arts leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Fall 2025, she is launching Cities of Glass, a ten-year independent curatorial project that commissions site-specific works by global artists working across performance, sound, social practice, photography, and more. From 2005 to 2022, Meg served as Galleries Director and Chief Curator for the San Francisco Arts Commission, where she led a civic-focused contemporary art program, founded the SFAC Artists in Residence initiative, and created an international Sister Cities travelling exhibition series. During her tenure, she worked with more than 1,400 local, national, and international artists. 

 

Meg is currently the inaugural Director of Artist Space Trust, the nation’s first Community Land Trust dedicated to acquiring and stewarding permanently affordable community-owned housing and creative spaces for artists. She was a faculty member in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and contributed to Stanford’s Creative Cities Working Group. She was a guest columnist for SFMOMA’s Open Space blog and has contributed essays and interviews for multiple Chronicle Books publications, including an upcoming retrospective book celebrating the life and works of artist Susan O’Malley.

 

Earlier in her career, she curated and consulted for institutions in New York such as the New Museum and the Andrea Rosen Gallery/Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. In Seattle, Meg was the Director of Visual Arts and co-founder, with Matthew Richter, of Consolidated Works, a 40,000 sq. ft. multidisciplinary art center. Meg studied at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY.