Each Word Draws a Line: In collaboration with Sergio De La Torre
March 1 – April 18, 2027
Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
An exhibition featuring 15 years of collaborations between Sergio De La Torre and artists, activists, and communities

Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton StreetSan Francisco, CA 94117Thacher Gallery is located in the University of San Francisco Gleeson Library-Gescke Center. Ring the bell for entry.
Monday–Sunday 12 p.m.–6 p.m.
Free
ADA Accessible
Each Word Draws a Line features fifteen years of collaborations between Sergio De La Torre and artists, activists, and communities. The exhibition brings together photographs, text-based works, videos, and sculptures—both soft and hard—to trace lines of connection and resistance, mapping how language, image, and form can mark, disrupt, and reimagine the spaces we inhabit.
Sergio De La Torre has worked with and documented the multiple ways in which citizens reinvent themselves in the city they inhabit, as well as site-specific strategies they deploy to move in and out of modernity. These works have appeared in the 10th Istanbul Biennial; Bienal Barro de América; Cleveland Performance Art Festival; Atelier Frankfurt; Centro Cultural Tijuana; YBCA; Tribeca Film Festival; and El Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia. Sergio De La Torre is a professor of Fine Arts at the University of San Francisco.
Exhibiting Artists
Sergio De La Torre



Sergio De La Torre, Waiting for Cattelan, from the series Drivers, 2009. Color photograph, 22 x 26 in. Courtesy of the artist
Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
Located in Gleeson Library, the Mary and Carter Thacher Gallery is a crossroads where creativity, scholarship, and community converge. Featuring art from California, we present emerging artists, Bay Area icons, and collections to explore aesthetics, stimulate dialogue, and promote social justice.
Things to Do Around Here
There is a cafe located in the Gleeson Library atrium.
Glori Simmons, Director, Thacher Gallery
Fresh ingredients at Fish in the Box!
Glori Simmons, Director, Thacher Gallery
Don’t miss the Tides sculpture on USF’s Lone Mountain campus. Walk toward the back of the hill for city and Golden Gate Bridge views.
Glori Simmons, Director, Thacher Gallery