New Suns: Resist and Rejoice | Southern Exposure's Benefit Art Auction

Southern Exposure proudly presents NEW SUNS: Resist and Rejoice, our 2025 benefit art auction. Join us for an interstellar evening both in-person and online on Friday, April 18, in the SoEx gallery where we will celebrate the resilience and ingenuity of our arts community in the face of adversity. 

We invite you to our largest fundraiser of the year both to fortify our organization for the future and to reinvigorate for the fight ahead with a joyful night of camaraderie.

Together, we can build new worlds, find new horizons, and create new art. In these difficult times, we look to the wisdom of revolutionary thinkers like Octavia Butler: "There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns."

Find the next sun with us. Support Southern Exposure and get your ticket today.

Our Main Event will feature both a silent and a live auction (led by esteemed Bonhams Auctioneer Aaron Bastian), showcasing over 130 pieces of astronomical art from some of the Bay Area's most stellar artists. The auction exhibition is on view March 29-April 17. 

Ticket Tiers

$250+ Host Packages

$175 VIP + Main Event Ticket 

$100 Main Event Ticket 

$0-75  Online Bidding Event Ticket 

If you're unable to join us in person, we welcome you to support us with a sliding scale ticket to our online bidding!

Main Event Schedule

Friday, April 18, 2024

6:00 PM Doors Open

7:30 PM Live Auction

8:30 PM Silent Auction begins to close

Preview Exhibition

March 29 - April 17, 2024, In-person by appointment

VIP PREVIEW

Thursday, April 3, 6:00 - 8:00 PM

Become a SoEx Auction VIP and your support for our cutting-edge and innovative programming can go even further. As a VIP ticket holder, you'll be invited to our in-person VIP Auction Preview, where you'll get to know more about the art and artists in our auction and have the first opportunity to "Buy-It-Now" for select works in advance of the main event.

$0-250+.

Presented by Southern Exposure