cover image: Today’s Special, 1982 Masami Teraoka

I an happy to announce that Nearest Neighbor will be a part of a show in San Francisco this spring.

Run Fast, Bite Hard: An Exhibition on Human-Animal Hybrids, Companion Species, Technoscience, and Even a Few Cyborgs

curated by Anton Stuebner

with accompanying Media Room program curated by Marcia Tanner

On view March 14 - May 30, 2026

North and South Galleries

Opening reception: Saturday, March 14 from 3 - 5pm

Media Room artists:

Jon Bernson, Doug Goodwin and Rebecca Baron, Nina Katchadourian, Stacey Steers, Astria Suparak, Gail Wight

Exhibiting artists (Main Galleries):

Jen Bervin, Chelsea Bighorn, Troy Lamarr Chew II, Arleene Correa Valencia, Julie Heffernan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Malia Jensen, Deborah Oropallo, Alexis Rockman, Laurel Roth Hope, Tina Rath, Josephine Taylor, Masami Teraoka, Katherine Vetne, Marie Watt, Wanxin Zhang

Catharine Clark Gallery continues its Spring 2026 program with the group exhibition Run Fast, Bite Hard: An Exhibition on Human-Animal Hybrids, Companion Species, Technoscience, and Even a Few Cyborgs, curated by Anton Stuebner, Partner and Director at the gallery.

Writing on the theme of “companion species” for a series and exhibition of the same name in 2017, gallery artist Marie Watt noted that “Seneca and Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House) people believe animals to be our First Teachers. From this viewpoint, it is interesting to consider how other cultures hold their relationship with animals, and by extension, the greater natural world. The concept of companion species addresses the reciprocal relationship humans have with nature, and our responsibilities as responsive stewards”.

Watt cites cultural theorist Donna Haraway’s research, and Haraway’s coining of this term, as integral to her own creative consideration of how we relate to the non-human world. Haraway posits that while humans have significant relationships with non-human entities—particularly those in the natural world—companion species are those with which humans have a true interdependency. This concept moves away from the idea that humans are at the center of the universe, suggesting instead that we “co-evolve” with animals—that we shape each other’s history and biology.

The works on view in the exhibition explore these deep connections—considering hybridity, ecosystems, and the blurred lines between nature and culture (and perhaps even a few cyborgs).

Run Fast, Bite Hard is the second in a series of exhibitions organized loosely under the theme Roots & Shoots on the gallery’s 35th anniversary. The anniversary year celebrates artists who have sustained long relationships with the gallery alongside newer voices entering the program through group exhibitions such as Run Fast, Bite Hard and forthcoming solo presentations.
The year began with a survey exhibition spanning five decades of work by Masami Teraoka, who has been represented by the gallery since 1997, along with a Media Room video by Ken Goldberg (also represented since 1997), created in collaboration with Tiffany Shlain. Following Run Fast, Bite Hard, the gallery will present solo exhibitions by Al Farrow and Chester Arnold, whose careers have been represented by the gallery since 1991 and 2003 respectively. In the coming weeks, the gallery will also announce the representation of two artists newly joining the roster.

The curators thank the following gallery partners for their collaboration on this exhibition: Hoffman Donahue, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Cristin Tierney Gallery, Tandem Press, Claudia Altman-Siegel, and Becky Koblick.

For more information, contact Anton Stuebner, Director.

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