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Jeffrey Gibson’s Block-Long Mural Begins Installation on Former Bloomingdale’s in Downtown SF

Private backers fund the high-visibility commission to draw people back to a struggling downtown.

A rendering of Jeffrey Gibson’s mural being installed in San Francisco on Mission Street.
A mural wrap is applied to the facade of the former Bloomingdale’s store on the Mission Street side in San Francisco. The shopping center is officially closing its doors Monday.
Workers install the new mural installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson along the windows of the former Bloomingdale’s on Mission Street in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. 
Workers install the new mural installation by artist Jeffrey Gibson along the windows of the former Bloomingdale’s on Mission Street in San Francisco, on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026. 

Overview

  • The printed-vinyl artwork measures roughly 433 by 66 feet, wrapping the Mission Street facade between Fourth and Fifth streets at the San Francisco Centre.
  • The commission is presented by ICA San Francisco in partnership with the Yerba Buena Partnership and the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation.
  • The piece will be fully unveiled on February 2 during Super Bowl LX festivities and is slated to remain in place for at least a year.
  • The design adapts stills from Gibson’s 2022 video “This Burning World,” fusing Indigenous-influenced patterning with a meditation on the natural world.
  • An eight-person crew is installing the mural using articulating lifts and a swing-stage scaffold, supported by a DDC revitalization effort that has raised about $40 million from donors including OpenAI, Amazon and Emerson Collective.