1078 Gallery

1078 Gallery is a per­for­mance and art gallery that offers excit­ing exhi­bi­tions of con­tem­po­rary and exper­i­men­tal art­works in visu­al, musi­cal, lit­er­ary, film, and per­for­mance medi­ums by artists of cul­tur­al and geo­graph­ic diver­si­ty. The show­cased work pro­motes an appre­ci­a­tion of con­tem­po­rary and exper­i­men­tal works from region­al, state, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al locations.

1078 Gallery is also home to Equi­lat­er­al Cof­fee.

Mis­sion

The mis­sion of 1078 Gallery, a non-prof­it, 501(c)(3), vol­un­teer-run orga­ni­za­tion, is to offer excit­ing exhi­bi­tions of con­tem­po­rary and exper­i­men­tal art­works in visu­al, musi­cal, lit­er­ary, film, and per­for­mance mediums.

His­to­ry

The Gallery was found­ed in 1981 at 1078 Hum­boldt Road in Chico, Cal­i­for­nia, as an artist’s col­lec­tive and alter­na­tive exhi­bi­tion space. In 1986, the gallery became a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion, widened its mis­sion, and moved to 738 W. 5^th Street. In sum­mer 2006 the gallery moved to 820 Broad­way and remained there for 11 years. In August 2018 the gallery moved to its cur­rent loca­tion at 1710 Park Ave.

The Gallery has been award­ed exem­plary sta­tus by the Cal­i­for­nia Arts Coun­cil and has received sev­er­al Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts orga­ni­za­tion grants. It is sup­port­ed, in part, by fund­ing from the City of Chico and its Art Com­mis­sion and by its very vital mem­ber­ship. The gallery is wide­ly rec­og­nized by the Chico com­mu­ni­ty as being a nec­es­sary ele­ment in main­tain­ing cul­tur­al cur­ren­cy in all art forms for local residents.