When San Francisco’s Rio Yañez and Sacramento’s Bridgétt Rex began curating the 2025 Día de Los Muertos show at the San Francisco gallery and cultural center SOMArts, their mission statement was clear: Altars come in many forms. And no matter how you express your grief, you are loved.

“This show features artists from so many different cultural backgrounds, from so many different parts of the world,” says Yañez. “So it’s about coming together and sharing the ways in which we honor the dead.”

Día de Los Muertos 2025: We Love You, on view now through Nov. 7, features 13 artists, all of whom are women, transgender or gender-nonconforming. Yañez says this show embodies modern interpretations, ideas and concepts of the afterlife.

“Being in San Francisco, we have a certain amount of leew

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