Fraenkel Gallery
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| Established | 11 September 1979 |
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| Location | 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 |
| Coordinates | 37°47′17″N 122°24′15″W / 37.788172°N 122.404278°W |
| Founder | Jeffrey Fraenkel |
| Director | Amy Whiteside, Emily Lambert, Daphne Palmer |
| President | Frish Brandt |
| Owner | Jeffrey Fraenkel, Frish Brandt |
| Public transit access | Bay Area Rapid Transit Montgomery Street Station |
| Nearest car park | Fifth & Mission Yerba Buena Garage and Ampco System Parking |
| Website | fraenkelgallery |
Fraenkel Gallery is an independent art gallery in San Francisco founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979.
Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other arts. The exhibitions have spanned the medium’s history, from its early masters to the present day. In exhibitions such as Edward Hopper & Company, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Open Secrets, Not Exactly Photographs, and Nothing and Everything, Fraenkel Gallery has brought together work across media, interweaving photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
The gallery also publishes photography books, including those to accompany its exhibitions and to coincide with its anniversaries.
Maria Morris Hambourg, former curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has said "As a New Yorker, I never come to the West Coast without going to the Fraenkel Gallery [...] Amongst professionals in the field, we really count on Jeffrey and Frish, on their expertise and imagination and enterprise to keep finding and preserving the very best."
Jeffrey Fraenkel opened Fraenkel Gallery on 11 September 1979 at 55 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, with 19th-century photographs of California by Carleton Watkins.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused the gallery at Grant Avenue to close, shortly after Fraenkel and business partner Frish Brandt had invested $300,000 into the gallery's expansion. The earthquake also destroyed the spaces occupied by other galleries around Union Square and a number of them, including Fraenkel Gallery, migrated to 49 Geary Street.
Frish Brandt joined Fraenkel Gallery in 1985. In 2015, Brandt was named president of the gallery.
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