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Exhibitions
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Rose B. Simpson: Behold
A towering counter-monument reclaiming Indigenous presence
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
Giant sculptures that reimagine everyday objects
New Work: Sheila Hicks
Monumental fiber art by Sheila Hicks at SFMOMA
Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds
Iturbide's iconic black-and-white photography at SFMOMA
Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia
Drag performance exposes AI's gender biases at SFMOMA.
Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal
The 1905 color revolution that scandalized Paris
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
Fourteen artists, one landmark group show at SFMOMA.
Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form
Three masters of form, color, and line at SFMOMA
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
Klee's visual language through the lens of Ray Johnson.
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Bold supergraphics wrap SFMOMA's walls and ceilings.
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Step inside Eliasson's dazzling prismatic colour tunnel.
Julie Mehretu
Mehretu's epic vision of the American West at SFMOMA
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
Dance captured in photographs, from clubs to the stage.
Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories
Artists explore memory and history through evocative materials.
Table Manners
Design, food, and the art of eating together
Arborhythm
Tree-shaped speakers remix SF's natural and urban sounds.
Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection
A rich survey of photography from SFMOMA's collection.
A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA
Explore how the New Deal's Works Progress Administration transformed American art and artists during the Great Depression, featuring works from SFMOMA's collection.
Art of California: Greater than the Sum
California's artistic tradition, seen as one sweeping whole.
Bay Area Walls
Local artists tackle urgent issues in large-scale murals.
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
Modern masterworks from SFMOMA's permanent collection
Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc
75,000 hand-crafted kites transform a gallery into a cloudscape.
RM x SFMOMA
RM of BTS shares his personal art collection at SFMOMA.
O. Smith: Artivist
Orlando Smith wields pencil and paper as tools of protest, exposing the failures of the criminal legal system and abuses of power across the US and beyond.
Past exhibitions (61)
Alexander Calder
Spanning from the late 1920s to 1976, this exhibition showcases Calder's revolutionary mobiles and sculptures that transformed the medium into an art of lightness, space, motion, and time.
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
Two decades of Cartagena's photography at SFMOMA
KAWS HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO
Giant inflatable COMPANION crowns SFMOMA's rooftop.
(Re)Constructing History
Photography that uncovers layers of Black history
The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must
Color and process collide in Leah Rosenberg's immersive installation.
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
First US survey of a boundary-defying photo-art pioneer
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin's Love, the Love in My Heart
Kusama's iconic pumpkin sculpture, now at SFMOMA
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Nine-screen video epic returns to SFMOMA
Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera
Rivera's monumental mural on unity across the Americas
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings
Halaby's colorful kinetic abstractions at SFMOMA
KAWS: FAMILY
KAWS's iconic pop characters in a solo show at SFMOMA.
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love
Six decades of lyrical paintings and drawings by Jackson
Al Wong: Twin Peaks
A year-long film loop around SF's Twin Peaks.
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
The landmark retrospective of Asawa's experimental art
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Walker's automaton garden shimmers in black obsidian.
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
Experience Yayoi Kusama's immersive universe of luminous color and infinite reflections in this unmissable exhibition at SFMOMA.
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Five decades of iconic industrial typologies in B&W
Joan Brown
A landmark survey of Joan Brown's paintings at SFMOMA.
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
A landmark video installation of music and melancholy.
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Pop art's 1960s legacy, alive across generations
New Work: Toyin Ojih Odutola
New drawings exploring identity and invented mythologies
Julian Charriere: Erratic
Geology, deep time, and ecology in a bold solo show
Diego Rivera's America
Major Rivera retrospective spanning murals, paintings, and drawings.
(a)way station: Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson
Architecture, urbanism, and public space reimagined.
Mythic Constructions: Carlos Mérida and Paul Klee
Two modernist masters united by myth and abstraction.
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)
Two powerful installations on Chicana identity and solidarity.
Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
Immersive sound art exploring longing and release
Susan Philipsz
Immersive sound art on SFMOMA's rooftop terrace
Nature x Humanity: Oxman Architects
Where architecture and living systems boldly converge
Tauba Auerbach — S v Z
A sweeping solo show spanning painting, sculpture, and print.
Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican
Two visionaries unite outer perception and inner imagination.
Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks
Bold paintings on Black identity and diaspora experience.
Sam Vernon: Impasse of Desires
Drawing, collage, and video on Black identity and longing
Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun
Intimate silk collages celebrating Black womanhood
New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion
Wu Tsang and Moved by the Motion at SFMOMA
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence
Immersive interactive installations exploring body and identity.
Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa
Klee's influence on Asawa's wire art, explored at SFMOMA.
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ten dynamic Calder works explore opposing forces in harmony.
Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara
Documentary photography on identity and place at SFMOMA
One Day at a Time: Susan O'Malley and Leah Rosenberg
Color, language, and everyday optimism at SFMOMA.
Nam June Paik
Landmark survey of a video art pioneer at SFMOMA
Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor
Light, mirrors, and perception by three visionary artists.
New Work: Charles Gaines
Conceptual art where math meets photography and abstraction.
Carol Bove and John Chamberlain: Converse
SFMOMA brings together sculptures by Carol Bove and John Chamberlain in a dialogue across generations, exploring form, material, and the poetry of found and fabricated objects.
On a Clear Day: Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford
SFMOMA brings together Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford in a dialogue across generations, exploring abstraction, perception, and the search for clarity in painting.
German Art After 1960
Four giants of German art in dedicated solo galleries.
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
SFAI alumni and faculty honor a legacy of experimentation.
Art of Noise
Sound, noise, and art collide at SFMOMA in 2024.
Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue
Where contemporary furniture meets art and ideas
Shifting the Silence
Art that turns silence into resistance and reflection
Speculative Portraits
Portraiture reimagined beyond likeness at SFMOMA
Afterimages: Pop Art and Beyond from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Pop Art's lasting legacy, from Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue
Collection photographs in unexpected dialogue at SFMOMA
Refutations
Art that pushes back against dominant narratives
Drawing the Line: Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Border-defying architecture and design at SFMOMA.
Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Architecture from Outside In
Community-driven architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis
Art made under constraint at SFMOMA's 2021 group show.
Pulled Apart
Works exploring tension, division, and fragmentation.
Bay Area Walls
A 2020 exhibition at SFMOMA spotlighting large-scale wall-based works by artists rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
American abstraction in all its forms since 1950
Beyond the Sky
A 2021 exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora exploring themes of transcendence, aspiration, and cultural identity through contemporary art.