San Francisco — Archive

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

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Monumental fiber art by Sheila Hicks at SFMOMA

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

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

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

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Klee's visual language through the lens of Ray Johnson.

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

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Step inside Eliasson's dazzling prismatic colour tunnel.

(a)way station: Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson

Architecture, urbanism, and public space reimagined.

Diego Rivera's America

Major Rivera retrospective spanning murals, paintings, and drawings.

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

Immersive sound art on SFMOMA's rooftop terrace

Nature x Humanity: Oxman Architects

Where architecture and living systems boldly converge

Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican

Two visionaries unite outer perception and inner imagination.

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z

A sweeping solo show spanning painting, sculpture, and print.

Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun

Intimate silk collages celebrating Black womanhood

Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks

Bold paintings on Black identity and diaspora experience.