Group show
Speculative Portraits
9 Apr 2022 — 5 Sep 2022 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
· San Francisco
Speculative Portraits was a 2022 exhibition presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The show brought together works that reimagine the tradition of portraiture, pushing beyond conventional likeness to explore how identity, memory, and the unknown can be rendered through the human figure.
By framing portraiture as a speculative act, the exhibition invited visitors to consider not just who is depicted, but what possibilities — social, political, and personal — a portrait can hold. The works on view challenged assumptions about representation and offered new ways of seeing the self and others.
By framing portraiture as a speculative act, the exhibition invited visitors to consider not just who is depicted, but what possibilities — social, political, and personal — a portrait can hold. The works on view challenged assumptions about representation and offered new ways of seeing the self and others.
About the venue
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
· San Francisco
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over…
