Exhibitions
David Hammons: Day's End
A monumental public art installation by David Hammons in Hudson River Park, directly across from the Whitney Museum, inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark's 1975 intervention.
Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO
An augmented reality creature hovers over the Whitney Museum's terrace, inviting visitors to add feathers and witness its evolution through a participatory app experience.
Rashid Johnson: New Poetry
A site-specific steel-grid sculpture by Rashid Johnson extends from the Whitney's interior onto its plaza, combining ceramic vessels, poetry books, shea butter blocks, and video in an illuminated structure designed to mirror the function of a brain.
Dyani White Hawk: Nourish
A site-specific ceramic tile installation by Dyani White Hawk that draws from Lakota artistic traditions and engages with American Modernism. The work creates a space of rest and reflection through carefully chosen color palettes.
Untitled (America)
A sweeping survey of American art from 1900 to the early 1980s exploring how artists have engaged with landscape, memory, consumerism, and abstraction.
New Work: Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks's first solo exhibition at SFMOMA showcases her groundbreaking fiber sculptures and site-specific installations that transform textiles into monumental architectural interventions.
INFANT: BANNED SKILLS
A nonlinear digital experience by artist duo INFANT exploring xenoformalism through the bouba-kiki effect, combining science fiction, gaming, and cultural history.
Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2
A series of five animations exploring identity and cultural displacement through a playful yet unsettling red dragon derived from historical 'Yellow Peril' imagery and anti-Asian propaganda.
Robert Nideffer: 12 Years in Azeroth – The Journey Begins
Robert Nideffer's 12 Years in Azeroth - The Journey Begins fuses autobiography, fiction, and game design to explore a twelve-year immersion into the online game World of…
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
Playful monumental sculptures transform everyday objects into giant public artworks. This exhibition features models and related works by the husband-and-wife artist duo.
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
A monumental 24-foot sculpture by Rose B. Simpson honors intergenerational Indigenous connection and spiritual witnessing on the museum's façade, reclaiming Native presence in a city marked by colonial erasure.
Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean
An immersive digital artwork that simulates a living ocean, blurring the boundaries between fluid dynamics and computational logic through procedurally generated underwater environments.
Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart
A retrospective of Mabel Dwight's lithographs celebrating the people and places of New York, from the early 20th century through the 1950s.
Leo Castañeda: Camoflux Recall Grotto
A web-based game commissioned for the 2026 Whitney Biennial where players cultivate gardens in a primordial landscape inspired by the Amazon and Everglades, blending organic and cybernetic worlds.
Taína H. Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back
A monumental public artwork by Taína H. Cruz adorns the Gansevoort Street billboard across from the Whitney, part of the 82nd Whitney Biennial.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi
Los Angeles artist Kelly Akashi presents a site-specific sculptural installation on the Whitney's fifth-floor terrace, part of the 2026 Biennial. The work addresses loss and resilience following the Eaton Fire.
Whitney Biennial 2026
The eighty-second Whitney Biennial gathers fifty-six international and intergenerational artists exploring what 'American' art means today through diverse media and urgent contemporary concerns.
Andy Warhol Family Album
Rarely seen Polaroid photographs from 1972–1973 document Andy Warhol's inner circle and daily life, showcasing his obsessive documentation practice through the medium he favored.
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's monumental work explores the American West through its sublime landscapes and fraught colonial past.
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
A sweeping survey of SFMOMA's masterworks and experimental pieces spanning painting and sculpture from the early twentieth century to the present day.
Bay Area Walls
A series of commissioned murals by local artists exploring contemporary social and political issues through large-scale public art.
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Step into Olafur Eliasson's immersive colour installation on Floor 5, an arched walkway of prismatic light and dazzling chromatic effects.
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Experience Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's iconic supergraphics in bold stripes and dynamic shapes across SFMOMA's walls and ceilings.
Arborhythm
A colorful sculpture of treelike speakers that plays a continually remixed soundtrack of San Francisco's natural and urban sounds.
Table Manners
An exhibition exploring how design shapes our relationship to food and the role of dining as a communal and cultural experience.
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
An exhibition celebrating San Francisco Art Institute's legacy through artworks by alumni and former faculty, highlighting decades of artistic experimentation and innovation.
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
Explore how Paul Klee's synthesis of myth, symbol, and expression influenced Ray Johnson's artistic vision in this comparative exhibition.
Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories
An immersive exhibition exploring how leading artists harness memory, history, and evocative materials to illuminate personal and collective experience.
Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form
Explore color, line, and shape through the work of three influential modern artists—Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt—in this engaging exhibition for art lovers of all ages.
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
A series of monographic galleries celebrating 14 artists including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Serra, showcasing diverse mediums, styles, and artistic approaches.
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
Vibrant photographs capture the energy and movement of dance, from intimate nightclub scenes to staged choreography.
Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal
Explore how Matisse's revolutionary 1905 masterpiece sparked a color revolution and continues to influence contemporary art.
Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia
A vibrant video installation where drag performance exposes gender biases and queer representation gaps in artificial intelligence.
Roy Lichtenstein
A retrospective of the Pop Art pioneer's bold graphic works, from comic-inspired paintings to monumental sculptures and prints.
Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds
A comprehensive survey of Mexico City–based photographer Graciela Iturbide's black-and-white work, exploring uncanny scenes and dreamlike traditions.
Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc
Jacob Hashimoto transforms SFMOMA's Roberts Family Gallery into a mesmerizing floating cloudscape of over 75,000 hand-crafted kites, blending sculpture and environment.