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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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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 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The collection is displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art. In 2024, SFMOMA was ranked 14th in the Washington Post's list of the best art museums in the U.S.

On view

Past exhibitions (34)

Art of Noise

4 May 2024 — 18 Aug 2024

Sound, noise, and art collide at SFMOMA in 2024.

Bernd & Hilla Becher

17 Dec 2022 — 2 Apr 2023

Five decades of iconic industrial typologies in B&W

Joan Brown

19 Nov 2022 — 12 Mar 2023

A landmark survey of Joan Brown's paintings at SFMOMA.

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

5 Nov 2022 — 2 Jan 2024

A landmark video installation of music and melancholy.

New Work: Toyin Ojih Odutola

3 Sep 2022 — 22 Jan 2023

New drawings exploring identity and invented mythologies

Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue

20 Aug 2022 — 25 Jun 2023

Where contemporary furniture meets art and ideas

Julian Charriere: Erratic

6 Aug 2022 — 14 May 2023

Geology, deep time, and ecology in a bold solo show

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

16 Jul 2022 — 21 May 2023

Architecture, urbanism, and public space reimagined.

Diego Rivera's America

16 Jul 2022 — 2 Jan 2023

Major Rivera retrospective spanning murals, paintings, and drawings.

Mythic Constructions: Carlos Mérida and Paul Klee

2 Jul 2022 — 1 Dec 2022

Two modernist masters united by myth and abstraction.

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)

18 Jun 2022 — 6 Nov 2022

Two powerful installations on Chicana identity and solidarity.

Speculative Portraits

9 Apr 2022 — 5 Sep 2022

Portraiture reimagined beyond likeness at SFMOMA

Shifting the Silence

9 Apr 2022 — 5 Sep 2022

Art that turns silence into resistance and reflection

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

from 9 Apr 2022

Immersive sound art exploring longing and release

Afterimages: Pop Art and Beyond from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

from 5 Mar 2022

Pop Art's lasting legacy, from Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Nature x Humanity: Oxman Architects

19 Feb 2022 — 15 May 2022

Where architecture and living systems boldly converge

Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican

18 Dec 2021 — 26 Jun 2022

Two visionaries unite outer perception and inner imagination.

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z

18 Dec 2021 — 1 May 2022

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

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue

20 Nov 2021 — 21 Aug 2022

Collection photographs in unexpected dialogue at SFMOMA

New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion

16 Oct 2021 — 5 Jun 2022

Wu Tsang and Moved by the Motion at SFMOMA

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence

2 Oct 2021 — 6 Mar 2022

Immersive interactive installations exploring body and identity.

Drawing the Line: Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border

21 Aug 2021 — 5 Jun 2022

Border-defying architecture and design at SFMOMA.

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio: Architecture from Outside In

17 Jul 2021 — 27 Mar 2022

Community-driven architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa

10 Jul 2021 — 5 Dec 2021

Klee's influence on Asawa's wire art, explored at SFMOMA.

Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara

3 Jul 2021 — 12 Dec 2021

Documentary photography on identity and place at SFMOMA

Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera

Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera

from 28 Jun 2021

Rivera's monumental mural on unity across the Americas

One Day at a Time: Susan O'Malley and Leah Rosenberg

29 May 2021 — 2 Jan 2022

Color, language, and everyday optimism at SFMOMA.

Nam June Paik

8 May 2021 — 3 Oct 2021

Landmark survey of a video art pioneer at SFMOMA

Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor

19 Mar 2021 — 27 Mar 2022

Light, mirrors, and perception by three visionary artists.

Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis

6 Mar 2021 — 5 Sep 2021

Art made under constraint at SFMOMA's 2021 group show.

New Work: Charles Gaines

27 Feb 2021 — 6 Sep 2021

Conceptual art where math meets photography and abstraction.

Bay Area Walls

from 1 Oct 2020

A 2020 exhibition at SFMOMA spotlighting large-scale wall-based works by artists rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Carol Bove and John Chamberlain: Converse

from 27 Jul 2019

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

from 18 Jul 2019

SFMOMA brings together Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford in a dialogue across generations, exploring abstraction, perception, and the search for clarity in painting.