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SFMOMA

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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

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

11 Jul 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Iturbide's iconic black-and-white photography at SFMOMA

Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia

Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia

23 May 2026 — 6 Sep 2026

Drag performance exposes AI's gender biases at SFMOMA.

Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

16 May 2026 — 28 Feb 2027

Dance captured in photographs, from clubs to the stage.

Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

16 May 2026 — 13 Sep 2026

The 1905 color revolution that scandalized Paris

Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists

Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists

18 Apr 2026 — 31 Dec 2027

Fourteen artists, one landmark group show at SFMOMA.

Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories

Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories

18 Apr 2026 — 31 Dec 2027

Artists explore memory and history through evocative materials.

Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form

Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form

18 Apr 2026 — 31 Jan 2027

Three masters of form, color, and line at SFMOMA

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

17 Jan 2026 — 30 Jun 2027

A towering counter-monument reclaiming Indigenous presence

Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big

Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big

20 Dec 2025 — 19 Dec 2027

Giant sculptures that reimagine everyday objects

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

23 Aug 2025 — 30 Jul 2026

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

New Work: Sheila Hicks

New Work: Sheila Hicks

9 Aug 2025 — 9 Aug 2026

Monumental fiber art by Sheila Hicks at SFMOMA

Table Manners

Table Manners

14 Sep 2024 — 2 Aug 2026

Design, food, and the art of eating together

Arborhythm

Arborhythm

4 May 2024 — 2 Jul 2028

Tree-shaped speakers remix SF's natural and urban sounds.

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes

16 Sep 2023 — 1 Jul 2028

Bold supergraphics wrap SFMOMA's walls and ceilings.

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

1 Aug 2022 — 4 Oct 2026

Step inside Eliasson's dazzling prismatic colour tunnel.

Bay Area Walls

Bay Area Walls

28 Sep 2020 — 1 Oct 2026

Local artists tackle urgent issues in large-scale murals.

1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection

1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection

1 Jan 2018 — 30 Jun 2033

Modern masterworks from SFMOMA's permanent collection

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

2 Sep 2017 — 23 Aug 2026

Mehretu's epic vision of the American West at SFMOMA

RM x SFMOMA

RM x SFMOMA

3 Oct 2026 — 7 Feb 2027

RM of BTS shares his personal art collection at SFMOMA.

Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc

Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc

22 Aug 2026 — 31 May 2028

75,000 hand-crafted kites transform a gallery into a cloudscape.

O. Smith: Artivist

O. Smith: Artivist

25 Jul 2026 — 20 Jun 2027

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 (21)
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

24 Jan 2026 — 19 May 2026

Halaby's colorful kinetic abstractions at SFMOMA

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

22 Jan 2026 — 17 Apr 2026

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

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

22 Nov 2025 — 19 Apr 2026

Two decades of Cartagena's photography at SFMOMA

KAWS: FAMILY

KAWS: FAMILY

15 Nov 2025 — 3 May 2026

KAWS's iconic pop characters in a solo show at SFMOMA.

KAWS HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO

KAWS HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO

11 Nov 2025 — 7 Jan 2026

Giant inflatable COMPANION crowns SFMOMA's rooftop.

(Re)Constructing History

(Re)Constructing History

4 Oct 2025 — 3 May 2026

Photography that uncovers layers of Black history

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

27 Sep 2025 — 1 Mar 2026

Six decades of lyrical paintings and drawings by Jackson

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

26 Jul 2025 — 5 Jul 2026

SFAI alumni and faculty honor a legacy of experimentation.

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

1 Jun 2025 — 30 May 2026

Color and process collide in Leah Rosenberg's immersive installation.

Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting

Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting

26 Apr 2025 — 14 Sep 2025

First US survey of a boundary-defying photo-art pioneer

Al Wong: Twin Peaks

Al Wong: Twin Peaks

25 Apr 2025 — 20 Jan 2026

A year-long film loop around SF's Twin Peaks.

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

5 Apr 2025 — 2 Sep 2025

The landmark retrospective of Asawa's experimental art

Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

1 Jul 2024 — 31 May 2026

Walker's automaton garden shimmers in black obsidian.

Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love

Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth's Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love

22 Jun 2024 — 10 Aug 2025

Experience Yayoi Kusama's immersive universe of luminous color and infinite reflections in this unmissable exhibition at SFMOMA.

Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin's Love, the Love in My Heart

Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin's Love, the Love in My Heart

16 Sep 2023 — 2 Nov 2025

Kusama's iconic pumpkin sculpture, now at SFMOMA

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

5 Nov 2022 — 28 Sep 2025

Nine-screen video epic returns to SFMOMA

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

15 Oct 2022 — 25 Jan 2026

Pop art's 1960s legacy, alive across generations

Susan Philipsz

Susan Philipsz

9 Apr 2022 — 1 Mar 2026

Immersive sound art on SFMOMA's rooftop terrace

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

3 Jul 2021 — 16 Nov 2025

Ten dynamic Calder works explore opposing forces in harmony.

Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction

Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction

1 Jan 2018 — 25 Jan 2026

American abstraction in all its forms since 1950

German Art After 1960

German Art After 1960

1 Jan 2018 — 25 Jan 2026

Four giants of German art in dedicated solo galleries.