SFMOMA
On view
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.
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.
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
Vibrant photographs capture the energy and movement of dance, from intimate nightclub scenes to staged choreography.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Table Manners
An exhibition exploring how design shapes our relationship to food and the role of dining as a communal and cultural experience.
Arborhythm
A colorful sculpture of treelike speakers that plays a continually remixed soundtrack of San Francisco's natural and urban sounds.
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.
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.
Bay Area Walls
A series of commissioned murals by local artists exploring contemporary social and political issues through large-scale public art.
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.
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu's monumental work explores the American West through its sublime landscapes and fraught colonial past.
RM x SFMOMA
Explore the personal art collection of RM from BTS in this groundbreaking exhibition showcasing the influences behind one of music's most distinctive voices.
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.
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.
Past exhibitions (18)
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings
Pioneering digital artist Samia Halaby explores abstraction through colorful kinetic paintings that challenge traditional notions of static art.
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
The first major retrospective of acclaimed photographer Alejandro Cartagena, spanning over two decades of work exploring suburban sprawl, border politics, and economic inequality through documentary, collage, and AI-generated media.
KAWS: FAMILY
An exploration of the pop culture-inspired characters created by KAWS (Brian Donnelly), showcasing the artist's distinctive visual universe and iconic character designs.
KAWS HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO
A 36-foot inflatable sculpture of KAWS's iconic COMPANION character sits atop SFMOMA's rooftop, marking the fourteenth iteration of the artist's ambitious HOLIDAY project.
(Re)Constructing History
An installation examining how photographs record and reveal the layers of history embedded within images, featuring works by Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Faustine, Carla Williams, and Dawoud Bey.
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love
A retrospective celebrating Suzanne Jackson's groundbreaking artistic vision through lyrical paintings and drawings spanning six decades.
The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must
An installation by Leah Rosenberg exploring how artists transform everyday materials into extraordinary creations, drawing on SFMOMA's Artist Materials Collection.
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
The first US survey of Kunié Sugiura's six-decade career, exploring her groundbreaking hybrid practice that merges photography, painting, and sculpture to challenge the boundaries of each medium.
Al Wong: Twin Peaks
A meditative film installation by Al Wong that traces a slow loop around San Francisco's Twin Peaks at different times of day throughout a year.
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Explore the experimental vision of Ruth Asawa in the most expansive exhibition of her work to date, celebrating how San Francisco became the center of her creative universe.
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Kara Walker presents a mesmerizing garden of automatons surrounded by an energy field of gleaming black obsidian, inviting visitors to explore themes of fortune and immortality.
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin's Love, the Love in My Heart
Yayoi Kusama's latest polka-dotted pumpkin sculpture explores the artist's lifelong fascination with the symbol as a means of self-obliteration and spiritual connection.
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Ragnar Kjartansson's mesmerizing video installation The Visitors returns to SFMOMA. Projected across nine screens, this hour-long work transports viewers to a historic mansion where the Icelandic artist and musician friends perform together.
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
An intergenerational exhibition exploring how contemporary artists engage with Pop traditions from the 1960s to today, drawn from two major San Francisco collections.
Susan Philipsz
An outdoor sound installation by Susan Philipsz invites contemplative listening on the newly reopened Floor 7 terrace, with panoramic views of downtown San Francisco.
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ten dynamic sculptures by Alexander Calder explore how opposing elements and forces achieve symbiosis through movement and balance.
German Art After 1960
A focused survey of postwar German art through dedicated galleries devoted to four leading figures: Baselitz, Kiefer, Polke, and Richter.
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
A survey of diverse American approaches to abstraction from 1950 onwards, showcasing how artists have developed and reimagined abstract forms.