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Exhibitions
Overview
Recent Press Releases
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS PARRA
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Release date: November 21, 2011
From March 31 through July 29, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will display the first U.S. museum presentation of work by Dutch graphic artist Parra, whose…
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- SFMOMA LOOKS AT BUCKMINSTER FULLER’S LEGACY IN THE BAY AREA
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Release date: November 21, 2011
The Bay Area attracts dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and though he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas spawned many…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS PHOTOGRAPHY IN MEXICO: SELECTED WORKS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF SFMOMA AND DANIEL GREENBERG AND SUSAN STEINHAUSER
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Release date: November 14, 2011
From March 10 through July 8, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS DESCRIPTIVE ACTS
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Release date: October 26, 2011
The recombination of image and text has seen a surge in contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition Descriptive Acts, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)…
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- SFMOMA AND YBCA PARTNER TO CO-PRESENT MAJOR TRAVELING SURVEY EXHIBITION OF WORK BY MARK BRADFORD
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Release date: October 26, 2011
On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) from February 18 through May 27,…
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- SFMOMA Presents Richard Aldrich's First Solo Museum Show
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Release date: October 20, 2011
From November 18, 2011, through March 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Work: Richard Aldrich, the first museum exhibition to feature work…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS 2010 SECA ART AWARD EXHIBITION: MAURICIO ANCALMO, COLTER JACOBSEN, RUTH LASKEY, KAMAU AMU PATTON
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Release date: October 5, 2011
Since the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) named Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton recipients of its 2010 SECA Art Award nearly a year…
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- SFMOMA MARKS 50 YEARS OF ENGAGING SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ARTISTS
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Release date: October 5, 2011
Tracing the engagement of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) with the region's vital art community across the past five decades, the exhibition Fifty Years of Bay Area…
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- SFMOMA Presents Lunch Break by Sharon Lockhart
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Release date: August 30, 2011
From October 15, 2011, through January 16, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, the latest body of work by Sharon…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS LANDMARK RECONSIDERATION OF FRANCESCA WOODMAN’S BRIEF BUT EXTRAORDINARY CAREER IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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Release date: August 16, 2011
Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Woodman's brief but extraordinary career, will premiere at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) on…
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- FIRST-EVER RETROSPECTIVE OF RICHARD SERRA’S DRAWINGS OFFERS CHANCE TO SEE ARTIST’S WORK FROM ENTIRELY NEW ANGLE
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Release date: July 25, 2011
Richard Serra's large-scale steel sculptures have made him a crucial figure in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking, lesser-known form: drawing. On view at…
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- UPCOMING SHOWS FOCUS ON FEMALE PIONEERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
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Release date: July 25, 2011
One of the first museums to recognize photography as a legitimate art form and establish a photography collection, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) continues to…
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- SFMOMA EXHIBITION DELVES INTO ISSUES OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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Release date: July 15, 2011
From November 5, 2011, through February 20, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present The Air We Breathe, a thematic exhibition that brings together…
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- SFMOMA ILLUMINATES HAAS ATRIUM WITH NEW WORK BY MEDIA ARTIST JIM CAMPBELL
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Release date: July 15, 2011
From November 5, 2011, to September 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Jim Campbell: Exploded Views. This new work, conceived for SFMOMA's Haas…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS RINEKE DIJKSTRA: A RETROSPECTIVE
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Release date: July 13, 2011
From February 18 to May 28, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, the artist's first midcareer…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS LESS AND MORE: THE DESIGN ETHOS OF DIETER RAMS
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Release date: June 29, 2011
From August 27, 2011, through February 20, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the exhibition Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams. The…
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- SFMOMA SPOTLIGHTS CERAMICS IN RECENT ART PRACTICE
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Release date: June 29, 2011
Highlighting the revived medium of ceramics, SFMOMA presents New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova (July 8 through October 30, 2011), an exhibition that pairs…
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- LANDMARK SFMOMA EXHIBITION SHOWCASES THE ART AND INFLUENCE OF GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER FAMILY
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Release date: June 3, 2011
The Steins are responsible in many ways for the turn-of-the century revolution in the visual arts through their adventurous patronage, deep ties to leading minds of the era, and…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS WORLD VIEW OF FIVE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS IN FACE OF OUR TIME
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Release date: June 2, 2011
From July 2 through October 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol,…
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- EXHIBITION SHOWCASES WORKS BY DESIGN PROVOCATEUR TOBIAS WONG
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Release date: March 22, 2011
Through June 19, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Tobias Wong, the first solo museum exhibition of the late artist-designer's work. Wong, who passed…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS US DEBUT OF DAVID CLAERBOUT VIDEO WORK
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Release date: March 22, 2011
From May 21 through September 6, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative, an exhibition featuring a suite of…
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- SFMOMA SHOWCASES HELIOS: EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE IN A TIME OF CHANGE
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Release date: December 20, 2010
From February 26 through June 7, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will showcase the first-ever retrospective examining all aspects of artist Eadweard…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS ANNA PARKINA’S FIRST U.S. MUSEUM EXHIBITION
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Release date: December 20, 2010
From February 25 through May 22, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present New Work: Anna Parkina, an exhibition premiering the latest body of work by…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS BILL FONTANA’S SONIC SHADOWS
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Release date: September 16, 2010
On November 20, 2010, SFMOMA debuts a new site-specific sound sculpture by San Francisco–based artist Bill Fontana.
Entitled Sonic Shadows, the work transforms the museum's…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS THE MORE THINGS CHANGE
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Release date: September 16, 2010
The More Things Change samples from SFMOMA's always evolving collection and showcases recent acquisitions—some on view here for the first time—to present a selective…
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- SFMOMA PRESENTS U.S. PREMIERE OF EXPOSED: VOYEURISM, SURVEILLANCE AND THE CAMERA SINCE 1870
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Release date: August 17, 2010
From October 30, 2010, through April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the U.S. debut of a major survey that examines photography's role in…
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- SFMOMA PROBES THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE OF WINE AND PRESENTS HOW WINE BECAME MODERN
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Release date: May 4, 2010
From November 20, 2010, to April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. This exhibition explores…
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- SFMOMA SHOWCASES WORKS BY PAUL KLEE
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Release date: May 3, 2010
From August 7, 2010, through January 16, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will showcase the exhibition Prints by Paul Klee (1946). Organized by John Zarobell, SFMOMA…
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