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Exhibitions (27)
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- New Work: Richard Aldrich
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November 18, 2011
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April 03, 2012
The latest installation in our New Work series brings together an array of paintings by New York-based artist Richard Aldrich. Aldrich revels in the possibilities of painting, using…
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- The Air We Breathe
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November 05, 2011
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February 20, 2012
In the belief that art can promote dialogue and enable understanding, The Air We Breathe brings together visual artists and poets to reflect on the subject of equal rights for…
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- Francesca Woodman
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November 05, 2011
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February 20, 2012
Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) was an artist decisively of her time, yet her photographs retain an undeniable immediacy. Thirty years after her death, they continue to inspire…
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- Jim Campbell: Exploded Views
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November 05, 2011
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October 23, 2012
This new installation by acclaimed San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell explodes the moving image into three dimensions, illuminating the Haas Atrium with a flickering grid of…
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- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
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October 15, 2011
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January 16, 2012
Richard Serra's massive steel sculptures have made him one of the key figures in contemporary art, but his work also takes another striking form: drawing. This first-ever…
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- Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break
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October 15, 2011
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January 16, 2012
At once formally rigorous and socially perceptive, Sharon Lockhart's complex and careful investigations into the mediums of film and photography probe the limits and intersections…
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- Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams
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August 27, 2011
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February 20, 2012
Widely regarded as one of the most influential industrial designers of our time, Dieter Rams produced iconic works and innovative ideas (in particular his advocacy for "less…
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- Images in Dialogue: Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz
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August 13, 2011
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January 08, 2012
Creating a visual dialogue across a century, drawings by contemporary Bay Area artist Andrew Schoultz respond to the inventive works of Swiss-born Modernist Paul Klee, which are…
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- New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova
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July 08
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October 30, 2011
The latest installment of SFMOMA's ongoing New Work series highlights the reinvigorated medium of ceramics in recent art practice. Through small, imperfectly finished figurative…
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- Face of Our Time: Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach
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July 02
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October 16, 2011
Face of our Time presents the work of five photographers who share an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like. They observe the sometimes-volatile civil…
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- The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
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May 21
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September 06, 2011
American expatriates in bohemian Paris when the 20th century was young, the Steins — writer Gertrude, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife, Sarah — were…
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- David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative
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May 21
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September 06, 2011
The ambiguous relationships between photography and cinema, stillness and motion, historical past and perpetual present are the subjects and substance of David Claerbout's…
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- Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
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February 26
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June 07, 2011
Best known for his revolutionary studies of human and animal locomotion, which evolved into some of the earliest motion pictures, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an…
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- Tobias Wong
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February 25
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July 24, 2011
Arguably contemporary design's most nimble provocateur, Tobias Wong staged his debut in 2001 and continued — until his untimely death at age 35 in 2010 — to produce an…
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- New Work: Anna Parkina
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February 25
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June 19, 2011
Media and genres collide and merge in the work of Russian artist Anna Parkina, an intrepid explorer of the dynamics of perception and history. Using a visual language that…
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- Paul Klee at SFMOMA
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February 25
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July 20, 2011
Paul Klee (1879-1940) has long been revered as one of the most original and inventive modern artists. Born in Switzerland, Klee made his name in Germany, where he was associated…
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- ParaDesign
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February 25
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July 24, 2011
ParaDesign gathers objects from SFMOMA's architecture and design collection that question the norms, habits, and conventions of design. The prefix para (whose meanings include…
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- Bill Fontana: Sonic Shadows
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November 20, 2010
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November 06, 2011
Commissioned for SFMOMA's 75th anniversary in 2010, a site-specific installation by San Francisco-based sound art pioneer Bill Fontana explores both visible and invisible features…
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- The More Things Change
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November 20, 2010
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November 06, 2011
The More Things Change draws from SFMOMA's collection to present an extraordinary range of works made since 2000, offering a selective survey of the art of the last 10 years and a…
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- How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now
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November 20, 2010
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April 17, 2011
How Wine Became Modern explores the visual culture of wine and its stunning transformation over the last three decades. Designed in collaboration with renowned architects Diller…
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- Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
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October 30, 2010
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January 30, 2011
An innovative artist, trailblazing photojournalist, and quintessential world traveler, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks among the most accomplished and original figures in the history…
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- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870
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October 30, 2010
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April 17, 2011
Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, Exposed challenges us to consider how the camera has transformed the very…
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- New Work: R. H. Quaytman
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October 22, 2010
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January 16, 2011
In thought-provoking paintings, all made on small wood panels, R. H. Quaytman employs a variety of techniques and artistic vocabularies to explore the complex history of painting.…
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- Prints by Paul Klee (1946)
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August 07, 2010
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January 16, 2011
SFMOMA has had a longstanding commitment to the art of Paul Klee over its 75-year history. This exhibition re-creates a 1946 show of prints by the Swiss-born modernist held at the…
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- The Anniversary Show
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December 19, 2009
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January 16, 2011
On January 18, 2010, SFMOMA marked its 75th year as a pioneering force in art, locally and globally. From mounting Jackson Pollock's first solo museum exhibition in 1945 to…
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- Dispatches from the Archives
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November 07, 2009
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February 27, 2011
How does a museum best known for showing the work of others choose to publicly present itself? This Koret Visitor Education Center exhibition showcases museum-produced ephemera,…
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- Art in the Atrium: Kerry James Marshall
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February 26, 2009
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October 11, 2011
Specially commissioned for SFMOMA, Kerry James Marshall's monumental murals in the Haas Atrium show Mount Vernon and Monticello, the estates of American presidents George…
