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Exhibitions (32)
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- South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk
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December 01, 2012
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March 05, 2013
This exhibition illuminates a vital, difficult, and contested period in the recent history of South Africa from the perspectives of three photographers: David Goldblatt, Ernest…
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- Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
This retrospective offers a revelatory, in-depth encounter with the work of Jay DeFeo (1929-1989), one of the most important and innovative artists of her generation, but one who…
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- Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
For nearly 60 years, Jasper Johns has found new ways to explore, as he once put it, "how we see and why we see the way we do." This major exhibition — the artist's…
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- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Frequency and Volume
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November 03, 2012
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February 03, 2013
One of the most important media artists to emerge in the 1990s, Mexican-born, Montreal-based artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer explores the intersection of architecture, media,…
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- Paul Klee's Circus
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October 13, 2012
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March 10, 2013
Paul Klee (1879-1940) had a passion for performance. His engagement with the subject ran from the depiction of opera singers to the production of functional hand puppets. This…
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- New Work: Alessandro Pessoli
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September 28, 2012
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February 18, 2013
Alessandro Pessoli's evocative drawings, paintings, and sculptures place expressive, often melancholy figures in indeterminate spaces and dreamlike narratives. Fluidly moving…
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- Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art
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September 15
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December 31, 2012
This international group exhibition convenes artists from six cities around the globe that have become burgeoning artistic centers: Beirut, Lebanon; Cali, Colombia; Cluj, Romania;…
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- Field Conditions
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September 01, 2012
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January 06, 2013
Can there be architecture without buildings? What if a wall or a floor went on forever? What happens when people move through a room? From immersive installations to intricate…
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- Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories
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July 28
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November 04, 2012
One of Japan's most prominent photographers, Naoya Hatakeyama is known for austere and beautiful large-scale pictures that capture the extraordinary forces we deploy to shape…
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- Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media
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July 14
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October 08, 2012
Stage Presence shines a spotlight on theatricality in the art of the last 30 years, presenting works in various media that defy the traditional divide between the visual and the…
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- Cindy Sherman
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July 14
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October 08, 2012
One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative photographs that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own…
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- Paul Klee and Josef Albers: Parallel Construction
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June 07
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October 08, 2012
This exhibition demonstrates a long-term dialogue between artists Paul Klee and Josef Albers from their meeting in the early 1920s until Klee's death in 1940, and includes…
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- Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection
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May 18
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August 12, 2012
This exhibition of works from the SFMOMA collection explores the richness, diversity, and continuing vitality of painting over the last 50 years. Contemporary Painting showcases the…
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- New Work: Katharina Wulff
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April 13
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September 09, 2012
Imbued with whimsy and gloom, vulnerability and strength, Katharina Wulff's figurative paintings blend myriad art historical styles, depicting imaginary, far-off locales often…
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- Parra: Weirded Out
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
With its vibrant color, curvaceous lines, and eccentric, distinctive imagery, the bold and playful work of Dutch graphic artist Parra has garnered a substantial cult following…
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- The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
The Bay Area has long attracted dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and although he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas…
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- Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
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March 10
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July 08, 2012
Presenting a complex synthesis of art and politics, this exhibition explores Mexico's distinctively rich and diverse photography tradition from the 1920s to the present. It begins…
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- Descriptive Acts
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often…
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- Mark Bradford
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of…
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- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
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February 18
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May 28, 2012
In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether…
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- ArtGameLab
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January 15
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August 12, 2012
Imagine a selection of crowdsourced games designed by SFMOMA's community, for SFMOMA's community. Last summer the museum put out an open call for inventive but simple and low-cost…
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- Paul Klee: Portraits
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January 14
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June 03, 2012
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that illuminate Paul Klee's reimaginings of the traditional genre of portraiture. Over the course of his career, Klee…
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- Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards
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December 09, 2011
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April 03, 2012
Celebrating the unique and long-standing role of SFMOMA's SECA award program, this presentation brings into dialogue works by a number of past award recipients. In concert with an…
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- 2010 SECA Art Award: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Amu Patton
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December 09, 2011
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April 03, 2012
This year's SECA Art Award exhibition showcases four Bay Area artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Mauricio…
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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…
