Bay Area Walls

SFMOMA presents a series of commissions and other site-responsive wall projects by local artists that actively engage with pressing issues of our time. Many of 2020’s inaugural projects delved into the consequences of a year of social isolation and unrest, polarizing news, racial injustice, economic crises, all against a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now ongoing, the program is designed to support local artists who are keenly attuned to our community and current moment.

Floor 2

Isaac Vazquez Avila
Upcoming: Opening August 8, 2026
Isaac Vazquez Avila’s mural conjures a sprawling horizon, from the orange glow of sunsets over the Pacific Ocean, to the rambling cityscapes near his home and studio in Bernal Heights and his birthplace, Mexico City. The artist fuses techniques from handpainted signage with the textured strokes of Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros’s public art projects and the weathered, sun-soaked murals of Los Angeles’ Ramona Gardens and Estrada Courts housing projects, transforming the museum’s free-to-visit second floor space.

Floor 3

Jenifer K Wofford: VMD
Through September 27, 2026
Jenifer K Wofford’s painted mural pictures Victoria “Vicki” Manalo Draves, the first Asian American Olympic gold medalist, suspended in a pike in a vast gradient of color. Born and raised in San Francisco’s South of Market district, the Filipina American diver was also the first woman awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard competitions at the London 1948 Olympic Games. For VMD, Wofford was compelled by imagining a “soft inward focus combined with the mannered tension in her body’s position, both completely on display and totally inside herself.”

Floor 5

Craig Calderwood: Omen Studies
NEW: Opened July 11, 2026
In Omen Studies (2026), a mural commissioned by SFMOMA, Craig Calderwood draws upon their visually bold yet intricate vernacular of symbols and patterns to tell a story of transformation. An oleander tree stands witness to the unwelcome impacts of urban beautification and increasing surveillance in San Francisco’s Mission District. The change of scenery in Calderwood’s work portrays disappearing queer spaces and a gradual removal of the vibrant neighborhood’s identity.