Far Out
Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space
July 20, 2019–January 20, 2020
Fifty years since the first footsteps on the Moon, the exploration of the cosmos remains irresistible, and the ambition to establish commercial space travel and planetary settlements continues to capture the imagination.
On a Clear Day
Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford
Ongoing
Examine the subtle beauty of abstractions by Agnes Martin and Mark Bradford.
SOFT POWER
October 26, 2019–February 17, 2020
The exhibition SOFT POWER is about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors.
Richard Mosse
Incoming
October 26, 2019–February 17, 2020
Filmed with a military-designed camera that detects and images body heat, this audio-visual installation documents the mass displacement of people unfolding across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
2019 SECA Art Award
Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, Marlon Mullen
November 16, 2019–April 12, 2020
The 2019 SECA Art Award exhibition features three Bay Area artists, each with a dedicated gallery: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, and Marlon Mullen.
Elemental Calder
February 16, 2019–May 3, 2020
This exhibition explores the way the natural world, such as the movement of the sea and the swaying of the wind, provided subject matter and inspiration for many of Alexander Calder’s mobiles.
Elad Lassry
January 4, 2020–May 10, 2020
Elad Lassry renegotiates prescribed systems of looking through photo¬graphic images and objects, presenting a new body of work that questions how we experience and interpret pictures.
JR
The Chronicles of San Francisco
May 23, 2019–May 31, 2020
On view in one of the museum’s free spaces, this soaring digital mural by artist JR depicts a cross-section of the daily life of nearly 1,200 people in San Francisco.
New Work: Nevin Aladağ
December 7, 2019–June 7, 2020
For her first solo exhibition in the U.S., Aladağ explores culture, transformation, and belonging by uniting distinct elements with disparate heritages into single works.
Carol Bove and John Chamberlain
Converse
Ongoing
Experience the dynamic sculptures of Carol Bove and John Chamberlain.
Thought Pieces
1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer
January 4, 2020–August 9, 2020
Active in San Francisco in the 1970s and early ‘80s, the three artists featured in this exhibition explored the relationship between photography and language.
Julie Mehretu
HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Julie Mehretu’s HOWL, eon (I, II) (2017) is an expansive exploration of the American West — its transcendent landscapes and violent colonial history.
German Art After 1960
Ongoing
This exhibition features single-artist galleries devoted to leading German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Imi Knoebel, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter.
Open Ended
Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now
Ongoing
This presentation of masterworks and experimental pieces from SFMOMA’s collection of painting and sculptures explores themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early twentieth century to our own time.
Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art
Ongoing
This exhibition of works from the 1960s and beyond features Pop and Minimal artists, as well as the work of key figures exploring the human form as subject.
Approaching American Abstraction
Ongoing
This exhibition of selected American artists explores the diverse approaches to abstraction developed since 1950.
