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What’s On

Floor 7

Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975

Closing Sept 10, 2023
Floor 3

Kinship: Photography and Connection

Features six contemporary photographers who share a special affinity with their subjects.
Closing Nov 26, 2023
Floor 5

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Thematic galleries that examine how the cultural currents of the 1960s continue to shape American consciousness.
Ongoing
Artwork Untitled Golden by artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres is a curtain made up of strands of golden beads hanging from an SFMOMA gallery doorway.
Floor 6

Conversation Pieces

Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue
Bringing together over 40 bold, moving works of contemporary furniture that spark dialogue.
Closing June 25, 2023
Installation view of the exhibition Conversation Pieces, featuring works of furniture, including various chair designs.
Floor 5

Corporeal

A gallery of sculptures that explore the figure—whether whole, fragmented, or implied.
Closing July 14, 2024
The artwork Tarpaulin No. 1, by artist Rebecca Belmore, is a ceramic blanket on the ground shaped as though draped over an invisible human figure.
Floor 3closing soon

(a)way station

Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson
July 16, 2022–June 11, 2023
A still of the video artwork ​(a)way station​ by Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson.
Floor 3

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

July 3, 2021–December 2023
An installation view of two of Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures as they hang in the museum gallery.
Floors 2, 3 and 5

Bay Area Walls

Ongoing
Artists Twin Walls Mural Company sit atop scaffolding in the process of painting their mural Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams.
Floor 4

Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction

Ongoing
Floor 6

German Art After 1960

Ongoing
Two people sit on a bench observing Gerhard Richter's artwork 256 Farben (256 Colors) in the SFMOMA gallery for German art.
Floor 2

KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Apr 07, 2023–Jan 01, 2024
A detail view of a brochure artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon created for a Paul Klee exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Floor 4

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy

Mar 25, 2023–July 16, 2023
The artwork Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return by artist Anna Sew Hoy shows hand-built clay arches over a metal cage and denim scraps.
Floor 2

Open Ended: SFMOMA's Collection, 1900 to Now

Ongoing
An SFMOMA gallery shows various works including wooden sculptures by artist Sargent Johnson, and a painting by artist Carlos Mérida.
Floor 6

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

November 5, 2022–Summer 2024
Two visitors stand inside an SFMOMA gallery in front of three out of nine screens showing Ragnar Kjartansson’s beloved video installation The Visitors.

Installations and Special Projects

Koret Education Center, Floor 2closing soonfree to see

Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission

Oct 06, 2022–June 27, 2023
The mural Nuestros Muertos No Se Venden by Elizabeth Blancas.
Floor 1

Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call

Mar 25, 2023–July 22, 2023
A woman wears headphones attached to a mobile phone that she holds in front of her as she walks the SFMOMA galleries listening to the guided interactive The Telephone Call by Janet Cardiff.
Floor 1free to see

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

Ongoing
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1  free to see

Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera

June 28, 2021–March 2024
Detail view of Diego Rivera's mural Pan American Unity.
Floor 7

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

Ongoing
Two people, one sitting and one standing outdoors on the SFMOMA terrace, enjoy the sound installation by artist Susan Philipsz while looking at panoramic views of downtown San Francisco.
Floor 1free to see

Wu Tsang: Of Whales

Ongoing
The video and sound installation Of Whales by Wu Tsang envelops visitors in an oceanscape-cosmos as it hangs over the SFMOMA atrium.

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Floor 6, City Gallery

Scrappy Chair Challenge

Opening June 15, 2023
Floor 4

What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms

July 22, 2023 - Ongoing
White chairs surround a white table with glue, white rolls of string and broken ceramic pieces atop it.
Floor 2

Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales

Opening Aug 05, 2023
Detail view of Guadalupe Rosales' artwork Drifting on a Memory (a dedication to Gypsy Rose).
Floor 3

Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection

Opening Aug 12, 2023
Floor 3

Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy

Opening Aug 12, 2023

Upcoming Events

Family Program

Second Sundays For Families

Second Sunday of Every Month
A child and an adult sit at a table making an art project together.
Artist Talk

Artist Talk: Anna Sew Hoy

Thursday, June 15, 2023, 6 p.m.
Free

First Thursdays at SFMOMA: Free Admission for Bay Area Residents

First Thursday of Every Month, 1–8 pm.
A graphic depicting shapes of different sizes, including rectangles and circles placed over a mint green background, with text about monthly Free First Thursdays at SFMOMA.
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Floor 2

2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition

Dec 17, 2022–May 29, 2023
Two people sitting on benches inside of an SFMOMA gallery staring up at an artwork installation by artist Marcel Pardo Ariza.
Floor 7

Julian Charrière: Erratic

Aug 06, 2022–May 14, 2023
An artwork named The Blue Fossil Entropic III by artist Julian Charrière, depicts an arctic landscape capturing a person scaling a glacier at night.
Floor 4

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon

Apr 22, 2023–May 11, 2023
Sadie Barnette's, ​The New Eagle Creek Saloon​, 2019 (installation view, The Kitchen, New York, 2022).
Floor 3

Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection

Aug 06, 2022–May 07, 2023
A black and white photography by artist Chanell Stone titled In Search of a Certain Eden, from the series Natura Negra.
Floor 3

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Dec 17, 2022–Apr 02, 2023
Floor 7

Joan Brown

Nov 19, 2022–Mar 12, 2023

SFMOMA Exhibition History

Browse a complete list of SFMOMA exhibitions from 1920–2019
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Floor 2

Mythic Constructions: Carlos Mérida and Paul Klee

July 2, 2022–December 2022
Floor 4

Diego Rivera's America

July 16, 2022–Jan 03, 2023
Floor 5

Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor

Mar 19, 2021–Dec 11, 2022
Floor 2

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)

June 18, 2022–Nov 06, 2022
Floor 7

Speculative Portraits

Apr 09, 2022–Sept 05, 2022
Floor 7

Shifting the Silence

Apr 09, 2022–Sept 05, 2022
Floor 3

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue

Nov 20, 2021–Aug 21, 2022
Floor 2

A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA

Mar 26, 2022–July 24, 2022
Koret Education Center, Floor 2

Center for Asian American Media: Representing Chinatown

March 24–June 30, 2022
Floor 2

Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican

Dec 18, 2021–June 26, 2022
Floor 4

New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion

Oct 16, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 3

Drawing the Line: Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Aug 21, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 2

Art of California

Greater than the Sum
May 22, 2021–May 29, 2022