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Pulsing with the defiant yet enlightened energy of 30 women making abstract art today
Shifting the Silence
Closing September 5, 2022
Human portraits fit for the 21st century
Speculative Portraits
Closing September 5, 2022
Capturing the sights, sounds, and textures of Chinatown
Center for Asian American Media: Representing Chinatown
March 24–June 30, 2022
Current Exhibitions
Floor 2
closing soon
Art of California
Greater than the Sum
Featuring artworks made from common objects, this exhibition reveals the alchemies that occur in the process of making — and result in works greater than the sum of their parts.
May 22, 2021–May 29, 2022
Floor 4
closing soon
New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion
Enter an experiential sound installation that explores the concept of the B-side, featuring a collage of spoken word poetry, rehearsal recordings, and more.
Oct 16, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 3
closing soon
Drawing the Line
Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Conceptual architecture projects for a reimagining of the border and the bridging of cultures and communities it separates.
Aug 21, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 2
Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican
Blending earthly and celestial imagery, this focused presentation brings together for the first time meditative works by Klee and early paintings by Mullican.
Dec 18, 2021–June 26, 2022
Julie Mehretu
HOWL,
eon
(I, II)
Julie Mehretu’s HOWL,
eon
(I, II) (2017) is an expansive exploration of the American West — its transcendent landscapes and violent colonial history.
Ongoing
Floor 2
Open Ended
Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now
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.
Ongoing
Floor 4
Approaching American Abstraction
This exhibition of selected American artists explores the diverse approaches to abstraction developed since 1950.
Ongoing
Koret Education Center, Floor 2
Center for Asian American Media: Representing Chinatown
New commissions by Macro Waves and Chelsea Ryoko Wong capture the sights, sounds, and textures of Chinatown.
March 24–June 30, 2022
Floor 6
German Art After 1960
This exhibition features single-artist galleries devoted to leading German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter.
Ongoing
Floor 2
A Living for Us All
Artists and the WPA
This radiant, eclectic exhibition offers a reminder of what can be accomplished when art is considered a public resource.
Mar 26, 2022–July 24, 2022
Floor 3
Constellations
Photographs in Dialogue
This exhibition weaves historical and contemporary voices to tell new stories through the photography collection.
Nov 20, 2021–Aug 21, 2022
Floor 7
Shifting the Silence
This immersive exhibition features works by thirty-two women artists who use the radical, experimental, and defiant language of abstraction to explore the world we inhabit.
Apr 09, 2022–Sept 05, 2022
Floor 7
Susan Philipsz
Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
A sound installation that offers a contemplative listening experience for visitors as they enjoy panoramic views from the SFMOMA outdoor terrace.
Ongoing
Floor 7
Speculative Portraits
Speculative Portraits features bold works that expand ideas of what portraiture can be—from an animation of human emotions to an artist’s work encoded in DNA.
Apr 09, 2022–Sept 05, 2022
Floor 5
Contemporary Optics
Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor
International artists Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor explore the interplay of color, light, and human perception in large-scale sculptures inspired by environmental and cosmological phenomena.
Mar 19, 2021–Dec 11, 2022
Floor 5
Afterimages: Pop Art and Beyond from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
A series of thematic galleries bringing together artists whose work engages with traditions of Pop art from the 1960s to now.
March 5, 2022
Floor 3
Alexander Calder
Dissonant Harmony
Explore how opposing elements and forces attain symbiosis in this presentation of ten dynamic artworks by Alexander Calder.
July 3, 2021–May 2023
Floors 2, 3 and 5
Bay Area Walls
Commissions by Twin Walls Mural Company, Michael Jang, Emory Douglas, Liz Hernández, and more.
Established in 2020,
Bay Area Walls
is a series of commissions by local artists who actively engage with pressing issues of our time.
Ongoing
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1
Pan American Unity
A Mural by Diego Rivera
A project four years in the making: Diego Rivera's last mural painted in the U.S. moves to SFMOMA for a free-to-see presentation.
June 28, 2021–Summer 2023
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