What’s On View

Floor 3closing soon
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Photography and painting unite in Kunié Sugiura's dynamic hybrid forms.
Closing Sep 14, 2025
Floor 6closing soon
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing September 28, 2025
Member Viewing Hours September 21
Two visitors stand inside an SFMOMA gallery in front of three out of nine screens showing Ragnar Kjartansson’s beloved video installation The Visitors.
Floor 4
New Work: Sheila Hicks
Sheila Hicks’s first solo exhibition at SFMOMA features works inspired by objects, textures, and patterns observed in her migratory life.
New Exhibition: Opened August 9
Floor 2
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
Works across media by San Francisco Art Institute alumni and former faculty showcase the school’s legacy of experimentation.
Closing July 05, 2026
Floor 1free to see
Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Explore the wonder of Kara Walker’s garden of automatons set amidst an energy field of gleaming black obsidian.
July 1, 2024–June 7, 2026
Floor 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Closing November 2025
Floor 2
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
August 23, 2025–April 2026
Floor 3
Table Manners
Sep 14, 2024–Aug 02, 2026
Floor 5
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
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.
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 2
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
Ongoing
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.

Installations and Special Projects

Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 1free to see
Al Wong: Twin Peaks
Apr 26, 2025–Summer 2026
Floor 2, Koret Education Centerfree to see
The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must
June 01, 2025–May 30, 2026
Creative artist workspace with paint tubes, brushes, color swatches, marbled tray, inspirational quote, and art supplies on white background.
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
Floor 5
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
Sep 16, 2023–Nov 02, 2025

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Floor 7
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love
Celebrate Suzanne Jackson’s groundbreaking artistic vision through more than 80 lyrical paintings and drawings from the 1960s to today.
Opening Sep 27, 2025
A black and white photograph of artist Suzanne Jackson painting in her studio with large abstract artworks and paint supplies in the background.
Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
Explore the family of distinctive pop-culture inspired characters created by KAWS.
Opening Nov 15, 2025
Floor 3
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs reveal the political, economic, and environmental forces shaping life in Mexico today.
Opening Nov 22, 2025
Images in Dialogue
Paul Klee and Andrew Schoultz
Aug 13, 2011–Jan 08, 2012
Paul Klee, drawing of figure on horse with blue watercolor background
The More Things Change
Nov 20, 2010–Nov 06, 2011
photograph of pots and vases on table
Bill Fontana
Sonic Shadows
Nov 20, 2010–Nov 06, 2011
A white perforated wall, Fontana Soundtracks
New Work
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova
July 08, 2011–Oct 30, 2011
Klara Kristalova, Hole
Art in the Atrium
Kerry James Marshall
Feb 26, 2009–Oct 11, 2011
Kerry James Marshall, drawing of large grassy estate
David Claerbout
Architecture of Narrative
May 21, 2011–Sep 06, 2011
David Claerbout, video still of man leaning againstpillar
ParaDesign
Feb 25, 2011–July 24, 2011
Tauba Auerbach, Alphabetized Bible book cover
Tobias Wong
Feb 25, 2011–July 24, 2011
Tobias Wong, black duvet
New Work
Anna Parkina
Feb 25, 2011–June 19, 2011
Anna Parkina, The freezed fingers were not unbend
How Wine Became Modern
Design + Wine 1976 to Now
Nov 20, 2010–Apr 17, 2011
Etienne Meneau wine carafe
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Modern Century
Oct 30, 2010–Jan 30, 2011
Cartier-Bresson photo of girl and door
75 Years of Looking Forward
The Anniversary Show
Dec 19, 2009–Jan 16, 2011
leslie shows, abstract painting with dark and colorful explosion
New Work
R. H. Quaytman
Oct 22, 2010–Jan 16, 2011
R.H. Quaytman, silkscreen of isolated road
New Topographics
Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape
July 17, 2010–Oct 03, 2010
Robert Adams, photo of trailer in front of house
New Work
Mika Rottenberg
July 07, 2010–Oct 03, 2010
Still: Mike Rottenberg, Squeeze
Paul Klee
Three Exhibitions from the Djerassi Collection
Mar 06, 2010–Aug 01, 2010
Paul Klee, Red House
75 Years of Looking Forward
Dispatches from the Archives
Nov 07, 2009–July 06, 2010
20th century design poster
The View from Here
Jan 16, 2010–June 27, 2010
Larry Sultan, photograph of mother standing up and father watching tv
Long Play
Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection
Jan 16, 2010–May 23, 2010
Bruce Conner, video still of shite orb emitting dashed lines of light
75 Years of Looking Forward
Focus on Artists
Jan 16, 2010–May 23, 2010
clyfford still, red abstract painting