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
Rineke Dijkstra
A Retrospective
Feb 18, 2012–Oct 08, 2012
Stage Presence
Theatricality in Art and Media
July 14, 2012–Oct 08, 2012
Geoffrey Farmer, wood and metal figure cut outs
New Work
Katharina Wulff
Apr 13, 2012–Sep 09, 2012
Katharina Wulff, Untitled
ArtGameLab
Jan 15, 2012–Aug 12, 2012
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present
Selections from the SFMOMA Collection
May 18, 2012–Aug 12, 2012
Brice Marden, Cold Mountain
The Utopian Impulse
Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
Mar 31, 2012–July 29, 2012
Buckminster Fuller print
PARRA
Weirded Out
Mar 31, 2012–July 29, 2012
Parra, black graphic figures and letters on white background
Photography in Mexico
Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Mar 10, 2012–July 08, 2012
Lourdes Grobet, photo of Mexican wrestler
Mark Bradford
Feb 18, 2012–June 17, 2012
Mark Bradford, mixed media abstract cityscape
Descriptive Acts
Feb 18, 2012–June 17, 2012
Tris Vonna-Michell video installation
Francesca Woodman
Nov 05, 2011–June 13, 2012
Woodman; photo of woman in polka dot dress leaning against decrepit wall
The Steins Collect
Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
May 21, 2011–June 03, 2012
Matisse, Woman with a Hat
William Kentridge
Five Themes
Mar 14, 2009–May 27, 2012
Kentridge, gray sphere on two large leg structures in city
New Work
Richard Aldrich
Nov 18, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
Richard Aldrich, Untitled
2010 SECA Art Award
Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Patton
Dec 09, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
diptych with two moons on paper
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art
The SECA Awards
Dec 09, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
Rigo 98, aerial perspectival view of San Francisco
The Air We Breathe
Nov 05, 2011–Feb 20, 2012
Pettibon painting with two hearts
Face of Our Time
Jim Goldberg, Daniel Schwartz, Zanele Muholi, Jacob Aue Sobol, Richard Misrach
July 02, 2011–Feb 05, 2012
photo of young girl making fire on muddy ground
Sharon Lockhart
Lunch Break
Oct 15, 2011–Jan 16, 2012
Sharon Lockhart, video still, two men sitting on bench in industrial room
Exposed
Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870
May 28, 2010–Jan 08, 2012