What’s On View
Floor 6
Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories
Artists consider memory from a range of perspectives in this moving presentation featuring the work of Anselm Kiefer and William Kentridge among others.
New Exhibition: Opened April 18
Floor 5
Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form
Step into a world of color, line, and shape with discoveries for art lovers of all ages and explore the innovations of three enduringly influential artists.
New Exhibition: Opened April 18
Floor 4
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
A series of monographic galleries dedicated to 14 artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Serra, whose works reflect a variety of mediums, styles and approaches.
New Exhibition: Opened April 18
Floor 3
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
Explore Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s transformations of everyday objects into giant sculptures and urban monuments.
Ongoing
Floor 1closing soonfree 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 1, 2026
Installations and Special Projects
Floor 1closing soonfree to see
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings
Jan 24, 2026–May 19, 2026
Floor 2, Koret Education Centerclosing soonfree to see
The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must
June 01, 2025–May 30, 2026
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 4, Outdoor Terrace
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
Installation will be closed from April 20–May 22, 2026
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
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Floor 4
Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal
Discover how one of Matisse's most iconic works ignited a color revolution in 1905—and how its impact still shapes art today.
May 16–September 13, 2026
Member Previews May 14–16
Member Previews May 14–16
Floor 3
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
From crowded nightclubs to choreographed performances, this exhibition brings the vibrant energy of dance to life in photographs.
Opening May 16, 2026
Floor 1
Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess)
In this vibrant video installation drag performance becomes a playful tactic for exposing the gender biases, limitations, and insufficient queer representation of artificial intelligence.
May 23, 2026–September 2026
Floor 7
RM x SFMOMA
Curated by RM. Only at SFMOMA. See what inspires the voice of a generation.
October 3, 2026–February 7, 2027
Member Previews Oct 1–3
Member Previews Oct 1–3
The Provoke Era
Sep 12, 2009–Dec 20, 2009
Richard Avedon Photographs 1946 - 2004
July 11, 2009–Nov 29, 2009
Sensate
Aug 07, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
Paul Klee
Mar 07, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
Not New Work
July 25, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
The Studio Sessions
July 03, 2009–Sep 13, 2009
Patterns of Speculation
Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
Austere
Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
New Work
Mar 21, 2009–July 07, 2009
Otl Aicher
Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
Brought to Light
Oct 11, 2008–May 24, 2009
2008 SECA Art Award
Feb 12, 2009–May 10, 2009
Face of Our Time
Jan 31, 2009–Apr 26, 2009
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook
Sep 27, 2008–Mar 01, 2009
New Work
Nov 21, 2008–Mar 01, 2009
The Art of Participation
Nov 08, 2008–Feb 08, 2009
Martin Puryear
Nov 08, 2008–Jan 25, 2009
Passageworks
Oct 25, 2008–Jan 19, 2009
Double Down
Sep 18, 2008–Jan 04, 2009
246 and Counting
July 10, 2008–Jan 04, 2009
