What’s On View

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.
New Exhibition: Opens This Weekend!
A black and white photograph of artist Suzanne Jackson painting in her studio with large abstract artworks and paint supplies in the background.
Floor 6
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
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.
Closing Aug 09, 2026
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 3
(Re)Constructing History
(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present.
Opening Oct 04, 2025
Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
Explore the family of distinctive pop-culture inspired characters created by KAWS.
November 15, 2025–May 3, 2026
Member Previews Nov 13–15
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
Chuck Close
Self-Portraits 1967-2005
Nov 19, 2005–Oct 22, 2006
photo and painting chuck close self potrait
Diane Arbus Revelations
Oct 25, 2003–Oct 08, 2006
older woman in veil and fur collar
Matthew Barney
DRAWING RESTRAINT
June 23, 2006–Sep 17, 2006
Matthew Barney, film still of man and woman facing each other holding knives
New Work 6
Tim Gardner, Marcelino Gonçalves, Zak Smith
Apr 21, 2006–Sep 05, 2006
portrait of shirtless man with mustache and long hair in bathroom
Robert Bechtle
A Retrospective
Feb 12, 2005–June 04, 2006
Bechtle, family in front of car
Double Feature
Steve McQueen and Peter Sarkisian
Nov 10, 2005–May 21, 2006
cube with abstract projected images with dark background
Beyond Real
Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections
Mar 23, 2006–May 21, 2006
close up woman's eyes with five tear drops
The Surreal Calder
Mar 03, 2006–May 21, 2006
Calder, man holding tool working in studio
Richard Long
The Path Is the Place Is the Line
Jan 21, 2006–Apr 30, 2006
rocky and grassy hillside
New Work
Wangechi Mutu
Dec 16, 2005–Apr 02, 2006
painted figure hanging on branch with birds
Todd Eberle
Architectural Abstractions
Dec 16, 2005–Mar 07, 2006
black and green rectangular grid
Kiki Smith
A Gathering, 1980-2005
Nov 19, 2005–Jan 29, 2006
Kiki Smith; installation shot sculpture of girl kneeling with white wall and gold stars in back
Robert Adams
Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-Exploration
Sep 29, 2005–Jan 03, 2006
landscape with thin tree stump and tree in background
New Work
Edgar Arceneaux
Aug 12, 2005–Nov 27, 2005
installation shot projected image of sky onto wall
2x4/design series 3
May 13, 2005–Nov 27, 2005
chair in front of orange wall covered in white circles and comma shapes
Jeremy Blake
Winchester
Feb 19, 2005–Oct 10, 2005
Blurred colorful film still of buildings
Taking Place
Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection
June 02, 2005–Sep 06, 2005
three large city windows covered with image of woman's eye; two women walking by windows in corner
New Work
Marilyn Minter
Apr 01, 2005–July 24, 2005
corner of eye covered in red makeup
New Work
Rachel Harrison
Nov 12, 2004–June 13, 2005
green sculpture with blonde wig in front of windows
2004 SECA Art Award
2004 SECA Art Award: Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Simon Evans, Shaun O’Dell, Josephine Taylor.
Jan 22, 2005–May 15, 2005
Sean O'Dell drawing with geometric shapes and bird