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
John Szarkowski
Photographs
Feb 05, 2005–May 15, 2005
country road and farm house
Belles Lettres
The Art of Typography
Oct 30, 2004–Apr 17, 2005
black and red typography
Roy Lichtenstein
About Art
Oct 23, 2004–Feb 22, 2005
Lichtenstein, m-maybe girl
Glamour
Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture
Oct 09, 2004–Jan 17, 2005
dress stairwell and car
William Eggleston
Los Alamos context show
Aug 21, 2004–Jan 04, 2005
Egglesotn, young boy and shopping carts in parking lot
New Work
Evan Holloway and Dave Muller
July 01, 2004–Oct 24, 2004
abstract sculpture corner of room
Pop! From San Francisco Collections
Mar 06, 2004–Sep 19, 2004
Warhol, six self portraits
Stir Heart, Rinse Heart/ Pipilotti Rist
Mar 06, 2004–Sep 12, 2004
woman topless in pool with fire
Larry Sultan
The Valley
May 08, 2004–Aug 01, 2004
woman with four dogs by pool
Supernova
Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection
Dec 13, 2003–May 23, 2004
Murakami, three spheres with facial features
The Art of Romare Bearden
Feb 07, 2004–May 16, 2004
Pirkle Jones and the Changing California Landscape
Dec 20, 2003–Apr 18, 2004
two men in cowbow hats on farm with house in back
Dreaming in Pictures
The Photography of Lewis Carroll
Aug 03, 2002–Jan 11, 2004
Lewis Carroll, girl sleeping on couch
Primary Matters
The Minimalist Sensibility, 1959 to the Present
Nov 08, 2003–Jan 11, 2004
eight metal strips on wood floor
Marc Chagall
July 26, 2003–Nov 04, 2003
bride and goat with tree in background
2002 SECA Art Award
John Bankston, Andrea Higgins, Chris Johanson, Will Rogan
Mar 20, 2003–Aug 10, 2003
purple and blue geometric strip pattern
Treasures of Modern Art
The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Jan 30, 2003–June 24, 2003
Warhol woman smiling with red lips
No Ghost Just A Shell
Dec 14, 2002–Mar 23, 2003
animated girl holding picture of sad girl
Eva Hesse
Feb 02, 2002–Mar 09, 2003
Hesse, grid of yellow rectangles
Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
July 13, 2002–Jan 05, 2003
Ellsworth Kelly, scattered black and colored squares