What’s On View

Floor 2free to see
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut
The 2024 SECA Art Award celebrates Rose D’Amato, Angela Hennessy, and Rupy C. Tut. Each artist has conceived a gallery with new works that bring distinct perspectives, processes, and materials into the museum.
Closing May 26, 2025
Floor 4
New Work: Samson Young
Wander in Samson Young’s installation of sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape — a poetic exploration of the rhythms of love, attention, and memory.
Closing June 22, 2025
Floor 3
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography
Using work by members of Group f64 as a nexus, this exhibition explores various histories of Bay Area photography from the 1910s to the present.
November 23, 2024–July 2025
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing Sept 28, 2025
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 1free to see
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–Spring 2026
Floor 2
When the World Is Watching
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
Count Me In
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
Unity through Skateboarding
Aug 17, 2024–May 04, 2025
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.
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–Fall 2025
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 3
Table Manners
September 14, 2024–May 2026
Floor 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
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 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
September 16, 2023–Fall 2025
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 2, Koret Education Center free to see
Artcade
Oct 20, 2024–Mar 23, 2025

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Floor 4
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Discover Ruth Asawa's extraordinary experimental vision and how San Francisco became the center of her creative universe in the most expansive exhibition of the artist's work to date.
April 5–Sept 2, 2025
Member Previews: April 4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. + April 5–6, 10 a.m.–Noon
Floor 3
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Photography and painting unite in Kunié Sugiura's dynamic hybrid forms.
Opening Apr 26, 2025
New Work
Kerry James Marshall: Mementos
Jan 22, 1999–July 30, 2000
Kerry James Marshall Souvenir I mixed media painting
Sol LeWitt
A Retrospective
Feb 19, 2000–May 30, 2000
lewitt rainbow semicircles in black grid
Carleton Watkins
The Art of Perception
May 28, 1999–Apr 30, 2000
Carleton Watkins, photographic print train track and cliff
William Gedney
duplicate of Short Distances and Definite Places
Jan 21, 2000–Mar 31, 2000
William Gedney, man on bed with three framed photos in back
New Work
Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions
Dec 17, 1999–Mar 28, 2000
Tyson, abstract figure with red background
Inside Out
New Chinese Art
Feb 26, 1999–Mar 07, 2000
Zhang Xiaogang Bloodline The Big Family No 2
Far Out
Bay Area Design, 1967--1973
Nov 12, 1999–Feb 20, 2000
Wes WIlson Jefferson Airplane poster
Seeing Time
Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
Oct 15, 1999–Jan 09, 2000
Mariko Mori video still of woman with blonde hair
Degas to Picasso
Painters, Sculptors, and the Camera
Oct 02, 1999–Jan 02, 2000
photo of Olivier, Picasso, and Rentevs in Paris
Bill Viola
June 25, 1999–Sept 12, 1999
Bill Viola water splashing video and sound installation
New Work
Unland/Doris Salcedo
Feb 18, 1999–Apr 27, 1999
Doris Salcedo Unland installation
Looking at Ourselves
Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection
Jan 09, 1999–Apr 20, 1999
Shonagh Adelman, Exquisit Corpse Shonagh Adelman, Exquisite Corpse , collaged image of two women
New Work
Julia Scher: Predictive Engineering
Oct 23, 1998–Jan 12, 1999
Video stills from Julia Scher's Predictive Engineering2
A Portrait of Our Times
An Introduction to the Logan Collection
Sept 29, 1998–Jan 10, 1999
Gerhard Richter, Tourist Office
Snapshots
the Photography of Everyday Life
May 22, 1998–Sept 08, 1998
black and white image of dog
Keith Haring
May 08, 1998–Sept 08, 1998
Haring red barking dog
Art from Around the Bay
Recent Acquisitions
Apr 16, 1998–July 28, 1998
thibaud landscape painting of farmland
Sargent Johnson
African-American Modernist
Mar 13, 1998–July 07, 1998
Steve McQueen
Four Projected Images
Feb 27, 1998–May 12, 1998
steve mcqueen film still of men dancing
New Work
Steven Pippin — Laundromat-Locomotion
Feb 13, 1998–May 05, 1998
steven pippin black and white photograph woman running