What’s On View

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.
Closing Sept 02, 2025
Floor 3
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Photography and painting unite in Kunié Sugiura's dynamic hybrid forms.
Closing Sept 14, 2025
Floor 3closing soon
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.
Closing July 13, 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 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
Installation temporarily closed
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 3
Table Manners
Sept 14, 2024–May 31, 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 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
Sept 16, 2023–Nov 16, 2025
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing

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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.
Opening July 26, 2025
Floor 7
Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love
Celebrate Suzanne Jackson’s ground¬breaking artistic vision through more than 80 lyrical paintings and drawings from the 1960s to today.
Opening Sept 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
KAWS: FAMILY explores the distinctive universe of pop culture–inspired characters created by Brian Donnelly, known globally as 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
010101
Art in Technological Times.
Mar 03, 2001–July 08, 2001
blake, rendering of patterned wallpaper and door
2000 SECA Art Award
Rachael Neubauer and Kathryn Van Dyke
Feb 02, 2001–June 12, 2001
small circle and rectangular mirrors on wall
Daido Moriyama
Stray Dog
May 14, 1999–Apr 30, 2001
Black and white photograph of a stray dog, Daido Moriyama
Celebrating Modern Art
The Anderson Collection
Oct 07, 2000–Feb 04, 2001
hockney pool and diving board
Robert Gober
Sculpture + Drawing
June 09, 2000–Sept 05, 2000
half of leg and shoe in white room
Of the Moment
Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection
June 30, 2000–Aug 29, 2000
zittel trailer
Jasper Johns
New Paintings and Works on Paper
Sept 16, 1999–Aug 13, 2000
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