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
Perfect Acts of Architecture
Mar 02, 2002–June 18, 2002
Zenghelis, arial view of bridge and city
Points of Departure II
Connecting with Contemporary Art
Nov 17, 2001–June 09, 2002
Kiefer, steps from below
Ansel Adams at 100
Aug 04, 2001–Jan 13, 2002
Ansel Adams with camer on mountain
Stranger Passing
Collected Portraits by Joel Sternfeld
July 06, 2001–Oct 02, 2001
Sternfeld, young woman and man at prom
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–Sep 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
Sep 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