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What’s On

Floor 2closing soon

2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition

Celebrate Bay Area artists Binta Ayofemi, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Cathy Lu, Marcel Pardo Ariza, and Gregory Rick on our Floor 2 for free.
Closing May 29, 2023
Two people sitting on benches inside of an SFMOMA gallery staring up at an artwork installation by artist Marcel Pardo Ariza.
Floor 7

Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975

Closing Sept 10, 2023
Floor 3

Kinship: Photography and Connection

Closing Nov 26, 2023
Floor 5

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Thematic galleries that examine how the cultural currents of the 1960s continue to shape American consciousness.
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

Conversation Pieces

Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue
Bringing together over 40 bold, moving works of contemporary furniture that spark dialogue.
Closing June 25, 2023
Installation view of the exhibition Conversation Pieces, featuring works of furniture, including various chair designs.
Floor 2

Open Ended: SFMOMA's Collection, 1900 to Now

Ongoing
An SFMOMA gallery shows various works including wooden sculptures by artist Sargent Johnson, and a painting by artist Carlos Mérida.
Floor 5

Corporeal

Closing July 14, 2024
The artwork Tarpaulin No. 1, by artist Rebecca Belmore, is a ceramic blanket on the ground shaped as though draped over an invisible human figure.
Floor 3closing soon

(a)way station

Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson
July 16, 2022–June 11, 2023
A still of the video artwork ​(a)way station​ by Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson.
Floor 3closing soon

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

July 3, 2021–December 2023
An installation view of two of Alexander Calder's kinetic sculptures as they hang in the museum gallery.
Floors 2, 3 and 5

Bay Area Walls

Ongoing
Artists Twin Walls Mural Company sit atop scaffolding in the process of painting their mural Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams.
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.
Floor 2

KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Apr 07, 2023–Jan 01, 2024
A detail view of a brochure artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon created for a Paul Klee exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Floor 4

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy

Mar 25, 2023–July 16, 2023
The artwork Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return by artist Anna Sew Hoy shows hand-built clay arches over a metal cage and denim scraps.
Floor 6

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

November 5, 2022–Summer 2024
Two visitors stand inside an SFMOMA gallery in front of three out of nine screens showing Ragnar Kjartansson’s beloved video installation The Visitors.

Installations and Special Projects

Koret Education Center, Floor 2closing soonfree to see

Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission

Oct 06, 2022–June 27, 2023
The mural Nuestros Muertos No Se Venden by Elizabeth Blancas.
Floor 1

Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call

Mar 25, 2023–July 22, 2023
A woman wears headphones attached to a mobile phone that she holds in front of her as she walks the SFMOMA galleries listening to the guided interactive The Telephone Call by Janet Cardiff.
Floor 1free to see

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

Ongoing
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1 free to see

Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera

June 28, 2021–March 2024
Detail view of Diego Rivera's mural Pan American Unity.
Floor 7

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

Ongoing
Two people, one sitting and one standing outdoors on the SFMOMA terrace, enjoy the sound installation by artist Susan Philipsz while looking at panoramic views of downtown San Francisco.
Floor 1free to see

Wu Tsang: Of Whales

Ongoing
The video and sound installation Of Whales by Wu Tsang envelops visitors in an oceanscape-cosmos as it hangs over the SFMOMA atrium.

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Floor 6, City Gallery

Scrappy Chair Challenge

Opening June 15, 2023
Floor 4

What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms

July 22, 2023 - Ongoing
White chairs surround a white table with glue, white rolls of string and broken ceramic pieces atop it.
Floor 2

Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales

Opening Aug 05, 2023
Detail view of Guadalupe Rosales' artwork Drifting on a Memory (a dedication to Gypsy Rose).
Floor 3

Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection

Opening Aug 12, 2023
Floor 3

Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy

Opening Aug 12, 2023

Upcoming Events

Free

First Thursdays at SFMOMA: Free Admission for Bay Area Residents

First Thursday of Every Month, 1–8 pm.
A graphic depicting shapes of different sizes, including rectangles and circles placed over a mint green background, with text about monthly Free First Thursdays at SFMOMA.
Special Event

PlaySFMOMA Game Night

Thursday, June 1, 2023, 5 p.m.
Family Program

Second Sundays For Families

Second Sunday of Every Month
A child and an adult sit at a table making an art project together.
Browse All Events
Haas, Jr. Atrium, Floor 1

Cars from the 2022 Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park

Apr 18, 2022–May 06, 2022
Floor 4

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z

Dec 18, 2021–May 01, 2022
Floor 6

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

Architecture from Outside In
July 17, 2021–Mar 27, 2022
Floor 2

One Day at a Time: Susan O’Malley and Leah Rosenberg

May 29, 2021–Mar 06, 2022
Floor 7

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Unstable Presence
Oct 02, 2021–Mar 06, 2022
Floor 5

Joan Mitchell

Sept 04, 2021–Jan 17, 2022
Online and In-Person

Exhibition Reflections

Diana Markosian, Wu Tsang, and Joan Mitchell
October–December 2021
Floor 3

Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara

July 03, 2021–Dec 12, 2021
Floor 2

Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa

July 10, 2021–Dec 05, 2021
Floor 4

Nam June Paik

May 08, 2021–Oct 03, 2021
Online

CROSSROADS Film Festival Highlight

People on Sunday
September 1–30, 2021
Floor 4

New Work: Charles Gaines

Mar 06, 2021–Sept 12, 2021
Floor 3

Close to Home

Creativity in Crisis
Mar 06, 2021–Sept 05, 2021
Online

Dances for Camera: Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, John Sanborn

Related exhibition: Nam June Paik
June–August 2021
Floor 3

Off the Wall

Mar 06, 2021–Aug 22, 2021
Floor 7

Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith

Oct 17, 2020–July 18, 2021
Floor 5

Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art

May 14, 2016–June 13, 2021
Installaiton view with people, Roy Lichtenstein
Floor 3

Elemental Calder

Feb 16, 2019–June 06, 2021
Floor 3, Architecture + Design Gallery

Lebbeus Woods

Einstein Tomb
Jan 18, 2020–May 09, 2021
Online

Assembly of Images

On Histories of Race and Representation
February–April 2021
Film still depicting a discolored graphic of a man in a boxing stance wearing a shirt with a gorilla on it.