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
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
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 1free to see
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–Spring 2026
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
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
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
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
A Portrait of Our Times
An Introduction to the Logan Collection
Sept 29, 1998–Jan 10, 1999
Snapshots
the Photography of Everyday Life
May 22, 1998–Sept 08, 1998
Keith Haring
May 08, 1998–Sept 08, 1998
Art from Around the Bay
Recent Acquisitions
Apr 16, 1998–July 28, 1998
Sargent Johnson
African-American Modernist
Mar 13, 1998–July 07, 1998
Steve McQueen
Four Projected Images
Feb 27, 1998–May 12, 1998
New Work
Steven Pippin — Laundromat-Locomotion
Feb 13, 1998–May 05, 1998
Fabrications
Bodybuildings
Feb 06, 1998–Apr 28, 1998
Constructed Landscapes
Projects by Zaha Hadid
Dec 19, 1997–Mar 10, 1998
Present Tense
Nine Artists in the Nineties (New Work series)
Sept 13, 1997–Jan 31, 1998
New Work
Miyajima
Oct 10, 1997–Jan 27, 1998
New Work
Paul Kos: Chartres Bleu
Nov 05, 1987–Jan 10, 1998
ICONS
Magnets of Meaning
Apr 18, 1997–Aug 05, 1997
Centering the Civic
The 1996 San Francisco Prize
Mar 14, 1997–July 16, 1997
New Work
Drawings Today
Jan 17, 1997–June 03, 1997
New Work
Kara Walker: Upon My Many Masters--An Outline
Feb 14, 1997–May 13, 1997
Glenn Ligon
New Work
May 23, 1996–Aug 25, 1996
Richard Hamilton
New Work
Feb 22, 1996–May 05, 1996
Andrea Zittel
New Work (A-Z Travel Trailer Units)
Nov 09, 1995–Feb 04, 1996
New Work
David Hammons
Mar 03, 1994–May 15, 1994