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What’s On

Floor 4
Pacita Abad
This first retrospective of the beloved artist's work features nearly 40 daring trapunto paintings.
Closing Jan 28, 2024
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love
Enter an unforgettable universe of luminous color and endless reflections.
Closing Sept 07, 2024
Floor 7
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
Experience the full breadth of German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans’s voraciously experimental practice.
Closing Mar 03, 2024
Floor 2closing soon
Hung Liu: Witness
Richly layered portraits and installations that interweave memory and history.
Closing Dec 10, 2023
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing Oct 13, 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.
Floor 4
New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Sept 23, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Floor 3
Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection
Sept 02, 2023–Mar 17, 2024
Floor 3
Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy
Aug 12, 2023–May 27, 2024
Floor 2
Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales
Aug 05, 2023–Feb 19, 2024
Floor 4
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms
Ongoing
Floor 2closing soon
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 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 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ongoing
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Artists Twin Walls Mural Company sit atop scaffolding in the process of painting their mural Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams.
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 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
September 16, 2023–Ongoing
Floor 5
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
September 16, 2023–August 2025
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.
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Floor 7
Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
Closing March 3, 2024
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.
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1  free to see
Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera
Closing January 28, 2024
Detail view of Diego Rivera's mural Pan American Unity.
Floor 2
Chiura Obata
Opening Dec 21, 2023
Floor 3
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
Opening Jan 18, 2024
New Work
A New Generation
Feb 22, 1990–Apr 22, 1990
White, sink-like porcelain sculptures hang on a wall next to a large painting featuring a textured blue block and a black border around half.
New Work
Moira Dryer
Dec 21, 1989–Feb 11, 1990
Moira Dryer New Work
New Work
Rick Arnitz
Oct 12, 1989–Dec 10, 1989
Rick Arnitz New Work
New Work
Christopher Wool
July 06, 1989–Sept 03, 1989
Black and white painting featuring a vine-like pattern and letters
New Work
Günther Förg
May 04, 1989–June 25, 1989
New Work
Sabina Ott
Feb 07, 1989–Mar 26, 1989
Sabina Ott New Work
New Work
Don Van Vliet
Nov 30, 1988–Jan 29, 1989
Don Van Vliet New Work
New Work
Elizabeth Murray
Sept 14, 1988–Nov 13, 1988
Elizabeth Murray sculpture
New Work
Jill Giegerich
June 23, 1988–Aug 21, 1988
Jill Giegerich New Work
New Work
Ross Bleckner
Apr 13, 1988–June 12, 1988
Ross Bleckner painting of dark sky with stars
New Work
Robert Ryman
Jan 14, 1988–Mar 13, 1988
84th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute
Aug 13, 1965–Sept 12, 1965
The Arts of San Francisco
Architecture
June 14, 1962–July 15, 1962