What’s On View

Floor 6closing soon
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
Member Viewing Hours September 21
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.
New Exhibition: Opened August 9
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
Various
Bay Area Walls
Established in 2020, Bay Area Walls is a series of commissions and site-responsive wall projects by local artists who actively engage with pressing issues of our time.
Ongoing
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.
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 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.
Opening Sep 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 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
Bill Viola
June 25, 1999–Sep 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
A Portrait of Our Times
An Introduction to the Logan Collection
Sep 29, 1998–Jan 10, 1999
Gerhard Richter, Tourist Office
Snapshots
the Photography of Everyday Life
May 22, 1998–Sep 08, 1998
black and white image of dog
Keith Haring
May 08, 1998–Sep 08, 1998
Haring red barking dog
Art from Around the Bay
Recent Acquisitions
Apr 16, 1998–July 28, 1998
thibaud landscape painting of farmland
Sargent Johnson
African-American Modernist
Mar 13, 1998–July 07, 1998
Steve McQueen
Four Projected Images
Feb 27, 1998–May 12, 1998
steve mcqueen film still of men dancing
New Work
Steven Pippin — Laundromat-Locomotion
Feb 13, 1998–May 05, 1998
steven pippin black and white photograph woman running
Fabrications
Bodybuildings
Feb 06, 1998–Apr 28, 1998
kuth/ranieri, architecture installation
Constructed Landscapes
Projects by Zaha Hadid
Dec 19, 1997–Mar 10, 1998
zaha hadid perspective view
Present Tense
Nine Artists in the Nineties (New Work series)
Sep 13, 1997–Jan 31, 1998
jim hodges no betweens
New Work
Miyajima
Oct 10, 1997–Jan 27, 1998
red and black counter line number 2
New Work
Paul Kos: Chartres Bleu
Nov 05, 1987–Jan 10, 1998
ICONS
Magnets of Meaning
Apr 18, 1997–Aug 05, 1997
black and white icon gif
Centering the Civic
The 1996 San Francisco Prize
Mar 14, 1997–July 16, 1997
black and white circles and geometric shapes
New Work
Drawings Today
Jan 17, 1997–June 03, 1997
A room with a variety of drawings
New Work
Kara Walker: Upon My Many Masters--An Outline
Feb 14, 1997–May 13, 1997
Kara Walker New Work