What’s On View

Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
Explore the family of distinctive pop-culture inspired characters created by KAWS.
New Exhibition: Now 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.
Closing Mar 01, 2026
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 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.
Closing May 03, 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 3
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
Nov 22, 2025–Apr 19, 2026
Floor 2
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
August 23, 2025–April 2026
Floor 1free to see
Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–June 7, 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 7
Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
On View Through March 1, 2026
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.
SFMOMA Rooftopfree to see
KAWS
HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO
Mid-November 2025 through Mid-January 2026
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Floor 5closing soon
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Temporary Closure — Reopens January 17, 2026
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing

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Floor 3
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
Explore Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s transformations of everyday objects into giant sculptures and urban monuments.
Opens December 20, 2025
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
Glenn Ligon
New Work
May 23, 1996–Aug 25, 1996
Glenn Ligon New Work
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
Andrea Zittel New Work
New Work
David Hammons
Mar 03, 1994–May 15, 1994
New Work
Photographs by Judith Joy Ross
Sep 16, 1993–Nov 28, 1993
New Work Judith Joy Ross
New Work
Richard Prince
Apr 29, 1993–July 25, 1993
Three photographic portraits of women hung on a gallery wall
New Work
On Kawara: Date Paintings in 89 Cities
Feb 25, 1993–Apr 11, 1993
A row of small black blocks featuring white lettering hanging in a gallery
New Work
Lawrence Weiner
Feb 20, 1992–Apr 19, 1992
New Work
Matthew Barney
Dec 12, 1991–Jan 30, 1992
Matthew Barney New Work
New Work: Robert Bechtle
Robert Bechtle
Sep 10, 1991–Dec 01, 1991
Robert Bechtle New Work
New Work
Martin Kippenberger
June 13, 1991–Aug 25, 1991
New Work
Susana Solano
May 23, 1991–July 14, 1991
A large, rusted metallic sculpture in a gallery
New Work
Sherrie Levine
Jan 17, 1991–Mar 10, 1991
five billiards tables standing in a row with two white balls and one red ball placed in the same position on each
New Work
Dawn Fryling
Sep 19, 1990–Nov 04, 1990
Two lamps in the foreground with a row of white canvases with black frames in the background
New Work
Georg Herold
May 03, 1990–June 24, 1990
Georg Herold New Work
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