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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
A black and white photograph of artist Suzanne Jackson painting in her studio with large abstract artworks and paint supplies in the background.
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
New Work
Photographs by Judith Joy Ross
Sept 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
Sept 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
Sept 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
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