Floor 7
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture explores how athleticism, competition, and play have shaped our world and influenced contemporary art and design.
Closing Feb 18, 2025
Floor 4
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
The largest presentation of Amy Sherald’s work to date, bringing together more than 45 paintings from her poetic early portraits to the incisive, moving figure paintings for which she is best known.
November 16, 2024–March 9, 2025
Floor 3
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
This retrospective exhibition charts the artist’s vision, which spans pathbreaking photojournalism, modernist still lifes, and celebrated portraits of Black Americans.
Closing Feb 09, 2025
Floor 1free to see
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–Spring 2026
Floor 2
Unity through Skateboarding
Celebrate the dreams and realities of queer, trans, BIPOC, and women skaters as well as the diverse communities that have shaped the sport.
Closing May 04, 2025
Floor 2
Open Ended: SFMOMA's Collection, 1900 to Now
Ongoing
Floor 4
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
Ongoing
Floor 6
German Art After 1960
Ongoing
Floor 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ongoing
Floor 5
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Ongoing
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–May 2025
Floor 3
Table Manners
September 14, 2024–May 2025
Floor 2
When the World Is Watching
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
Count Me In
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Nov 05, 2022–Jan 26, 2025
Floor 2
(Super)Natural: Paul Klee and Masako Miki
Aug 17, 2024–Jan 12, 2025
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Installations and Special Projects
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
September 16, 2023–Fall 2025
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 2, Koret Education Center
Artcade
Oct 20, 2024–Mar 23, 2025
Floor 1free to see
Wu Tsang: Of Whales
Closing January 20, 2025
Floor 2
2024 SECA Art Award Exhibition
The 2024 SECA Art Award exhibition celebrates Rose D’Amato, Angela Hennessy, and Rupy C. Tut. Each artist has conceived a gallery with new works that bring distinct perspectives, processes, and materials into the museum.
Opening Dec 14, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Samson Young
Wander in Samson Young’s installation of sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape — a poetic exploration of the rhythms of love, attention, and memory.
Opening Dec 21, 2024
New Work
Moira Dryer
Dec 21, 1989–Feb 11, 1990
New Work
Rick Arnitz
Oct 12, 1989–Dec 10, 1989
New Work
Christopher Wool
July 06, 1989–Sept 03, 1989
New Work
Günther Förg
May 04, 1989–June 25, 1989
New Work
Sabina Ott
Feb 07, 1989–Mar 26, 1989
New Work
Don Van Vliet
Nov 30, 1988–Jan 29, 1989
New Work
Elizabeth Murray
Sept 14, 1988–Nov 13, 1988
New Work
Jill Giegerich
June 23, 1988–Aug 21, 1988
New Work
Ross Bleckner
Apr 13, 1988–June 12, 1988
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