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
Christopher Wool
July 06, 1989–Sep 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
Sep 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–Sep 12, 1965
The Arts of San Francisco
Architecture
June 14, 1962–July 15, 1962