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
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