What’s On View

Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
Explore the family of pop culture–inspired characters created by KAWS.
November 15, 2025–May 3, 2026
Floor 3
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
Alejandro Cartagena’s photographs reveal the political, economic, and environmental forces shaping life in Mexico today.
Closing Apr 19, 2026
Floor 5
Alexander Calder
Spanning almost 50 years of the artist's life, the works in this gallery include a variety of mobiles alongside standing and wall-mounted works that testify to his restless invention.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
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 2closing soon
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
Aug 23, 2025–Apr 07, 2026
Floor 3
(Re)Constructing History
Oct 04, 2025–May 03, 2026
Floor 1free to see
Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–June 1, 2026
(closed February 10–February 12 for maintenance)
Floor 2
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories
July 26, 2025–July 05, 2026
Floor 3
Table Manners
Sep 14, 2024–Aug 02, 2026
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 2
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
Ongoing

Installations and Special Projects

Floor 1free to see
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings
Jan 24, 2026–May 19, 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 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 4, Outdoor Terrace
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
New installation: Opened Jan 17, 2026
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing

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Floor 6
Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories
Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10
Artists consider memory from a range of perspectives in this moving presentation featuring the work of Anselm Kiefer and William Kentridge among others.
Opening April 18, 2026
Floor 4
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10
A series of monographic galleries dedicated to 14 artists, including Andy Warhol, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, and Richard Serra, whose works reflect a variety of mediums, styles and approaches.
Opening April 18, 2026
Artwork image, Roy Lichtenstein
Floor 5
Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form
Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10
Step into a world of color, line, and shape with discoveries for art lovers of all ages and explore the innovations of three enduring influential artists.
Opening April 18, 2026
Floor 4
Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal
Discover how one of Matisse's most iconic works ignited a color revolution in 1905—and how its impact still shapes art today.
Opening May 16, 2026
Floor 7
RM x SFMOMA
Curated by RM. Only at SFMOMA. See what inspires the voice of a generation.
October 3, 2026–February 7, 2027
Member Previews Oct 1–3
Floor 4
Pacita Abad
Oct 21, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
Roberts Family Gallery, Floor 1  free to see
Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera
June 28, 2021–Jan 21, 2024
Detail view of Diego Rivera's mural Pan American Unity.
Floor 2
KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Apr 07, 2023–Jan 21, 2024
A detail view of a brochure artist Barbara Stauffacher Solomon created for a Paul Klee exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Floor 2
Hung Liu: Witness
June 30, 2023–Dec 10, 2023
Floor 3
Kinship: Photography and Connection
May 20, 2023–Nov 26, 2023
Floor 7
Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975
May 20, 2023–Sep 10, 2023
Floor 5
Corporeal
Feb 18, 2023–July 30, 2023
The artwork Tarpaulin No. 1, by artist Rebecca Belmore, is a ceramic blanket on the ground shaped as though draped over an invisible human figure.
Floor 1
Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call
Mar 25, 2023–July 23, 2023
A woman wears headphones attached to a mobile phone that she holds in front of her as she walks the SFMOMA galleries listening to the guided interactive The Telephone Call by Janet Cardiff.
Floor 4
New Work: Anna Sew Hoy
Mar 25, 2023–July 16, 2023
The artwork Hard Swamp Ecstatic Return by artist Anna Sew Hoy shows hand-built clay arches over a metal cage and denim scraps.
Koret Education Center, Floor 2free to see
Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission
Oct 06, 2022–June 27, 2023
The mural Nuestros Muertos No Se Venden by Elizabeth Blancas.
Floor 6
Conversation Pieces
Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue
Aug 20, 2022–June 25, 2023
Installation view of the exhibition Conversation Pieces, featuring works of furniture, including various chair designs.
Floor 6, City Gallery
Scrappy Chair Challenge
June 15, 2023–June 25, 2023
Floor 3
(a)way station
Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson
July 16, 2022–June 11, 2023
A still of the video artwork ​(a)way station​ by Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson.
Floor 2
2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition
Dec 17, 2022–May 29, 2023
Two people sitting on benches inside of an SFMOMA gallery staring up at an artwork installation by artist Marcel Pardo Ariza.
Floor 7
Julian Charrière: Erratic
Aug 06, 2022–May 14, 2023
An artwork named The Blue Fossil Entropic III by artist Julian Charrière, depicts an arctic landscape capturing a person scaling a glacier at night.
Floor 4
Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon
Apr 22, 2023–May 11, 2023
Sadie Barnette's, ​The New Eagle Creek Saloon​, 2019 (installation view, The Kitchen, New York, 2022).
Floor 3
Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection
Aug 06, 2022–May 07, 2023
A black and white photography by artist Chanell Stone titled In Search of a Certain Eden, from the series Natura Negra.
Floor 3
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Dec 17, 2022–Apr 02, 2023
Floor 7
Joan Brown
Nov 19, 2022–Mar 12, 2023
Floor 2
Mythic Constructions: Carlos Mérida and Paul Klee
July 2, 2022–December 2022