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What’s On

Floor 2
Creative Growth: The House That Art Built
Creative Growth celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first organization in the United States dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities.
New Exhibition! Now on View
A vibrant, folk-style painting of multiple abstract figures with prominent facial features and patterned clothing.
Floor 6closing soon
Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love
Enter an unforgettable universe of luminous color and endless reflections.
Closing May 28, 2024
Floor 3
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist who uses photography, painting, video, and sculpture to increase Black queer visibility.
Closing Aug 11, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal
New paintings by influential Bay Area artist Mary Lovelace O’Neal explore a vast mythology of personal and shared narratives.
Closing Oct 20, 2024
Floor 2
Chiura Obata
Delve into the jewel-like watercolors, woodblock prints, and Japanese ink paintings of one of California’s most important 20th-century artists.
Closing July 14, 2024
Floor 7
Art of Noise
May 4–August 18, 2024
Member Previews May 2–3
Floor 3closing soon
Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy
Aug 12, 2023–May 27, 2024
Floor 4
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms
July 22, 2023–Sept 22, 2024
An abstract sculpture of three large metal hoops suspended from the ceiling with a variety of materials such as wood, fabric, lambskin, plastic, cardboard hanging from each hoop.
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Nov 05, 2022–Jan 26, 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 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 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ongoing
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 2
Open Ended: SFMOMA's Collection, 1900 to Now
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 2, Koret Education Centerfree to see
Wondering About Museums
December 7, 2023–Fall 2024
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
September 16, 2023–Ongoing
Floor 5
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
September 16, 2023–October 2025
Floor 1free to see
Wu Tsang: Of Whales
Ongoing
The video and sound installation Of Whales by Wu Tsang envelops visitors in an oceanscape-cosmos as it hangs over the SFMOMA atrium.
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 2
Elise S. Haas
Building a Modern Art Collection
Aug 24, 2019–Oct 27, 2019
A colorful oil painting of a portrait of a woman wearing a large hat.
Floor 2
Mythos, Psyche, Eros
Jess and California
Mar 30, 2019–Oct 14, 2019
Floor 4 Additional galleries on Floors 2 and 5
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again
May 19, 2019–Sept 02, 2019
YBCA First Floor Galleries and  SFMOMA Floor 7 and Haas Jr. Atrium
Suzanne Lacy
We Are Here
Apr 20, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Suzanne Lacy TK
Floor 3
snap+share
transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks
Mar 30, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
A cat peering out of a hole in a ceiling
Floor 7
Pat O'Neill
Three Answers
Apr 20, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Paul Klee and Anni Albers
Mar 23, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Floor 5
Louise Bourgeois Spiders
Oct 07, 2017–July 14, 2019
Installation view of Louise Bourgeois Spiders
Floor 3
Johannes Brus
Oct 27, 2018–June 16, 2019
a shadow of a man and a hand
Floor 3
Louis Stettner
Traveling Light
Oct 27, 2018–June 16, 2019
black and white photograph of lake with several row boats
Floor 4
New Work: Rodney McMillian
Feb 09, 2019–June 09, 2019
Detail of a Rodney McMillian painting
Floor 6
The Sea Ranch
Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
Dec 22, 2018–June 02, 2019
a bird's eye view of sea ranch with fog
Floor 2
Wayne Thiebaud
Artist's Choice: September 29, 2018—March 17, 2019
Paintings and Drawings: September 29, 2018—April 28, 2019
01 Thiebaud AC
Floor 3
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Feb 23, 2019–Apr 28, 2019
SFMOMA and San Francisco Public Library branches
Public Knowledge
Take Part
Jan 25, 2019–Apr 28, 2019
Floor 4
Vija Celmins
To Fix the Image in Memory
Dec 15, 2018–Mar 31, 2019
Vija Celmins, Ocean (Untitled), 1977
Floor 2
Paul Klee and the Prinzhorn Collection
Sept 15, 2018–Mar 17, 2019
Max Ernst, La famille nombreuse (The Numerous Family), 1927
Floor 7
Art and China after 1989
Theater of the World
Nov 10, 2018–Feb 24, 2019
a man dancing in the aisle of a store
Floor 3
Brassaï
Nov 17, 2018–Feb 18, 2019
Brassai 05
Floor 3
Takenobu Igarashi
Calendars
Dec 01, 2018–Feb 10, 2019
Takenobu Igarashi December Calendar