Past Exhibitions

Floor 1

Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess)

May 23, 2026–Sep 07, 2026
Floor 1free to see

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

Ongoing
Floor 4

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Aug 09, 2025–Aug 09, 2026
Floor 2

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Aug 23, 2025–July 30, 2026
Floor 2

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

July 26, 2025–July 05, 2026
Floor 1free to see

Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

July 01, 2024–May 31, 2026
Floor 2, Koret Education Centerfree to see

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

June 01, 2025–May 30, 2026
Floor 1free to see

Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

Jan 24, 2026–May 19, 2026
Floor 4

KAWS: FAMILY

November 15, 2025–May 3, 2026
Floor 3

(Re)Constructing History

Oct 04, 2025–May 03, 2026
Floor 3

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

Nov 22, 2025–Apr 19, 2026
Floor 5Fisher Collection

Alexander Calder

Ongoing
Floor 7

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

On View Through March 1, 2026
Floor 7

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

Sep 27, 2025–Mar 01, 2026
Floor 4Fisher Collection

Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction

Jan 01, 2018–Jan 25, 2026
Floor 6Fisher Collection

German Art After 1960

Jan 01, 2018–Jan 25, 2026
Floor 5Fisher Collection

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Oct 15, 2022–Jan 25, 2026
Floor 1free to see

Al Wong: Twin Peaks

Apr 25, 2025–Jan 20, 2026
SFMOMA Rooftopfree to see

KAWS
HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO

Nov 11, 2025–Jan 07, 2026
Floor 3Fisher Collection

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

Closing November 16
Floor 5

Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart

Sep 16, 2023–Nov 02, 2025
Floor 6

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

Closing September 28, 2025
Floor 3

Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting

Apr 26, 2025–Sep 14, 2025
Floor 4

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

Apr 05, 2025–Sep 02, 2025
Floor 6

Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love

June 22, 2024–Aug 10, 2025
Floor 3

Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography

Nov 23, 2024–July 13, 2025
Floor 4

New Work: Samson Young

Dec 21, 2024–June 22, 2025
Floor 3

Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection

May 10–30, 2025
Floor 2free to see

2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut

Dec 14, 2024–May 26, 2025
Floor 2

Unity through Skateboarding

Aug 17, 2024–May 04, 2025
Floor 2

Count Me In

Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2

When the World Is Watching

Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2, Koret Education Center free to see

Artcade

Oct 20, 2024–Mar 23, 2025
Floor 4

Amy Sherald: American Sublime

November 16, 2024–March 9, 2025
Floor 7

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture

Oct 19, 2024–Feb 18, 2025
Floor 3

Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit

Sep 28, 2024–Feb 09, 2025
Floor 1free to see

Wu Tsang: Of Whales

Dec 19, 2022–Jan 26, 2025
Floor 2

(Super)Natural: Paul Klee and Masako Miki

Aug 17, 2024–Jan 12, 2025
Floor 4

New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal

Mar 16, 2024–Oct 20, 2024
Floor 2

Creative Growth: The House That Art Built

Apr 06, 2024–Oct 06, 2024
Floor 2, Koret Education Centerfree to see

Wondering About Museums

December 7, 2023–Fall 2024
Floor 4

What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms

July 22, 2023–Sep 02, 2024
Floor 7

Art of Noise

May 4–August 18, 2024
Floor 3

Zanele Muholi: Eye Me

Jan 18, 2024–Aug 11, 2024
Floor 2

Chiura Obata

Dec 21, 2023–July 14, 2024
Floor 3

Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy

Aug 12, 2023–July 07, 2024
Floor 4

Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection

June 22–25
Floor 6

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love

Oct 14, 2023–May 28, 2024
Floor 3

Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection

Sep 02, 2023–Mar 17, 2024
Floor 7

Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

Nov 11, 2023–Mar 03, 2024
Floor 2

Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales

Aug 05, 2023–Feb 19, 2024
Floor 4

New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez

Sep 23, 2023–Jan 28, 2024
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
Floor 2

KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Apr 07, 2023–Jan 21, 2024
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
Floor 1

Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call

Mar 25, 2023–July 23, 2023
Floor 4

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy

Mar 25, 2023–July 16, 2023
Koret Education Center, Floor 2free to see

Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission

Oct 06, 2022–June 27, 2023
Floor 6

Conversation Pieces

Aug 20, 2022–June 25, 2023
Floor 6, City Gallery

Scrappy Chair Challenge

June 15, 2023–June 25, 2023
Floor 3

(a)way station

July 16, 2022–June 11, 2023
Floor 2

2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition

Dec 17, 2022–May 29, 2023
Floor 7

Julian Charrière: Erratic

Aug 06, 2022–May 14, 2023
Floor 4

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon

Apr 22, 2023–May 11, 2023
Floor 3

Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection

Aug 06, 2022–May 07, 2023
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
Floor 4

New Work: Toyin Ojih Odutola

Sep 03, 2022–Jan 22, 2023
Floor 4

Diego Rivera's America

July 16, 2022–Jan 03, 2023
Floor 5

Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor

Mar 19, 2021–Dec 11, 2022
Floor 2

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)

June 18, 2022–Nov 06, 2022
Floor 7

Speculative Portraits

Apr 09, 2022–Sep 05, 2022
Floor 7

Shifting the Silence

Apr 09, 2022–Sep 05, 2022
Floor 3

Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue

Nov 20, 2021–Aug 21, 2022
Floor 2

A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA

Mar 26, 2022–July 24, 2022
Koret Education Center, Floor 2

Center for Asian American Media: Representing Chinatown

March 24–June 30, 2022
Floor 2

Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican

Dec 18, 2021–June 26, 2022
Floor 3

Drawing the Line: Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Aug 21, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 4

New Work: Wu Tsang Presents Moved by the Motion

Oct 16, 2021–June 05, 2022
Floor 2

Art of California

May 22, 2021–May 29, 2022
Floor 4

Nature × Humanity

Feb 19, 2022–May 15, 2022
Haas, Jr. Atrium, Floor 1

Cars from the 2022 Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park

Apr 18, 2022–May 06, 2022
Floor 4

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z

Dec 18, 2021–May 01, 2022
Floor 6

Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

July 17, 2021–Mar 27, 2022
Floor 7

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Oct 02, 2021–Mar 06, 2022
Floor 2

One Day at a Time: Susan O’Malley and Leah Rosenberg

May 29, 2021–Mar 06, 2022
Floor 5

Joan Mitchell

Sep 04, 2021–Jan 17, 2022
Online and In-Person

Exhibition Reflections

October–December 2021
Floor 3

Diana Markosian: Santa Barbara

July 03, 2021–Dec 12, 2021
Floor 2

Lineage: Paul Klee and Ruth Asawa

July 10, 2021–Dec 05, 2021
Floor 4

Nam June Paik

May 08, 2021–Oct 03, 2021
Online

CROSSROADS Film Festival Highlight

September 1–30, 2021
Floor 4

New Work: Charles Gaines

Mar 06, 2021–Sep 12, 2021
Floor 3

Close to Home

Mar 06, 2021–Sep 05, 2021
Online

Dances for Camera: Merce Cunningham, Nam June Paik, John Sanborn

June–August 2021
Floor 3

Off the Wall

Mar 06, 2021–Aug 22, 2021
Floor 7

Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith

Oct 17, 2020–July 18, 2021
Floor 5Fisher Collection

Pop, Minimal, and Figurative Art

May 14, 2016–June 13, 2021
Floor 3Fisher Collection

Elemental Calder

Feb 16, 2019–June 06, 2021
Floor 3, Architecture + Design Gallery

Lebbeus Woods

Jan 18, 2020–May 09, 2021
Online

Assembly of Images

February–April 2021
Floor 4

David Park

October 4, 2020–January 18, 2021
Floor 2

David Park and His Circle

October 4, 2020–January 18, 2021
Online

No Time to Rest!

November 11-December 22, 2020
Floor 3

Thought Pieces

Jan 04, 2020–Nov 01, 2020
Floor 3

Dawoud Bey

Feb 15, 2020–Oct 12, 2020
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Printed Publics

Dec 07, 2019–Aug 31, 2020
Floor 4

New Work: Nevin Aladağ

Dec 07, 2019–Aug 23, 2020
Floor 5

Carol Bove and John Chamberlain

July 27, 2019–July 26, 2020
Floor 1, Roberts Family Gallery

JR

May 23, 2019 – August 2020
Floor 3

Elad Lassry

Jan 04, 2020–May 10, 2020
Floor 2, California Galleries

2019 SECA Art Award

November 16, 2019 - September 2020
Floors 4 and 7

SOFT POWER

Oct 26, 2019–Feb 17, 2020
Floor 7

Richard Mosse

Oct 26, 2019–Feb 17, 2020
Floor 4

On a Clear Day

July 18, 2019–Jan 27, 2020
Floor 6

Far Out

July 20, 2019–Jan 20, 2020
Floor 3

Stephen ESPO Powers

May 18, 2019–Jan 05, 2020
Floor 3

Signs and Wonders

Aug 31, 2019–Jan 05, 2020
Floor 3

Hannah Collins

Aug 31, 2019–Jan 05, 2020
Floor 3

April Dawn Alison

July 06, 2019–Dec 01, 2019
Floor 3

Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes

July 20, 2019–Dec 01, 2019
Floor 4

New Work: Erin Shirreff

July 20, 2019–Nov 10, 2019
Floor 2

Elise S. Haas

Aug 24, 2019–Oct 27, 2019
Floor 2

Mythos, Psyche, Eros

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–Sep 02, 2019
YBCA First Floor Galleries and SFMOMA Floor 7 and Haas Jr. Atrium

Suzanne Lacy

Apr 20, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Floor 3

snap+share

Mar 30, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Floor 7

Pat O'Neill

Apr 20, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Paul Klee and Anni Albers

Mar 23, 2019–Aug 04, 2019
Floor 5Fisher Collection

Louise Bourgeois Spiders

Oct 07, 2017–July 14, 2019
Floor 3

Johannes Brus

Oct 27, 2018–June 16, 2019
Floor 3

Louis Stettner

Oct 27, 2018–June 16, 2019
Floor 4

New Work: Rodney McMillian

Feb 09, 2019–June 09, 2019
Floor 6

The Sea Ranch

Dec 22, 2018–June 02, 2019
Floor 2

Wayne Thiebaud

Artist's Choice: September 29, 2018—March 17, 2019
Paintings and Drawings: September 29, 2018—April 28, 2019
Floor 3

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Feb 23, 2019–Apr 28, 2019
SFMOMA and San Francisco Public Library branches

Public Knowledge

Jan 25, 2019–Apr 28, 2019
Floor 4

Vija Celmins

Dec 15, 2018–Mar 31, 2019
Floor 2

Paul Klee and the Prinzhorn Collection

Sep 15, 2018–Mar 17, 2019
Floor 7

Art and China after 1989

Nov 10, 2018–Feb 24, 2019
Floor 3

Brassaï

Nov 17, 2018–Feb 18, 2019
Floor 3

Takenobu Igarashi

Dec 01, 2018–Feb 10, 2019
Floor 3Fisher Collection

Alexander Calder

Oct 21, 2017–Jan 13, 2019
Fisher Collection

Richard Artschwager

Dec 14, 2017–Jan 13, 2019
Floor 4

New Work: Etel Adnan

Sep 01, 2018–Jan 06, 2019
Floor 3

Mexico 68

Sep 08, 2018–Nov 25, 2018
Floor 6

Donald Judd

July 14, 2018–Nov 04, 2018
Floor 4

Rene Magritte

May 19, 2018–Oct 28, 2018
Floor 3

Susan Meiselas

July 21, 2018–Oct 21, 2018
Floor 3

Selves and Others

Mar 24, 2018–Oct 07, 2018
Floor 3

The Train

Mar 17, 2018–Sep 23, 2018
Floor 7

Jim Campbell

Mar 03, 2018–Sep 16, 2018
Floor 7

Sublime Seas

Mar 03, 2018–Sep 16, 2018
Floor 7

Nothing Stable Under Heaven

Mar 03, 2018–Sep 16, 2018
Floor 2

Paul Klee, Galka Scheyer, and the Blue Four

Mar 17, 2018–Sep 09, 2018
Floor 3

Stephen Frykholm

June 23, 2018–Sep 03, 2018
Floor 4

New Work

Mar 31, 2018–July 29, 2018
Floor 6

Designed in California

Jan 27, 2018–May 27, 2018
Robert Rauschenberg

Nov 18, 2017–Mar 25, 2018
Floor 2

Between Two Worlds

Aug 05, 2017–Mar 04, 2018
Floor 4

New Work

Oct 07, 2017–Feb 25, 2018
Walter De Maria

May 27, 2017–Feb 04, 2018
Walker Evans

Sep 30, 2017–Feb 04, 2018
Floor 3, Pritzker Center for Photography

Anthony Hernandez

Sep 24, 2016–Jan 02, 2018
Floor 7 and multiple locations throughout the museum

Soundtracks

July 15, 2017–Jan 01, 2018
Nam June Paik

June 02, 2017–Jan 01, 2018
Floor 5

Side by Side

June 17, 2017–Dec 03, 2017
Noguchi's Playscapes

July 15, 2017–Nov 26, 2017
Floor 3

Get With the Action

Sep 16, 2017–Nov 26, 2017
Floor 4

Edvard Munch

June 24, 2017–Oct 09, 2017
Floor 2

Paul Klee and Rex Ray

May 20, 2017–Oct 09, 2017
Alexander Calder

May 14, 2016–Oct 01, 2017
Floor 4

2017 SECA Art Award

July 15, 2017–Sep 17, 2017
British Sculptors

May 14, 2016–Sep 10, 2017
Floor 4

New Work

Apr 01, 2017–Aug 27, 2017
Floor 3

Mike Mandel

May 20, 2017–Aug 20, 2017
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Andrea Geyer

Feb 09, 2017–Aug 15, 2017
Floor 3

Bureau Spectacular

Feb 11, 2017–Aug 13, 2017
Floor 3

Larry Sultan

Apr 15, 2017–July 23, 2017
Matisse/Diebenkorn

Mar 11, 2017–May 29, 2017
Floor 6

Tomás Saraceno

Dec 17, 2016–May 21, 2017
Floor 2

Paul Klee at Play

Nov 05, 2016–May 14, 2017
Floor 2

Drawings from the Collection

Feb 11, 2017–May 14, 2017
Floor 3

diane arbus

Jan 21, 2017–Apr 30, 2017
Floor 7

A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions

Dec 10, 2016–Apr 02, 2017
Floor 7

Runa Islam

Dec 10, 2016–Apr 02, 2017
Floor 7

William Kentridge

Dec 10, 2016–Apr 02, 2017
Floor 3

Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now

Oct 15, 2016–Mar 12, 2017
Floor 2

The Campaign for Art

Sep 24, 2016–Jan 29, 2017
BRUCE CONNER

Oct 29, 2016–Jan 22, 2017
Floor 4

New Work

Nov 04, 2016–Jan 22, 2017
Model Behavior

May 14, 2016–Jan 16, 2017
Floor 2

Art of Northern California

May 14, 2016–Jan 08, 2017
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Remezcla Gráfica / Graphic Remix

Sep 16, 2016–Jan 08, 2017
Claudy Jongstra

May 14, 2016–Dec 04, 2016
Floor 7

Film as Place

May 14, 2016–Oct 30, 2016
Floor 6

Typeface to Interface

May 14, 2016–Oct 23, 2016
New Work

May 14, 2016–Oct 02, 2016
About Time

May 14, 2016–Sep 25, 2016
The Campaign for Art

May 14, 2016–Sep 18, 2016
Paul Klee in Color

May 14, 2016–Sep 11, 2016
Floor 3

California and the West

May 14, 2016–Sep 05, 2016
Floor 2, Koret Education Center

Learning to Love You More

May 14, 2016–Aug 21, 2016
At the Fort Mason Center for Arts + Culture, Gallery 308

Janet Cardiff

Nov 14, 2015–Jan 18, 2016
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA

May 08, 2015–Oct 11, 2015
Photography in Mexico

Apr 16, 2015–June 14, 2015
Doug Hall

Mar 28, 2015–June 06, 2015
California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock

The Provoke Era

Feb 28, 2015–May 16, 2015
Fertile Ground

Sep 20, 2014–Apr 12, 2015
Crocker Art Museum

The Provoke Era

Oct 01, 2014–Feb 01, 2015
Garry Winogrand

Mar 09, 2013–Jan 25, 2015
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

New Work

Sep 09, 2014–Dec 13, 2014
Gorgeous

June 20, 2014–Sep 14, 2014
Matisse from SFMOMA

Nov 09, 2013–Sep 07, 2014
Public Intimacy

Feb 21, 2014–June 29, 2014
Lebbeus Woods, Architect

Feb 16, 2013–June 15, 2014
Mark di Suvero at Crissy Field

May 22, 2013–May 26, 2014
Flesh and Metal

Nov 13, 2013–Mar 16, 2014
Project Los Altos

Nov 09, 2013–Mar 02, 2014
2012 SECA Art Award

Sep 14, 2013–Nov 17, 2013
Beyond Belief

June 28, 2013–Oct 27, 2013
Jay DeFeo

Nov 03, 2012–June 09, 2013
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back

Dec 08, 2012–June 02, 2013
The Elise S. Haas Bequest

Mar 23, 2013–June 02, 2013
New Work

Mar 09, 2013–June 02, 2013
Lynn Hershman Leeson

Mar 30, 2013–June 02, 2013
Christian Marclay

Apr 06, 2013–June 02, 2013
Ben Kinmont

Sep 01, 2012–May 12, 2013
Paul Klee's Circus

Oct 13, 2012–Mar 10, 2013
South Africa in Apartheid and After

Dec 01, 2012–Mar 05, 2013
New Work

Sep 28, 2012–Feb 18, 2013
Jasper Johns

Nov 03, 2012–Feb 03, 2013
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Nov 03, 2012–Feb 03, 2013
Field Conditions

Sep 01, 2012–Jan 06, 2013
Six Lines of Flight

Sep 15, 2012–Dec 31, 2012
Naoya Hatakeyama

July 28, 2012–Nov 04, 2012
Jim Campbell

Nov 05, 2011–Oct 23, 2012
Rineke Dijkstra

Feb 18, 2012–Oct 08, 2012
Stage Presence

July 14, 2012–Oct 08, 2012
New Work

Apr 13, 2012–Sep 09, 2012
ArtGameLab

Jan 15, 2012–Aug 12, 2012
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present

May 18, 2012–Aug 12, 2012
The Utopian Impulse

Mar 31, 2012–July 29, 2012
PARRA

Mar 31, 2012–July 29, 2012
Photography in Mexico

Mar 10, 2012–July 08, 2012
Mark Bradford

Feb 18, 2012–June 17, 2012
Descriptive Acts

Feb 18, 2012–June 17, 2012
Francesca Woodman

Nov 05, 2011–June 13, 2012
The Steins Collect

May 21, 2011–June 03, 2012
William Kentridge

Mar 14, 2009–May 27, 2012
New Work

Nov 18, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
2010 SECA Art Award

Dec 09, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art

Dec 09, 2011–Apr 03, 2012
The Air We Breathe

Nov 05, 2011–Feb 20, 2012
Face of Our Time

July 02, 2011–Feb 05, 2012
Sharon Lockhart

Oct 15, 2011–Jan 16, 2012
Exposed

May 28, 2010–Jan 08, 2012
Images in Dialogue

Aug 13, 2011–Jan 08, 2012
The More Things Change

Nov 20, 2010–Nov 06, 2011
Bill Fontana

Nov 20, 2010–Nov 06, 2011
New Work

July 08, 2011–Oct 30, 2011
Art in the Atrium

Feb 26, 2009–Oct 11, 2011
David Claerbout

May 21, 2011–Sep 06, 2011
ParaDesign

Feb 25, 2011–July 24, 2011
Tobias Wong

Feb 25, 2011–July 24, 2011
New Work

Feb 25, 2011–June 19, 2011
How Wine Became Modern

Nov 20, 2010–Apr 17, 2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Oct 30, 2010–Jan 30, 2011
75 Years of Looking Forward

Dec 19, 2009–Jan 16, 2011
New Work

Oct 22, 2010–Jan 16, 2011
New Topographics

July 17, 2010–Oct 03, 2010
New Work

July 07, 2010–Oct 03, 2010
Paul Klee

Mar 06, 2010–Aug 01, 2010
75 Years of Looking Forward

Nov 07, 2009–July 06, 2010
The View from Here

Jan 16, 2010–June 27, 2010
Long Play

Jan 16, 2010–May 23, 2010
75 Years of Looking Forward

Jan 16, 2010–May 23, 2010
Take your Time

Sep 08, 2007–Apr 11, 2010
Between Art and Life

May 10, 2009–Jan 03, 2010
Rooftop Garden Inaugural Exhibition

May 10, 2009–Dec 31, 2009
On View

Oct 01, 2009–Dec 20, 2009
Photography Now

Sep 12, 2009–Dec 20, 2009
The Provoke Era

Sep 12, 2009–Dec 20, 2009
Richard Avedon Photographs 1946 - 2004

July 11, 2009–Nov 29, 2009
Sensate

Aug 07, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
Paul Klee

Mar 07, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
Not New Work

July 25, 2009–Nov 08, 2009
The Studio Sessions

July 03, 2009–Sep 13, 2009
Patterns of Speculation

Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
Austere

Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
New Work

Mar 21, 2009–July 07, 2009
Otl Aicher

Feb 06, 2009–July 07, 2009
Brought to Light

Oct 11, 2008–May 24, 2009
2008 SECA Art Award

Feb 12, 2009–May 10, 2009
Face of Our Time

Jan 31, 2009–Apr 26, 2009
Paul Klee's Pedagogical Sketchbook

Sep 27, 2008–Mar 01, 2009
New Work

Nov 21, 2008–Mar 01, 2009
The Art of Participation

Nov 08, 2008–Feb 08, 2009
Martin Puryear

Nov 08, 2008–Jan 25, 2009
Passageworks

Oct 25, 2008–Jan 19, 2009
Double Down

Sep 18, 2008–Jan 04, 2009
246 and Counting

July 10, 2008–Jan 04, 2009
New Work

Aug 01, 2008–Nov 04, 2008
A Rooftop Garden for SFMOMA

Apr 03, 2008–Oct 26, 2008
Half-Life of a Dream

July 10, 2008–Oct 05, 2008
Room for Thought

July 10, 2008–Oct 05, 2008
Floor 4

Frida Kahlo

June 14, 2008–Sep 28, 2008
New Work

Mar 28, 2008–June 22, 2008
Gabriele Basilico

Jan 26, 2008–June 15, 2008
Cut

Feb 08, 2008–June 08, 2008
In Collaboration

Mar 22, 2008–June 08, 2008
Friedlander

Feb 23, 2008–May 18, 2008
An-My Lê

Jan 26, 2008–May 04, 2008
Abstract Rhythms

Sep 15, 2007–Apr 13, 2008
New Work 10 Lucy McKenzie

Nov 09, 2007–Feb 24, 2008
Douglas Gordon

Oct 27, 2007–Feb 24, 2008
Jeff Wall

Oct 27, 2007–Jan 27, 2008
Your tempo

Sep 08, 2007–Jan 13, 2008
Shomei Tomatsu

May 13, 2006–Oct 15, 2007
Project, Transform, Erase

June 09, 2007–Sep 30, 2007
New Work

June 29, 2007–Sep 30, 2007
Martin Munkacsi

May 12, 2007–Sep 16, 2007
California College of the Arts at 100

Mar 23, 2007–Aug 26, 2007
A Hidden Picasso

Feb 23, 2007–July 31, 2007
The Art of Richard Tuttle

July 02, 2005–June 25, 2007
Brice Marden

Feb 23, 2007–May 13, 2007
New Work

Feb 23, 2007–May 13, 2007
Henry Wessel

Jan 27, 2007–Apr 22, 2007
2006 SECA Art Award

Jan 27, 2007–Apr 22, 2007
Paul Klee

Oct 14, 2006–Apr 01, 2007
Alexander Girard

Oct 14, 2006–Feb 25, 2007
Charged Space

Oct 20, 2006–Jan 21, 2007
Anselm Kiefer

Oct 20, 2006–Jan 21, 2007
New Work

Sep 16, 2006–Jan 21, 2007
Imposing Order

Sep 02, 2006–Jan 02, 2007
Mexico as Muse

Sep 02, 2006–Jan 02, 2007
Chuck Close

Nov 19, 2005–Oct 22, 2006
Diane Arbus Revelations

Oct 25, 2003–Oct 08, 2006
Matthew Barney

June 23, 2006–Sep 17, 2006
New Work 6

Apr 21, 2006–Sep 05, 2006
Robert Bechtle

Feb 12, 2005–June 04, 2006
Double Feature

Nov 10, 2005–May 21, 2006
Beyond Real

Mar 23, 2006–May 21, 2006
The Surreal Calder

Mar 03, 2006–May 21, 2006
Richard Long

Jan 21, 2006–Apr 30, 2006
New Work

Dec 16, 2005–Apr 02, 2006
Todd Eberle

Dec 16, 2005–Mar 07, 2006
Kiki Smith

Nov 19, 2005–Jan 29, 2006
Robert Adams

Sep 29, 2005–Jan 03, 2006
New Work

Aug 12, 2005–Nov 27, 2005
2x4/design series 3

May 13, 2005–Nov 27, 2005
Jeremy Blake

Feb 19, 2005–Oct 10, 2005
Taking Place

June 02, 2005–Sep 06, 2005
New Work

Apr 01, 2005–July 24, 2005
New Work

Nov 12, 2004–June 13, 2005
2004 SECA Art Award

Jan 22, 2005–May 15, 2005
John Szarkowski

Feb 05, 2005–May 15, 2005
Belles Lettres

Oct 30, 2004–Apr 17, 2005
Roy Lichtenstein

Oct 23, 2004–Feb 22, 2005
Glamour

Oct 09, 2004–Jan 17, 2005
William Eggleston

Aug 21, 2004–Jan 04, 2005
New Work

July 01, 2004–Oct 24, 2004
Pop! From San Francisco Collections

Mar 06, 2004–Sep 19, 2004
Stir Heart, Rinse Heart/ Pipilotti Rist

Mar 06, 2004–Sep 12, 2004
Larry Sultan

May 08, 2004–Aug 01, 2004
Supernova

Dec 13, 2003–May 23, 2004
The Art of Romare Bearden

Feb 07, 2004–May 16, 2004
Pirkle Jones and the Changing California Landscape

Dec 20, 2003–Apr 18, 2004
Dreaming in Pictures

Aug 03, 2002–Jan 11, 2004
Primary Matters

Nov 08, 2003–Jan 11, 2004
Marc Chagall

July 26, 2003–Nov 04, 2003
2002 SECA Art Award

Mar 20, 2003–Aug 10, 2003
Treasures of Modern Art

Jan 30, 2003–June 24, 2003
No Ghost Just A Shell

Dec 14, 2002–Mar 23, 2003
Eva Hesse

Feb 02, 2002–Mar 09, 2003
Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco

July 13, 2002–Jan 05, 2003
Perfect Acts of Architecture

Mar 02, 2002–June 18, 2002
Points of Departure II

Nov 17, 2001–June 09, 2002
Ansel Adams at 100

Aug 04, 2001–Jan 13, 2002
Stranger Passing

July 06, 2001–Oct 02, 2001
010101

Mar 03, 2001–July 08, 2001
2000 SECA Art Award

Feb 02, 2001–June 12, 2001
Daido Moriyama

May 14, 1999–Apr 30, 2001
Celebrating Modern Art

Oct 07, 2000–Feb 04, 2001
Robert Gober

June 09, 2000–Sep 05, 2000
Of the Moment

June 30, 2000–Aug 29, 2000
Jasper Johns

Sep 16, 1999–Aug 13, 2000
New Work

Jan 22, 1999–July 30, 2000
Sol LeWitt

Feb 19, 2000–May 30, 2000
Carleton Watkins

May 28, 1999–Apr 30, 2000
William Gedney

Jan 21, 2000–Mar 31, 2000
New Work

Dec 17, 1999–Mar 28, 2000
Inside Out

Feb 26, 1999–Mar 07, 2000
Far Out

Nov 12, 1999–Feb 20, 2000
Seeing Time

Oct 15, 1999–Jan 09, 2000
Degas to Picasso

Oct 02, 1999–Jan 02, 2000
Bill Viola

June 25, 1999–Sep 12, 1999
New Work

Feb 18, 1999–Apr 27, 1999
Looking at Ourselves

Jan 09, 1999–Apr 20, 1999
New Work

Oct 23, 1998–Jan 12, 1999
A Portrait of Our Times

Sep 29, 1998–Jan 10, 1999
Snapshots

May 22, 1998–Sep 08, 1998
Keith Haring

May 08, 1998–Sep 08, 1998
Art from Around the Bay

Apr 16, 1998–July 28, 1998
Sargent Johnson

Mar 13, 1998–July 07, 1998
Steve McQueen

Feb 27, 1998–May 12, 1998
New Work

Feb 13, 1998–May 05, 1998
Fabrications

Feb 06, 1998–Apr 28, 1998
Constructed Landscapes

Dec 19, 1997–Mar 10, 1998
Present Tense

Sep 13, 1997–Jan 31, 1998
New Work

Oct 10, 1997–Jan 27, 1998
New Work

Nov 05, 1987–Jan 10, 1998
ICONS

Apr 18, 1997–Aug 05, 1997
Centering the Civic

Mar 14, 1997–July 16, 1997
New Work

Jan 17, 1997–June 03, 1997
New Work

Feb 14, 1997–May 13, 1997
Glenn Ligon

May 23, 1996–Aug 25, 1996
Richard Hamilton

Feb 22, 1996–May 05, 1996
Andrea Zittel

Nov 09, 1995–Feb 04, 1996
New Work

Mar 03, 1994–May 15, 1994
New Work

Sep 16, 1993–Nov 28, 1993
New Work

Apr 29, 1993–July 25, 1993
New Work

Feb 25, 1993–Apr 11, 1993
New Work

Feb 20, 1992–Apr 19, 1992
New Work

Dec 12, 1991–Jan 30, 1992
New Work: Robert Bechtle

Sep 10, 1991–Dec 01, 1991
New Work

June 13, 1991–Aug 25, 1991
New Work

May 23, 1991–July 14, 1991
New Work

Jan 17, 1991–Mar 10, 1991
New Work

Sep 19, 1990–Nov 04, 1990
New Work

May 03, 1990–June 24, 1990
New Work

Feb 22, 1990–Apr 22, 1990
New Work

Dec 21, 1989–Feb 11, 1990
New Work

Oct 12, 1989–Dec 10, 1989
New Work

July 06, 1989–Sep 03, 1989
New Work

May 04, 1989–June 25, 1989
New Work

Feb 07, 1989–Mar 26, 1989
New Work

Nov 30, 1988–Jan 29, 1989
New Work

Sep 14, 1988–Nov 13, 1988
New Work

June 23, 1988–Aug 21, 1988
New Work

Apr 13, 1988–June 12, 1988
New Work

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

June 14, 1962–July 15, 1962

Past Exhibitions

Your museum. Your community. Your connection.

List of Exhibitions

Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess)

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

KAWS: FAMILY

(Re)Constructing History

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

Alexander Calder

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction

German Art After 1960

Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections

Al Wong: Twin Peaks

KAWSHOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO

Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony

Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart

Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors

Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective

Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love

Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography

New Work: Samson Young

Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection

2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut

Unity through Skateboarding

Count Me In

When the World Is Watching

Artcade

Amy Sherald: American Sublime

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture

Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit

Wu Tsang: Of Whales

(Super)Natural: Paul Klee and Masako Miki

New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal

Creative Growth: The House That Art Built

Wondering About Museums

What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms

Art of Noise

Zanele Muholi: Eye Me

Chiura Obata

Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy

Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love

Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection

Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear

Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales

New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez

Pacita Abad

Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera

KLEE + BSS Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Hung Liu: Witness

Kinship: Photography and Connection

Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966–1975

Corporeal

Janet Cardiff: The Telephone Call

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy

Acción Latina: The ’80s Matter in the Mission

Conversation Pieces

Scrappy Chair Challenge

(a)way station

2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition

Julian Charrière: Erratic

Sadie Barnette: The New Eagle Creek Saloon

Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection

Bernd & Hilla Becher

Joan Brown

Mythic Constructions: Carlos Mérida and Paul Klee

New Work: Toyin Ojih Odutola

Diego Rivera's America

Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor

Amalia Mesa-Bains: Venus Envy, Chapter I and Madrinas y Hermanas (Godmothers and Sisters)

Speculative Portraits

KAWS
HOLIDAY: SAN FRANCISCO

KLEE + BSS
Paul Klee and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon