What’s On View

Floor 4
KAWS: FAMILY
Explore the family of 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 3
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
Explore Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s transformations of everyday objects into giant sculptures and urban monuments.
New Exhibition: Opened Dec 20
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 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 4closing soon
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
Jan 01, 2018–Jan 25, 2026
Floor 6closing soon
German Art After 1960
Jan 01, 2018–Jan 25, 2026
Two people sit on a bench observing Gerhard Richter's artwork 256 Farben (256 Colors) in the SFMOMA gallery for German art.
Floor 5closing soon
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Oct 15, 2022–Jan 25, 2026
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
Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules
Nov 22, 2025–Apr 19, 2026
Floor 2
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE
August 23, 2025–April 2026
Floor 3
(Re)Constructing History
Oct 04, 2025–Apr 30, 2026
Floor 1free to see
Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 01, 2024–June 01, 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 1closing soonfree to see
Al Wong: Twin Peaks
Apr 25, 2025–Jan 20, 2026
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.
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 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Temporary Closure — Reopens January 17, 2026

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Floor 4, Outdoor Terrace
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
This major SFMOMA commission by renowned Santa Clara Pueblo and mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson features a monumental 24-foot outdoor sculpture.
Opening Jan 17, 2026
Floor 1free to see
Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings
Pioneering digital artist Samia Halaby explores the visual language of abstraction in these colorful kinetic paintings.
Opening Jan 24, 2026
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
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