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What’s On

Floor 7closing soon
Art of Noise
A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.
May 4–August 18, 2024
Floor 3closing soon
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 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.
Closing Oct 06, 2024
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing 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 4
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms
Contemporary collection works that contemplate how to live with intention.
Closing 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 4
New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Mar 16, 2024–Oct 20, 2024
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 1
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–Spring 2026
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–May 2025
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
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
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
Closing January 20, 2025
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 3
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
A retrospective exhibition that charts the artist’s vision, which spans pathbreaking photojournalism, modernist still lifes, and celebrated portraits of Black Americans.
Opening Sept 28, 2024
Floor 7
Get in the Game
Get in the Game explores how athleticism, competition, and play have shaped our world and influenced contemporary art and design.
October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025
Member Previews: October 17–19
Floor 4
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
The largest presentation of Amy Sherald’s work to date, bringing together more than 45 paintings from her poetic early portraits to the incisive, moving figure paintings for which she is best known.
November 16, 2024–March 9, 2025
Member Previews November 14–16
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
Sept 02, 2023–Mar 17, 2024
Floor 7
Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release
Closing March 3, 2024
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
Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales
Aug 05, 2023–Feb 19, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Sept 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
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–Sept 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.