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The thirty-six-foot-tall (11m) inflatable sculpture on SFMOMA’s rooftop is the fourteenth iteration of KAWS’s HOLIDAY project. Launched in 2018, HOLIDAY brings the artist’s popular characters at monumental scale to some of the World’s most iconic sites, from the foot of Mount Fuji, to ancient...
How can we remember a bird call, a painting, or even a monument that does not exist yet? In Alexandra Pirici’s live performative artwork Re-collection (2018–24), real and fictional references of lifeforms, artworks, songs, poetry, events, and sensations are remembered, combined, and recombined to...
Fernando Palma Rodríguez brings the New Work gallery to life in Macuil Xochitl (5-flower), a kinetic installation that recalls a Mesoamerican creation story enacted by a series of newly made mechatronic sculptures that blend mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. In...
Take Part in Building a New Chapter with Us Join us in this legacy for our communities and for generations to come. Be part of this historic monument in the heart of Yerba Buena Arts District in San F
KAWS: FAMILY explores the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings,...
Alexander Calder, Ellsworth Kelly, and Sol LeWitt are the three artists whose work Doris and Donald Fisher collected in the greatest depth, providing SFMOMA with a singular opportunity to present focused surveys of their work. Floor 5 is dedicated to the innovations of these three enduringly...
Art about athletes? Check. Art created by athletes? You bet. Football helmet design from the 1920s to today? Yep. Opportunities to play artworks, including a 22-person foosball table? Absolutely! At its heart, Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture offers a collection of stories that show how sports.
Creative Growth: The House That Art Built celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the first organization in the United States dedicated to supporting artists with developmental disabilities. Today, more than 140 artists work at the organization, using every medium, from painting and drawing to...
Experience Al Wong’s 1977 film Twin Peaks in the museum’s Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium, presented for the first time on a digital LED screen. A masterpiece of subtle shifts in light and tone, the film takes the idea of an endless journey as its form: The camera is set inside a Volkswagen bus..
Experience the kaleidoscopic world of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most iconic and globally celebrated artists working today. Kusama’s Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023), welcomes the viewer into a universe of multicolored light. At first, the exterior of this sculptural work..
(Re)Constructing History embraces the possibility for photographs to both record an instant and capture the history embedded within the present. Borrowing its title from artist Carrie Mae Weems's featured series, Constructing History, this installation invites audiences to imagine the layers of...
"For me, there was no use having such a big platform if I wasn’t going to use it for good." — Megan Rapinoe, pro soccer player 2009–23 Major international competitions where athletes compete as members of a national team are highly anticipated and widely watched media events. Such tournaments...
Explore the work of Chiura Obata, one of California’s most important twentieth-century artists. In this exhibition, forty jewel-like watercolors, woodblock prints, and ink paintings trace Obata’s long, influential career as a Bay Area artist and professor. Obata was a Japanese émigré who arrived in.
Conversations at a party in Oakland in 1932 changed the history of photography. At that gathering, several now-iconic Bay Area figures — including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston — banded together to form Group f.64, a collective dedicated to “true” photography and the rejection...
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious by Kara E-Walker Kara Walker has long been recognized for her incisive examinations of the.
Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy reimagines the future of a Detroit city block in an installation of architectural drawings, models, and collages. Approaching urban design through a conceptual, multidisciplinary lens, Marshall Brown considers the possibilities of architecture to...
For Yayoi Kusama, pumpkins have been a lifelong source of fascination. She was first drawn to them in childhood, citing their “generous unpretentiousness” and “spiritual balance,” and has explored them continually in her painting, sculpture, installation art, and poetry. They first appeared in her..
Curated by RM. Only at SFMOMA. See what inspires the voice of a generation. RM x SFMOMA will be the first-ever museum exhibition featuring artworks from the personal collection of RM of BTS, a defining force in global pop. The exhibition brings together 200 works from the collections of RM and...
This floor will feature artists whose work engages with memory and history. At the heart of this installation are galleries dedicated to artists Anselm Kiefer and William Kentridge, whose works use materials and processes to examine the psychic and physical legacies of nationalism and colonialism...
How can we remember a bird call, a painting, or even a monument that does not exist yet? In Alexandra Pirici’s live performative artwork Re-collection (2018–24), real and fictional references of lifeforms, artworks, songs, poetry, and sensations are remembered, combined, and recombined to be given..
For over three decades, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen made the everyday unfamiliar by transforming common, often domestic, objects — a clothespin, a flashlight, an ice cream cone, a box of matches — into giant urban sculptures. Between 1976 and 2009, the husband-and-wife team created more..
Olafur Eliasson’s One-way colour tunnel (2007) invites visitors into a dazzling arched walkway of prismatic color. Move through the suspended passage to experience fluctuating, vibrant hues refracted through triangular glass and acrylic panels. With this sensory experience, Eliasson encourages us...
For over six decades, Suzanne Jackson has created lyrical, awe-inspiring paintings influenced by her deep respect for the natural world and continual belief in the connection between all living things. Jackson’s life has been driven by a search for creative freedom and a bohemian spirit indebted to.
For nearly seven decades, Sheila Hicks has created groundbreaking works that redefine the expressive possibilities of fiber as a sculptural form. Based in Paris since 1964, she incorporates natural and synthetic materials at a range of scales from intimate weavings made on handheld frames to...
This permanent collection exhibition explores how photography registers change, bearing witness to cultural, political, and environmental shifts across time. Presented as a suite of eight transhistorical thematic and monographic galleries, Sea Change approaches the topic of change from various...
What can artificial intelligence (AI) teach us about drag? And what can drag teach us about AI? Media artist Jake Elwes explores these questions in the video installation Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess) to critically examine the complex human and social realities...
Exploring moments from the rich history of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) — before its closure, the West Coast’s oldest fine art school — this exhibition spotlights works by more than 50 SFAI alumni and former faculty included in the museum’s collection. The presentation underscores the...
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” — Retired baseball pitcher Vernon Law, baseball player The artworks in this gallery showcase the deep desire among athletes (and artists) to participate in games that prove — to rivals and spectators,...
In this large-scale commission for SFMOMA’s lobby, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon (b. 1928) connects the striped motif of the museum’s 1996 Mario Botta–designed building with the open space of the 2016 expansion designed by Snøhetta. Strips of Stripes is the newest of her signature “supergraphics,”...