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Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and artist Raven Chacon brings Diné worldviews into his sonic and visual practice to amplify Indigenous voices and sovereignty. For his first West Coast solo exhibition, the artist takes museum visitors on a journey through the vast landscapes of Navajo Nation. In...
SFMOMA brings media artist Jennifer Steinkamp's digital artwork It’s a nice day for a white wedding. (2008) to San Francisco's Market Street as part of Yerba Buena Illuminated. This program by Yerba Buena Partnership presents open-air projections within Yerba Buena neighborhood to activate the...
Paul Klee stood at the forefront of a growing fascination with the mask at the turn of the twentieth century. As artists in Klee’s circles sought alternatives to realistic representations and stable notions of identity, the mask emerged as a versatile form linking ancient ritual, modern psychology,.
Sarah Sze's Forever is Composed of Nows transforms SFMOMA’s Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium into a shifting landscape where light, sound, and movement intertwine. Inspired by the ephemerality of images, the fragility of nature, and the passage of time, this site-specific, multisensory commission.
The retrospective Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds spans more than five decades of work by the celebrated photographer, exploring her poetic commitment to finding the extraordinary in the everyday. Iturbide’s lyrical photographs reflect a vast spectrum of life in her home country of Mexico,...
In 1905, Henri Matisse sent shockwaves through the art world with Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), a portrait of his wife, Amélie, painted in bold color and loose brushstrokes that defied convention. This exhibition traces the painting's controversial history and explores its lasting impact on..
While this presentation of works by Yayoi Kusama has closed, visitors to the museum can still see Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love (2023) on view on Floor 6 through May 2025. Enter an unforgettable universe of luminous color and endless reflections, only at SFMOMA! Experience...
“Wonderfully unrushed, materially evocative meditation on lowrider aesthetics.” –KQED In this collaborative exhibition, artists Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales engage the visual language of lowriders and explore cruising as a practice of resistance and community visibility. From...
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,”...
"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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ENGLISH日本語 This first posthumous retrospective presents the full range of Ruth Asawa’s work and its inspirations over six decades of her career. As an artist, Asawa forged a groundbreaking practice through her ceaseless exploration of materials and forms. As an educator and civic leader, Asawa’s...
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.
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 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..
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..
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...
General public tickets and the Encore Pass are now on sale! Plenty of tickets remain for weekends between October 31 and February 7, as well as weekdays throughout the exhibition run. RM x SFMOMA will be the first-ever museum exhibition featuring artworks from the personal collection of RM...
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..
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...
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.
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...
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.
"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...
(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...
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..