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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 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,”...
“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...
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...
General public tickets now on sale! Become a member to enjoy early access, members-only hours, and free tickets. Experience the moment Matisse used color to break the rules of modern art. In 1905, Henri Matisse sent shockwaves through the art world with Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), a...
“Sculpture has become . . . an aerial act,” wrote an enthusiastic critic in 1929 about the work of Alexander Calder. Although this observation was prompted by Calder’s early, figurative wire sculptures, it could just as well describe the hanging “mobiles” the artist created in the early 1930s. In...
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...
Between 1962 and 1972, San Francisco–based designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon created a series of brochures for SFMOMA programs including a Paul Klee exhibition. Klee's drawings and graphic works, like her own, overlay multiple systems of meaning into visual and written forms. In conversation...
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit presents the first West Coast retrospective on the work of this critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. A bicoastal artist between San Francisco and New York, Consuelo Kanaga was one of the first women to become a staff photojournalist..
Skateboarding has always been about more than tricks and competitions. It is a culture rooted in rebellion, creativity, style, and the pursuit of freedom. This exhibition, curated by Jeffrey Cheung and Gabriel Ramirez, founders of the skate collective Unity, celebrates the dreams and realities of...
Every two years, SFMOMA celebrates Bay Area artists and our creative community with the SECA Art Award. Established in 1967, the award has honored nearly one hundred local recipients with an exhibition and platform for expanding their practices and sharing their work with new audiences. The 2024...
Episode Two This exhibition brings together an evolving body of contemporary works from the museum’s collection that addresses questions about life and art. These quiet works propose celebration, mourning, and transcendence. Together, they initiate a stimulating composition about life and freedom...
The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must is an installation by Leah Rosenberg that reflects on the impulse — or imperative — of artists to reimagine the everyday as the extraordinary. The installation borrows inspiration and objects from SFMOMA’s Artist Materials Collection, an archive compiled.
Picture the last time music moved you. Imagine how the sound was amplified. Think about what initially drew you to that album cover or concert poster. How did design shape your experience? Explore this question with us in Art of Noise. This exhibition is a multi-sensory ode to how design has...
Conversation Pieces: Contemporary Furniture in Dialogue assembles 45 works of contemporary furniture that spark dialogue by prioritizing concept over function. All works in the exhibition might be considered postindustrial, addressing concerns about mid-twentieth-century mass production by...
This presentation will feature a series of monographic galleries dedicated to 14 artists whose works reflect a variety of mediums, styles and approaches, from abstraction to figuration and from gesture to geometry. Among the featured artists are Dan Flavin, Philip Guston, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes...
For this exhibition, Bay Area artist Masako Miki selected seventeen paintings, prints, and drawings by Paul Klee in SFMOMA’s collection to be shown in dialogue with her own large-scale watercolor landscape, Hyakki Yagyo, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons — Beginning of Another Life with Ruby...
Over her sixty-year practice, Mary Lovelace O’Neal has experimented with materials, color, and the discursive relationship between abstraction and figuration. Her paintings allude to a vast mythology of personal and shared narratives, from her beloved dachshund Tillie to her involvement in the...
Imagine a dinner party with your six favorite artists. Table Manners brings together tableware, flatware, and drinkware from the SFMOMA Architecture + Design collection spanning nearly 100 years. The exhibition celebrates the ways design has shaped our relationship to food, our bodies, and...
Yuri Suzuki’s Arborhythm invites you to sit and stay awhile, taking in a soothing soundtrack of San Francisco’s natural and urban sounds. This experiential artwork was commissioned in concert with the exhibition Art of Noise. The treelike speakers (that inspired the artwork’s title) play a...
Rose B. Simpson’s Behold stands 24 feet tall and features two figures majestically presiding over the museum’s façade — a parent and child attached together at the hip and connected by beaded necklaces and an ornamental ladder. Rather than commemorating individuals, the sculpture honors...
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...