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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..
A prolific painter and pioneer in digital art, Samia Halaby has been exploring the visual language of abstraction for over six decades. The artist’s dynamic painting compositions investigate how we perceive the moving world through the interplay of textures, surfaces, color, and light. This...
ENGLISHESPAÑOL Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules is the first major retrospective of the acclaimed photographer, bringing together over two decades of his work through an expansive multi-series presentation. Born in the Dominican Republic and based in Monterrey, Mexico, Cartagena explores pressing..
This exhibition is the first US survey of the work of Kunié Sugiura, an artist whose boundary-defying engagement with the photographic medium spans over sixty years. Born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, Sugiura came to the United States in 1963 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,...
A self-described visual activist, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) uses the camera to explore issues of gender identity, representation, and race. Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence..
Dance and photography operate on different temporal planes. One unfolds over time through fluid movement, whereas the other freezes that motion in a single, suspended frame. Something electric happens when these two art forms merge. Since the early 20th century, photographers have been drawn to...
ENGLISHFILIPINO Experience vibrant works by a daring artist who traveled the world.The first retrospective of Pacita Abad (born 1946, Basco, Philippines; died 2004, Singapore) features more than 40 works including her signature trapunto paintings: stuffed, quilted canvases Abad adorned with...
Widely recognized for his singular approach towards sound and new technologies, Samson Young (born 1979, Hong Kong; based in Hong Kong) utilizes performance, video, and installation to rigorously examine the cultural, political, and historical contexts of sound. Samson Young’s first West Coast solo.
Chinese-born artist Hung Liu (1948–2021) created richly layered portraits and installations that interweave memory and history. This exhibition features works from SFMOMA’s collection, from her most significant paintings made in China during the tumult of the Cultural Revolution between 1966–76 to..
A museum can be a gathering place, a laboratory, a classroom, and more. In the latest installation of our Koret Education Center, we invite you to learn about museums with us — pull up a chair and read a book or build your museum vocabulary. Take in artist and educator Eduardo Pineda’s exciting new.
Writing functions not only as language, but also as a visual and even tactile form. Famed artist and educator Josef Albers imparted this idea to his students at Black Mountain College, a former liberal arts school in North Carolina, where artist Ray Johnson studied from 1945 to 1948. In an exercise.
“The artist known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor is showing how much else she can do.” — The New York Times Amy Sherald: American Sublime invites you to breathe. Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary...
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...
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...
“The viewer…should enter my work through their own eyes, and their own lives.” — Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear is the most comprehensive exhibition of the influential artist’s work to date, charting the development of his practice from the 1980s through the...
(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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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.