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What’s On

Floor 7
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture explores how athleticism, competition, and play have shaped our world and influenced contemporary art and design.
Closing Feb 18, 2025
A painting depicting fans reactions to a bat flying into the stands based on a photograph taken at a baseball game between the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians .
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
A painting of two people embracing and kissing, both with dark skin and dressed as sailors, set against a vibrant blue background.
Floor 3
Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
This retrospective exhibition charts the artist’s vision, which spans pathbreaking photojournalism, modernist still lifes, and celebrated portraits of Black Americans.
Closing Feb 09, 2025
Floor 1free to see
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
Explore the wonder of Kara Walker’s garden of automatons set amidst an energy field of gleaming black obsidian.
July 1, 2024–Spring 2026
Floor 2
Unity through Skateboarding
Celebrate the dreams and realities of queer, trans, BIPOC, and women skaters as well as the diverse communities that have shaped the sport.
Closing May 04, 2025
Floor 3
Table Manners
September 14, 2024–May 2025
Floor 2
When the World Is Watching
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
(Super)Natural: Paul Klee and Masako Miki
Aug 17, 2024–Jan 12, 2025
Floor 2
Count Me In
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–May 2025
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Nov 05, 2022–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 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 2, Koret Education Center
Artcade
Oct 20, 2024–Mar 23, 2025
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
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–Fall 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 2
2024 SECA Art Award Exhibition
The 2024 SECA Art Award exhibition celebrates Rose D’Amato, Angela Hennessy, and Rupy C. Tut. Each artist has conceived a gallery with new works that bring distinct perspectives, processes, and materials into the museum.
Opening Dec 14, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Samson Young
Wander in Samson Young’s installation of sculptures, videos, and a mesmerizing soundscape — a poetic exploration of the rhythms of love, attention, and memory.
Opening Dec 21, 2024
Floor 4
New Work: Mary Lovelace O’Neal
Mar 16, 2024–Oct 20, 2024
Floor 2
Creative Growth: The House That Art Built
Apr 06, 2024–Oct 06, 2024
Floor 2, Koret Education Centerfree to see
Wondering About Museums
December 7, 2023–Fall 2024
Floor 4
What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms
July 22, 2023–Sept 02, 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 7
Art of Noise
May 4–August 18, 2024
Floor 3
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
Jan 18, 2024–Aug 11, 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 7
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
Nov 11, 2023–Mar 03, 2024
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