Floor 4closing soon
Amy Sherald: American Sublime
Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary portraitists.
Closing March 9
Floor 2free to see
2024 SECA Art Award: Rose D'Amato, Angela Hennessy, Rupy C. Tut
The 2024 SECA Art Award 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.
Closing May 26, 2025
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.
Closing June 22, 2025
Floor 3
Around Group f.64: Legacies and Counterhistories in Bay Area Photography
Using work by members of Group f64 as a nexus, this exhibition explores various histories of Bay Area photography from the 1910s to the present.
November 23, 2024–July 2025
Floor 6
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
An atmospheric video installation of artist Ragnar Kjartansson and his musician friends performing in a historic mansion.
Closing Sept 28, 2025
Floor 2
When the World Is Watching
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
Count Me In
Aug 17, 2024–Apr 27, 2025
Floor 2
Unity through Skateboarding
Aug 17, 2024–May 04, 2025
Floor 5
Afterimages: Echoes of the 1960s from the Fisher and SFMOMA Collections
Ongoing
Floor 6
Yayoi Kusama: Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love
June 22, 2024–Fall 2025
Various
Bay Area Walls
Ongoing
Floor 1free to see
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
July 1, 2024–Spring 2026
Floor 3
Table Manners
September 14, 2024–May 2026
Floor 3
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Ongoing
Floor 2
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection
Ongoing
Floor 4
Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction
Ongoing
Floor 6
German Art After 1960
Ongoing
Installations and Special Projects
Floor 2, Helen and Charles Schwab Hallfree to see
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes
Ongoing
Floor 5
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel
Ongoing
Howard Street Entrancefree to see
Arborhythm
Ongoing
Floor 5
Yayoi Kusama: Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
September 16, 2023–Fall 2025
Floor 1free to see
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)
Ongoing
Floor 2, Koret Education Center closing soonfree to see
Artcade
Oct 20, 2024–Mar 23, 2025
Floor 4
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Discover Ruth Asawa's extraordinary experimental vision and how San Francisco became the center of her creative universe in the most expansive exhibition of the artist's work to date.
April 5–Sept 2, 2025
Member Previews: April 4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. + April 5–6, 10 a.m.–Noon
Member Previews: April 4, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. + April 5–6, 10 a.m.–Noon
Floor 3
Kunié Sugiura: Photopainting
Photography and painting unite in Kunié Sugiura's dynamic hybrid forms.
Opening Apr 26, 2025
Upcoming Events
Artist Talk
CANCELED — Amy Sherald and W. Kamau Bell in Conversation
Thursday, February 27, 2025 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Artist Talk: Rupy C. Tut
Saturday, March 1, 2025 10:30–11 a.m.
SF Music Week Performance
Free Live Jazz Concert ft. Heavy Arts Ensemble
Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 3–4:15 p.m.
New Work
Sherrie Levine
Jan 17, 1991–Mar 10, 1991
New Work
Dawn Fryling
Sept 19, 1990–Nov 04, 1990
New Work
Georg Herold
May 03, 1990–June 24, 1990
New Work
A New Generation
Feb 22, 1990–Apr 22, 1990
New Work
Moira Dryer
Dec 21, 1989–Feb 11, 1990
New Work
Rick Arnitz
Oct 12, 1989–Dec 10, 1989
New Work
Christopher Wool
July 06, 1989–Sept 03, 1989
New Work
Günther Förg
May 04, 1989–June 25, 1989
New Work
Sabina Ott
Feb 07, 1989–Mar 26, 1989
New Work
Don Van Vliet
Nov 30, 1988–Jan 29, 1989
New Work
Elizabeth Murray
Sept 14, 1988–Nov 13, 1988
New Work
Jill Giegerich
June 23, 1988–Aug 21, 1988
New Work
Ross Bleckner
Apr 13, 1988–June 12, 1988
New Work
Robert Ryman
Jan 14, 1988–Mar 13, 1988
84th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute
Aug 13, 1965–Sept 12, 1965
The Arts of San Francisco
Architecture
June 14, 1962–July 15, 1962