SF Exhibitions
54 exhibitions on view now & coming soon

Justin Wong
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Ending soonCarry-On by Justin Wong

George Kuchar (far left) teaching filmmaking in Studio 8, ca. 1978; photo: David Hallinger, courtesy SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

Miguel Arzabe (American, b. 1975). Te Quiero Inti (detail), 2021, Woven acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 in. (121.9 x 152.4 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, a gift from The Svane Family Foundation, 2022.26.20. Courtesy of the artist and Johansson Projects. Photograph by Randy Dodson
de Young Museum
About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift

Park Dae-sung
Asian Art Museum
What Echoes in the Small Mountain: Park Dae-sung and the West Coast

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021), Lovers at Sea, 1992. Lithograph, 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66.04 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Lawrence Ferlinghetti Artworks Trust, 2022.22.18 © Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Legion of Honor
Ferlinghetti for San Francisco

Photo by Waso Danilenko. © ARS, New York, 2026 and Chiharu Shiota
Asian Art Museum
Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (detail), 1908. Oil on canvas. 26 1/8 x 36 7/8 in. (66.358 x 93.663). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Lockton Collection, 70.76
de Young Museum
Monet and Venice

Tsukioka Kogyo
Asian Art Museum
One Hundred Plays of the Noh Theater by Tsukioka Kogyo

Paul Klee, Laternenfest Bauhaus 1922 (Bauhaus Lantern Festival 1922), 1922; extended loan and promised gift of the Djerassi Art Trust
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Table Manners (installation view, SFMOMA); photo: Don Ross
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Table Manners

Arnold Genthe (1869–1942), Untitled (Howard Street, now South Van Ness, between 17th and 18th Streets, San Francisco), 1906. Gelatin silver print, 7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in. (18 x 23.7 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Rhoda Goldman Memorial Fund, 1997.38.1
de Young Museum
Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, La Furlana (The Friulian Dance) (detail), no. 31 from the series Divertimento per li regazzi (Entertainment for Children), ca. 1790–1800. Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, 13 15/16 x 18 1/2 in. (35.4 x 47 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Georges de Batz Collection, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund, 1967.17.133
Legion of Honor
Drawn to Venice

New Work: Sheila Hicks (installation view, SFMOMA, 2025); photo: Don Ross
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
New Work: Sheila Hicks

Key Jo Lee
Museum of the African Diaspora
UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe

Demetri Broxton
Museum of the African Diaspora
Ancestral Echoes — Crops of Empire

Kate Nartker, jacquard woven frame for animation Green Screen, 2025
Museum of Craft and Design
Video Craft

Jake Elwes, Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia–Lilly Snatchdragon, 2023 (montage); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Michael D. Abrams; courtesy the artist and Lilly Snatchdragon; © Jake Elwes
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess)

Lala Rukh
Asian Art Museum
A Sound Work by Lala Rukh: Subh-e-Umeed

Henri Matisse, Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat), 1905 (detail); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, bequest of Elise S. Haas; photo: Glen Cheriton for SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

Appliqué depicting the sun god Uśil (detail), Etruscan, Vulci. 500‒475 BC. Bronze, height: 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm), width: 7 1/8–8 1/8 in. (18–20.7 cm). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California, 2017.126
Legion of Honor
The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Image: This Asian American Life, 2025, by Kayan Cheung-Miaw (b. 1984). Commissioned by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. © Kayan Cheung-Miaw. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
Asian Art Museum
This Asian American Life

Al-An deSouza
Asian Art Museum
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings

Rick Bartow (Wiyot, 1946–2016), The Magical Mind in Rural America (detail), 2015. Acrylic and graphite on unstretched canvas, 73 1/2 x 219 1/2 in. (186.69 x 557.531 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions 2024.16. Artwork © Rick Bartow Trust. Photograph by Randy Dodson
de Young Museum
Rooted in Place: California Native Art

Mathias Kauage (Mingu Village, Kundiawa-Gembogl District, Chimbu [Simbu] Province, now in the independent country of Papua New Guinea, ca. 1944–2003). Kauage Flies to Scotland for Opening of New Museum of Contemporary Art (detail), 1999. Acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 72 1/16 in. (120 x 183 cm). Museum purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions, 2023.71. Courtesy of Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London
de Young Museum
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family

Larry Fink, Studio 54, New York City, 1977 (detail); collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase; © Larry Fink/MUUS Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo), Maria, 2014. Photograph by Kate Russell. Image courtesy of the artist
de Young Museum
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota, b. 1979), Special Forces, 2025. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 110 x 193 in. (279.401 x 490.221 cm). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for Major Accessions, 2024.45a-j. Artwork © Cannupa Hanska Luger. Photograph by Randy Dodson
de Young Museum
Arts of Indigenous America

Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier, 1935; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albert M. Bender Collection, gift of Albert M. Bender in memory of Caroline Walter; © Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1900 to Now: SFMOMA's Collection

Anselm Kiefer, Museum (Museum), 1984-1992 (detail); the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Anselm Kiefer; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Memory and Matter: Personal and Collective Histories

Roy Lichtenstein, Figures with Sunset, 1978 (detail); the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Cupid’s Span, 2002; gift of Doris and Donald Fisher to the city of San Francisco; © The Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Estate; photo: © Henrik Kam
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big

Gene Luen Yang, Bay Area Hoops, 2024 (installation view); photo: Don Ross
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bay Area Walls

H. H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
International Art Museum of America
Jade Room

Yun
International Art Museum of America
The Treasure Room

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
International Art Museum of America
Transcendental Beauty

A Study of Juran’s Brushwork, 1673. by Wang Jian (Chinese, 1598-1677). Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Ink on paper. Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection, B65D52. Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Asian Art Museum
Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey

Yuri Suzuki, Arborhythm, 2024 (installation view); collection SFMOMA, purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim; © Yuri Suzuki; photo: Myleen Hollero
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Arborhythm

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha
International Art Museum of America
Timeless Masters

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing 280, 1976 (detail); the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, © The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; photo: Katherine Du Tiel
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Calder, Kelly, LeWitt: Fundamentals of Form

Julie Mehretu, HOWL, eon (I, II), 2017 (detail); commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; collection SFMOMA, gift of Helen and Charles Schwab; © Julie Mehretu; photo: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

H. H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
International Art Museum of America
Sixteen Wonders

Olafur Eliasson, One-way colour tunnel, 2007 (detail); collection SFMOMA, gift of Helen and Charles Schwab through The Art Supporting Foundation; © Olafur Eliasson; photo: Ian Reeves
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Strips of Stripes, (installation view) 2023; photo: Don Ross
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes

Helice Wen, Kalani Ware, Youth Artists from CYC' Bayview Youth Advocates
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Youth Unity Mural in Bayview-Hunters Point | 青年團結壁畫

Nengi Omuku, The Gathering, 2020. Oil on sanyan, 35 3/8 x 57 1/8 in. (89.853 x 145.098 cm). Collection of spaghetti western, Michael Sherman and Vinny Dotolo © Nengi Omuku
de Young Museum
Opening Jun 27thNengi Omuku: The Gathering

Graciela Iturbide, Mujer ángel, desierto de Sonora, México (Angel Woman, Sonora Desert, Mexico), 1979 (detail); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase through a gift of Jane Reed and the Accessions Committee Fund © Graciela Iturbide
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Opening Jul 11thGraciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

Outer anthropoid coffin lid of Thuya. Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Yuya and Thuya (KV 46), New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Wood, gilded stucco with inlays of blue glass, obsidian (eyes), light blue, dark blue, and red glass, 86 x 26 ½ x 37 in. (218.5 x 67.5 x 94 cm). Egyptian Museum in Cairo, JE 95232.1&2, CG 51006.1&2, SR 4/8.1&2. Photograph by Massimo Listri
de Young Museum
Opening Aug 1stTreasures of the Pharaohs

Jacob Hashimoto, The Fractured Giant, 2022, Boise Art Museum; photo: Tobin Rogers Photography
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Opening Aug 22ndJacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc

The Haas Brothers, Grey Liotta, 2020. Liz Collins, Frozen, 2020. Joyce Lin, Skinned Table, 2020. Photograph by Joe Kramm, courtesy of the artists and R & Company.
Museum of Craft and Design
Opening Sep 5thOBJECTS: USA

Ha Chong-Hyun
Asian Art Museum
Opening Sep 25thHa Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
Dorian Reid
Museum of the African Diaspora
Opening Sep 30thBlack Cat Revolution

RM, Yun Hyong-keun, Park Rehyun, Kwon Okyon, Kim Yun Shin, To Sangbong, Chang Ucchin, Kim Whanki, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Klee
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Opening Oct 3rdRM x SFMOMA

Image: West Mebon Reclining Vishnu (detail), National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia © National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh / photo Thierry Ollivier for the Guimet Museum.
Asian Art Museum
Opening Oct 23rdVishnu’s Cosmic Ocean

Tahirah Rasheed
Museum of the African Diaspora
Opening Dec 16th