Art Exhibitions in San Francisco

Rave into the Future: Art in Motion

Various artists

Asian Art

Oct 24 – Jan 26

Hilary Pecis: Geraniums and Camellias

Hilary Pecis

Crown Point

Nov 7 – Jan 28

Doggone Delightful

Lou Benesch, Sabrina Bockler, Angela Burson +7 more

Hashimoto

Jan 10 – Jan 31

Obsessive | Compulsive Group Exhibition Curated by Eric Butcher

Larry Bell, Lucinda Burgess, Eric Butcher +11 more

Nancy Toomey

Dec 17 – Jan 31

Entangled Lineage

Ramon Abad, Alexis Arnold, Agelio Batle +15 more

SFArtsED

Dec 6 – Jan 31

Driss Ouadahi Reminiscence

Driss Ouadahi

Hosfelt Gallery

Dec 6 – Jan 31

Birgit Jensen A Thousand Echoes in My Mind

Birgit Jensen

Hosfelt Gallery

Dec 6 – Jan 31

"Echoes" by Seiko Tachibana

Seiko Tachibana

Themes+Projects

Nov 1 – Jan 31

On view: Our Language, Our Story

Joyce Xi

Galería de la Raza

Oct 18 – Jan 31

Art of Manga

Chiba Tetsuya, Akatsuka Fujio, Takahashi Rumiko +8 more

de Young

Sep 27 – Feb 1

Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread

Lee ShinJa

BAMPFA

Aug 6 – Feb 1

New Japanese Clay

Various artists

Asian Art

Aug 15 – Feb 2

The Invisible Dog Goes For a Walk Group Exhibition

2Fik, Doug Adesko, Vanessa Belli +44 more

Hashimoto

Jan 17 – Feb 7

Love Letters to Aliens

rana hamadeh xandra ibarra, osvaldo ramirez castillo, maryam tafakory, yue xiang

SoEx

Oct 20 – Feb 7

Wunderkammer: The Collection of Susan Beech

Susan Beech

MCD

Oct 4 – Feb 8

Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural

Judith Schaechter

MCD

Oct 4 – Feb 8

Shifting

caroline pinney

Glass Rice

Jan 10 – Feb 14

Cunning Folk

Dominique Vivant Denon (French, 1747–1825) after David Teniers II (Flemish, 1610-1690)

Cantor Arts Center

Oct 15 – Feb 22

Wadsworth Jarrell: Somethin' Else

Wadsworth Jarrell

Jenkins Johnson

Jan 9 – Feb 26

AGO x Anthony Meier: En este Momento

Pol Agustí, Alana Burns, Kora Moya Rojo +2 more

Anthony Meier

Jan 20 – Feb 27

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon - Garden = Grid = City

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

Anthony Meier

Jan 15 – Feb 27

The Sweet Appreciation of Freedom

Patrick Alston, Genevieve Gaignard, Alex Jackson +2 more

Jenkins Johnson

Jan 17 – Feb 28

Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots

Henna Vainio

Casemore

Jan 17 – Feb 28

Carrie Hott years ago

Carrie Hott

Et al.

Jan 16 – Feb 28

Atmospheric River

Sally Scopa

Bass & Reiner

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Alternating Currents: Austin Thomas and Nick Polansky

Austin Thomas, Nick Polansky

Municipal Bonds

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Afton Love: Atrium Showcase

Afton Love

Municipal Bonds

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Carmen McNall - Unbound Passages

Carmen McNall

Eleanor Harwood

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Guanyu Xu: I dreamt of this and there will be more

Guanyu Xu

re.riddle

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Lee Materazzi - PLAYMATE

Lee Materazzi

Eleanor Harwood

Jan 10 – Feb 28

Trevor Paglen: The Horizon Waved, and Nothing Was Certain: 2006-2026

Trevor Paglen

Jessica Silverman

Jan 8 – Feb 28

Rebecca Manson: Time, You Must Be Laughing

Rebecca Manson

Jessica Silverman

Jan 8 – Feb 28

Manet & Morisot

Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot

Legion of Honor

Oct 11 – Mar 1

Continuum: MoAD Over Time

Cheryl Patrice Derricotte, Chester Higgins Jr., JoeSam. +5 more

MoAD

Oct 1 – Mar 1

Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love

Suzanne Jackson

SFMOMA

Sep 27 – Mar 1

Alteronce Gumby

Alteronce Gumby

Anderson Collection

Sep 24 – Mar 1

Susan Philipsz: Songs Sung in the First Person on Themes of Longing, Sympathy and Release

Susan Philipsz

SFMOMA

Apr 9 – Mar 1

Grid Memories

Alexis Arnold, Gina Borg, Katherine Duclos +1 more

Heron Arts

Jan 31 – Mar 5

Heather Day: Blue Distance

Heather Day

Berggruen

Jan 15 – Mar 5

Women in Abstraction

Diana Al-Hadid, Val Britton, Cecily Brown +6 more

Berggruen

Jan 15 – Mar 5

Editions and Works on Paper

John Alexander, Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins +10 more

Berggruen

Jan 15 – Mar 5

Alchemies of Place

Lynne Drexler, Claire Falkenstein, Ashley Garrett +11 more

COL Gallery

Jan 23 – Mar 6

Chris McCaw: Reversals & Revolutions

Chris McCaw

Fort Mason

Jan 24 – Mar 7

Rebel Forms

Facundo Argañaraz, Miguel Arzabe, Pilar Agüero-Esparza +4 more

Romer Young

Jan 22 – Mar 7

8 Hours of Rest : SoiL Thornton

SoiL Thornton

Wattis

Jan 20 – Mar 7

Deep Dive – Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay

Fraenkel Gallery

Jan 15 – Mar 7

Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay

Fraenkel Gallery

Jan 15 – Mar 7

Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain: Speculation, Like Nature, Abhors a Vacuum (LA Version)

Ken Goldberg, Tiffany Shlain

Catharine Clark

Jan 10 – Mar 7

Masami Teraoka: From Here to Eternity, Five Decades of Art Making

Masami Teraoka

Catharine Clark

Jan 10 – Mar 7

Anthony McCall: First Light

Anthony McCall

Fort Mason

Jan 24 – Mar 8

Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women's Perspectives

CCC

Dec 11 – Mar 11

Bay Windows: Illuminating Immigrant Women's Perspectives

Christine Wong Yap, AiLan Xie 謝愛蘭, Cammi XingYu Huang 黃幸瑜 +13 more

Galería de la Raza

Dec 5 – Mar 11

Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors

Marie Wilson

Wendi Norris

Jan 20 – Mar 14

The Veil Between

Anthony Olubunmi Akimbola, Miya Ando, Jasko Begovic +11 more

CULT Aimee Friberg

Jan 16 – Mar 14

Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family

Mathias Kauage, Elizabeth (Elisabet) Kauage, Apa Hugo

de Young

Mar 30 – Mar 15

The French Pictures

Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne +1 more

Climate Control

Jan 22 – Mar 19

Transcendental

Jocelyn Tsaih

Glass Rice

Feb 21 – Mar 21

Max Gimblett Where Dreams Come

Max Gimblett

Hosfelt Gallery

Feb 7 – Mar 21

Judith Belzer Weather Report

Judith Belzer

Hosfelt Gallery

Feb 7 – Mar 21

Vikrant Bhise: Archival Historicity/Dalit Panthers

Vikrant Bhise

Asian Art

Oct 1 – Mar 23

Gurjeet Singh: When Words Hurt

Gurjeet Singh

Asian Art

Oct 1 – Mar 23

Jitish Kallat: Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius)

Jitish Kallat

Asian Art

Sep 19 – Mar 23

Tabi Tabi Po: Come Out with the Spirits! You Are Welcome Here

Cece Carpio

SOMArts

Jan 29 – Mar 26

"Fiber & Light" by Brigitte Carnochan and Patrick Carroll

Brigitte Carnochan, Patrick Carroll

Themes+Projects

Feb 7 – Mar 28

Hung Kei Shiu: Color Field

Hung Kei Shiu

Creativity Explored

Jan 15 – Mar 28

SF Camerawork – Nasim Moghadam: And Yet, We See

Nasim Moghadam

SF Camerawork

Jan 21 – Apr 4

Spotlights

Susan Rothenberg, Sean Scully, Robert Therrien

Anderson Collection

Sep 10 – Apr 6

Ancient Wisdom for a Future Ecology: Trees, Time, and Technology

Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg

di Rosa SF

Jan 22 – Apr 11

Sonic Transmissions

Sky Hopinka

Slash

Jan 10 – Apr 18

DJ Meisner

DJ Meisner

Slash

Jan 10 – Apr 18

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

BAMPFA

Jan 24 – Apr 19

no rhyme or reason

Lou Beach, Ross Carron, Kevin B. Chen +10 more

Jack Fischer

Jan 19 – Apr 19

LigoranoReese: Vanishing Finish | November 8, 2025 - January 31, 2026 - Overview

Catharine Clark

Jan 19 – Apr 19

Woodblock Prints

Eric Fischl, Shoichi Ida, Robert Kushner +3 more

Crown Point

Jan 19 – Apr 19

MATRIX 289 / Zeinab Saleh: Signs of a softer world

Zeinab Saleh

BAMPFA

Dec 10 – Apr 19

Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules

Alejandro Cartagena

SFMOMA

Nov 22 – Apr 19

Viaje a la luna Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada

Wattis

Nov 6 – Apr 19

Paul Klee + Ray Johnson: TYPOFACTURE

Paul Klee, Ray Johnson

SFMOMA

Aug 23 – Apr 26

Bamboo

Various artists

Asian Art

Oct 1 – Apr 27

Dream Jungle

Alexa Burrell a.k.a. LEXAGON, adrian clutario, Al-An deSouza +2 more

SFAC Gallery

Jan 29 – May 2

KAWS: FAMILY

KAWS

SFMOMA

Nov 15 – May 3

(Re)Constructing History

Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Faustine, Carla Williams +1 more

SFMOMA

Oct 4 – May 3

Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

Samia Halaby

SFMOMA

Jan 24 – May 19

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

Leah Rosenberg

SFMOMA

Jun 1 – May 30

Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

Kara Walker

SFMOMA

Jul 1 – Jun 1

Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California

Arnold Genthe, Peter Stackpole, Eadweard Muybridge +4 more

de Young

Oct 18 – Jun 7

The Prince of Homburg: A Solo Exhibition by P. Staff

P. Staff

YBCA

Jan 17 – Jun 14

Moving San Francisco: Views from the SFMTA Photo Archive 1903 - Now

Horace Chaffee, Lionel DaSilva, George Fanning +9 more

SFAC Gallery

Jan 15 – Jun 18

Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)

Stephanie Syjuco

BAMPFA

Aug 13 – Jun 28

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

Ansel Adams, Mario Ayala, Ruth Marion Baruch +56 more

SFMOMA

Jul 26 – Jul 5

Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection

Tyler Cross, Kyle Lypka, Vincent Fecteau +1 more

BAMPFA

Sep 10 – Jul 12

Echoes in the Small Mountain: Park Dae-sung and the West Coast

Park Dae-sung

Asian Art

Oct 15 – Jul 13

One Hundred Plays of the Noh Theater by Tsukioka Kogyo

Tsukioka Kogyo

Asian Art

Nov 1 – Jul 27

Drawn to Venice

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Rosalba Carriera +2 more

Legion of Honor

Jan 24 – Aug 2

Table Manners

Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid +2 more

SFMOMA

Sep 14 – Aug 2

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

Julie Mehretu

SFMOMA

Sep 2 – Aug 2

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

SFMOMA

Aug 9 – Aug 9

UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe

Lorna Simpson, Rashaad Newsome, Gustavo Nazareno +2 more

MoAD

Oct 1 – Aug 16

This Asian American Life

Various artists

Asian Art

Sep 19 – Sep 28

Bay Area Walls

Gene Luen Yang, Jenifer K Wofford, David Huffman +4 more

SFMOMA

Sep 28 – Oct 1

Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction

Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, George Miyasaki +4 more

Cantor Arts Center

Nov 19 – Oct 26

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson

SFMOMA

Jan 17 – Jan 17, 2027

Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

Rose B. Simpson

de Young

Aug 30 – Feb 7, 2027

Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you

Sarah Cain

BAMPFA

Oct 30 – Jun 6, 2027

Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen

SFMOMA

Dec 20 – Dec 19, 2027

Arborhythm

Yuri Suzuki

SFMOMA

May 4 – Dec 30, 2027

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

SFMOMA

Sep 16 – Dec 30, 2027

Ashwini Bhat: What Will It Take / For Us To Awake?

Ashwini Bhat

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey

Various artists

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Olafur Eliasson

SFMOMA

Aug 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Arts of Indigenous America

Cannupa Hanska Luger, José Benitez Sánchez, Maggie Prokopioff +5 more

de Young

Aug 26 – Aug 31, 2028