Art Exhibitions in San Francisco

158 shows currently on view across 3 venue types

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Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Maren Hassinger

BAMPFA

Jun 6 – Nov 29

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Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz: The Tramp

Justin Caguiat, Rafael Delacruz

Wattis Institute

Jun 10 – Nov 21

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GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

GaHee Park

YBCA

Aug 7 – Jan 3, 2027

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1,000 Ways to Hold

Erika Chong Shuch

Anderson Collection

Apr 2 – Aug 17

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At the Edge

Alain Fastre, Angela Wardlaw, Angelica Arras +7 more

Mirada Art

Jul 23 – Aug 17

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Summer Arangement

Ben Aronson, Dewey Crumpler, Nnenna Okore +1 more

Jenkins Johnson

Jun 26 – Aug 19

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Downs the Hills and Around the Bends

Grayson Kop, Andrew Bixler, James Leung +4 more

Creativity Explored

Jun 25 – Aug 22

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Garden

Jenifer Kent

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 22

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Jaq Chartier: Variations

Jaq Chartier

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 22

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1,000 Ways to Hold

Erika Chong Shuch

Anderson Collection

Apr 2 – Aug 17

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At the Edge

Alain Fastre, Angela Wardlaw, Angelica Arras +7 more

Mirada Art

Jul 23 – Aug 17

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Summer Arangement

Ben Aronson, Dewey Crumpler, Nnenna Okore +1 more

Jenkins Johnson

Jun 26 – Aug 19

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Downs the Hills and Around the Bends

Grayson Kop, Andrew Bixler, James Leung +4 more

Creativity Explored

Jun 25 – Aug 22

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Garden

Jenifer Kent

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 22

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Jaq Chartier: Variations

Jaq Chartier

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 22

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The AO Series – Anna Colom & Nayelli Rosas

Anna Colom, Nayelli Rosas

Galería de la Raza

Jun 6 – Aug 22

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Madeleine Tonzi - "Terraesthesia"

Madeleine Tonzi

Hashimoto

Aug 1 – Aug 22

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Lou Benesch - "The Magician's Room"

Lou Benesch

Hashimoto

Aug 1 – Aug 22

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We’re a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again

Woody De Othello, Jane Hambleton, David Huffman +3 more

Kala

May 26 – Aug 22

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Amrita Singhal: Hello, Moon

Amrita Singhal

Kala

May 26 – Aug 22

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TRUFFLE HOUND

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS, FACUNDO ARGAÑARAZ, AMANDA CURRERI +14 more

Romer Young

Jul 15 – Aug 22

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Teaching Gallery / The Politics of the Poster

BAMPFA

May 13 – Aug 23

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Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS

Meriem Bennani

BAMPFA

May 6 – Aug 23

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Miguel Novelo: INFRAMUNDO

Miguel Novelo

ICA San Jose

Apr 18 – Aug 23

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Anoushka Mirchandani: My Body Was A River Once

Anoushka Mirchandani

ICA San Jose

Jan 16 – Aug 23

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Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Diedrick Brackens

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

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Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements

Ester Hernández, Serge Gay, Jr., Tanya Wischerath +2 more

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

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Open Geometry for Emotional Use

Nancy Mona Russell

Nelson Duni

Aug 1 – Aug 26

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SNAPPED: Art Bias Photography Open

Art Bias

Aug 2 – Aug 27

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Summer Highlights

Barry McGee, Bruce Cohen, Val Britton +3 more

Berggruen Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 27

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In Bloom

Margo Becker, Audrey Ducas, Emily Kepulis +2 more

Maybaum Gallery

Jul 1 – Aug 27

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Milk Feet

Mitsu Okubo

Bass & Reiner

Jul 11 – Aug 28

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The Out There is Right Here

Ian Collings, JB Blunk, Gordon Onslow Ford +1 more

Blunk Space

Jun 6 – Aug 29

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Lynne Drexler / Vivian Springford

Lynne Drexler, Vivian Springford

COL Gallery

Jul 17 – Aug 29

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Deaf Stars Shine

Donna Kurtz, Carol Fullen, Casey Byrnes +10 more

Creative Growth

Jul 17 – Aug 29

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Deaf Stars Shine - James Davis Window Box

James Davis

Creative Growth

Jul 17 – Aug 29

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Architects of Absence: Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos, Marcel Jean, and Remedios Varo

Dabin Ahn, Selva Aparicio, Yaxkin Fuentes-Barrientos +2 more

Wendi Norris

Jul 16 – Aug 29

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Turn the Party

Cynthia McIntosh

Minnesota Street

Jul 11 – Aug 29

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Wave Comes In, Wave Goes Out: Afton Love, Danielle Dimston, Jane Springwater, Solange Roberdeau, and Zaida Oenema

Afton Love, Danielle Dimston, Jane Springwater +2 more

Municipal Bonds

Jul 7 – Aug 29

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Blaise Rosenthal: Stones

Blaise Rosenthal

Municipal Bonds

Jul 7 – Aug 29

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Near Poets

Aaron Elvis Jupin, Arthur Wechsler, Brian Rideout +4 more

re.riddle

Jul 23 – Aug 29

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"Paul's Drawings" by Paul Pickrel

Paul Pickrel

Themes+Projects

Aug 1 – Aug 29

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"Turn the Party" by Cynthia McIntosh

Cynthia McIntosh

Themes+Projects

Jul 11 – Aug 29

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"Paul's Drawings" by Paul Pickrel

Paul Pickrel

Themes+Projects

Aug 1 – Aug 29

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"Turn the Party" by Cynthia McIntosh

Cynthia McIntosh

Themes+Projects

Jul 11 – Aug 29

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A Continent, Up Close — Directors' Selection

Opa Bathily, Ayanda Mabulu, Carol Cauldwell +13 more

AOCA

Jul 23 – Aug 30

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Robin Hope — Kore

Robin Hope

Et al.

Jul 16 – Aug 30

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Alive! with Pleasure

Rainen Knecht

Et al.

Jul 16 – Aug 30

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Shape of Thought

Jay Defeo, Deborah Lohrke, Sandra Ono +3 more

MarinMOCA

May 16 – Aug 30

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2026 Plein Air Show

Jahyun Bae, John Barrows, Leora Baumgarten +17 more

Coastal Arts League Public Art Gallery

Jul 30 – Aug 31

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This Photograph Is My Proof

Diane Althoff

Manetti Shrem Museum

Apr 1 – Aug 31

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Automata Sigils: Billie Ocean, Kelley O’Leary, Sonya Rapoport, Ariella Robinson, Mia Weiner, and Carmen Winant

Billie Ocean, Kelley O’Leary, Sonya Rapoport +3 more

Casemore

Jun 27 – Sep 5

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The Shape Of Looking: Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal & David Simpson

Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal, David Simpson

Fort Mason

Jul 10 – Sep 5

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The Shape of Looking

Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal, David Simpson

Haines Gallery

Jul 10 – Sep 5

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Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger & Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger, Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

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Ana Elisa Egreja: The Flight of Color

Ana Elisa Egreja

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

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BOLD SHAPES

Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger, Julie Béna +1 more

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

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Cade Salamanca — The Final Push

Cade Salamanca

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

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Monika Mayer — Linked

Monika Mayer

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

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RAINEY STRAUS re(COMPOSING)

Rainey Straus

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

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Jessica Cadkin & Michael Lynch — The End

Jessica Cadkin, Michael Lynch

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

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Mourning Pages

Kate Laster

The Fourth Wall

Jul 18 – Sep 5

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Tribute: Farms, Fish, Flowers

M Stark Gallery

Jul 25 – Sep 6

Now Open

Jake Elwes: Zizi in Motion: A Deepfake Drag Utopia (Movement by Wet Mess)

Jake Elwes

SFMOMA

May 23 – Sep 6

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FX Harsono: Writing in the Rain

FX Harsono

Asian Art

Jun 26 – Sep 7

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A Sound Work by Lala Rukh: Subh-e-Umeed

Lala Rukh

Asian Art

Feb 13 – Sep 7

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Monica Canilao at The Guardhouse

Monica Canilao

FOR-SITE

May 29 – Sep 7

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The Dome Show

Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen, Bella Feldman +2 more

di Rosa Napa

May 2 – Sep 12

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The Dome Show

Marilyn Levine, Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen +2 more

di Rosa SF

May 2 – Sep 12

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Sunfire

Chris Duncan, Todd Hido, Bessma Kahlaf +3 more

Minnesota Street

Aug 8 – Sep 12

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Contemporary Women of Abstraction

Donna Brookman, Linda Fleming, Sylvia Fragoso +13 more

Paul Thiebaud

Jul 11 – Sep 12

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Åsa Schick: Echoes of Elsewhere

Åsa Schick

Paul Thiebaud

Jul 11 – Sep 12

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Lexica

Kristin Bauer, Danielle Lawrence, Brody Reiman +1 more

SoEx

Aug 15 – Sep 12

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Daniel McClain: Lost and Found

Daniel McClain

Transmission Gallery

Jul 30 – Sep 12

Now Open

Life in Space

Exploratorium

Jun 11 – Sep 13

Now Open

Monica Canilao At The Guardhouse: Vessels for Healing and Transmuting Grief

Monica Canilao

Fort Mason

May 29 – Sep 13

Now Open

Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet +7 more

SFMOMA

May 16 – Sep 13

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Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Miljohn Ruperto

Cantor Arts Center

Mar 12 – Sep 14

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Miljohn Ruperto: Ultimate Days

Miljohn Ruperto

Minnesota Street

Mar 12 – Sep 14

Opening Soon

Woven Through

Angela Wardlaw, Angelica Arras, Daniel Haniger +6 more

Mirada Art

Aug 20 – Sep 14

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Terri Friedman: Overmuch

Terri Friedman

Anthony Meier

Jul 16 – Sep 18

Now Open

Angie Zheng 郑晴: 印象/Impressions

Angie Zheng

Minnesota Street

Jul 23 – Sep 19

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Summerscape 2026

Ramon Abad, C.K. Itamura, Rachel Major +3 more

SFArtsED

Aug 8 – Sep 19

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Virtual Crush

Melissa Broder, Arvida Byström, Claudia Hart +5 more

Slash

May 2 – Sep 19

Now Open

Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth: Hands of the Maker

Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth

Transmission Gallery

Aug 6 – Sep 19

Now Open

Peter d'Agostino: World Wide Walks / SFBay

Peter d'Agostino

Transmission Gallery

Jul 30 – Sep 19

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Michele Pred: Projecting Democracy

Michele Pred

di Rosa Napa

Jun 20 – Sep 20

Now Open

The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Legion of Honor

May 2 – Sep 20

Now Open

A Mi Manera

SJMQT

Jun 5 – Sep 20

Now Open

Catching Waves: Surfing in Bolinas Since 1909

Bolinas Museum

Jun 20 – Sep 26

Reception Sep 3

Ian Kimmerly: Some Quieter Melody

Ian Kimmerly

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Sep 3 – Sep 26

Now Open

I Watched Your Leaves Grow Silver in the Wind // Andrew Catanese

Andrew Catanese

Johansson Projects

Aug 6 – Sep 27

Now Open

This Asian American Life

Various artists

Asian Art

Sep 19 – Sep 28

Now Open

Bringing the Thunder

Christine Holub Carrig

The Vault

Jul 1 – Sep 30

Reception Sep 12

Richard Sheehan: Light Beneath

Richard Sheehan

Nelson Duni

Sep 12 – Oct 1

Now Open

Bay Area Walls

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

SFMOMA

Sep 28 – Oct 1

Now Open

Ruth Asawa: Endless Variations

Ruth Asawa

Minnesota Street

Aug 8 – Oct 3

Now Open

Mirrored Dreams

Arminée Chahbazian, Minami Oya

TINT Gallery

Aug 8 – Oct 4

Open Net

Et al.

Sep 4 – Oct 9

Stefan Kürten: Echoes From The Past

Stefan Kürten

Hosfelt Gallery

Sep 8 – Oct 10

Sarah M. Newton: Interruptions in the Bay Trail

Sarah M. Newton

Hosfelt Gallery

Sep 8 – Oct 10

Now Open

Suzanne Adan I'm No Spring Chicken

Suzanne Adan

Crocker Art

Jun 28 – Oct 11

Now Open

Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Wendi Norris

Nov 8 – Oct 11

Now Open Reception Nov 6

Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory

Mildred Howard

OMCA

Jun 12 – Oct 11

September 17 - October 12, 2026

Alain Fastre, Angela Wardlaw, Claudia Gutsch +6 more

Mirada Art

Sep 17 – Oct 12

Shifting Ground

Alain Fastre, Beth Oehlert, Claudia Gutsch +5 more

Mirada Art

Sep 17 – Oct 12

Reception Sep 12

Alex Weinstein "I'll Be Your Mirror"

Alex Weinstein

Nancy Toomey

Sep 9 – Oct 17

Now Open

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

Christine Howard Sandoval

SJMA

Apr 10 – Oct 18

Defining the Century: Modern Visionaries from Picasso to Calder

Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse +1 more

Berggruen Gallery

Sep 10 – Oct 22

Lee Friedlander: Maria

Lee Friedlander

Fraenkel Gallery

Sep 10 – Oct 24

Reception Sep 10

Sadie Barnette

Jessica Silverman

Sep 10 – Oct 24

Reception Sep 10

Lava Thomas

Jessica Silverman

Sep 10 – Oct 24

Now Open

Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction

Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, George Miyasaki +4 more

Cantor Arts Center

Nov 19 – Oct 26

Liam Everett: the passenger

Liam Everett

Berggruen Gallery

Sep 10 – Oct 29

Reception Sep 17

250 Years, Indigenous Futures

Victoria Grace Canby, Jordan Ann Craig, Sky Hopinka +5 more

Haines Gallery

Sep 15 – Oct 31

Reception Sep 12

Rex Ray

Themes+Projects

Sep 12 – Oct 31

Reception Sep 12

Rex Ray

Themes+Projects

Sep 12 – Oct 31

Margaret Niven: Protected Landscapes

margaret niven

M Stark Gallery

Sep 12 – Nov 1

Now Open

Al-An deSouza: Table Settings

Al-An deSouza

Asian Art

Apr 9 – Nov 2

Now Open

Nancy Baker Cahill: FREE

Nancy Baker Cahill

Gray Area

Jul 4 – Nov 4

Now Open

Campus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

Lotty Rosenfeld

BAMPFA

Aug 12 – Nov 15

Featured Now Open

Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz: The Tramp

Justin Caguiat, Rafael Delacruz

Wattis Institute

Jun 10 – Nov 21

Reception Sep 12

I see every wave

Joshua Moreno, Annie Albagli, Ruby T

Berkeley Art Center

Sep 12 – Nov 22

Featured Now Open

Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Maren Hassinger

BAMPFA

Jun 6 – Nov 29

Now Open

Gleefully Askew A Gladys Nilsson Retrospective

Gladys Nilsson

Crocker Art

Jul 19 – Nov 29

Now Open

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

Graciela Iturbide

SFMOMA

Jul 11 – Nov 29

Opening Soon

Out of Line: Art at the Edge

Bruce Nauman, Mike Henderson, Malaquías Montoya +2 more

Manetti Shrem Museum

Aug 26 – Dec 5

Now Open

Woody De Othello: coming forth by day

Woody De Othello

Manetti Shrem Museum

Aug 12 – Dec 5

Now Open

Rooted in Place: California Native Art

Rick Bartow, Elizabeth Hickox, Brian D. Tripp +1 more

de Young

Aug 26 – Dec 6

Now Open

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

Mathias Kauage, Elizabeth (Elisabet) Kauage, Apa Hugo

de Young

Mar 30 – Dec 6

Now Open

David Best: Eyes and Ears

David Best

di Rosa Napa

Aug 8 – Dec 6

The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space

Mills College Art Museum

Sep 12 – Dec 6

Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War

Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin +1 more

BAMPFA

Sep 9 – Dec 13

Now Open

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take

Carolyn Lazard

Cantor Arts Center

Aug 6 – Dec 13

Opening Soon

Artist-in-Residence: CFGNY

CFGNY

Wattis Institute

Aug 24 – Dec 19

Now Open

Imaginate Saturdays

Creativity Explored

Jan 10 – Dec 19

Now Open

The Real Heroes by Clint Strydom: FIFA football world cup fine art photographic limited edition prints

Clint Strydom

AOCA

Mar 11 – Dec 31

Opening Soon

Making Strange

di Rosa Napa

Aug 29 – Dec 31

Now Open

THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)

Jeffrey Gibson

ICA SF

Jan 1 – Jan 1, 2027

Featured Now Open

GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

GaHee Park

YBCA

Aug 7 – Jan 3, 2027

Now Open

Motherboards

SJMA

Apr 10 – Jan 10, 2027

Solid Pictures

François Willème

Cantor Arts Center

Sep 17 – Jan 18, 2027

Now Open

Treasures of the Pharaohs

de Young

Aug 1 – Jan 31, 2027

Now Open

Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

Rose B. Simpson

de Young

Aug 30 – Feb 7, 2027

Patty Chang: surfacing

Patty Chang

Anderson Collection

Sep 17 – Feb 8, 2027

Now Open

Hot Takes New Acquisitions in Glass

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Émile Gallé, Dale Chihuly +4 more

Crocker Art

Jul 26 – Feb 14, 2027

Now Open

a small ocean swallowed

Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Belli, Kiyo Gutierrez +3 more

SJMA

Jul 10 – Feb 14, 2027

Now Open

Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

Anna Halprin, Eikoh Hosoe, Tatsumi Hijikata +7 more

SFMOMA

May 16 – Feb 28, 2027

Now Open

Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood

Kim Minwook

Asian Art

Jul 30 – Mar 29, 2027

Eternal Paris: Photographing the City of Light

Louis-Gabriel Loppé, Édouard Baldus, André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri +5 more

Legion of Honor

Sep 5 – Apr 4, 2027

Now Open

Being Human

Exploratorium

Jun 16 – Apr 10, 2027

Now Open

Superficial Matters: Artists from the Svane Gift and Beyond

Christiane Lyons, Wesaam Al-Badry, Sunny A. Smith +5 more

de Young

Aug 15 – Apr 11, 2027

Now Open

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

Sarah Cain

BAMPFA

Oct 30 – Jun 6, 2027

Now Open

O. Smith: Artivist

O. Smith, Orlando Smith

SFMOMA

Jul 25 – Jun 20, 2027

Now Open

Kim Frohsin: Symbols and Figures with Stories

Kim Frohsin

Paul Thiebaud

Jun 12 – Jun 30, 2027

Now Open

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson

SFMOMA

Jan 17 – Jun 30, 2027

Now Open

Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

BAMPFA

Aug 5 – Jul 11, 2027

Now Open

Miró: Proof Against All

Joan Miró

Legion of Honor

Jul 25 – Jul 25, 2027

Now Open

Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen

SFMOMA

Dec 20 – Dec 19, 2027

Now Open

Arborhythm

Yuri Suzuki

SFMOMA

May 4 – Dec 30, 2027

Now Open

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

SFMOMA

Sep 16 – Dec 30, 2027

Now Open

Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey

Various artists

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Now Open

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

Ashwini Bhat

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Now Open

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Olafur Eliasson

SFMOMA

Aug 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Now Open

Nengi Omuku: The Gathering

Nengi Omuku

de Young

Jun 27 – May 14, 2028

Now Open

JANE!

Jane Lathrop Stanford, Napoleon T. Sarony, Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat +4 more

Cantor Arts Center

Jul 2 – May 18, 2028

Now Open

Arts of Indigenous America

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

de Young

Aug 26 – Aug 31, 2028