Art Exhibitions in San Francisco

158 shows currently on view across 3 venue types

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Another Sun

Cella Costanza

Bass & Reiner

Apr 11 – May 23

Featured Now Open

Sahar Khoury: Weights & Measures

Sahar Khoury

Manetti Shrem Museum

Jan 7 – Jun 20

Featured Now Open

Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Diedrick Brackens

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

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Long Now Talk Series 2026

Melody Jue, Eric Ries, Claire Webb +2 more

Fort Mason

Apr 7 – May 5

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POINTS OF DEPARTURE — Stern Grove Festival: Free Music Under The Trees

Rob Garza, Satya

Fort Mason

May 7 – May 7

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2026 OPEN CENTER: Artists & Community

Jillian Crochet, Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh, Natalie Palms +1 more

Berkeley Art Center

Apr 9 – May 9

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Ambreen Butt | I Bear Witness

Ambreen Butt

Wendi Norris

Mar 26 – May 9

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The Department of Species Services (DSS)

Shihan Zhang, Mingyong Cheng, Han Zhang +2 more

Gray Area

Apr 17 – May 9

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Detectable with Distance

Emil Lukas

Hosfelt Gallery

Mar 28 – May 9

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Long Now Talk Series 2026

Melody Jue, Eric Ries, Claire Webb +2 more

Fort Mason

Apr 7 – May 5

Opening Soon

POINTS OF DEPARTURE — Stern Grove Festival: Free Music Under The Trees

Rob Garza, Satya

Fort Mason

May 7 – May 7

Closing Soon

2026 OPEN CENTER: Artists & Community

Jillian Crochet, Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh, Natalie Palms +1 more

Berkeley Art Center

Apr 9 – May 9

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Ambreen Butt | I Bear Witness

Ambreen Butt

Wendi Norris

Mar 26 – May 9

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The Department of Species Services (DSS)

Shihan Zhang, Mingyong Cheng, Han Zhang +2 more

Gray Area

Apr 17 – May 9

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Detectable with Distance

Emil Lukas

Hosfelt Gallery

Mar 28 – May 9

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The Last First Show

Isaac Armendariz, eva birhanu, Malcolm Christie +20 more

Minnesota Street

Apr 29 – May 9

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CCA GradLab

MFA Class of 2027

Minnesota Street

Apr 8 – May 9

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Stephen Coyle: At the Movies

Stephen Coyle

Paul Thiebaud

Mar 21 – May 9

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Cornerstones: Robert Arneson and the Brick

Robert Arneson

Paul Thiebaud

Mar 21 – May 9

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Teaching Wall / Environmental Justice, Art, and Race

Masako Miki, Richard Misrach

BAMPFA

Jan 21 – May 10

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IDA Exhibition

Natalie De La Cruz, Liyah Nicole Ernest, Kea Kahoilua Clebsch +27 more

Et al.

May 4 – May 10

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The Woven Pixel Special Exhibit

Bhakti Ziek, Alice Schlein

SJMQT

Jan 29 – May 10

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Saif Azzuz

Anthony Meier

Mar 26 – May 15

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Paul Balmer

Caldwell Snyder Gallery

Apr 23 – May 15

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Lenore Golub

Blunk Space

Apr 18 – May 16

Closing Soon Reception May 15

2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Nishat Ahmed, Mel Blue, Alfredo Zapata De Jesus +16 more

Wattis Institute

May 1 – May 16

Closing Soon

Lisa Bartleson "Hand Work"

Lisa Bartleson

Nancy Toomey

Apr 2 – May 16

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Trina Michelle Robinson: Open Your Eyes to Water

Trina Michelle Robinson

Root Division

Feb 11 – May 16

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Trina Michelle Robinson: Open Your Eyes to Water

Trina Michelle Robinson

500 Capp

Feb 11 – May 16

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Waz Thomas: Making the Cut III

Waz Thomas

Bolinas Museum

Mar 29 – May 17

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Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1: Sonny Smith and Friends

Sonny Smith

Bolinas Museum

Mar 28 – May 17

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John Simpkins: The Many Natured Oneness of Things

John Simpkins

di Rosa Napa

Apr 11 – May 17

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Fraenkel Gallery Presents Film Festival

Fraenkel Gallery

May 8 – May 17

Now Open

Samia Halaby: Kinetic Paintings

Samia Halaby

SFMOMA

Jan 24 – May 19

Now Open

Dharma Strasser MacColl - Map of Variations

Dharma Strasser MacColl

Maybaum Gallery

Apr 1 – May 20

Reception May 9

Whipped Cream & Other Delights (Fraenkel at Ortuzar)

Eadweard Muybridge, Diane Arbus, Robert Adams +12 more

Fraenkel Gallery

May 9 – May 21

Now Open

Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum

Diane Arbus

Fraenkel Gallery

Mar 12 – May 22

Now Open

Lola Flash: Believable

Lola Flash

Jenkins Johnson

Mar 14 – May 22

Featured Now Open

Another Sun

Cella Costanza

Bass & Reiner

Apr 11 – May 23

Now Open

R. Colosky: Don’t Forget Your Earthquake Pants

R. Colosky

re.riddle

May 2 – May 23

Now Open

SO FAR AWAY

Gregory Rick, Shirin Towfiq

The Fourth Wall

Apr 11 – May 23

Now Open

The Sense of Beauty: Six Centuries of Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce

Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun +7 more

Crocker Art

Feb 1 – May 24

Now Open

The McCoy Jones Collection: Textiles from Central Asia and the Middle East

Faig Ahmed

de Young

Nov 29 – May 24

Now Open

Embroidered Histories

de Young

Nov 29 – May 24

Now Open

A Language of Respect

Jane Ivory

Nelson Duni

Apr 15 – May 26

Now Open

Instructions for Arrival

Gene Holtan

Nelson Duni

Apr 15 – May 26

Now Open

Run Fast, Bite Hard: Group Exhibition

Jen Bervin, Chelsea Bighorn, Troy Lamarr Chew II +20 more

Catharine Clark

Mar 14 – May 30

Reception May 7

Gonzalo Fuenmayor: A Certain Slant of Light

Gonzalo Fuenmayor

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

May 7 – May 30

Now Open

The Weight of it All

Don Pendleton

Heron Arts

Apr 25 – May 30

Now Open

Into the Woods

Srijon Chowdhury, Bambou Gili, Laeh Glenn +10 more

Jessica Silverman

Apr 23 – May 30

Now Open

Alison Elizabeth Taylor

Jessica Silverman

Apr 23 – May 30

Now Open

Forgotten Eyes // Pablo Benzo + Soojin Choi

Pablo Benzo, Soojin Choi

Johansson Projects

Apr 3 – May 30

Now Open

OH THE FUNNY THINGS YOU DO!

Lemia Bodden

Minnesota Street

May 2 – May 30

Now Open

Yameng Lee Thorp — pt.2:

Yameng Lee Thorp

pt.2

Apr 18 – May 30

Now Open

The Things We Use to Make the Things We Must

Leah Rosenberg

SFMOMA

Jun 1 – May 30

Now Open

My Name is Palestine

Ahmad Alaqra, Leyya Mona Tawil, Mohammad Tatour +1 more

SoEx

May 2 – May 30

Now Open

Postal Collage Project No.15

Berkeley Art Center

May 1 – May 31

Now Open

AUDREY TULIMIERO WELCH

Audrey Tulimiero Welch

M Stark Gallery

Apr 18 – May 31

Now Open

Hadas Tal - Here to Eternity

Hadas Tal

Maybaum Gallery

May 1 – May 31

Now Open

Beauty Plus

Jasmine Ross

MoAD

Mar 18 – May 31

Now Open

Good Fire: Tending Native Lands

Saif Azzuz (Yurok/Libyan), Renée Leann Castro-Ring (Lisjan Ohlone), Brian D. Tripp (Karuk) +4 more

OMCA

Nov 7 – May 31

Now Open

Students on Strike

OMCA

Apr 9 – May 31

Now Open

Everybody’s a stranger until they’re your friend

Tosha Stimage, Alicia McCarthy, Angela Hennessy +18 more

pt.2

Apr 18 – May 31

Now Open

New Japanese Clay

Various Japanese artists

Asian Art

Aug 15 – Jun 1

Now Open

Kim Cogan - Afterlight

Kim Cogan

Maybaum Gallery

May 1 – Jun 1

Now Open

Friend of a Friend

Anna-Isabelle Bruey-Sedano, Camila Michaliszyn, Ana Díaz Korin +7 more

Minnesota Street

May 2 – Jun 1

Now Open

Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)

Kara Walker

SFMOMA

Jul 1 – Jun 1

Now Open

A Turbulent Landscape

Randy Jayne Rosenberg

Richmond Art Center

Apr 8 – Jun 5

Now Open

Weaving Between the Lines

Vicki Assegued, Koko Baker, Barbara M. Berk +29 more

Richmond Art Center

Apr 8 – Jun 5

Now Open

Embracing the Edges of Time

Susan Almazol

Richmond Art Center

Apr 8 – Jun 5

Bo-Stin School: Across Mediums, Beyond Meaning

Students of Bolinas-Stinson School District

Bolinas Museum

May 23 – Jun 7

Now Open

Boom and Bust: Photographing Northern California

Arnold Genthe, Peter Stackpole, Eadweard Muybridge +4 more

de Young

Oct 18 – Jun 7

Now Open

ektor garcia: loose ends

ektor garcia

SJMA

Oct 17 – Jun 7

Opening Soon

The NICOLEHOLLIS Collection

Alexandra Kohl, Alexandra Llewellyn, Arno Declercq +21 more

Minnesota Street

May 12 – Jun 10

Now Open

Mike Brodie

Casemore

May 2 – Jun 13

Now Open

Pretty City

JayD Green, Isais Gomez, Camille Holvoet +3 more

Creativity Explored

Apr 9 – Jun 13

Now Open

Where From / Where To?

Olivia Gonzalez, Jamie-May Minjie, Emmanuel Aboagye

de Saisset Museum

Apr 8 – Jun 13

Now Open

Mentors, Collaborations, Influences: New Acquisitions from the Diane Jonte-Pace and David Pace Collection

Diane Jonte-Pace, David Pace, Morley Baer +2 more

de Saisset Museum

Feb 17 – Jun 13

Now Open

Jonathan Calm - To Wherever, Forever: Archives of Absence & Sites of Passage

Jonathan Calm

de Saisset Museum

Feb 5 – Jun 13

Now Open

Jessica Monette: Root Me in the Soil

Jessica Monette

de Saisset Museum

Sep 23 – Jun 13

Now Open

Jeff Dikio: This Must Be the Place

Jeff Dikio

Transmission Gallery

Apr 30 – Jun 13

Now Open

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

P. Staff

YBCA

Jan 17 – Jun 14

Now Open

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

Featured Now Open

Sahar Khoury: Weights & Measures

Sahar Khoury

Manetti Shrem Museum

Jan 7 – Jun 20

Opening Soon

Ruth Asawa: Untitled

Ruth Asawa

Minnesota Street

May 9 – Jun 20

Now Open

Crystal Gregory: Hypergeographies of the Dye Garden

Crystal Gregory

Municipal Bonds

May 2 – Jun 20

Now Open

Dan Levenson: A5 Format Oil on Paper Studies and A3 Format Student Palettes from the SKZ

Dan Levenson

Municipal Bonds

May 2 – Jun 20

Opening Soon

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Arcane Appetites

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Rebecca Camacho Presents

May 7 – Jun 20

Opening Soon

Darren Waterston

Berggruen Gallery

May 7 – Jun 25

Opening Soon

Michael Gregory

Berggruen Gallery

May 7 – Jun 25

Opening Soon

Darren Waterston: A Tiny Radiance In A Dark Place

Darren Waterston

Berggruen Gallery

May 7 – Jun 25

Opening Soon

Michael Gregory: Far Side of Town

Michael Gregory

Berggruen Gallery

May 7 – Jun 25

Reception May 8

Home Show

Juan Aguilera, Lauren Dare

Creative Growth

May 8 – Jun 27

Reception May 15

Elisabeth Nicula Possible Outcomes

Elisabeth Nicula

Et al.

May 15 – Jun 27

Opening Soon

Neighbors

Daniel Arthur Mendoza, Daniel Alejandro Trejo, Justin Mata

Et al.

May 15 – Jun 27

Opening Soon

Peter Cordova

Et al.

May 15 – Jun 27

Now Open

“Sidewalking” by Jenny Phillips

Jenny Phillips

Themes+Projects

May 2 – Jun 27

Now Open

“Sidewalking” by Jenny Phillips

Jenny Phillips

Themes+Projects

May 2 – Jun 27

Now Open

Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection

Xylor Jane, Nicola Tyson, Catherine Opie +4 more

BAMPFA

Mar 4 – Jun 28

Now Open

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

Stephanie Syjuco

BAMPFA

Aug 13 – Jun 28

Now Open

Rebels with La Causa Royal Chicano Air Force Art and Activism, 1970–1990

Ricardo Favela

Crocker Art

Feb 22 – Jun 28

Now Open

Carry-On by Justin Wong

Justin Wong

CCC

Feb 14 – Jun 29

Opening Soon

Isabella Kirkland: Pareidolia

Isabella Kirkland

Hosfelt Gallery

May 16 – Jul 2

Opening Soon

Pareidolia

Isabella Kirkland

Hosfelt Gallery

May 16 – Jul 2

Opening Soon

Patricia Piccinini : The Struggle that Sustains Us

Patricia Piccinini

Hosfelt Gallery

May 16 – Jul 2

Zio Ziegler

Anthony Meier

May 28 – Jul 3

Reception May 20

Ranu Mukherjee | The Long Middle

Ranu Mukherjee

Wendi Norris

May 20 – Jul 3

Reception May 8

Once the Ocean Floor

John Chiara, Linda Connor, David Maisel +1 more

Haines Gallery

May 8 – Jul 3

Reception May 8

Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle

Andy Goldsworthy

Haines Gallery

May 8 – Jul 3

Now Open

People Make This Place: SFAI Stories

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

SFMOMA

Jul 26 – Jul 5

Now Open

Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA Collection

Tyler Cross, Kyle Lypka, Vincent Fecteau +1 more

BAMPFA

Sep 10 – Jul 12

Now Open

Memory in Motion

Mederic Turay, Opa Bathily, Kebe Ibrahim Bemba +8 more

Minnesota Street

May 2 – Jul 12

Now Open

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

Park Dae-sung

Asian Art

Dec 11 – Jul 13

Now Open

Expressing the Intangible: Conversations in Latin American Abstraction

Claudia Martínez Lanz, Sergio Nates, Paula Valenzuela

MAG Galleries

Apr 14 – Jul 14

Now Open

Dream Scape: Site-Specific Practice at di Rosa

David Best, Walter Dussenberry, Randy Hussong +6 more

di Rosa Napa

Mar 7 – Jul 19

Now Open

Ferlinghetti for San Francisco

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Legion of Honor

Jul 19 – Jul 19

Now Open

Chiharu Shiota: Two Home Countries

Chiharu Shiota

Asian Art

Apr 3 – Jul 20

Now Open

Jeremy Frey: Woven

Jeremy Frey

Cantor Arts Center

Mar 26 – Jul 20

Opening Soon

Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition

Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL +3 more

BAMPFA

May 13 – Jul 26

Now Open

Monet and Venice

Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir +1 more

de Young

Mar 21 – Jul 26

Now Open

One Hundred Plays of the Noh Theater by Tsukioka Kogyo

Tsukioka Kogyo

Asian Art

Dec 11 – Jul 27

Now Open

EARTHSEED DOME

Lily Kwong

ICA SF

Jan 17 – Jul 31

Now Open

Stratagems

Tara Donovan

ICA SF

Jan 17 – Jul 31

Now Open

Drawn to Venice

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

Legion of Honor

Jan 24 – Aug 2

Now Open

Table Manners

Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid +2 more

SFMOMA

Sep 14 – Aug 2

Now Open

Julie Mehretu: HOWL, eon (I, II)

Julie Mehretu

SFMOMA

Sep 2 – Aug 2

Reception May 30

Mitch Temple: The Sea Inside

Mitch Temple

di Rosa Napa

May 30 – Aug 9

Now Open

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

SFMOMA

Aug 9 – Aug 9

Reception May 30

Slice of the Pie

Fraenkel Gallery

May 28 – Aug 15

Now Open

Video Craft

Danielle Andress, Sydney Cash, Gregory Climer +16 more

MCD

Feb 28 – Aug 16

Now Open

UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe

Lorna Simpson, Rashaad Newsome, Gustavo Nazareno +2 more

MoAD

Oct 1 – Aug 16

Now Open

1,000 Ways to Hold

Erika Chong Shuch

Anderson Collection

Apr 2 – Aug 17

Opening Soon

Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS

Meriem Bennani

BAMPFA

May 6 – Aug 23

Now Open

Miguel Novelo: INFRAMUNDO

Miguel Novelo

ICA San Jose

Apr 18 – Aug 23

Now Open

Anoushka Mirchandani: My Body Was A River Once

Anoushka Mirchandani

ICA San Jose

Jan 16 – Aug 23

Now Open

Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements

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

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

Featured Now Open

Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Diedrick Brackens

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

Opening Soon

Shape of Thought

Jay Defeo, Deborah Lohrke, Sandra Ono +3 more

MarinMOCA

May 16 – Aug 30

Now Open

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

Lala Rukh

Asian Art

Feb 13 – Sep 7

Now Open

The Dome Show

Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen, Bella Feldman +2 more

di Rosa Napa

May 2 – Sep 12

Now Open

The Dome Show

Marilyn Levine, Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen +2 more

di Rosa SF

May 2 – Sep 12

Opening Soon

Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet +7 more

SFMOMA

May 16 – Sep 13

Now Open

Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Miljohn Ruperto

Cantor Arts Center

Mar 12 – Sep 14

Now Open

Miljohn Ruperto: Ultimate Days

Miljohn Ruperto

Minnesota Street

Mar 12 – Sep 14

Now Open

Virtual Crush

Melissa Broder, Arvida Byström, Claudia Hart +5 more

Slash

May 2 – Sep 19

Now Open

The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Legion of Honor

May 2 – Sep 20

Now Open

This Asian American Life

Various artists

Asian Art

Sep 19 – Sep 28

Now Open

Bay Area Walls

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

SFMOMA

Sep 28 – Oct 1

Now Open

Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Wendi Norris

Nov 8 – Oct 11

Now Open

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

Christine Howard Sandoval

SJMA

Apr 10 – Oct 18

Now Open

Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction

Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, George Miyasaki +4 more

Cantor Arts Center

Nov 19 – Oct 26

Now Open

Al-An deSouza: Table Settings

Al-An deSouza

Asian Art

Apr 9 – Nov 2

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

Imaginate Saturdays

Creativity Explored

Jan 10 – Dec 19

Now Open

THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)

Jeffrey Gibson

ICA SF

Jan 1 – Jan 1, 2027

Now Open

Motherboards

SJMA

Apr 10 – Jan 10, 2027

Now Open

Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

Rose B. Simpson

de Young

Aug 30 – Feb 7, 2027

Now Open

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

Sarah Cain

BAMPFA

Oct 30 – Jun 6, 2027

Now Open

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson

SFMOMA

Jan 17 – Jun 30, 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

Arts of Indigenous America

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

de Young

Aug 26 – Aug 31, 2028