Art Exhibitions in San Francisco

Mark Perlman "Comes and Goes"

Mark Perlman

Nancy Toomey

Jun 10 – Aug 8

Mitch Temple: The Sea Inside

Mitch Temple

di Rosa Napa

May 30 – Aug 9

San Francisco Aerial Arts Festival 2026

Zaccho Dance Theatre, Amelia Rudolph, Veronica Blair +9 more

Fort Mason

Aug 7 – Aug 9

New Work: Sheila Hicks

Sheila Hicks

SFMOMA

Aug 9 – Aug 9

Between Hours: Eiko Nishida

Eiko Nishida

Kala

Jul 10 – Aug 10

2026 Juried Members' Exhibition

Berkeley Art Center

Jun 13 – Aug 15

2026 Juried Members' Exhibition — Berkeley Art Center

Christine Aiko Beck · Cherisse Alcantara · Salimatu Amabebe · Nadja Eulee · Émilie Boras · Heather Brown · Jackie Sarah Brown · Angela Chu · Jacob Clark · Paquerette · Anjelica Colliard · James Corbett · Sofia Criswell · Alex Ehmer · Laurence Elias · Carol Elkovich · Eden Evans · Anna Feldman · Sneha Gindodiya · Kate Goka · Kris Goodie · Jennifer Boyuan Han · Yang Hu · Elizabeth Kendall · Emily Kenyon · Suzy Kopf · Shay Lari-Hosain · Kate Laster · Nagi Lee · Carey Lin · Nico Lown Heitz · Yuki Maruyama · Christine Meuris · Claudia Morales · Firouzeh Nourzad · Mokhtar Paki · Sun Park · Moonji Pickering · Adriana Raquel Ramirez · Leah Rosenberg · Sanaz Safanasab · Erik Schmitt · Julia Schwartz · Gabby Severson · Meghna Sharma · René Smith · Siana Smith · Dobee Snowber · Sam Soon · Salix Staley · Beatrice Thornton · Ali Vaughan · Jane Whitley · Sharon Yan · Jes Young · Elena Yu · Abby Zhang · Stella Zhang

Berkeley Art Center

Jun 13 – Aug 15

Al Farrow: It's Not Dark Yet

Al Farrow

Catharine Clark

Jun 6 – Aug 15

Chester Arnold: A Brief Summary of My So-Called Life

Chester Arnold

Catharine Clark

Jun 6 – Aug 15

PLEASE. STAY. TOUCH. Jess Curtis Experiments with Gravity

Jess Curtis

Fort Mason

Jun 20 – Aug 15

Slice of the Pie

Fraenkel Gallery

May 28 – Aug 15

Patricia Piccinnini: Centrifugal Love Landscape

Patricia Piccinnini

Hosfelt Gallery

Jul 11 – Aug 15

The Confluence: A Joyful Resistance

Jackie Fawn, Raul Gonzalez, Isaac Murdoch +6 more

Richmond Art Center

Jun 24 – Aug 15

Daughter of the Earth

Pragati Sharma Mohanty

Richmond Art Center

Jun 24 – Aug 15

Made in Richmond

Tatiana Henke, Alice Carroll, Art Hazelwood +1 more

Richmond Art Center

Jun 24 – Aug 15

Cut and Color

Selma Abinader, Kristianna Bertelsen, Erica Bridgeman +31 more

Richmond Art Center

Jun 24 – Aug 15

Video Craft

Danielle Andress, Sydney Cash, Gregory Climer +16 more

MCD

Feb 28 – Aug 16

Ancestral Echoes — Crops of Empire

Demetri Broxton

MoAD

Jun 10 – Aug 16

Demetri Broxton: Ancestral Echoes

Demetri Broxton

MoAD

Jun 10 – Aug 16

UNBOUND: Art, Blackness & the Universe

Lorna Simpson, Rashaad Newsome, Gustavo Nazareno +2 more

MoAD

Oct 1 – Aug 16

1,000 Ways to Hold

Erika Chong Shuch

Anderson Collection

Apr 2 – Aug 17

At the Edge

Alain Fastre, Angela Wardlaw, Angelica Arras +7 more

Mirada Art

Jul 23 – Aug 17

Summer Arangement

Ben Aronson, Dewey Crumpler, Nnenna Okore +1 more

Jenkins Johnson

Jun 26 – Aug 19

Downs the Hills and Around the Bends

Grayson Kop, Andrew Bixler, James Leung +4 more

Creativity Explored

Jun 25 – Aug 22

The AO Series – Anna Colom & Nayelli Rosas

Anna Colom, Nayelli Rosas

Galería de la Raza

Jun 6 – Aug 22

Madeleine Tonzi - "Terraesthesia"

Madeleine Tonzi

Hashimoto

Aug 1 – Aug 22

Lou Benesch - "The Magician's Room"

Lou Benesch

Hashimoto

Aug 1 – Aug 22

We’re a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again

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

Kala

May 26 – Aug 22

Amrita Singhal: Hello, Moon

Amrita Singhal

Kala

May 26 – Aug 22

TRUFFLE HOUND

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS, FACUNDO ARGAÑARAZ, AMANDA CURRERI +14 more

Romer Young

Jul 15 – Aug 22

Teaching Gallery / The Politics of the Poster

BAMPFA

May 13 – Aug 23

Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPS

Meriem Bennani

BAMPFA

May 6 – Aug 23

Miguel Novelo: INFRAMUNDO

Miguel Novelo

ICA San Jose

Apr 18 – Aug 23

Anoushka Mirchandani: My Body Was A River Once

Anoushka Mirchandani

ICA San Jose

Jan 16 – Aug 23

Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Diedrick Brackens

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements

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

YBCA

Mar 13 – Aug 23

Open Geometry for Emotional Use

Nancy Mona Russell

Nelson Duni

Aug 1 – Aug 26

SNAPPED: Art Bias Photography Open

Art Bias

Aug 2 – Aug 27

Summer Highlights

Barry McGee, Bruce Cohen, Val Britton +3 more

Berggruen Gallery

Jul 9 – Aug 27

In Bloom

Margo Becker, Audrey Ducas, Emily Kepulis +2 more

Maybaum Gallery

Jul 1 – Aug 27

Milk Feet

Mitsu Okubo

Bass & Reiner

Jul 11 – Aug 28

The Out There is Right Here

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

Blunk Space

Jun 6 – Aug 29

Lynne Drexler / Vivian Springford

Lynne Drexler, Vivian Springford

COL Gallery

Jul 17 – Aug 29

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

Turn the Party

Cynthia McIntosh

Minnesota Street

Jul 11 – Aug 29

Near Poets

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

re.riddle

Jul 23 – Aug 29

"Paul's Drawings" by Paul Pickrel

Paul Pickrel

Themes+Projects

Aug 1 – Aug 29

"Turn the Party" by Cynthia McIntosh

Cynthia McIntosh

Themes+Projects

Jul 11 – Aug 29

"Paul's Drawings" by Paul Pickrel

Paul Pickrel

Themes+Projects

Aug 1 – Aug 29

"Turn the Party" by Cynthia McIntosh

Cynthia McIntosh

Themes+Projects

Jul 11 – Aug 29

A Continent, Up Close — Directors' Selection

Opa Bathily, Ayanda Mabulu, Carol Cauldwell +13 more

AOCA

Jul 23 – Aug 30

Robin Hope — Kore

Robin Hope

Et al.

Jul 16 – Aug 30

Alive! with Pleasure

Rainen Knecht

Et al.

Jul 16 – Aug 30

Shape of Thought

Jay Defeo, Deborah Lohrke, Sandra Ono +3 more

MarinMOCA

May 16 – Aug 30

2026 Plein Air Show

Jahyun Bae, John Barrows, Leora Baumgarten +17 more

Coastal Arts League Public Art Gallery

Jul 30 – Aug 31

This Photograph Is My Proof

Diane Althoff

Manetti Shrem Museum

Apr 1 – Aug 31

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

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

Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal, David Simpson

Fort Mason

Jul 10 – Sep 5

The Shape of Looking

Rebekah Goldstein, Ricardo Mazal, David Simpson

Haines Gallery

Jul 10 – Sep 5

Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger & Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger, Asuka Anastacia Ogawa

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

Ana Elisa Egreja: The Flight of Color

Ana Elisa Egreja

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

BOLD SHAPES

Teresa Baker, Genesis Belanger, Julie Béna +1 more

Jessica Silverman

Jul 16 – Sep 5

Jessica Cadkin & Michael Lynch — The End

Jessica Cadkin, Michael Lynch

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

RAINEY STRAUS re(COMPOSING)

Rainey Straus

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

Monika Mayer — Linked

Monika Mayer

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

Cade Salamanca — The Final Push

Cade Salamanca

Mercury 20

Jul 31 – Sep 5

Tribute: Farms, Fish, Flowers

M Stark Gallery

Jul 25 – Sep 6

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

Jake Elwes

SFMOMA

May 23 – Sep 6

FX Harsono: Writing in the Rain

FX Harsono

Asian Art

Jun 26 – Sep 7

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

Lala Rukh

Asian Art

Feb 13 – Sep 7

Monica Canilao at The Guardhouse

Monica Canilao

FOR-SITE

May 29 – Sep 7

The Dome Show

Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen, Bella Feldman +2 more

di Rosa Napa

May 2 – Sep 12

The Dome Show

Marilyn Levine, Peter Voulkos, Clay Jensen +2 more

di Rosa SF

May 2 – Sep 12

Åsa Schick: Echoes of Elsewhere

Åsa Schick

Paul Thiebaud

Jul 11 – Sep 12

Contemporary Women of Abstraction

Donna Brookman, Linda Fleming, Sylvia Fragoso +13 more

Paul Thiebaud

Jul 11 – Sep 12

Lexica

Kristin Bauer, Danielle Lawrence, Brody Reiman +1 more

SoEx

Aug 15 – Sep 12

Daniel McClain: Lost and Found

Daniel McClain

Transmission Gallery

Jul 30 – Sep 12

Life in Space

Exploratorium

Jun 11 – Sep 13

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

Monica Canilao

Fort Mason

May 29 – Sep 13

Matisse's Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal

Henri Matisse, André Derain, Albert Marquet +7 more

SFMOMA

May 16 – Sep 13

Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto

Miljohn Ruperto

Cantor Arts Center

Mar 12 – Sep 14

Miljohn Ruperto: Ultimate Days

Miljohn Ruperto

Minnesota Street

Mar 12 – Sep 14

Woven Through

Angela Wardlaw, Angelica Arras, Daniel Haniger +6 more

Mirada Art

Aug 20 – Sep 14

Terri Friedman: Overmuch

Terri Friedman

Anthony Meier

Jul 16 – Sep 18

Angie Zheng 郑晴: 印象/Impressions

Angie Zheng

Minnesota Street

Jul 23 – Sep 19

Summerscape 2026

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

SFArtsED

Aug 8 – Sep 19

Virtual Crush

Melissa Broder, Arvida Byström, Claudia Hart +5 more

Slash

May 2 – Sep 19

Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth: Hands of the Maker

Donald (Aldo) Farnsworth

Transmission Gallery

Aug 6 – Sep 19

Peter d'Agostino: World Wide Walks / SFBay

Peter d'Agostino

Transmission Gallery

Jul 30 – Sep 19

Michele Pred: Projecting Democracy

Michele Pred

di Rosa Napa

Jun 20 – Sep 20

The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy

Legion of Honor

May 2 – Sep 20

A Mi Manera

SJMQT

Jun 5 – Sep 20

Catching Waves: Surfing in Bolinas Since 1909

Bolinas Museum

Jun 20 – Sep 26

This Asian American Life

Various artists

Asian Art

Sep 19 – Sep 28

Bringing the Thunder

Christine Holub Carrig

The Vault

Jul 1 – Sep 30

Bay Area Walls

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

SFMOMA

Sep 28 – Oct 1

Ruth Asawa: Endless Variations

Ruth Asawa

Minnesota Street

Aug 8 – Oct 3

Mirrored Dreams

Arminée Chahbazian, Minami Oya

TINT Gallery

Aug 8 – Oct 4

Open Net

Et al.

Sep 4 – Oct 9

Suzanne Adan I'm No Spring Chicken

Suzanne Adan

Crocker Art

Jun 28 – Oct 11

Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant

Enrique Martínez Celaya

Wendi Norris

Nov 8 – Oct 11

Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory

Mildred Howard

OMCA

Jun 12 – Oct 11

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

Christine Howard Sandoval

SJMA

Apr 10 – Oct 18

Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction

Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, George Miyasaki +4 more

Cantor Arts Center

Nov 19 – Oct 26

Al-An deSouza: Table Settings

Al-An deSouza

Asian Art

Apr 9 – Nov 2

Nancy Baker Cahill: FREE

Nancy Baker Cahill

Gray Area

Jul 4 – Nov 4

Campus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

Lotty Rosenfeld

BAMPFA

Aug 12 – Nov 15

Justin Caguiat and Rafael Delacruz: The Tramp

Justin Caguiat, Rafael Delacruz

Wattis Institute

Jun 10 – Nov 21

Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Maren Hassinger

BAMPFA

Jun 6 – Nov 29

Gleefully Askew A Gladys Nilsson Retrospective

Gladys Nilsson

Crocker Art

Jul 19 – Nov 29

Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds

Graciela Iturbide

SFMOMA

Jul 11 – Nov 29

Out of Line: Art at the Edge

Bruce Nauman, Mike Henderson, Malaquías Montoya +2 more

Manetti Shrem Museum

Aug 26 – Dec 5

Woody De Othello: coming forth by day

Woody De Othello

Manetti Shrem Museum

Aug 12 – Dec 5

Rooted in Place: California Native Art

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

de Young

Aug 26 – Dec 6

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

Mathias Kauage, Elizabeth (Elisabet) Kauage, Apa Hugo

de Young

Mar 30 – Dec 6

David Best: Eyes and Ears

David Best

di Rosa Napa

Aug 8 – Dec 6

Carolyn Lazard: Long Take

Carolyn Lazard

Cantor Arts Center

Aug 6 – Dec 13

Artist-in-Residence: CFGNY

CFGNY

Wattis Institute

Aug 24 – Dec 19

Imaginate Saturdays

Creativity Explored

Jan 10 – Dec 19

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

Clint Strydom

AOCA

Mar 11 – Dec 31

THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)

Jeffrey Gibson

ICA SF

Jan 1 – Jan 1, 2027

GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

GaHee Park

YBCA

Aug 7 – Jan 3, 2027

Motherboards

SJMA

Apr 10 – Jan 10, 2027

Treasures of the Pharaohs

de Young

Aug 1 – Jan 31, 2027

Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON

Rose B. Simpson

de Young

Aug 30 – Feb 7, 2027

Hot Takes New Acquisitions in Glass

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

Crocker Art

Jul 26 – Feb 14, 2027

a small ocean swallowed

Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Belli, Kiyo Gutierrez +3 more

SJMA

Jul 10 – Feb 14, 2027

Eternal Paris: Photographing the City of Light

Louis-Gabriel Loppé, Eugène Atget

Legion of Honor

Sep 5 – Feb 28, 2027

Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs

Anna Halprin, Eikoh Hosoe, Tatsumi Hijikata +7 more

SFMOMA

May 16 – Feb 28, 2027

Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood

Kim Minwook

Asian Art

Jul 30 – Mar 29, 2027

Being Human

Exploratorium

Jun 16 – Apr 10, 2027

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

Sarah Cain

BAMPFA

Oct 30 – Jun 6, 2027

O. Smith: Artivist

O. Smith, Orlando Smith

SFMOMA

Jul 25 – Jun 20, 2027

Kim Frohsin: Symbols and Figures with Stories

Kim Frohsin

Paul Thiebaud

Jun 12 – Jun 30, 2027

Rose B. Simpson: Behold

Rose B. Simpson

SFMOMA

Jan 17 – Jun 30, 2027

Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

BAMPFA

Aug 5 – Jul 11, 2027

Miró: Proof Against All

Joan Miró

Legion of Honor

Jul 25 – Jul 25, 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

Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journey

Various artists

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

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

Ashwini Bhat

Asian Art

Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2027

Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnel

Olafur Eliasson

SFMOMA

Aug 1 – Dec 31, 2027

JANE!

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

Cantor Arts Center

Jul 2 – May 18, 2028

Arts of Indigenous America

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

de Young

Aug 26 – Aug 31, 2028