Founded in 1935, SFMOMA collects modern and contemporary work by artists from around the world. The collection of more than thirty thousand artworks include four major categories: architecture and design, media arts, painting and sculpture, and photography.
SFMOMA has deep holdings of work by individual artists across their careers, particularly in the Painting and Sculpture collection and the Museum is also dedicated to supporting and collecting the work of California artists, especially those active in the Bay Area.
In addition to extensive gallery space, there is a glass pavilion and two open-air spaces featuring a rotating selection of indoor and outdoor sculpture from the museum’s permanent collection.
Please check the museum website for updated exhibition information. Scheduling may have been modified as a result of the temporary museum closure.
Exhibitions & Dates
Off the Wall
Mar 6 2021 -
Five photographers engage visitors in unconventional ways
Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor
Mar 19 2021 - Dec 11 2022
Four sculptures build on the vocabulary of color theory
Pan American Unity: A Mural by Diego Rivera
Jun 28 2021 - Summer 2023
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Jul 3 2021 - May 2023
In Calder's dynamic sculptures, opposing elements and forces attain symbiosis
A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA
Mar 26 2022 - Jul 24 2022
Explores the variety of approaches that artists used during the Great Depression
Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue
Nov 20 2021 - Aug 21 2022
Exhibition weaves together historical and contemporary voices
Shifting the Silence
Apr 9 2022 - Sep 5 2022
Thirty-two women artists who use the radical language of abstraction
Speculative Portraits
Apr 9 2022 - Sep 5 2022
Technology and science expand ideas of portraiture and identity
Diego Rivera's America
Jul 16 2022 - Jan 2 2023
150+ of Rivera’s paintings, frescoes, and drawings from the 1920s to the mid-1940s