Founded in 1935, SFMOMA collects modern and contemporary art in four major categories: architecture and design, media arts, painting and sculpture, and photography.
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.
This retrospective publication, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward (2010), celebrates 75 years of SFMOMA's collecting, and includes more than 300 large-scale plates and 50 text entries on individual works.
Exhibitions & Dates
Alexander Calder: Scaling Up
Oct 21 2017 - Jan 13 2019
A close look at the small-scale beginnings of his most sizable works
René Magritte: The Fifth Season
May 19 2018 - Oct 28 2018
60+ works examine Magritte's key works from the 1940s - 60s
Susan Meiselas: Mediations
Jul 21 2018 - Oct 21 2018
Retrospective brings together projects from the beginning of her career in the 1970s to the present day
New Work: Etel Adnan
Sep 1 2018 - Jan 6 2019
Visual artist, poet and essayist presents recent works of paintings and tapestries
Louis Stettner Traveling Light
Oct 27 2018 - May 27 2019
Thematic retrospective displays the breadth of an eight-decade career
Johannes Brus New to the Collection
Oct 27 2018 - May 27 2019
Photographic works and sculpture illuminate the breadth of the artist's work
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World
Nov 10 2018 - Feb 24 2019
150 works of experimental art by 70+ contemporary artists and collectives
Wayne Thiebaud: Artist’s Choice
Sep 29 2018 - Mar 10 2019
50 years of Thiebold's works alongside paintins by old friends and new discoveries
Brassaï
Nov 17 2018 - Feb 18 2019
Prints of the artist’s enigmatic images of Parisian life
Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
Dec 15 2018 - Mar 31 2019
140 small-scale artworks of renderings of the physical world
Paul Klee and the Prinzhorn Collection
Sep 15 2018 - Mar 10 2019
Art by the mentally Ill alongside works by the 3 modernists
The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism
Dec 22 2018 - Apr 28 2019
Original sketches and archival images alongside images of the ranch today
Donald Judd: Specific Furniture
Jul 14 2018 - Nov 4 2018
Designs emerging from a need for functional, simple furniture