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.
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
Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again
May 19 2019 - Sep 2 2019
More than 350 works reconsider the continuum of his career
Louise Bourgeois: Spiders
Oct 7 2017 - Jul 14 2019
Works in a range of materials and scale
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks
Mar 30 2019 - Aug 4 2019
Works include framed paper-based art and immersive installations
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here
Apr 20 2019 - Aug 4 2019
Explore her entire career, from feminist work to her latest immersive video installations
Paul Klee and Anni Albers
Mar 23 2019 - Aug 4 2019
Weaving elevated into a bold and vibrant Modernist art form
Mythos, Psyche, Eros
Mar 30 2019 - Oct 14 2019
Works reflecting California’s unusual romantic legacy
Elemental Calder
Feb 16 2019 - Jun 28 2020
How the elements including wind and sea inspired Calder's mobiles