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
Drawing the Line: Rael San Fratello at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Aug 21 2021 - Jun 5 2022
A conceptual dismantling of the border wall
Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony
Jul 3 2021 - May 2023
In Calder's dynamic sculptures, opposing elements and forces attain symbiosis
Outward Sight and Inner Vision: Paul Klee and Lee Mullican
Dec 18 2021 - Jun 26 2022
Exploring “a synthesis of outward sight and inner vision”
Art of California -- Greater than the Sum
May 22 2021 - May 29 2022
Brings to the foreground the physicality of the things around us