Exhibitions
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Current Exhibitions
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- Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection
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May 18
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August 12, 2012
This exhibition of works from the SFMOMA collection explores the richness, diversity, and continuing vitality of painting over the last 50 years. Contemporary Painting showcases the
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- New Work: Katharina Wulff
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April 13
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September 09, 2012
Imbued with whimsy and gloom, vulnerability and strength, Katharina Wulff's figurative paintings blend myriad art historical styles, depicting imaginary, far-off locales often
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- Parra: Weirded Out
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
With its vibrant color, curvaceous lines, and eccentric, distinctive imagery, the bold and playful work of Dutch graphic artist Parra has garnered a substantial cult following
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- The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
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March 31
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July 29, 2012
The Bay Area has long attracted dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and although he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas
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- Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
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March 10
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July 08, 2012
Presenting a complex synthesis of art and politics, this exhibition explores Mexico's distinctively rich and diverse photography tradition from the 1920s to the present. It begins
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- Descriptive Acts
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in Descriptive Acts engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often
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- Mark Bradford
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February 18
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June 17, 2012
Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of
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- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
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February 18
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May 28, 2012
In works of classical simplicity and remarkable psychological depth, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra presents a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Whether
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- ArtGameLab
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January 15
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August 12, 2012
Imagine a selection of crowdsourced games designed by SFMOMA's community, for SFMOMA's community. Last summer the museum put out an open call for inventive but simple and low-cost
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- Paul Klee
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Ongoing
Inventive paintings, drawings, and prints by Swiss-born Modernist Paul Klee (1879-1940) are featured on an ongoing basis in the Djerassi gallery.
This exhibition will be temporarily
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- Jim Campbell: Exploded Views
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November 05, 2011
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October 23, 2012
This new installation by acclaimed San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell explodes the moving image into three dimensions, illuminating the Haas Atrium with a flickering grid of
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- Picturing Modernity
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Ongoing
This changing selection of pictures from SFMOMA's world-renowned photography collection focuses on American photography from the 1970s, highlighting the museum's rich holdings from
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- Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection
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Ongoing
This installation of works from SFMOMA's painting and sculpture collection is conceived as a series of chapters that illuminate key moments and themes in the art of the 20th
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- Rooftop Garden
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Ongoing
SFMOMA's rooftop sculpture garden and pavilion showcase a changing group of large-scale works from the museum's collection, as well as selections from the Doris and Donald Fisher












