Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Family
March 30, 2024 - December 6, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Four paintings trace family, cultural change, and contemporary life in Papua New Guinea.
Free Saturdays at the Legion of Honor
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Bay Area residents can visit the Legion of Honor’s permanent collection without general-admission ...
Free Saturdays at the de Young
January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Bay Area residents can visit the de Young’s permanent collection without general-admission charge ...
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
August 26, 2025 - December 6, 2026
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Visual Arts
Arts of Indigenous America
August 26, 2025 - August 31, 2028
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Visual Arts
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON
August 30, 2025 - February 7, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Rose B. Simpson brings Pueblo pottery, cars, and mixed media into a language of identity and continu...
This Asian American Life
September 19, 2025 - November 2, 2026
Asian Art Museum
A child’s perspective reveals moments of beauty and wonder amid daily life in Chinatown.
Black Creativity
November 6, 2025 - October 31, 2026
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Staff Picks
Modern and Contemporary American Abstraction
November 19, 2025 - October 26, 2026
Cantor Arts Center
Recent acquisitions trace mid-century American abstraction through works by Pollock, Kline, Miyasaki...
Emory Douglas: In Our Lifetime
December 5, 2025 - October 31, 2026
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Staff Picks
Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral: Works by Miljohn Ruperto
March 12 - September 14
Cantor Arts Center
Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral is the first large-scale solo museum exhibition of Manila-born, Los A...
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings
April 9 - November 2
Asian Art Museum
An ambitious watercolor project connects the museum collection to moments of beauty in overlooked pl...
The Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy
May 2 - September 20
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Exhibitions, Visual Arts
Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal
May 16 - September 13
SFMOMA
An exhibition traces the controversial debut and lasting influence of Matisse’s Femme au chapeau.
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
May 16, 2026 - February 28, 2027
SFMOMA
Photographs capture the energy, discipline, rhythm, and social life of dance.
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
June 6 - November 29
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Visual Arts, Exhibitions
Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory
June 12 - October 18
Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Visual Arts, Exhibitions, Race + Politics, Staff Picks
Nengi Omuku: The Gathering
June 27, 2026 - May 14, 2028
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Nengi Omuku’s dreamlike paintings on sanyan imagine gathering, possibility, and a better future.
JANE!
July 2, 2026 - May 18, 2028
Cantor Arts Center
An exhibition examines the Gilded Age life, collections and death of Stanford cofounder Jane Stanfor...
CALeidoscope: Evolving Reflections of California
July 11 - September 13
Lesher Center for the Arts
Visual Arts
Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds
July 11 - November 29
SFMOMA
A five-decade survey of Graciela Iturbide’s poetic black-and-white photography.
O. Smith: Artivist
July 25, 2026 - June 20, 2027
SFMOMA
Drawings and illustrated journalism by artist and activist Orlando Smith.
Miró: Proof Against All
July 25, 2026 - July 25, 2027
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Joan Miró’s eighty color woodcuts turn Paul Éluard’s poetry into a landmark artist’s book.
Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood
July 30, 2026 - March 29, 2027
Asian Art Museum
Kim Minwook works with wood shaped by weather, time, and nature.
Treasures of the Pharaohs
August 1, 2026 - January 31, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
The exhibition Treasures of the Pharaohs features 130 exquisite works that exemplify the grandeur of...
GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain
August 7, 2026 - January 3, 2027
YBCA | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
GaHee Park’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States presents recent surrealist p...
Visions of the Future
August 10 @ 8:00 AM - October 23 @ 5:00 PM PDT
Sebastopol Community Cultural Center
Visual Arts
Woody De Othello: coming forth by day
August 12 - December 5
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Oakland artist Woody De Othello explores relationships among body, earth, spirit, and material memor...
Out of Line: Art at the Edge
August 12 - December 5
What happens when the artist’s studio spills out into the world—and when the world necessarily m...
Yesterday Once More: Scenes from the Past
August 13 - October 10
The Bankhead Theater
A free joint exhibition with Pleasanton’s Harrington Gallery brings together artworks shaped by no...
A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift
August 15, 2026 - February 14, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Photographs, prints, and drawings celebrate women artists who expanded their media.
Surface Tension: Artists from the Svane Gift and Beyond
August 15, 2026 - April 11, 2027
de Young (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Eight Bay Area artists treat surfaces as sites of identity, tension, and material possibility.
Thresholds of Memory
August 20 - October 25
Miro Gallery
Namita Paul’s mixed-media textile installation examines memory, architecture, home, displacement a...
Art from Contemporary Cambodia
August 27, 2026 - January 25, 2027
Asian Art Museum
Two leading Cambodian artists draw from memory, history, and the environmental crisis to create stri...
Eternal Paris: Photographing the City of Light
September 5, 2026 - April 4, 2027
Legion of Honor (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Nearly fifty photographs trace how artists pictured and preserved the changing City of Light.
