San Francisco, CA

Ruth Asawa: Retrospective (installation view, SFMOMA); artwork: © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., courtesy David Zwirner; backdrop photograph: © 2025 Rondal Partridge Archives; photo: Henrik Kam
Ruth Asawa’s Retrospective of Looped Wires

When artist Ruth…

Installation view of Qi Baishi: Inspiration In Ink, at the Asian Art Museum
Qi Baishi’s Inspiration in Ink: A Culturally Immersive Experience

The exhibition Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until April 7th, 2025, celebrates the 160th birth…

Julie Buffalohead, The Smallest Gift, 2024, Oil on canvas, 32 x 48 x 2 3/4 inches / 81.3 x 121.9 x 7 cm
Painting a Narrative with Julie Buffalohead at Jessica Silverman

Presenting at the San Francisco-based gallery, Jessica Silverman, Ponca artist …

Clare Rojas' "The Stallion", 2024, Oil on linen, Courtesy of Jessica Silverman
A Motif Exhibition from Clare Rojas, Belle of the Balls

San Francisco-based artist Clare Rojas explores the motif of dots,…

Image of Rachel Jones' Exhibition '!!!!!' by Chloe Jackman. Courtesy of MoAD.
Rachel Jones’ Abstract Psychic Landscape of Teeth and Color

Whether it be through the image of a mouth or the emotional resonance of color, British visual artist, Rachel Jones, wades into …

Lara Bohinc, Derriere Chair
Sensuality Is ‘Enthroned’ in Jessica Silverman’s Women-Inspired Design Show
From the ‘Derriere Chair’ to ‘Seduction’ These Pieces Cause a Lofty Stir
Persimmons (detail), attributed to Muqi (Chinese, active 13th century), hanging scroll; ink on paper. Collection of Daitokuji Ryokoin Temple. Important Cultural Property.
Two Important Paintings from Asia On View for First Time in U.S.
The Heart of Zen, which is on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, presents, for the first time in the United States, two of the most important paintings in Asian art.
Image from FOG Design+Art 2020.
FOG Design+Art 2022: An Inside Look at the San Fran Fair’s Return
After a year’s hiatus, the eighth annual FOG Design+Art Fair returns to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, January 20–23, 2022. Bringing together over forty major art and design dealers and galleries…
Jules Tavernier, Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California, 1878.
"Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo" Hits the West Coast
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the “Museums”) are pleased to announce the exclusive West Coast showing of Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo, which steps into the 1870–1880s, a period when…
Diego Rivera, The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on this Continent (Pan American Unity), 1940.
Pan American Unity by Diego Rivera at SFMOMA
In a groundbreaking partnership with City College of San Francisco, SFMOMA hosts Diego Rivera’s monumental mural The Marriage of the Artistic Expression of the North and of the South on the Continent…
Irresistible Deception installation image. Photo by Wyatt Hall. Courtesy of CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.
Chris Fallon: Irresistible Deception
In this new body of work, Fallon—known for his striking images of ambiguous figures that both draw on and challenge existing traditions of portraiture—explores how the practice of collecting shapes…
Hampyeonh Lee Family Collection. Photograph © Baekje Military Museum. 
Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture
Drawing a line from centuries of Confucian tradition to today’s selfie-culture, Likeness and Legacy in Korean Portraiture presents exquisite traditional draft and finished paintings alongside…
Angelo FIlomeno, Islands, 2021. Embroidery on silk shantung stretched over cotton. 10 x 8 inches.
Haines Gallery Returns with Chromotherapy
Chromotherapy brings together works in various media by nine artists: Ai Weiwei, John Chiara, Kota Ezawa, Angelo Filomeno, Andy Goldsworthy, Mike Henderson, Won Ju Lim, Meghann Riepenhoff, and David…
Abstract Tryptic featuring green, blue, yellow, orange and rust swirling brushstrokes on off-white, inconsistent canvas.
SFMOA Hosts World Premier of Joan Mitchell in September 2021
Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force—a painter who attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated art circles of 1950s New York.
Visitors inside of SFMOMA, looking at paintings
SFMOMA Reopens With Focus on Visitor and Staff Safety
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has reopened to the public with a Free Community Day.