A guide to the new SFMOMA

Beginning in 2002, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July’s Learning to Love You More invited people all over the world to respond to seventy creative assignments set by the artists. The work includes over 8,000 submissions, including photographs, objects, texts and videos. Following the wishes of Fletcher and July, exhibitions of Learning to Love you More may be curated by other artists, and SFMOMA has invited artists Will Rogan and Jonn Herschend, the editors of the object-based publication THE THING Quarterly, to curate this exhibition.

May 14—August 21, 2016

Arranged roughly chronologically, from the medium’s invention in the nineteenth century to the present, this exhibition reveals changes in the landscape as well as shifts in photographic attitudes and subject matter. Artists on view include Ansel Adams, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Lewis Baltz, Imogen Cunningham and Lee Friedlander, as well as Dorothea Lange, Ed Ruscha, Larry Sultan, Edward Weston and Minor White, among others.

May 14—September 5, 2016

One of several exhibitions highlighting contributions from the Campaign for Art, including two key paintings by Jackson Pollock, important works by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and an entire gallery dedicated to Joseph Beuys, as well as a space devoted to the late work of photogprapher Diane Arbus, and significant historic pieces by performance and video pioneers Ant Farm, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Nam June Paik.

May 14—September 18, 2016

This thematic exhibition brings together work from across the medium’s history—from daguerreotypes to slide projections and even video installations—showcasing work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Phil Chang, Dawoud Bey, Owen Kydd and Zoe Leonard, among others, as well as Recordings #3 (At sea), a newly commissioned installation by Jason Lazarus.

May 14—September 25, 2016

This selection of sixteen paintings and watercolors by Swiss-born modernist Paul Klee explores his use of color, from a delicate 1917 miniature to a luminous landscape built from blocks of color in 1940.

May 14—September 2016

This will be Portugese sculptor Leonor Antunes' first solo museum presentation on the West coast. Antunes’s site-specific installation inaugurates a new gallery dedicated to SFMOMA’s New Work series.

May 14—October 2, 2016

This exhibition presents a selection from SFMOMA’s permanent collection of graphic design since 1950 and includes important examples of communication tools that have shaped our relationship with graphic design.

May 14—October 23, 2016

This exhibition highlights works in a variety of mediums that reflect the diversity of art being made since 1980, including key figures that emerged in New York, such as Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, and Sherrie Levine; important California artists, such as Mark Bradford, Vincent Fecteau, and Charles Ray; and international figures, such as Doris Salcedo, Thomas Schütte, Luc Tuymans, and Ai Weiwei. The exhibition also includes an installation by Matthew Barney; animations by Jim Campbell, John Gerrard and Takeshi Murata; and video works by Rivane Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães and Nicole Miller; as well as contemporary photography, including a large-scale work by Jeff Wall and a series by Cindy Sherman.

May 14—October 30, 2016

This thematic presentation centers on the notion of place from a variety of temporal and geographical angles through works by five featured artists who address specific locations as a meeting of history, geography, and cultural conditions.

This exhibition of selected American artists in the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection explores the diverse approaches to abstraction developed since 1950, from the forceful brushwork of Lee Krasner to the contemplative canvases and reliefs of Ellsworth Kelly and the enigmatic wood forms of Martin Puryear. The variety of materials and techniques included in this presentation testifies to abstraction’s enduring potential as a form of artistic expression.

Drawn from the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, this exhibition features single-artist galleries devoted to leading German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Anselm Kiefer, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter. Showcasing the span of entire careers or significant artistic phases, the installation offers unparalleled insight into these artists’ development.

This exhibition of works from the 1960s and beyond features American pop and minimal artists, as well as the work of key figures exploring the human form as subject. Featuring works by artists from the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, including Chuck Close, Philip Guston, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, among many others, this exhibition offers deeply relevant and differing lenses through which to consider the role of artists in society.

Organized as a series of chapters, this exhibition focuses on revolutionary ideas, geographical centers, individual artists and relationships between artists. Together, the works in Open Ended explore the complexities and even contradictions of modern and contemporary art, suggesting new interpretations of the museum’s collection, and examining the passions and beliefs that have spurred artists’ creativity in a rapidly changing world.