Upcoming Exhibitions

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  • Mark Bradford
    Mark Bradford
    February 18 - 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…

  • Rineke Dijkstra
    Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
    February 18 - 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…

  • Descriptive Acts
    Descriptive Acts
    February 18 - 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…

  • Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of SFMOMA and Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
    March 10 - July 08, 2012

    This exhibition explores the diverse tradition of photography in Mexico, from the medium's first flowering in the wake of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and the explosion of the…

  • The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
    March 31 - July 29, 2012

    The Bay Area attracts dreamers, progressives, nonconformists, and designers. Buckminster Fuller was all of these, and though he never lived in San Francisco, his ideas spawned many…

  • Parra
    March 31 - July 29, 2012

    This exhibition combines a 60-foot-long mural and a selection of print works by Dutch graphic artist Parra in his first U.S. museum presentation. Parra began his illustration and…

  • Cindy Sherman
    July 14 - October 07, 2012

    Cindy Sherman is recognized as one of the most important contemporary artists of the last 40 years and arguably the most influential artist working exclusively with photography.…