Exhibitions in San Francisco

April 2026

April 2026 at a glance: 1 exhibition opened, 0 closed, and 11 more were on view across the city.

Detail of a watercolour from Al-An deSouza's Table Settings

Happiest Place on Earth: The Disneyland Story exhibition artwork

Olafur Eliasson, One-way colour tunnel, 2007

Detail of a Chinese landscape painting of wooded mountains

Detail of Kayan Cheung-Miaw's mural This Asian American Life

Opened in April

Al-An deSouza: Table Settings9 Apr
Asian Art Museum
A tea-stained watercolour project linking the museum's galleries to overlooked beauty in the cracks, stains and markings of city streets.

Was on view in April

Happiest Place on Earth: The Disneyland Storyto 13 Sept
The Walt Disney Family Museum
Disneyland at 70: concept art, designs, costume sketches, hand-drawn maps and rare photos trace how Walt's first park came to be. Curated by Disney Legend Don Hahn.
Olafur Eliasson: One-way colour tunnelto 4 Oct
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Last chance: walk through Eliasson's arched tunnel of prismatic colour on Floor 5 before it closes on 4 October.
Mountains of the Mind: A Chinese Landscape Journeyto 26 Oct
Asian Art Museum
Chinese landscape paintings of rivers and mountains that invite a quiet, spiritual encounter with nature.
This Asian American Lifeto 2 Nov
Asian Art Museum · Free
Kayan Cheung-Miaw's outdoor mural on the Hyde Street Art Wall sees San Francisco's Chinatown through a child's eyes: noodles, bees, bus drivers and the sound of a gao hu.
Rooted in Place: California Native Artto 6 Dec
de Young Museum
Art, ceremony and land among the Karuk, Yurok, Hupa, Tolowa, Tsnungwe and Wiyot peoples of northwestern California, with new commissions by contemporary artists.
Contemporary Painting in Papua New Guinea: Mathias Kauage and His Familyto 6 Dec
de Young Museum
Boldly coloured paintings by Mathias Kauage and his family, charting Papua New Guinea's changes before and after independence in 1975.
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICONto 7 Feb
de Young Museum · Free
Two custom cars by Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson, painted with Pueblo pottery designs, fill Wilsey Court against a vast geometric backdrop.
Table Mannersto 9 May
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
A design show on how objects shape the way we eat, and how dining becomes a communal and cultural experience.
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—youto 6 Jun
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Los Angeles painter Sarah Cain, a UC Berkeley MFA, improvises a site-specific painted installation across the museum's atrium.
Shepard Fairey Mural: Frida Kahloto 9 Jul
Minnesota Street Project · Free
Shepard Fairey's outdoor Frida Kahlo mural, made alongside his Toyroom Gallery show Fractured, on Indiana Street at 1231 25th St.
Arts of Indigenous Americato 31 Aug
de Young Museum
The biggest reinstallation of the Indigenous American collection in 20 years: four galleries on 'Relationship to Place', developed with Native scholars and communities.

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