Exhibitions in San Francisco
July 2027
July at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 6 closing, and 6 more on view across the city.
Closing in July
Jean-Luc Godard’s Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts4 JulBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Posters Gvido Augusts designed for Godard's first Berkeley visit in 1968, commissioned by the Pacific Film Archive's Tom Luddy.
O. Smith: Artivist4 JulSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Pencil-on-paper drawings by self-described artivist Orlando Smith, chronicling the criminal legal system and abuses of power.
Shepard Fairey Mural: Frida Kahlo9 JulMinnesota Street Project · Free
Shepard Fairey's outdoor Frida Kahlo mural, made alongside his Toyroom Gallery show Fractured, on Indiana Street at 1231 25th St.
Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las frutas del labor11 JulBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Oakland artist Marcel Pardo Ariza's site-specific Art Wall installation pays homage to the art handlers who care for museum collections.
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection11 JulBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
A yearlong collection show on utopia, drawing on works from many periods and places to imagine spiritual, social and political possibilities.
- Miró: Proof Against All25 Jul
Legion of Honor
A focused look at À toute épreuve (1958), the Miró and Paul Éluard book for which Miró cut more than 230 woodblocks, the high point of his work as an illustrator.
Also on through July
Radical Blooms: The Unexpected Power of Flowersto 9 AugOakland Museum of California (OMCA)
Across art, activism and culture, how California's flowers have carried meanings of beauty, resistance, healing and connection.
The Science Behind Pixarto 6 SeptExploratorium
More than 50 interactive elements across eight sections reveal the maths, science and technology Pixar uses to make its films, with re-creations of Buzz Lightyear, WALL•E and more.
New Work: Raven Chaconto 7 NovSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
A new commission by Pulitzer-winning composer Raven Chacon reimagining the landscapes of Navajo Nation as a speculative future.
Leah Rosenberg: The Sea Is But Another Skyto 31 DecFort Mason Center for Arts & Culture · Free
Mural across 18 painted loading docks between Buildings B and C, shifting from sunrise to sunset and sky to sea. Fort Mason's 50th-anniversary commission.
Nengi Omuku: The Gatheringto 14 Mayde Young Museum
Nigerian painter Nengi Omuku's first US solo museum show: dreamlike scenes painted on handwoven Yoruba sanyan cloth, alongside works from the arts of Africa collection.
Arts of Indigenous Americato 31 Augde 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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