Exhibitions in San Francisco

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

Thirty-year retrospective of Rashid Johnson, over fifty works from the 1990s on, in its final stop after the Guggenheim and MCA Chicago.

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.

de Young Museum

Bay Area artists working in ceramics, photography and painting treat the surfaces of bodies and objects as sites of identity, especially womanhood.

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.

Berkeley 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.

San 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.

Minnesota Street ProjectFree

Shepard Fairey's outdoor Frida Kahlo mural, made alongside his Toyroom Gallery show Fractured, on Indiana Street at 1231 25th St.

Berkeley 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.

Berkeley 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.

de Young Museum

The first exhibition devoted to Andrew Wyeth's watercolors: nearly 80 works, many never shown, of rural Pennsylvania and coastal Maine, with some of his paintings.

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.

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA)

Across art, activism and culture, how California's flowers have carried meanings of beauty, resistance, healing and connection.

Exploratorium

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.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

SFMOMA's first major fashion show in over 40 years pairs couture by Dior, McQueen, Balenciaga and Miyake with sculpture by Bourgeois and Moore.

de Young Museum

Over 100 works by more than 70 artists, from Rothko and Diebenkorn to Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner, on San Francisco as a postwar launchpad (1945–1969).

San 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.

Fort Mason Center for Arts & CultureFree

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.

de 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.

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.