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 | | KAWS: FAMILY at SFMOMA Opens November 15 Explore the playful and poignant artistic universe created by KAWS. Marking KAWS’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, KAWS: FAMILY traces the artist’s output over the past three decades through its keen ability to connect to shared emotions and culture. From paintings, drawings, and sculptures to advertising interventions, product collaborations, and collectible toys, visitors will encounter the many creative expressions of KAWS’s distinctive language using recurring characters and pop culture appropriations.
At the heart of the exhibition is FAMILY (2021), a larger-than-life bronze sculpture that portrays KAWS’s beloved characters COMPANION, BFF, and CHUM grouped as an intimate family unit. Through their gestures of closeness and vulnerability, visitors can see themselves reflected in these figures, creating a shared sense of kinship and empathy. Borrowing from popular animated characters and cultural icons, KAWS’s characters recontextualize familiar imagery, creating a dialogue around cultural memory and contemporary life.
On view November 15, 2025 through May 3, 2026.
Image: KAWS, FAMILY, 2021; © KAWS | | PLAN YOUR VISIT | | |
 | | Image: Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love (installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 27, 2025–March 1, 2026); photo: Drew Altizer Photography | | | Experience Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love Celebrate Suzanne Jackson’s groundbreaking artistic vision through more than 80 lyrical paintings and drawings from the 1960s to today. Jackson’s life has been driven by a search for creative freedom and a bohemian spirit indebted to the San Francisco ethos of the 1950s and 1960s in which she was raised. On view now through March 1, 2026. | | PLAN YOUR VISIT | | |
 | | Image: Alejandro Cartagena, Fragmented Cities, Juarez #2, from the series Suburbia Mexicana, 2005-10; courtesy the artist; © Alejandro Cartagena | | | Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules Opens November 22 Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules is the first major retrospective of the acclaimed photographer, bringing together over two decades of his work. Born in the Dominican Republic and based in Monterrey, Mexico, Cartagena explores pressing social and environmental issues through a striking range of photographic practices that includes documentary images, collage, appropriated vernacular photographs, and AI-generated video. On view November 22, 2025 through April 19, 2026. | | PLAN YOUR VISIT | | |
 | | Image: Kara Walker, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), 2024 (installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; © Kara Walker, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and Sprüth Magers; photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio | | | Kara Walker: Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) Explore the wonder of Kara Walker’s garden of automatons set amidst an energy field of gleaming black obsidian. Kara Walker has long been recognized for her incisive examinations of the dynamics of power and the exploitation of race and sexuality. Her work leverages expressions of fantasy and humor to confront troubling histories and dominant narratives, repossessing control in the process. FREE TO SEE in our ground floor public space now through June 7, 2026. | | PLAN YOUR VISIT | | |
 | | Image: SFMOMA Museum Store; photo: Don Ross | | | Seven Floors for You to Explore Explore seven floors of art, then soak in the tranquility of our sculpture garden at Cafe 5, take a break at Steps Coffee, or enjoy a meal at our ground floor outpost of beloved SF bakery and café, Jane on Third. Top your day off with artful shopping and find something unique for everyone on your list. | | BUY TICKETS | | |
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