Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
Ongoing
Sideways Glance
/ slash art • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Feb 20
Martin Malvar: For Your Amusement
Bass & Reiner Gallery • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Nov 28
The AO Series Pt. 3 – Edy Cahueque & Mabel Valdiviezo
Galería de la Raza — Studio 24 • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Dec 31
Felicia Chiao: Not Too Sweet
Harman Projects SF • Dogpatch
On view Oct 3 - 24
Yerrie Choo: Nyquil Oasis
Moth Belly Gallery • North Beach
On view Oct 3 - Nov 30
RM: Between You and Me
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Oct 3 - Feb 7
Patrick Hughes: The Illusion of Space
Scott Richards Contemporary Art • Union Square
On view Oct 3 - Nov 14
David C. Driskell: David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody
Jenkins Johnson Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 2 - Dec 19
Rob Reynolds: Be Like the Sun, Never Done
Anthony Meier • San Francisco
On view Oct 1 - Dec 18
Mayme Kratz: To Know the Dark
Dolby Chadwick Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - 31
Amy Hamley: A New Place To Be From
Maybaum Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - 31
Leon Phillips: MondoChromatic: New West Coast Colorways
Wessling Contemporary • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - Nov 7
Dorian Reid: Calling All Cats!
Museum of the African Diaspora • SoMa
On view Sep 30 - Dec 6
After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora • SoMa
On view Sep 30 - May 30
Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages
Museum of the African Diaspora • SoMa
On view Sep 30 - May 30
Francesca Anfossi
Blunk Space • San Francisco
On view Sep 26 - Oct 10
Beyond the Endgame
Qualia Contemporary Art • San Francisco
On view Sep 26 - Nov 14
The Joyful Body of the Word: Betsy Davids and the Book
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 26 - Dec 20
José Villalobos & Regina Saura
Caldwell Snyder Gallery • Union Square
On view Sep 25 - Oct 31
Dread Scott: The Body Politic
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 25 - Jan 31
Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 25 - Jan 31
Unfinished Lines
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 24 - Oct 24
Hampton Boyer: Wielding Instinct
Romer Young Gallery • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 24 - Oct 31
Shape of the Sky
K Imperial Fine Art • Union Square
On view Sep 22 - Oct 31
Raymond Meeks: Assemblage
Casemore Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Sep 19 - Nov 14
Celebrate and Explore
Chloe Gallery • Pacific Heights
On view Sep 19 - Oct 14
What We Hold
Kala Art Institute • Berkeley
On view Sep 19 - Dec 23
Black (Space) Residency alumni: BLACK INTERIORS: Celebrating 5 Years of Black (Space) Residency
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 19 - Oct 31
Celebrating 25 Years at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
Paul Thiebaud Gallery • Jackson Square
On view Sep 19 - Nov 7
Stereo Dynamic
Creative Growth Art Center • San Francisco
On view Sep 18 - Nov 21
ART EXHIBIT
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture • Marina
On view Sep 17 - Jan 24
Yoon Chung Han Dreaming Babies: illi
Gray Area / Grand Theater • Mission
On view Sep 17 - Oct 22
SF Camerawork members (100+ artists): TAPE UP: The Members Show
SF Camerawork • Marina
On view Sep 17 - Oct 25
Patrick Dintino | Persuasion
Andrea Schwartz Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 16 - Oct 29
250 Years, Indigenous Futures
Haines Gallery • Union Square
On view Sep 15 - Oct 31
Shannon Rogers: Myriad
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
On view Sep 13 - Oct 24
I see every wave
Berkeley Art Center • Berkeley
On view Sep 12 - Nov 22
20 Years - Anniversary Exhibition
Eleanor Harwood Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
David Choong Lee: Trace
Heron Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space
Mills College Art Museum • San Francisco
On view Sep 12 - Dec 6
Megan Broughton: False Horizon
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces we Hold
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Flora + Fauna
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 24
James HAYWARD Works 1975-2013
Modernism Inc. • Tenderloin
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Blaise Rosenthal: A Far Country
Municipal Bonds • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Jean Nagai: As Cloud As Possible
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Rex Ray
Themes+Projects • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Liam Everett: the passenger
Berggruen Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 10 - Oct 29
Defining the Century Modern Visionaries from Picasso to Calder
Berggruen Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 10 - Oct 22
WILLIAM ROPER-CURZON: Reflections of Mani
CULT Aimee Friberg • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 10 - Oct 24
Lee Friedlander: Maria
Fraenkel Gallery • Union Square
On view Sep 10 - Oct 24
Wolfgang Paalen and Alice Rahon | Worlds Gone and to Come
Gallery Wendi Norris • Jackson Square
On view Sep 10 - Oct 24
Lava Thomas: Lineage
Jessica Silverman • Chinatown
On view Sep 10 - Oct 24
Sadie Barnette: 28
Jessica Silverman • Chinatown
On view Sep 10 - Oct 24
Character Development
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 10 - Oct 31
Media Legacies of the Cold War
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Sep 9 - Dec 13
Deborah Brown: Wild Precious Life
Marrow Gallery • Richmond
On view Sep 9 - Oct 10
Alex Weinstein: I'll Be Your Mirror
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 9 - Oct 17
Sarah M. Newton: Interruptions in the Bay Trail
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 8 - Oct 10
Stefan Kürten: Echoes From The Past
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 8 - Oct 10
Eugène Atget: Eternal Paris
Legion of Honor • Lincoln Park
On view Sep 5 - Feb 28
OBJECTS: USA
Museum of Craft and Design • Dogpatch
On view Sep 5 - Jan 17
Antwoine Washington: Life Be Lifing
COL Gallery • Fisherman's Wharf
On view Sep 4 - Nov 6
Open Net
Et al. etc. • Mission
On view Sep 4 - Oct 9
Punctum(s)
Et al. etc. • Mission
On view Sep 4 - Oct 11
Gamaliel Rodríguez: A fluorescent realm
Rebecca Camacho Presents • Lower Nob Hill
On view Sep 3 - Oct 24
Stacy Lynn Waddell: Stranger
Rebecca Camacho Presents • Lower Nob Hill
On view Sep 3 - Oct 24
Dominique Fung & Heidi Lau
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Sep 1
Sandow Birk: An Illustrated History of the Present
Catharine Clark Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Aug 29 - Nov 7
Mitch Iburg: Talus
hugomento • Dogpatch
Aug 28
Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 26 - Jan 24
Personal to Political
Paulson Fontaine Press • Berkeley
On view Aug 26 - Oct 26
Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Ongoing
Shrey Purohit at The Ramp Gallery
SOMArts • SoMa
On view Aug 21 - Oct 13
Market/Value
Thacher Gallery • Lone Mountain
On view Aug 19 - Nov 10
In Populated Air
Karl Art SF • San Francisco
On view Aug 14 - Oct 30
Paul Klee: Klee Behind the Mask
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Aug 8
GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Aug 7 - Jan 3
Marcel Pardo Ariza: Art Wall, Las frutas del labor
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 5 - Jul 11
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 5 - Jul 11
Sarah Klein: Counting the Day Until I See You Again
Kala Art Institute • Berkeley
On view Aug 1 - Feb 28
Miró: Proof Against All
Legion of Honor • Lincoln Park
On view Jul 25 - 25
Brett Flanigan: Within, and all around
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
Jul 25
Isaac Vazquez Avila: Unruly Inland Scenes
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
Jul 25
O. Smith: Artivist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Jul 25 - Jun 20
Amy Trachtenberg: Abstract Objects of Devotion
500 Capp Street • Mission
On view Jul 24 - Oct 17
Andy Vogt: The Ringing in My Eyes
500 Capp Street • Mission
On view Jul 24 - Oct 17
Graciela Iturbide: Between Two Worlds
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Jul 11 - Nov 29
a small ocean swallowed
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Jul 10 - Feb 14
Jean-Luc Godard's Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jul 8 - 4
Nancy Baker Cahill: FREE
Gray Area / Grand Theater • Mission
On view Jul 4 - Nov 4
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Jun 26
Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory
Oakland Museum of California • San Francisco
On view Jun 12 - Oct 18
Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp
California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute • Potrero Hill
On view Jun 10 - Nov 21
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jun 6 - Nov 29
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jun 5 - Nov 28
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view May 16 - Feb 28
Alexandre Estrela: RedSkyFalls
California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute • Potrero Hill
On view May 9 - Nov 21
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Apr 18 - Dec 7
Motherboards
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Apr 10 - Jan 10
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Apr 9 - Nov 2
Jeffrey Gibson: THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Feb 11
10,000
NODE • San Francisco
On view Jan 23 - 23
Claes Oldenburg + Coosje van Bruggen: Thinking Big
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Ongoing
Sarah Cain: To—you know—you
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Oct 30 - Jun 6
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park
On view Aug 26 - Dec 6
Arts of Indigenous America
de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park
On view Aug 26 - 31
Shepard Fairey: Frida Kahlo
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Jun 14 - Jul 9
Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic
Oakland Museum of California • San Francisco
Apr 4
Ashwini Bhat: What Will It Take / For Us To Awake?
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
Apr 3
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
Ongoing
Collecting a Moment
Oakland Museum of California • San Francisco
Ongoing
Table Manners
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Sep 14 - Apr 4
Patrick Martinez: Dogpatch Community Court
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Sep 1
