Nina Zurier: Painted Pots
Et al. etc. • Mission
On view Oct 16 - Nov 29
RM: Between You and Me
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Oct 3 - Feb 7
Tangled Web: Weaving as a Conceptual Practice
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Oct 17 - Nov 25
2026 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition
SOMArts • SoMa
On view Oct 17 - Nov 15
Beto de Volder: Errant Geometries
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Oct 17 - Nov 25
In Their Name: Día de Los Muertos 2026
SOMArts • SoMa
On view Oct 24 - Nov 20
Andrea Higgins Self-Portraits
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Oct 17 - Nov 25
João Ruas: OSSO
Ryan Graff Contemporary • Lower Nob Hill
On view Oct 10 - Nov 7
Ruth Asawa: Lasting Joy: Asawa Family Selections
Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. • Dogpatch
On view Oct 10 - Dec 16
Excavating Uranus, A Psalm for Nyota Uhura
San Francisco Arts Commission • Civic Center
On view Oct 8 - Jan 30
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jun 6 - Nov 29
Collecting a Moment
Oakland Museum of California • San Francisco
Ongoing
Ashwini Bhat: What Will It Take / For Us To Awake?
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
Apr 3
Jeffrey Gibson: THIS BURNING WORLD (2026)
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Feb 11
Johannes Schramm: Recent Paintings
Caldwell Snyder Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 8 - 31
Isaac Vazquez Avila: Unruly Inland Scenes
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
Jul 25
Motherboards
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Apr 10 - Jan 10
OBJECTS: USA
Museum of Craft and Design • Dogpatch
On view Sep 5 - Jan 17
Contemporary German Painting
Hosfelt Gallery • SoMa
On view Oct 8 - Nov 14
Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 25 - Jan 31
What We See, What We Keep
EUQINOM Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Oct 6 - Nov 7
Miró: Proof Against All
Legion of Honor • Lincoln Park
On view Jul 25 - 25
Dread Scott: The Body Politic
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 25 - Jan 31
Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Apr 18 - Dec 7
The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space
Mills College Art Museum • San Francisco
On view Sep 12 - Dec 6
Martin Malvar: For Your Amusement
Bass & Reiner Gallery • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Dec 1
Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild: A Verb Meaning to Wash One's Wounds in an Ocean
/ slash art • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Dec 19
David C. Driskell: David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody
Jenkins Johnson Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 2 - Dec 19
The AO Series Pt. 3 – Edy Cahueque & Mabel Valdiviezo
Galería de la Raza — Studio 24 • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Dec 31
Patrick Hughes: The Illusion of Space
Scott Richards Contemporary Art • Union Square
On view Oct 3 - Nov 14
Yerrie Choo: Nyquil Oasis
Moth Belly Gallery • North Beach
On view Oct 3 - Nov 30
2026 Next Generation Bamboo Art Prize Winners
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Oct 1 - Jan 4
Sideways Glance
/ slash art • Mission
On view Oct 3 - Feb 20
Leon Phillips: MondoChromatic: New West Coast Colorways
Wessling Contemporary • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - Nov 7
Amy Hamley: A New Place to be From
Maybaum Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - 31
After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora • SoMa
On view Sep 30 - May 30
Dorian Reid: Calling All Cats!
Museum of the African Diaspora • SoMa
On view Sep 30 - Dec 6
Mayme Kratz: To Know the Dark
Dolby Chadwick Gallery • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - 31
Art from Contemporary Cambodia
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Aug 27 - Jan 25
Chromatic Deviations: New West Coast Colorism
Wessling Contemporary • Union Square
On view Oct 1 - Nov 7
Antwoine Washington: Life Be Lifing
COL Gallery • Fisherman's Wharf
On view Sep 4 - Nov 6
Marcel Pardo Ariza: Art Wall, Las frutas del labor
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 5 - Jul 11
Thinking Big
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Ongoing
Choreographies of Calamity: Art Hazelwood and the Media of War
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Sep 16 - Dec 13
Sarah Cain: To—you know—you
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Oct 30 - Jun 6
Drawn Together
Creativity Explored • Mission
On view Sep 10 - Nov 21
Jennifer Steinkamp: It's a nice day for a white wedding.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Aug 22 - Jan 15
Hampton Boyer: Wielding Instinct
Romer Young Gallery • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 24 - Oct 31
Shaghayegh Cyrous: Breathe the Sun
Telematic Media Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 11 - Oct 31
Black (Space) Residency alumni: BLACK INTERIORS: Celebrating 5 Years of Black (Space) Residency
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 19 - Oct 31
Moving San Francisco: Views from the SFMTA Photo Archive 1903 - Now
San Francisco Arts Commission • Civic Center
On view Jan 15 - Nov 25
I see every wave
Berkeley Art Center • Berkeley
On view Sep 12 - Nov 22
Leah Rosenberg: The Sea Is But Another Sky
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture • Marina
On view Sep 17 - Dec 31
Shape Of The Sky
K Imperial Fine Art • Union Square
On view Sep 22 - Oct 31
Alexandre Estrela: RedSkyFalls
California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute • Potrero Hill
On view May 9 - Nov 21
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Sep 25 - Jan 25
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
Ongoing
Liam Everett: the passenger
Berggruen Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 10 - Oct 29
Rose B. Simpson: Behold
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Jun 26
Raymond Meeks: Assemblage
Casemore Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Sep 19 - Nov 14
In Populated Air
Karl Art SF • San Francisco
On view Aug 14 - Oct 30
Rex Ray
Themes+Projects • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Sandow Birk: An Illustrated History of the Present
Catharine Clark Gallery • Dogpatch
On view Aug 29 - Nov 7
Kim Minwook: On Carving, Bending, and Binding Wood
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Jul 30 - Mar 29
Blaise Rosenthal: A Far Country
Municipal Bonds • Potrero Hill
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Patrick Dintino: Persuasion
Andrea Schwartz Gallery • SoMa
On view Sep 16 - Oct 29
Malcolm W. Kenter: Synecdoche
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Sep 16 - Dec 13
Jean-Luc Godard's Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jul 8 - 4
a small ocean swallowed
San Jose Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Jul 10 - Feb 14
Arts of Indigenous America
de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park
On view Aug 26 - 31
José Villalobos & Regina Saura
Caldwell Snyder Gallery • Union Square
On view Sep 25 - Oct 31
GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts • SoMa
On view Aug 7 - Jan 3
Rose B. Simpson: LEXICON
de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park
On view Aug 30 - Feb 7
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Jun 5 - Nov 28
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
Ongoing
Jean Nagai: As Cloud As Possible
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Dominique Fung & Heidi Lau
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Sep 1
10,000
NODE • San Francisco
On view Jan 23 - 23
Al-An deSouza: Table Settings
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Apr 9 - Nov 2
Market/Value
Thacher Gallery • Lone Mountain
On view Aug 19 - Nov 10
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 5 - Jul 11
O. Smith: Artivist
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Jul 25 - Jun 20
Brett Flanigan: Within, and all around
Part 2 Gallery • San Francisco
Jul 25
250 Years, Indigenous Futures
Haines Gallery • Union Square
On view Sep 15 - Oct 31
Fix Your Face: Representations of the Female Gaze
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art • San Francisco
On view Sep 16 - Jun 20
Garuda in Bali
Asian Art Museum • Civic Center
On view Sep 18 - Jan 4
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
Paul Klee: Klee Behind the Mask
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
Aug 8
Patrick Martinez: Dogpatch Community Court
ICA SF • Dogpatch
Sep 1
Rooted in Place: California Native Art
de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park
On view Aug 26 - Dec 6
Megan Broughton: False Horizon
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Eugène Atget: Eternal Paris
Legion of Honor • Lincoln Park
On view Sep 5 - Feb 28
Beyond the Endgame
Qualia Contemporary Art • San Francisco
On view Sep 26 - Nov 14
David Choong Lee: Trace
Heron Arts • SoMa
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Feel the Beat: Dance in Photographs
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view May 16 - Feb 28
Character Development
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 10 - Oct 31
Nancy Baker Cahill: FREE
Gray Area / Grand Theater • Mission
On view Jul 4 - Nov 4
Isadora Gullov-Singh: Traces we Hold
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
ART EXHIBIT
Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture • Marina
On view Sep 17 - Jan 24
Shepard Fairey: Frida Kahlo
Minnesota Street Project • Dogpatch
On view Jun 14 - Jul 9
Media Legacies of the Cold War
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Sep 9 - Dec 13
Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic
Oakland Museum of California • San Francisco
Apr 4
Mitch Iburg: Talus
hugomento • Dogpatch
Aug 28
Celebrating 25 Years at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
Paul Thiebaud Gallery • Jackson Square
On view Sep 19 - Nov 7
Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive • Berkeley
On view Aug 26 - Jan 24
Table Manners
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art • SoMa
On view Sep 14 - Apr 4
James HAYWARD Works 1975-2013
Modernism Inc. • Tenderloin
On view Sep 12 - Oct 31
Stereo Dynamic
Creative Growth Art Center • San Francisco
On view Sep 18 - Nov 21
Sarah Klein: Counting the Day Until I See You Again
Kala Art Institute • Berkeley
On view Aug 1 - Feb 28
What We Hold
Kala Art Institute • Berkeley
On view Sep 19 - Dec 23
