WelcomeVisitor Guide | Spring 2020

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Select Exhibitions

Floor 1JRThe Chronicles of San FranciscoThrough May 31, 2020

On view in one of the museum’s free public spaces, this soaring digital mural by artist JR depicts a cross-section of the daily life of nearly 1,200 people in San Francisco.

Experience this work for free on Floor 1.

Floor 2Open EndedPainting and Sculpture, 1900 to NowOngoing

Painting and sculpture from SFMOMA’s collection explore themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early 20th century to our own time.

2019 SECA Art AwardThrough Apr 12, 2020

This exhibition features work by three contemporary Bay Area artists selected for this year’s SECA Art Award: Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Sahar Khoury, and Marlon Mullen.

David Park and His CircleThe Drawing SessionsApr 11–Sept 7, 2020Related exhibition: David Park: A Retrospective (Floor 4)

In the 1950s, David Park and his artistic circle held weekly figure drawing sessions. A selection of graphite, ink, and gouache drawings, featuring male and female models, reveals the dynamic and experimental nature of these meetings.

Floor 3Elad LassryThrough May 10, 2020

Elad Lassry renegotiates prescribed systems of looking through photographic images and objects, presenting a new body of work that questions how we experience and interpret pictures.

Dawoud Bey: An American ProjectFeb 15–May 25, 2020

Dawoud Bey uses his camera to document communi ties that have largely remained underrepresented or even unseen, through tender and direct portrayals of black subjects both on the street and in the studio.

Gregory Halpern: Let the Sun Beheaded BeImmersion, a French-American Commission of the Hermès FoundationMay 30–Aug 9, 2020

To create this enigmatic body of work, Gregory Halpern immersed himself in the French archipelago of Guade-loupe. Driven by intuition and encounter, he conveys a sense of place through details and contradictions.

Thought Pieces1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal FischerThrough Aug 9, 2020

Active in San Francisco in the 1970s and early ‘80s, these three artists explored the relationship between photog-raphy and language.

Floor 4New WorkNevin AladağThrough June 7, 2020

In the latest work from the Berlin-based artist, encoun-ter a series of sculptures created with musical instru-ments from around the world.

Exhibition details are subject to change. For more information, visit sfmoma.org/exhibitions.

David Park: A RetrospectiveApr 11–Sept 7, 2020

Related exhibition: David Park and His Circle (Floor 2)

David Park’s boldly executed 1950s Bay Area Figurative canvases form the heart of this exhibition encompassing the arc of his career, from tightly controlled paintings from the 1930s to final works on paper from 1960.

Tauba Auerbach — S v ZApr 25–Sept 7, 2020

Tauba Auerbach examines duality, four-dimensional space, and the structures of language and ornament through a multimedia practice grounded in math, science, and craft. Auerbach’s first survey exhibition presents her prolific and varied output over the last 16 years.

Floor 6Tatiana BilbaoArchitecture from Outside InMar 21–Aug 16, 2020

Mexico City–based architect Tatiana Bilbao considers domesticity from policy to livability. Models and draw-ings illustrate Bilbao’s extensively researched designs in response to how we live today, including a masterplan for San Francisco’s Hunters Point.

Floor 7Future HistoriesTheaster Gates and Cauleen SmithApr 25–Nov 1, 2020

Bringing together the work of two interdisciplinary artists, this presentation centers on performance-based video installations that each take archival magazine pho-tography as a point of departure.

Rafael Lozano-HemmerUnstable PresenceApr 25–Nov 1, 2020

Air and water, heartbeats and voices, and text and light are Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s materials. His installations engage our sense of play and anxieties as we experience the implications of technology and behaviors of partici-pation in social and political contexts.

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Exhibition image credits: 1) JR, The Chronicles of San Francisco, 2018 (detail); photo: courtesy JR-art.net. 2) Kay Sage, Midnight Street, 1944; SFMOMA, purchase by exchange, through a gift of Peggy Guggenheim; and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, The Sower Pt. II, from The Uninvited Series, 2016; courtesy the artist; and David Park, Figure in Chair, ca. 1958; SFMOMA, bequest of Lydia Park Moore and Roy Moore. 3) Elad Lassry, Untitled (Assignment, Pur-ple Buckle Jacket 2), 2019; courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York; and Dawoud Bey, Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY, from the series Harlem, U.S.A., 1978; courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery; and Gregory Halpern, Untitled, from the series Let the Sun Beheaded Be, 2019; courtesy the artist; and Lew Thomas, Light on the Floor, 1972, printed 2001; SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. 4) Nevin Aladağ, Resonator, 2018;

courtesy the artist and WENTRUP Gallery; and David Park, Two Bathers, 1958; SFMOMA, purchase through gifts of Mrs. Wel-lington S. Henderson, Helen Crocker Russell, and the Crocker Family, by exchange, and the Mary Heath Keesling Fund; and Tauba Auerbach, I Doubt It/But I Do It I, 2008; private collection; courtesy the artist, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and STAN-DARD (OSLO). 6) Tatiana Bilbao, Electrical substation at Hunters Point, San Francisco, 2016; courtesy Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. 7) Cauleen Smith, Sojourner, 2018 (still); photo: courtesy the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, and Kate Werble Gallery, New York; and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sphere Packing: Bach, 2018 (installation view, Unstable Presence, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 2018); Borusan Contemporary Art Collection; pho-to: Guy L. Heureux.

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