| Title | Venue | Neighborhood | Date | Time | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | |||||
| Yari Ostovany: Ethereal Resonance | Wessling Contemporary | Union Square | Thu, Aug 20 | — | Opening |
| Jacob Hashimoto: Giant Arc | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Fri, Aug 21 | 5:00pm | Opening |
| Caguiat Delacruz: The Tramp | California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute | Potrero Hill | Mon, Aug 24 | — | Opening |
| Ambrose Trataris: Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection | Gray Area / Grand Theater | Mission | Sat, Aug 29 | 2:30pm - 9:00pm | Event |
| September | |||||
| Dominique Fung & Heidi Lau | ICA SF | Dogpatch | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Amy Kaufman: Recent Work | Traywick Contemporary | Berkeley | Tue, Sep 1 | — | Opening |
| Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon | The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life | Berkeley | Wed, Sep 2 | — | Opening |
| Time Capsules: Exploring the Permanent Collection | The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life | Berkeley | Wed, Sep 2 | — | Opening |
| Ian Kimmerly | Dolby Chadwick Gallery | Union Square | Thu, Sep 3 | — | Opening |
| Eugène Atget: Eternal Paris | Legion of Honor | Lincoln Park | Sat, Sep 5 | — | Opening |
| Sarah M. Newton: Interruptions in the Bay Trail | Hosfelt Gallery | SoMa | Tue, Sep 8 | — | Opening |
| Stefan Kürten: Echoes From The Past | Hosfelt Gallery | SoMa | Tue, Sep 8 | — | Opening |
| Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley | Wed, Sep 9 | — | Opening |
| Defining the Century Modern Visionaries from Picasso to Calder | Berggruen Gallery | SoMa | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Liam Everett: the passenger | Berggruen Gallery | SoMa | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Lava Thomas: Lineage | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Sadie Barnette | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Thu, Sep 10 | — | Opening |
| Group exhibition: The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space | Mills College Art Museum | Sat, Sep 12 | — | Opening | |
| Jean Nagai | Part 2 Gallery | Sat, Sep 12 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening | |
| Shannon Rogers | Part 2 Gallery | Sat, Sep 12 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening | |
| 250 Years, Indigenous Futures | Haines Gallery | Union Square | Tue, Sep 15 | — | Opening |
| Dread Scott: The Body Politic | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | SoMa | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| Rael San Fratello: Prototypes and Provocations | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts | SoMa | Fri, Sep 25 | — | Opening |
| The Joyful Body of the Word: Betsy Davids and the Book | San Francisco Center for the Book | Potrero Hill | Sat, Sep 26 | — | Opening |
| Dorian Reid: Calling All Cats! | Museum of the African Diaspora | SoMa | Wed, Sep 30 | — | Opening |
| October | |||||
| Rob Reynolds: Be Like the Sun | Anthony Meier | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening | |
| Chromatic Deviations: New West Coast Colorism | Wessling Contemporary | Union Square | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| RM (Kim Namjoon): RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Sat, Oct 3 | — | Opening |
| Felicia Chiao | Harman Projects | Dogpatch | Sat, Oct 3 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening |
| Felicia Chiao: Not Too Sweet | Harman Projects | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Oct 3 | 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Opening |
| Andrea Higgins: Self-Portraits | Hosfelt Gallery | SoMa | Sat, Oct 17 | — | Opening |
| Beto de Volder: Errant Geometries | Hosfelt Gallery | SoMa | Sat, Oct 17 | — | Opening |
| 2026 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition | SOMArts | SoMa | Sat, Oct 17 | — | Opening |
| New Work: Raven Chacon | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Fri, Oct 23 | 5:00pm | Opening |
| Chelsea Ryoko Wong | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| GaHee Park | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| November | |||||
| Deborah Butterfield | Haines Gallery | Union Square | Sat, Nov 7 | — | Opening |
| Chuck Sperry: Archetypes | Harman Projects | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Nov 7 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Opening |
| Alicia McCarthy | Part 2 Gallery | Sat, Nov 7 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening | |
| Jeffrey Cheung | Part 2 Gallery | Sat, Nov 7 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Opening | |
| Sarah Sze: Forever is Composed of Nows | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Sat, Nov 21 | — | Opening |
| December | |||||
| Tahirah Rasheed: The Light We Carry Forward | Museum of the African Diaspora | SoMa | Wed, Dec 16 | — | Opening |
| January 2027 | |||||
| Jessie Henson | Anthony Meier | Fri, Jan 1 | — | Opening | |
| 3,626 Postcards: An Untimely Conversation with Rayyane Tabet and Jay DeFeo | California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute | Potrero Hill | Tue, Jan 19 | — | Opening |
| Artist-in-Residence: CFGNY | California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute | Potrero Hill | Tue, Jan 19 | — | Opening |
| September 2027 | |||||
| An Archive of Archives: Roman Vishniac's Exhibition History | New York, 1971-72 | The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life | Berkeley | Thu, Sep 2 | — | Opening |
