Opens tomorrow
Patrick Dintino | Persuasion
Opens Thursday
Muzae Sesay & Alexcia Sundra At The Guardhouse: Attentive Earth
Opens Thursday
Yoon Chung Han Dreaming Babies: illi
Opens Thursday 5:00 – 8:00 PM
250 Years, Indigenous Futures
Opens Friday 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Stereo Dynamic
Opens Saturday
Here After
Opens Saturday
What We Hold
Opens Saturday
Celebrating 25 Years at Paul Thiebaud Gallery
Opens Saturday
2026 SF Open Studios Preview Exhibition
| Title | Venue | Neighborhood | Date | Time | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September | |||||
| 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 |
| Piet Zwart: Brand Architect | Letterform Archive | Dogpatch | Sat, Sep 26 | — | Opening |
| Type for All! Ten Years of Type West | Letterform Archive | Dogpatch | Sat, Sep 26 | — | Opening |
| The Joyful Body of the Word: Betsy Davids and the Book | San Francisco Center for the Book | Potrero Hill | Sat, Sep 26 | — | Opening |
| Amy Kaufman: Recent Work | Traywick Contemporary | Berkeley | Sat, Sep 26 | — | Opening |
| Sculpting Landscapes of Desire | Headlands Center for the Arts | Sun, Sep 27 | — | Opening | |
| Beyond the Endgame | Qualia Contemporary Art | Sun, Sep 27 | — | Opening | |
| After the Island: Ornament and Ceramic Practice in the Jamaican Diaspora | Museum of the African Diaspora | SoMa | Wed, Sep 30 | — | Opening |
| Dewey Crumpler: Sonic Lineages | Museum of the African Diaspora | SoMa | Wed, Sep 30 | — | 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 | |
| Mayme Kratz: To Know the Dark | Dolby Chadwick Gallery | Union Square | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| Chromatic Deviations: New West Coast Colorism | Wessling Contemporary | Union Square | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| Leon Phillips: MondoChromatic: New West Coast Colorways | Wessling Contemporary | Union Square | Thu, Oct 1 | — | Opening |
| David C. Driskell: David Driskell: Wake Up Everybody | Jenkins Johnson Gallery | Union Square | Fri, Oct 2 | — | Opening |
| The AO Series – Part 3 | Galería de la Raza | Mission | Sat, Oct 3 | — | Opening |
| The AO Series Pt. 3 – Edy Cahueque & Mabel Valdiviezo | Galería de la Raza | Mission | Sat, Oct 3 | — | Opening |
| RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Sat, Oct 3 | — | Opening |
| Felicia Chiao | Harman Projects | Lower East Side / East Village | Sat, Oct 3 | 8:00pm - 10:00pm | 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 |
| 34th Annual Benefit Art Auction | Bolinas Museum | Sun, Oct 4 | — | Opening | |
| Johannes Schramm Recent Paintings | Caldwell Snyder Gallery | Union Square | Thu, Oct 8 | — | Opening |
| Leila Weefur: The Chapel of Becoming | The Lab | Mission | Fri, Oct 9 | — | Opening |
| Lunada New Moon Fest 2026 | Galería de la Raza | Mission | Sat, Oct 10 | — | Opening |
| Andrea Higgins Self-Portraits | Hosfelt Gallery | SoMa | Sat, Oct 17 | — | 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 |
| In Their Name: Día de Los Muertos 2026 | SOMArts | SoMa | Sat, Oct 24 | — | Opening |
| Chelsea Ryoko Wong | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| Chelsea Ryoko Wong: Upstairs | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| GaHee Park | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| Ryoko Wong: Chelsea | Jessica Silverman | Chinatown | Wed, Oct 28 | — | Opening |
| November | |||||
| Art for Earthjustice | Maybaum Gallery | Union Square | Wed, Nov 4 | — | Opening |
| Deborah Butterfield | Haines Gallery | Union Square | Sat, Nov 7 | — | Opening |
| Chuck Sperry - Archetypes | Harman Projects | Dogpatch | Sat, Nov 7 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm | 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 | |
| Gabe Weis | Face It. | Wessling Contemporary | Union Square | Thu, Nov 12 | — | Opening |
| Abiogenesis: Pulling thread from the Ether | Heron Arts | SoMa | Sat, Nov 14 | — | Opening |
| Sarah Sze: Forever is Composed of Nows | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | SoMa | Sat, Nov 21 | — | Opening |
| December | |||||
| What We Carry | Thacher Gallery | Lone Mountain | Thu, Dec 3 | — | Opening |
| 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 | |
| Floating Forests | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art | Sat, Jan 16 | — | 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 |
| March 2027 | |||||
| The Fragile Key | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art | Mon, Mar 1 | — | Opening | |
| May 2027 | |||||
| Trail Notes | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art | Sat, May 1 | — | Opening | |
| 28th Thacher Art + Architecture Annual | Thacher Gallery | Lone Mountain | Fri, May 7 | — | 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 |
| Small Steps, Big Shifts | Marin Museum of Contemporary Art | Mon, Sep 6 | — | Opening | |
