The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and

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located in

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. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art. The museum's current collection includes over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts, and moving into the 21st century.Collection
at sfmoma.org. The collection is displayed in of exhibition space, making the museum one of the largest in the United States overall, and one of the largest in the world for modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1935 in the War Memorial Building, the museum opened in its

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designed home in the SoMa district in 1995. SFMOMA reopened on May 14, 2016, following a major three-year-long expansion project by Snøhetta architects. The expansion more than doubles the museum's gallery spaces and provides almost six times as much public space as the previous building, allowing SFMOMA to showcase an expanded collection along with the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection of contemporary art.The Fisher Collection
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History

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, interior staircase

SFMOMA was founded in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art. For its first sixty years, the museum occupied the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. A gift of 36 artworks from Albert M. Bender, including ''The Flower Carrier'' (1935) by

Diego Rivera Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (; December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957), was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the ...

, established the basis of the permanent collection. Bender donated more than 1,100 objects to SFMOMA during his lifetime and endowed the museum's first purchase fund.History
at sfmoma.org. The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by

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. In this same year the museum established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as a fine art. San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts held its first architecture exhibition, entitled ''Telesis: Space for Living'', in 1940. SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the

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. The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the

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. Later that year SFMOMA hosted

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's first solo museum exhibition. Founding director Grace Morley held film screenings at the museum beginning in 1937, just two years after the institution opened. In 1946 Morley brought in filmmaker Frank Stauffacher to found SFMOMA's influential Art in Cinema film series, which ran for nine years. SFMOMA continued its expansion into new media with the 1951 launch of a biweekly television program entitled ''Art in Your Life''. The series, later renamed ''Discovery'', ran for three years. Morley ended her 23-year tenure as museum director in 1958 and was succeeded by George D. Culler (1958–65) and Gerald Nordland (1966–72). The museum rose to international prominence under director Henry T. Hopkins (1974–86), adding "Modern" to its title in 1975. Since 1967, SFMOMA has honored San Francisco Bay Area artists with its biennial SECA Art Award. In the 1980s, under Hopkins and his successor John R. Lane (1987–1997), SFMOMA established three new curatorial posts: curator of painting and sculpture, curator of architecture and design, and curator of media arts. The positions of director of education and director of photography were elevated to full curatorial roles. At this time SFMOMA took on an active special exhibitions program, both organizing and hosting traveling exhibitions.,History and Staff
at sfmoma.org. including major presentations of the work of Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, and

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. Until the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1987 and the modern and contemporary wing of the

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, San Francisco's museum tended to function as the state's flagship for modern and contemporary art.William Wilson (July 7, 1988)
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''. In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district.

, a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino, designed the new facility. Art patron Phyllis Wattis helped the museum acquire key works by Magritte, Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Eva Hesse and Wayne Thiebaud. SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross (1998–2001), who had been recruited from the

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in New York, including works by Ellsworth Kelly,

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, and

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, as well as

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’s iconic ''

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'' (1917/1964). Those and acquisitions of works by

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, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art.Celestine Bohlen (August 18, 2001)
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''. After three years and $140 million building up the collection, Ross resigned when a slow economy forced the museum to keep a tighter rein on its resources. Under current director Neal Benezra, who was recruited from the

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in 2002, SFMOMA achieved an increase in both visitor numbers and membership while continuing to build its collection. In 2005 the museum announced the promised gift of nearly 800 photographs to the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust at SFMOMA from the Sacks' private collection. The museum saw record attendance in 2008 with the exhibition ''Frida Kahlo'', which drew more than 400,000 visitors during its three-month run. Museum_Bridge

In 2009, SFMOMA announced plans for a major expansion to accommodate its growing audiences, programs, and collections and to showcase the Doris and Donald Fisher collection of contemporary art. In 2010—the museum's 75th anniversary year—architecture firm Snøhetta was selected to design the expanded building. SFMOMA broke ground for its expansion in May 2013. In July 2020 the senior curator of painting and sculpture, Garry Garrels, was forced to resign for using the term "reverse discrimination" during a staff Zoom meeting.

Collections, exhibitions, and programs

had his first museum show at SFMOMA, as did Clyfford Still and Arshile Gorky.Robin Pogrebin (November 30, 2011)
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''. The museum has in its collection important works by

, Jean Metzinger,

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, Richard Diebenkorn, Clyfford Still,

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, and Ansel Adams, among others. Annually, the museum hosts more than twenty exhibitions and over three hundred educational programs. While the museum's building was closed for expansion, from summer 2013 through early 2016, SFMOMA presented its exhibitions and programs at off-site locations around the Bay Area as part of SFMOMA On the Go.Exhibitions + Events · SFMOMA
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The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works from artists such as Alexander Calder, Chuck Close,

, Richard Diebenkorn,

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, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and

, among many others. The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for a period of 100 years. In February 2011, the museum publicly launched its Collections Campaign, announcing the acquisition of 195 works including paintings from

, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and

. Also under the auspices of the Collections Campaign, promised gifts of 473 photographs were announced in 2012, including 26 works by Diane Arbus and significant gifts of Japanese photography. Works acquired through the Collections Campaign are displayed along with the Fisher Collection in the museum's expanded building, completed in 2016. SFMOMA's website allows users to browse the museum's permanent collection. The SFMOMA App allows visitors to use their mobile phones to follow guided visit of the museum at their own pace while the App tracks their location. SFMOMA's Research Library was established in 1935 and contains extensive resources pertaining to modern and contemporary art, including books, periodicals, artists’ files, photographs and media collections.

Selected highlights

*''Ocean Park #54'' by Richard Diebenkorn *''The Nest'' by Louise Bourgeois *''The Flower Carrier'' by

*'' Frieda and Diego Rivera'' by Frida Kahlo *''Collection (formerly Untitled)'' by

*''1947-S'' by Clyfford Still *''A Set of Six Self-Portraits'' by

*''My Mother Posing for Me, from the series Pictures from Home'' by Larry Sultan *''Untitled, Memphis'' by

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*''Where There's Smoke Zig Zag chair (Rietveld)'' by Maarten Baas *''Three Screen Ray'' by Bruce Conner *''Video Quartet'' by Christian Marclay *''Intermission'' by

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. ''Violin and Candlestick'', 1910

Architecture

Mario Botta building

Plans to expand the museum at its old site, on upper floors of the Veterans' Memorial Building in San Francisco's Civic Center, were thwarted in the late 1980s. In the summer of 1988, architects

, Thomas Beeby and

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were announced as finalists in a competition to design the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's new structure in Downtown. Semifinalists had included Charles Moore and Tadao Ando. The three finalists were to present site-specific design proposals later that year, but the museum canceled its architectural competition after only a month and went with the 45-year-old architect Botta. The new museum, planned in association with architects Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, was built on a parking lot on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets. The south-of-Market site, an area near the Moscone Convention Center mainly consisting of parking lots, was targeted through an agreement between the museum, the redevelopment agency and the development firm of Olympia & York. Land was provided by the agency and developer, but the rest of the museum was privately funded. Construction of the new museum began in early 1992, with an opening in 1995, the institution's 60th anniversary. At the time of the new building's opening, SFMOMA touted itself as the largest new American art museum of the decade and, with its of exhibition space, the second-largest single structure in the United States devoted to modern art. (New York's

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, with of gallery space, was then the largest single structure, while the nearly 80,000 combined square feet of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles put it in second place).Pilar Viladas (January 15, 1995)
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''. The Botta building consists of galleries rising around a central, skylighted atrium, above an iconic staircase. Its external structure features a central tall cylinder, and a stepped-back stone facade. Botta's interior design is marked by alternating bands of polished and flame-finished black granite on the floor, ground-level walls, and column bases; and bands of natural and black-stained wood on the reception desks and coat-check desk.

Rooftop garden

In 2009, SFMOMA opened its rooftop garden. Following an invitational competition held in 2006, the garden was designed by Jensen Architects in collaboration with Conger Moss Guillard Landscape Architecture. It features two open-air spaces and a glass pavilion that provides views of the museum's sculpture collection as well as the San Francisco skyline. It also serves as a year-round indoor/outdoor gallery. SFMOMA ceiling architecture

Snøhetta expansion

In 2009, in response to significant growth in the museum's audiences and collections since the opening of the 1995 building, SFMOMA announced plans to expand. A shortlist released in May 2010 included four architecture firms officially under consideration for the project:

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;

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; Foster + Partners; and Snøhetta.Jori Finkel (July 21, 2010)
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''. In July 2010 the museum selected Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to design the expansion. Opened in May 2016, the approximately expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets. The expanded building includes seven levels dedicated to art and public programming, and three floors housing enhanced support space for the museum's operations. It offers approximately of indoor and outdoor gallery space, as well as nearly of art-filled free-access public space, more than doubling SFMOMA's previous capacity for the presentation of art and providing almost six times as much public space as the pre-expansion building. The expanded building includes features such as a large-scale vertical garden on the third floor, purported to be the biggest public living wall of native plants in San Francisco; a free ground-floor gallery facing Howard Street with tall glass walls that place art on view to passersby; a double-height "white box" space on the fourth floor with sophisticated lighting and sound systems; and state-of-the-art conservation studios on the seventh and eighth floors. The expansion facades are clad with lightweight panels made of

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; upon completion, this was the largest application of composites technology to architecture in the United States at the time.Riccardo Bianchini (October 29, 2015)
SFMoMA expansion by Snøhetta
''Inexhibit magazine''. The building achieved

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Gold certification, with 15% energy-cost reduction, 30% water-use reduction, and 20% reduction in wastewater generation. The Botta staircase was removed.

Management

Audience engagement

The museum expected attendance to jump from 650,000 a year in 2011 to more than one million visitors annually once the new wing opened.

Board of Trustees

The SFMOMA board is chaired by Robert J. Fisher, its president is Diana Nelson. SFMOMA reserves one seat on its board for a working artist who serves for a three-year period; the special board position comes with no financial obligations to the museum but includes the right to vote and participate in committees.

Funding

By 2010, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art raised $250 million, allowing it to double the size of its endowment and put $150 million toward its expansion.

Staff

Directors

The current director of SFMOMA is Neal Benezra, who was appointed in 2002. Previous directors include: * 1935–1958

Grace Morley Grace Louise McCann Morley (November 3, 1900 – January 8, 1985) was a museologist of global influence. She was the first director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (formerly the San Francisco Museum of Art) and held the position for 23 ...

* 1958–1965 George D. Culler * 1966–1972 Gerald Nordland * 1974–1986 Henry T. Hopkins * 1987–1997 John R. Lane * 1998–2001 David A. Ross

Curators

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, Curator Emeritus * Janet C. Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture * Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts * Clément Chéroux, Senior Curator of Photography *

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, Curator of Photography *

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, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, Head of the Department of Architecture and Design

Board of Trustees

Source:

Officers

* Robert J. Fisher, Chair *

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, President * Mimi L. Haas, Vice Chair * Robin M. Wright, Vice Chair * David Mahoney, Secretary/Treasurer

Elected Trustees

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* Yves Béhar * Gay-Lynn Blanding * James W. Breyer * Carolyn Butcher * Dolly Chammas * Adam H. Clammer *

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* Lionel Conacher * Roberta Denning *

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* Robert L. Emery *

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Vincent Fecteau Vincent Fecteau (born 1969) is a sculptor based in San Francisco. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992. He is known for working with ordinary materials such as foamcore, seashells, string, rubber bands, paper clips, walnut shells, and pop ...

* Irwin Federman * Doris Fisher * Patricia W. Fitzpatrick * Jonathan Gans * M. Arthur Gensler Jr. *

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* Maryellen C. Herringer * Adriane Iann * Bradley James * Richard M. Kovacevich *

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* Christine E. Lamond *

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* David Mahoney * Marissa Mayer * Nion McEvoy *

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* Lisa S. Miller * Wes Mitchell * Deborah Novack *

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* Lisa S. Pritzker * Becca Prowda * Linnea Conrad Roberts * Chara Schreyer * Lydia Shorenstein * Charlotte Mailliard Shultz * Norah Sharpe Stone *

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* James R. Swartz * Roselyne Chroman Swig *

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* Barbara T. Vermut * John Walecka * Brooks Walker Jr. * Jeff Wall *

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* Michael W. Wilsey *

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Chair Emeritus

* Brooks Walker Jr.

Honorary Trustees

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* Richard L. Greene

Artist Trustees

#2006–2009: Robert Bechtle #2009: Larry Sultan. Sultan died in December 2009. #2010–2013: Yves Béhar #2013–2016: Ed Ruscha

Membership

Gina Peterson Gina or GINA or ''variation'' may refer to: Gina Gina may refer to: * Gina (given name), multiple individuals * Gina (Canaan), a town in ancient Canaan * Arihant (Jainism), also called gina, a term for a human who has conquered his or her inner p ...

(Collectors' Forum), Ex-Officio Trustee *

(Contemporaries) *

and Wes Mitchell (Curators' Circle) * Patricia W. Fitzpatrick (Director's Circle) * Nathalie Delrue-McGuire (Modern Art Council), Ex-Officio Trustee * Anna Ewins and Ellin Lake (Museum Guides), Ex-Officio Trustees *

Rebecca Parker Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical ...

and Katherine Thompson (SECA), Ex-Officio Trustees * Norah Sharpe Stone (SFMOMA Global)

SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason

The museum also operates the Artists Gallery at Fort Mason, a nonprofit gallery located at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco's Marina district. The Artists Gallery was founded in 1978 as an outlet for emerging and established Northern California artists. The gallery holds eight exhibitions each year, including solo, group, and thematic shows. Works cover a range of styles and media, from traditional to experimental, and all works are available for rent or purchase. In 2021, SFMOMA announced they are closing the artist’s gallery along with a publishing platform and the film program.

In Situ

In Situ ''In situ'' (; often not italicized in English) is a Latin phrase that translates literally to "on site" or "in position." It can mean "locally", "on site", "on the premises", or "in place" to describe where an event takes place and is used in ...

is a fine-dining restaurant located inside SFMOMA. It is managed by Corey Lee, the owner-chef of award-winning San Francisco restaurant Benu. In Situ offers a curated menu that highlights signature dishes from other restaurants around the world.

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History

Collections, exhibitions, and programs

Selected highlights

Architecture

Mario Botta building

Rooftop garden

Snøhetta expansion

Management

Audience engagement

Board of Trustees

Funding

Staff

Directors

Curators

Board of Trustees

Officers

Elected Trustees

Chair Emeritus

Honorary Trustees

Artist Trustees

Membership

SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason

In Situ

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