SFMOMA @SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but friends call us SFMOMA. We're one of the largest museums of modern + contemporary art in the United States.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined September 2008
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SFMOMA @SFMOMA
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Curated by RM. Only at SFMOMA. For the first time, explore RM’s personal art collection. See what inspires one of the world’s most influential musicians. "RM x SFMOMA" opens next year, October 2026. Sign up for updates: bit.ly/3IHPr46 #RM #SFMOMA #BTS #HYBEINSIGHT
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🚨 T-minus 5 days until "KAWS: FAMILY" is all yours on Floor 4, and we're giving you a sneak peek behind the curtain👀 📅Opening November 15 🎟 bit.ly/4jNApXx #KAWSCOMPANION #SFMOMA
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The wait's almost over for KAWS: FAMILY on Nov 15. Here's what's in store: ✨ 100+ works: paintings, sculptures & collabs 🎨 Bold colors 📷 Towering sculptures 🖌️ Get artsy w/ our Make a Friend for BFF interactive 🎟️ bit.ly/4jNApXx
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From protest to paint, Mike Henderson’s "Singers" (1966) captures the pulse of 1960s San Francisco and the radical spirit of the San Francisco Art Institute. 📍See this work as part of "People Make This Place: SFAI Stories," Floor 2. #MikeHenderson #SFAI #SanFrancisco
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SFMOMA x LaRussell💥 The Bay's very own is headlining our 2025 Member Party to celebrate YOU and "KAWS: FAMILY" 🤩 📆 Nov. 14 ⌚ 7–10pm 🎟️ 21+ event 🍸 Grab a drink, savor KAWS-inspired bites from Off the Grid, + enjoy art after dark 🎨 Not a member? bit.ly/46HUyt4
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Image: UNTITLED (KAWS), 1996; spray paint on freight train; New Jersey
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🎉 Happy birthday to KAWS, an artist who has transformed how we see art in the everyday. Celebrate by stepping into 30 years of KAWS' creativity in "KAWS: FAMILY," opening Nov 15. 🎟️ Book your tickets today: bit.ly/4jNApXx #KAWS #SFMOMA #ContemporaryArt #KAWSArt
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Happy Birthday to our founding director Grace McCann Morley! 🎂✨ Morley was a trailblazer in the modern art world who pushed for cultural democracy—she believed museums served to help the broad public understand the art of their time. Join us in honoring her legacy! #GraceMorley
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Today we #FallBack into brighter mornings, darker evenings. In Dorothea Tanning’s "Self-Portrait," the artist faces the horizon. Are we moving toward light, or watching it fade? Hope you got to sleep in a little extra this morning 😴 #DaylightSavings #DST
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Run, don't walk—"KAWS: FAMILY" opens in just two weeks. Step into KAWS’s universe of towering sculptures, bold color, and pop culture turned into art. 🗓️ On view starting Nov 15 👀 Member previews Nov 13–15 🎟️: bit.ly/4jNApXx #KAWS #KAWSCOMPANION #SanFrancisco
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Happy Halloween from our staff! 🎃 ◾️ Marketing + Communications: Sheila Hicks, "Rempart" ◾️ Design Studio: "GANG SOFA," for KAWS: FAMILY ◾️ Angie Wilson as Leonora Carrington, "The Kitchen Garden on the Eyot" ◾️ Special events: Nightmare on Minna Street #Halloween #SanFrancisco
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✨ The result: a perfect balance of play and precision, spontaneity and structure. See the process come to life in KAWS: FAMILY, opening Nov 15. 🎟️: bit.ly/4jNApXx
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4️⃣ Paint, layer, outline. He builds the work in stages: flat base coats, shadows, and finally, his bold black outlines—always freehanded—that give each piece its crisp, graphic edge.
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3️⃣ Mapping the color. Once the composition is sketched onto a canvas, KAWS sits in front of it to plan his color placements. KAWS plans every hue through a system of dots and handwritten color numbers, mapped onto what he calls a "color chart."
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2️⃣ Then comes the composition. KAWS reworks his drawings in Adobe Illustrator, fine-tuning each line. He layers together different elements like he's developing a collage.
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1️⃣ It starts with a sketch. KAWS often begins with a simple silhouette—sometimes inspired by a pop culture reference and sometimes rooted in abstracted forms and lines sourced from animations. These elements are his private "entry point into the picture."
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🎨 Before KAWS’ bold colors and clean lines make it to the canvas, there’s a meticulous process rooted in his background in animation and visual design. Here’s how a #KAWS painting comes to life (a thread)
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Happy birthday Roy Lichtenstein 🎂 Today, celebrate one of America’s foremost pop artists! The Pop art pioneer made his mark using enlarged Ben-Day dots to reference commercial art, comics, and pop-culture icons. 📍Visit his work on Floors 2 & 5 #RoyLichtenstein
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Brassaï, "Portrait of Picasso with Stove," 1939 Pablo Picasso, "Les femmes d'Alger" (Women of Algiers), 1955 Pablo Picasso, "L'homme au chien" (Man with Dog), 1914 Pablo Picasso, "Fumeur" (Smoker), 1964
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🎂 Happy birthday to Pablo Picasso (born this day in 1881)! Photographed by Brassaï beside a stove in his Paris studio, his restless creativity reshaped modern art again and again. Swipe to explore works by #PabloPicasso in our collection ➡️
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Who needs Pinterest when you’ve got #SFMOMA? 🍂🎨 Fall color inspo is everywhere—from the art to your fits. A thread to see which color and artwork matches your vibe👇 #FallPalette #BayAreaMuseums #SanFrancisco #YourSFMOMA
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