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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

February 27, 2023

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. 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.[1] The collection is displayed in 170,000 square feet (16,000 m2) 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.[2]

San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art
The 1995 Mario Botta-designed building with the new white Snøhetta-designed building behind it. (2017)
Interactive fullscreen map
Established1935 (1935)
Location151 Third Street
San Francisco, California, United States
Coordinates37°47′8.88″N 122°24′3.60″W / 37.7858000°N 122.4010000°W / 37.7858000; -122.4010000Coordinates: 37°47′8.88″N 122°24′3.60″W / 37.7858000°N 122.4010000°W / 37.7858000; -122.4010000
Collection size33,000
Visitors1,113,984 (2017)
DirectorChristopher Bedford
PresidentRobert J. Fisher
ArchitectMario Botta and Snøhetta
Public transit access Montgomery Street
Websitewww.sfmoma.org

Founded in 1935 in the War Memorial Building, the museum opened in its Mario Botta 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.[3] 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.[4]

History

 
The atrium of the museum before the 2016 renovation.

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, 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.[5] The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse. In this same year the museum established its photography collection, becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as a fine art.[citation needed] San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts held its first architecture exhibition, entitled Telesis: Space for Living, in 1940.[5] SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization. The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July, upon the signing of the United Nations Charter. Later that year SFMOMA hosted Jackson Pollock's first solo museum exhibition.[5]

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[citation needed] 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.[5] 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.[6] 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.,[7] including major presentations of the work of Jeff Koons, Sigmar Polke, and Willem de Kooning.

Until the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1987 and the modern and contemporary wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco's museum tended to function as the state's flagship for modern and contemporary art.[8] In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street, adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district. Mario Botta, a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino, designed the new US$60 million facility.[9] Art patron Phyllis Wattis helped the museum acquire key works by Magritte, Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Eva Hesse and Wayne Thiebaud.[10]

SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A. Ross (1998–2001), who had been recruited from the Whitney Museum in New York, including works by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, René Magritte, and Piet Mondrian, as well as Marcel Duchamp’s iconic Fountain (1917/1964). Those and acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art.[11] 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.[11]

Under current director Neal Benezra, who was recruited from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, SFMOMA achieved an increase in both visitor numbers and membership while continuing to build its collection.[7] 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.[12]

 
SFMOMA's Oculus 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.[4]

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.[13]

Collections, exhibitions, and programs

Jackson Pollock had his first museum show at SFMOMA, as did Clyfford Still and Arshile Gorky.[14] The museum has in its collection important works by Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger, Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Richard Diebenkorn, Clyfford Still, Dorothea Lange, 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.[15]

In 2009, the museum gained a custodial relationship for the contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of Gap Inc.[16] The Fisher Collection includes some 1,100 works from artists such as Alexander Calder, Chuck Close, Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Anselm Kiefer, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol, among many others. The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for a period of 100 years.[17]

In February 2011, the museum publicly launched its Collections Campaign, announcing the acquisition of 195 works including paintings from Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon. 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.[18] Works acquired through the Collections Campaign are displayed along with the Fisher Collection in the museum's expanded building, completed in 2016.[19]

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.[20]

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.[21]

Selected highlights


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.[22] In the summer of 1988, architects Mario Botta, Thomas Beeby and Frank Gehry 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,[23] but the museum canceled its architectural competition after only a month and went with the 45-year-old architect Botta.[24]

The new museum, planned in association with architects Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, was built on a 59,000-square-foot (5,500 m2) parking lot on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets.[25] 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.[8] 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 50,000 square feet (4,600 m2) of exhibition space, the second-largest single structure in the United States devoted to modern art. (New York's Museum of Modern Art, with 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) 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).[26]

The Botta building consists of galleries rising around a central, skylighted atrium, above an iconic staircase.[27] Its external structure features a central 130-foot (40 m) 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.[26]

Rooftop garden

In 2009, SFMOMA opened its 14,400 sq ft (1,340 m2) 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.[26][28][29]

 
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: Adjaye Associates; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Foster + Partners; and Snøhetta.[30] In July 2010 the museum selected Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to design the expansion.[31]

Opened in May 2016, the approximately 235,000-square-foot (21,800 m2) expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets.[32][33] 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 142,000 square feet (13,200 m2) of indoor and outdoor gallery space, as well as nearly 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) 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.[34]

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 25-foot (7.6 m) 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 Fibre-Reinforced Plastic; upon completion, this was the largest application of composites technology to architecture in the United States at the time.[35] The building achieved LEED Gold certification, with 15% energy-cost reduction, 30% water-use reduction, and 20% reduction in wastewater generation.[36] 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.[37]

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.[38]

Staff

Board of Trustees

Source:[47]

Officers

Elected Trustees

Chair Emeritus

  • Brooks Walker Jr.

Honorary Trustees

Artist Trustees

  1. 2006–2009: Robert Bechtle[48]
  2. 2009: Larry Sultan.[49] Sultan died in December 2009.
  3. 2010–2013: Yves Béhar[50][51]
  4. 2013–2016: Ed Ruscha[52][53]

Membership

  • Gina Peterson (Collectors' Forum), Ex-Officio Trustee
  • Katie Paige (Contemporaries)
  • Alka Agrawal 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 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.[54]

In 2021, SFMOMA announced they are closing the artist’s gallery along with a publishing platform and the film program.

In Situ

In Situ 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.[55]

See also

References

  1. ^ Collection, at sfmoma.org.
  2. ^ The New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened to the Public on Saturday, May 14, 2016 · SFMOMA
  3. ^ "The New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Opens to the Public on Saturday, May 14, 2016"
  4. ^ a b The Fisher Collection
  5. ^ a b c d History at sfmoma.org.
  6. ^ Baker, Kenneth (1 October 2009). "Henry T. Hopkins Dies, Put 'Modern' in SFMOMA". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
  7. ^ a b History and Staff July 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine at sfmoma.org.
  8. ^ a b William Wilson (July 7, 1988), San Francisco Art Museum Tells Plans for New Structure Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^ at Glass Steel and Stone (archived)
  10. ^ Scarlet Cheng (January 31, 2010), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art turns 75 with a splash Los Angeles Times.
  11. ^ a b Celestine Bohlen (August 18, 2001), San Francisco Museum Director Resigns Suddenly New York Times.
  12. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  13. ^ "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator quits over 'reverse discrimination' comments". artreview.com. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  14. ^ Robin Pogrebin (November 30, 2011), An Imposing Museum Turns Warm and Fuzzy New York Times.
  15. ^ Exhibitions + Events · SFMOMA
  16. ^ Littlejohn, David (7 July 2010). "SFMOMA Fills in Some Blanks". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  17. ^ Kino, Carol (June 1, 2010). "Private Collection Becomes Very Public". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-03.
  18. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  19. ^ Baker, Kenneth. SFMOMA hits jackpot with new acquisitions. SFGate.com. February 3, 2011.
  20. ^ SFMOMA App
  21. ^ Library
  22. ^ Suzanne Muchnic (November 18, 1986), Lane Director Of S.f. Modern Art Museum Los Angeles Times.
  23. ^ John Voland (August 1, 1988), Architecture Los Angeles Times.
  24. ^ Sam Hall Kaplan (September 29, 1988), S.F.Museum Job Goes to Swiss Architect Los Angeles Times.
  25. ^ John Boudreaud (September 12, 1990), New Home for San Francisco Art Museum Los Angeles Times.
  26. ^ a b c Pilar Viladas (January 15, 1995), San Francisco's MOMA Moment Los Angeles Times.
  27. ^ Michael Kimmelman (January 24, 1995), In San Francisco, a New Home for Art New York Times.
  28. ^ SFMOMA Rooftop Garden at sfmoma.org.
  29. ^ "A New Space for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco". ArtDaily.org. 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2014-07-27.
  30. ^ Jori Finkel (July 21, 2010), SFMOMA chooses architect for $250-million expansion: Norwegian firm Snøhetta Los Angeles Times.
  31. ^ (Press release). SFMOMA. 11 May 2010. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  32. ^ "At San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, a New Frontier for Photography"
  33. ^ "Inside the New San Francisco Museum of Modern Art"
  34. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
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  36. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-12-07. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
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  38. ^ Randy Kennedy (February 4, 2010), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Raises Funds for Expansion New York Times.
  39. ^ "Director". SFMOMA. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  40. ^ . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2010. Archived from the original on 27 July 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  41. ^ Desmarais, Charles (13 April 2016). "SFMOMA photography curator Sandra Phillips stepping down". SFGATE. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  42. ^ Curiel, Jonathan (26 May 2011). "Shows Shed New Light on Life of Gertrude Stein". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
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  44. ^ "SFMOMA Appoints Clément Chéroux as Senior Curator of Photography". SFMOMA. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  45. ^ "Corey Keller". Center for Curatorial Leadership. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
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  47. ^ "Board of Trustees". SFMOMA. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  48. ^ "SFMOMA Names New Members To Board Of Trustees Robert Bechtle To Become First Artist Trustee". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1 June 2006. Accessed 30 May 2017
  49. ^ "Larry Sultan to Become SFMOMA's Second Artist Trustee as New Members Are Announced". ArtDaily, 26 August 2009. Accessed 30 May 2017
  50. ^ "SFMOMA elects new members to board of trustees and salutes three staff members". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 30 July 2010. Accessed 30 May 2017
  51. ^ "Yves Béhar Joins SFMOMA Board of Trustees". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 8 April 2016. Accessed 30 May 2017
  52. ^ David Ng (August 15, 2013), Ed Ruscha joining SFMoMA board a year after quitting MOCA Los Angeles Times.
  53. ^ "SFMOMA elects artist Ed Ruscha to board of trustees". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 15 August 2013. Accessed 30 May 2017
  54. ^ . SFMOMA. 2010. Archived from the original on 8 August 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  55. ^ "This is America's Most Original New Restaurant". The New York Times. 2016-07-19.

External links

  • Official website
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art within Google Arts & Culture
  •   Media related to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art at Wikimedia Commons

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SFMOMA is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco California 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 1 The collection is displayed in 170 000 square feet 16 000 m2 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 2 San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtThe 1995 Mario Botta designed building with the new white Snohetta designed building behind it 2017 Interactive fullscreen mapEstablished1935 1935 Location151 Third StreetSan Francisco California United StatesCoordinates37 47 8 88 N 122 24 3 60 W 37 7858000 N 122 4010000 W 37 7858000 122 4010000 Coordinates 37 47 8 88 N 122 24 3 60 W 37 7858000 N 122 4010000 W 37 7858000 122 4010000Collection size33 000Visitors1 113 984 2017 DirectorChristopher BedfordPresidentRobert J FisherArchitectMario Botta and SnohettaPublic transit accessMontgomery StreetWebsitewww wbr sfmoma wbr orgFounded in 1935 in the War Memorial Building the museum opened in its Mario Botta designed home in the SoMa district in 1995 SFMOMA reopened on May 14 2016 following a major three year long expansion project by Snohetta architects 3 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 4 Contents 1 History 2 Collections exhibitions and programs 2 1 Selected highlights 3 Architecture 3 1 Mario Botta building 3 2 Rooftop garden 3 3 Snohetta expansion 4 Management 4 1 Audience engagement 4 2 Board of Trustees 4 3 Funding 5 Staff 5 1 Directors 5 2 Curators 6 Board of Trustees 6 1 Officers 6 2 Elected Trustees 6 3 Chair Emeritus 6 4 Honorary Trustees 6 5 Artist Trustees 6 6 Membership 7 SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason 8 In Situ 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksHistory Edit The atrium of the museum before the 2016 renovation 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 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 5 The museum began its second year with an exhibition of works by Henri Matisse In this same year the museum established its photography collection becoming one of the first museums to recognize photography as a fine art citation needed San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts held its first architecture exhibition entitled Telesis Space for Living in 1940 5 SFMOMA was obliged to move to a temporary facility on Post Street in March 1945 to make way for the United Nations Conference on International Organization The museum returned to its original Van Ness location in July upon the signing of the United Nations Charter Later that year SFMOMA hosted Jackson Pollock s first solo museum exhibition 5 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 citation needed 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 5 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 6 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 7 including major presentations of the work of Jeff Koons Sigmar Polke and Willem de Kooning Until the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles in 1987 and the modern and contemporary wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art San Francisco s museum tended to function as the state s flagship for modern and contemporary art 8 In January 1995 the museum opened its current location at 151 Third Street adjacent to Yerba Buena Gardens in the SOMA district Mario Botta a Swiss architect from Canton Ticino designed the new US 60 million facility 9 Art patron Phyllis Wattis helped the museum acquire key works by Magritte Mondrian Andy Warhol Eva Hesse and Wayne Thiebaud 10 SFMOMA made a number of important acquisitions under the direction of David A Ross 1998 2001 who had been recruited from the Whitney Museum in New York including works by Ellsworth Kelly Robert Rauschenberg Rene Magritte and Piet Mondrian as well as Marcel Duchamp s iconic Fountain 1917 1964 Those and acquisitions of works by Jasper Johns Mark Rothko Francis Bacon Alexander Calder Chuck Close and Frank Stella put the institution in the top ranks of American museums of modern art 11 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 11 Under current director Neal Benezra who was recruited from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002 SFMOMA achieved an increase in both visitor numbers and membership while continuing to build its collection 7 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 12 SFMOMA s Oculus 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 Snohetta was selected to design the expanded building SFMOMA broke ground for its expansion in May 2013 4 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 13 Collections exhibitions and programs Edit Henri Matisse Femme au Chapeau Woman with a Hat 1905 Jackson Pollock had his first museum show at SFMOMA as did Clyfford Still and Arshile Gorky 14 The museum has in its collection important works by Henri Matisse Jean Metzinger Paul Klee Marcel Duchamp Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Richard Diebenkorn Clyfford Still Dorothea Lange 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 15 In 2009 the museum gained a custodial relationship for the contemporary art collection of Doris and Donald Fisher of Gap Inc 16 The Fisher Collection includes some 1 100 works from artists such as Alexander Calder Chuck Close Willem de Kooning Richard Diebenkorn Anselm Kiefer Ellsworth Kelly Roy Lichtenstein Brice Marden Agnes Martin Gerhard Richter Richard Serra Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol among many others The collection will be on loan to SFMOMA for a period of 100 years 17 In February 2011 the museum publicly launched its Collections Campaign announcing the acquisition of 195 works including paintings from Jackson Pollock Willem de Kooning Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg and Francis Bacon 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 18 Works acquired through the Collections Campaign are displayed along with the Fisher Collection in the museum s expanded building completed in 2016 19 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 20 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 21 Selected highlights Edit Ocean Park 54 by Richard Diebenkorn The Nest by Louise Bourgeois The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera Frieda and Diego Rivera by Frida Kahlo Collection formerly Untitled by Robert Rauschenberg 1947 S by Clyfford Still A Set of Six Self Portraits by Andy Warhol My Mother Posing for Me from the series Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan Untitled Memphis by William Eggleston Where There s Smoke Zig Zag chair Rietveld by Maarten Baas Three Screen Ray by Bruce Conner Video Quartet by Christian Marclay Intermission by Edward Hopper Honey pop by Tokujin Yoshioka Franz Marc Gebirge Mountains 1911 1912 Anna Atkins Asplenium radicans Jamaica ca 1850 Lewis Wickes Hine Woman with Folded Headdress Ellis Island NY 1905 Carleton E Watkins Mt Broderick Nevada Fall 700 ft Yosemite 1861 Paul Klee A Spirit Serves a Small Breakfast Angel Brings the Desired 1920 Georges Braque Violin and Candlestick 1910Architecture EditMario Botta building Edit 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 22 In the summer of 1988 architects Mario Botta Thomas Beeby and Frank Gehry 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 23 but the museum canceled its architectural competition after only a month and went with the 45 year old architect Botta 24 The new museum planned in association with architects Hellmuth Obata and Kassabaum was built on a 59 000 square foot 5 500 m2 parking lot on Third Street between Mission and Howard streets 25 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 amp York Land was provided by the agency and developer but the rest of the museum was privately funded 8 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 50 000 square feet 4 600 m2 of exhibition space the second largest single structure in the United States devoted to modern art New York s Museum of Modern Art with 100 000 square feet 9 300 m2 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 26 The Botta building consists of galleries rising around a central skylighted atrium above an iconic staircase 27 Its external structure features a central 130 foot 40 m 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 26 Rooftop garden Edit In 2009 SFMOMA opened its 14 400 sq ft 1 340 m2 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 26 28 29 Ceiling architecture Snohetta expansion Edit 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 Adjaye Associates Diller Scofidio Renfro Foster Partners and Snohetta 30 In July 2010 the museum selected Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta to design the expansion 31 Opened in May 2016 the approximately 235 000 square foot 21 800 m2 expansion joined the existing building with a new addition spanning from Minna to Howard Streets 32 33 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 142 000 square feet 13 200 m2 of indoor and outdoor gallery space as well as nearly 15 000 square feet 1 400 m2 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 34 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 25 foot 7 6 m 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 Fibre Reinforced Plastic upon completion this was the largest application of composites technology to architecture in the United States at the time 35 The building achieved LEED Gold certification with 15 energy cost reduction 30 water use reduction and 20 reduction in wastewater generation 36 The Botta staircase was removed Management EditAudience engagement Edit 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 37 Board of Trustees Edit 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 Edit 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 38 Staff EditDirectors Edit The current director of SFMOMA is Christopher Bedford who was appointed in 2022 39 Previous directors include 40 1935 1958 Grace Morley 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 Edit Sandra S Phillips Curator Emeritus 41 Janet C Bishop Curator of Painting and Sculpture 42 Rudolf Frieling Curator of Media Arts 43 Clement Cheroux Senior Curator of Photography 44 Corey Keller Curator of Photography 45 Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design Head of the Department of Architecture and Design 46 Board of Trustees EditSource 47 Officers Edit Robert J Fisher Chair Diana Nelson President Mimi L Haas Vice Chair Robin M Wright Vice Chair David Mahoney Secretary TreasurerElected Trustees Edit Alka Agrawal Joachim Bechtle Yves Behar Gay Lynn Blanding James W Breyer Carolyn Butcher Dolly Chammas Adam H Clammer Charles M Collins Lionel Conacher Roberta Denning Jean Douglas Robert L Emery Carla Emil Vincent Fecteau Irwin Federman Doris Fisher Patricia W Fitzpatrick Jonathan Gans M Arthur Gensler Jr Linda W Gruber Maryellen C Herringer Adriane Iann Bradley James Richard M Kovacevich Pamela Kramlich Janet W Lamkin Christine E Lamond Gretchen C Leach David Mahoney Marissa Mayer Nion McEvoy Kenneth P McNeely Christopher Meany Lisa S Miller Wes Mitchell Deborah Novack Katie Paige Stuart L Peterson Andrew P Pilara Lisa S Pritzker Becca Prowda Linnea Conrad Roberts Chara Schreyer Lydia Shorenstein Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Norah Sharpe Stone Norman C Stone James R Swartz Roselyne Chroman Swig Susan Swig Barbara T Vermut John Walecka Brooks Walker Jr Jeff Wall Thomas W Weisel Carlie Wilmans Michael W Wilsey Pat Wilson Kay Harrigan Woods Chair Emeritus Edit Brooks Walker Jr Honorary Trustees Edit Gerson Bakar Richard L GreeneArtist Trustees Edit 2006 2009 Robert Bechtle 48 2009 Larry Sultan 49 Sultan died in December 2009 2010 2013 Yves Behar 50 51 2013 2016 Ed Ruscha 52 53 Membership Edit Gina Peterson Collectors Forum Ex Officio Trustee Katie Paige Contemporaries Alka Agrawal 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 and Katherine Thompson SECA Ex Officio Trustees Norah Sharpe Stone SFMOMA Global SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason EditThe 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 54 In 2021 SFMOMA announced they are closing the artist s gallery along with a publishing platform and the film program In Situ EditIn Situ 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 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