EXPANDED SFMOMA TO SHOWCASE MODERN MASTERS, CALIFORNIA ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHY LEGENDS IN UPCOMING EXHIBITION PROGRAM

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 2, 2016)—The San Francisco Museum of Art (SFMOMA) today announced the details of upcoming exhibitions at the transformed and expanded museum. With nearly triple its previous exhibition space, the new SFMOMA can now show more temporary exhibitions, additional highlights from its outstanding collection of more than 33,000 works and selections from the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, one of the world's greatest private collections of postwar and contemporary art. The upcoming season of exhibitions at SFMOMA recognizes the art and artists of California, features the work of modern masters in focused shows across all media and spotlights the museum’s celebrated expertise in photography.

“This summer we had more visitors than ever before, and watching them experience the new museum during the past six months has been incredibly rewarding. As we head into the second half of our opening year, I am proud that the museum is continuing to present a dynamic program of exhibitions for our visitors from San Francisco and around the world,” said Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director at SFMOMA.

Benezra announced Yours, Mine, and Ours: Museum Models of Public-Private Partnership, a half-day forum on the current state of public/private relationships in institutions of modern and contemporary art, featuring a distinguished panel of museum directors, curators and private collectors from around the world. Coinciding with the 2017 FOG Design+Art Fair in San Francisco, the event will take place in Gallery 308 at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture on Friday, January 13, 2017. SFMOMA’s partnership with the Fisher Art Foundation, a compelling new model for museum relationships, will be among the topics discussed at the forum, which will also explore creative ways museums and collectors can work together for the benefit of audiences and the wider museum community. SFMOMA will also participate in a conversation on this topic at Art Basel Miami Beach on Thursday, December 1.

SFMOMA additionally shared updates about artist Julie Mehretu’s commission to create two large- scale paintings—each 32 by 25 feet—that will cover the expansive, angled walls in the museum’s Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Atrium. Mehretu is known for her densely layered abstract paintings and works on paper, which often incorporate the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids and architectural forms. The work will be exhibited in the museum’s free public space in the fall of 2017 as part of SFMOMA’s art commissioning program, a vital part of SFMOMA’s commitment to sharing the art for our time with the Bay Area and beyond.

Upcoming Exhibition Highlights Continuing SFMOMA’s exploration of the art and artists of California, Matisse/Diebenkorn will explore the inspiration that Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn found in the work of French modernist Henri Matisse in the first major exhibition to present the two artists’ work side by side. Co-organized by SFMOMA and The Baltimore Museum of Art, the San Francisco presentation of the exhibition will be on

San Francisco November 2016 Exhibitions Release 1 view from March 11 through May 29, 2017, and will feature nearly 100 paintings and drawings by both artists.

From April 15 through July 23, 2017, the museum also will present Larry Sultan: Here and Home, the first retrospective to examine the work and career of California artist Larry Sultan. Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the exhibition explores this influential photographer’s 35-year career, from his early conceptual and collaborative projects in the 1970s to his solo, documentary-style photographs. Resonating throughout Sultan’s work are themes of home and family, as well as the construction of identity, facade and storytelling.

The landmark exhibition Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, on view at SFMOMA from June 24 through September 24, 2017, will explore the late paintings of the powerful modern master as a starting point to reevaluate his entire career. Organized in partnership with the Munch Museum, Oslo, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the exhibition will bring together approximately 45 of Munch’s most candid and technically daring compositions to reveal a singular artist who is one of modernism's most significant figures. SFMOMA will be the first venue to present this exhibition.

SFMOMA’s Pritzker Center for Photography, made possible by the Lisa and John Pritzker Family Fund, will showcase leaders in the medium. From January 21 through April 30, 2017, the museum will present the West Coast debut of : in the beginning. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. Bringing together more than 100 rarely seen photographs from this formative period, the exhibition will offer fresh insights into the distinctive vision of this iconic American photographer. The exhibition will be complemented by a gallery featuring works by artists whom Arbus admired as well as by her contemporaries in New York, including Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, , , William Klein, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, August Sander, Weegee and Garry Winogrand, all drawn from SFMOMA’s photography collection.

A special exhibition highlighting the work of Walker Evans will examine the photographer’s fascination with vernacular culture. Organized by the Musée National d’Art Moderne of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and on view at SFMOMA from September 23, 2017 through February 4, 2018, Walker Evans: A Vernacular Style will feature 300 of Evans’s iconic images of 20th-century American culture as well as examples from his personal collection, including signage, postcards and ephemera. This exhibition is curated by Clément Chéroux, incoming senior curator of photography at SFMOMA.

Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities, on view December 17, 2016 through May 21, 2017, is a site-specific project that continues the artist’s exploration of visionary floating cities. The immersive installation will transform SFMOMA’s architecture and design galleries into a space of architectural provocation. On view February 11 through August 13, 2017, Bureau Spectacular: insideoutsidebetweenbeyond will feature a large physical model of an urban landscape littered with surrealistic architectural characters and jarring environments by Jimenez Lai, founding partner of architecture studio Bureau Spectacular. Noguchi’s Playscapes, by the multifaceted Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi, will be on view in the summer of 2017. Focused on the artist’s vision of playgrounds and public spaces, this exhibition will close the gap between art and functionality, and will revisit Noguchi’s ideas of play, recreation and education.

SFMOMA will present upcoming media arts exhibitions from two international artists, Runa Islam and William Kentridge, both on view December 10, 2016 through April 2, 2017 on the seventh floor of the

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 2 museum. Runa Islam: Verso will explore the materiality of film and its relationship to sculpture, and feature the U.S. premiere of the film Cabinet of Prototypes (2009–10). William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time (2012)—a multisensory experience that includes projections, sounds, lectures and a kinetic sculpture—will have its West Coast debut as part of this exhibition.

More details about these exhibitions and many other upcoming shows can be found in the exhibition calendar below, or in the SFMOMA Press Room at sfmoma.org/press.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

New Work: Sohei Nishino On view November 4, 2016–February 26, 2017 Floor 4 Sohei Nishino began his series of Diorama Maps as a university student at Osaka University of Arts. After researching his chosen city, Nishino spends up to two months walking and photographing the urban environment, capturing thousands of images of streets, alleys, corners and vistas from every imaginable angle. The artist then prints his contact sheets, cuts out the individual frames and affixes them by hand onto board. Through this process, Nishino creates a large-scale, collaged map that expresses a truly personal interpretation of the featured location. Once the collages are complete, Nishino digitally photographs and presents them as high resolution, large-scale prints, often as large as 6 x 7 feet. On view in the New Work gallery on the museum’s fourth floor, New Work: Sohei Nishino will feature recent works from Diorama Maps, including a new map of San Francisco made especially for the exhibition.

Generous support for New Work: Sohei Nishino is provided by Alka and Ravin Agrawal, Adriane Iann and Christian Stolz, Wes and Kate Mitchell and Robin Wright and Ian Reeves.

Paul Klee at Play On view November 5, 2016–May 14, 2017 Floor 2 Paul Klee at Play highlights the Swiss modernist’s lifelong exploration of the creative and transformative possibilities of play. This focused gallery presentation, part of an ongoing series dedicated to the artist’s work, includes a selection of the whimsical hand puppets Klee made for his son, Felix, fashioned from scraps of cloth, papier-mâché and found objects. These puppets, shown alongside prints, drawings and paintings, illuminate central themes in Klee’s work, including his delight in play, inspiration from children’s creativity and love of theater.

A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions On view December 10, 2016–April 2, 2017 Floor 7 A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions considers the continuum of shifts and changes in contemporary art since 2000. Reflecting on the way that artists have responded to the evolving conditions of the current moment, this exhibition—drawn from the museum’s collection—underscores the varied forms and approaches taken in this century. The installation includes several works that will be on view for the first time at SFMOMA and features artists Tacita Dean, Trisha Donnelly, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Wade Guyton, Emily Jacir, Sam Lewitt, Paulina Olowska, Doris Salcedo, Jessica Stockholder and Danh Vo, among others.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 3 Significant support for A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions is provided by SFMOMA Collectors’ Forum.

Runa Islam: Verso On view December 10, 2016–April 2, 2017 Floor 7 This solo presentation of Runa Islam’s work will feature the U.S. premiere of Cabinet of Prototypes (2009–10), a 16mm film installation from the collection. The film projector and screen are both contained within a custom glass vitrine to form a cinematic sculpture in the space. The film closely examines groupings of various stored armatures—stands, hooks, string tags—typically concealed and designed to support highly valued Asian art objects in the collection of the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries at the National Museum of Asian Art. This was an area of focus in the London-based artist’s Smithsonian fellowship research, and Cabinet of Prototypes builds upon a history of artists investigating museological display. The exhibition brings this work into conversation with a second film, Magical Consciousness (2010), and a selection of recent and new object-based work made with silver recouped from film processing.

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time On view December 10, 2016–April 2, 2017 Floor 7 SFMOMA presents the West Coast debut of William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time (2012), originally commissioned for dOCUMENTA (13) and jointly acquired with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This powerful multimedia installation initially developed out of conversations between Kentridge and Peter L. Galison, professor of physics at Harvard University, on the pre-history of relativity. Evoking an embodied history of time, this dynamic installation was developed further in collaboration with composer Philip Miller, video editor Catherine Meyburgh and dance choreographer Dada Masilo. In its complexity and masterful execution, The Refusal of Time not only synthesizes recurring themes, visual motifs and filmic and performance-based strategies that have been at the heart of Kentridge’s work over the past several decades, it touches on all of the key styles of his vibrant moving-image installations, while incorporating major sculptural elements.

Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities On view December 17, 2016–May 21, 2017 Floor 6 Tomás Saraceno’s immersive installation works are visually arresting spaces that challenge viewers’ relationship to the built world. Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities offers a model for the utopian cities of the future, conjuring an era in which humanity ceases to negatively impact our planet’s fossil fuel resources, and instead becomes airborne in collective sustainable environments. In this exhibition, visitors wind their way through and below an array of cloud-like, geometrically complex cities, suspended in the air by tethers connecting the structures to the gallery walls, floor and ceiling. Trained as an architect and visual artist, Saraceno’s research-based practice draws from scientific investigations into physics, biology, cosmology and engineering. His work has deep sociological motives, with undercurrents of human interconnectivity and universal engagement in the pursuit and provocation of a utopian future. In Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities, his visionary proposals for airborne cities build upon the artistic and architectural experimentation, forward-thinking radicalism and progressive social change of the 1960s and 70s.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 4 Major support for Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion—Cloud Cities is provided by Roberta and Steve Denning. Generous support is provided by Patricia W. Fitzpatrick, Diana Nelson and John Atwater and Denise Littlefield Sobel. diane arbus: in the beginning On view January 21–April 30, 2017 Floor 3 diane arbus: in the beginning considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. A lifelong New Yorker, Arbus found the city and its citizens an endlessly rich subject for her art. Working in Times Square, the Lower East Side and Coney Island, she made some of the most powerful portraits of the 20th century, training her lens on the pedestrians and performers she encountered there. This exhibition highlights her early and enduring interest in the subject matter that would come to define her as an artist. It also reveals the artist’s evolution from a 35mm format to the now instantly recognizable and widely imitated look of the square format she adopted in 1962. Bringing together over 100 photographs from this formative period, many on display for the first time, diane arbus: in the beginning offers fresh insights into the distinctive vision of this iconic American photographer.

This exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Major support for diane arbus: in the beginning is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher and Lisa and John Pritzker. Generous support is provided by Sheri and Paul Siegel.

Matisse/Diebenkorn On view March 11–May 29, 2017 Floor 4 Matisse/Diebenkorn explores the inspiration that Richard Diebenkorn found in the work of Henri Matisse. Co-organized by SFMOMA and The Baltimore Museum of Art, the San Francisco presentation of the exhibition features nearly 100 paintings and drawings—one-third by Matisse and two-thirds by Diebenkorn. Diebenkorn first encountered Matisse’s art at the Palo Alto home of Sarah Stein, while he was a Stanford University undergraduate, and actively sought out the French artist’s work for the rest of his lifetime. Matisse left an indelible impression on Diebenkorn, readily visible in the younger artist’s Bay Area figurative paintings from the 1950s and 1960s, but also in the structure, composition and paint-handling of his earlier and his later abstractions. This is the first major exhibition to present the two artists’ work side by side.

Matisse/Diebenkorn is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). The Presenting Sponsor is the Evelyn D. Haas Exhibition Fund. The Foundation Sponsors are the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. Major support is provided by Barbara and Gerson Bakar. Generous support is provided by Jean and James E. Douglas, Jr., Mary J. Elmore, Patricia W. Fitzpatrick, the Elaine McKeon Endowed Exhibition Fund, Deborah and Kenneth Novack, the Bernard and Barbro Osher Exhibition Fund, Arun and Rummi Sarin, and Thomas W. Weisel and Janet Barnes. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Larry Sultan: Here and Home On view April 15–July 23, 2017 Floor 3

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 5 The first retrospective to examine the work and career of California artist Larry Sultan, Larry Sultan: Here and Home will be on view from April 15 through July 23, 2017. Including Sultan’s early conceptual and collaborative projects of the 1970s as well as his documentary-style photographs, the exhibition will explore the artist’s 35-year career with more than 200 photographs, a billboard, a film and “Study Hall”—a room that offers a unique lens into Sultan’s exploratory process as artist and teacher.

Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed On view June 24–September 24, 2017 Floor 4 As a young man in the late 19th century, Edvard Munch’s bohemian pictures placed him among the most celebrated and controversial artists of his generation. But, as he confessed in 1939, his true “breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50 years old.” Featuring approximately 45 landmark compositions produced between the 1880s and the 1940s, this focused reappraisal uses the artist’s late paintings as a starting point from which to reevaluate his entire career. Organized in partnership with the Munch Museum, Oslo, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed brings together Munch’s most candid and technically daring compositions to reveal a singular modern painter and an artist largely unknown to audiences today.

Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Munch Museum, Oslo. The Presenting Corporate Sponsor is the Charles Schwab Corporation. Major support is provided by The Bernard Osher Foundation. Generous support is provided by Franklin and Catherine Johnson, Christine and Pierre Lamond and Diana Nelson and John Atwater.

Walker Evans: A Vernacular Style On view September 23, 2017–February 4, 2018 Floor 3 A major photographer of the 20th century, Walker Evans’s iconic images of the Depression, his photo essays published during the 1940s and 1950s and his definition of the “documentary style” influenced generations of photographers and other artists. Organized by the Musée National d’Art Moderne of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and conceived as a complete retrospective of Evans’s work, this exhibition examines the photographer’s fascination with vernacular culture. Through 300 images assembled from major international collections, the exhibition presents a wide range of Evans’s photographs and his many sources of inspiration. Walker Evans: A Vernacular Style includes documentation of the major subjects that Evans photographed during his career, as well as nearly 100 examples of Evans’s visual inspiration from his personal collection of postcards, enameled plates, cut images and graphic ephemera.

CURRENTLY ON VIEW

Anthony Hernandez On view through January 1, 2017 Floor 3 Anthony Hernandez is the first retrospective to honor the more than 45-year career of this major American photographer. Featuring approximately 130 photographs—many never shown before—the exhibition includes a remarkably varied body of work united by its formal beauty and its subtle

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 6 consideration of contemporary social issues. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Anthony Hernandez developed his own individual style of , one attuned to the desolate allure and sprawling expanses of his hometown. Over the course of his career, he has deftly moved from black- and-white to color photography, from 35mm to large-format cameras and from the human figure to the landscape to abstracted detail. Highlights from the exhibition include black-and-white photographs from the early 1970s taken on the streets of downtown L.A., color pictures made on Rodeo Drive in the mid-1980s and selections from his critically acclaimed series Landscapes for the Homeless, completed in 1991. Although Hernandez has turned his lens on other cities—including Rome, Italy, and various American locales—Los Angeles, and especially the regions inhabited by the working class, the poor and the homeless, has been his most enduring subject.

Generous support for Anthony Hernandez is provided by Randi and Bob Fisher.

Bruce Conner: It’s All True On view through January 22, 2017 Floor 4 Realist. Surrealist. Hippie. Punk. Bruce Conner was all of these and more. A pioneer in experimental film, collage, photography, conceptual works and paintings, he challenged the limitations of medium, genre and style, constantly breaking new ground. Both of and ahead of his time, Conner continues to exert influence over artists working today. Bruce Conner: It’s All True is the most comprehensive retrospective to date of this pivotal American artist, bringing together over 300 objects from his incredible output, including film and video, painting, assemblage, drawing, prints, photography, photograms and performance. Spanning his five-decade career, the exhibition presents aspects of Conner’s work that have rarely been seen before, from paintings he made in the 1950s to photos from the Bay Area punk scene in the 1970s to video work from the 2000s, as well as numerous works produced in the last decade of his life.

Major sponsorship of Bruce Conner: It’s All True is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support is provided by Marguerite Steed Hoffman, Robin Wright and Ian Reeves and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now On view through March 12, 2017 Floor 3 One of the most significant contributions to the art of photography comes from postwar Japan. After World War II, the country began to produce film and camera equipment, supporting a large amateur photography culture and sponsoring native photographers as important artistic producers. Japanese Photography from Postwar to Now highlights SFMOMA’s considerable collection of Japanese photography, focusing on generous gifts from the community and the important donation of the Kurenboh Collection, Tokyo. This exhibition includes photographs from the 1960s, when major figures such as Shomei Tomatsu and Daido Moriyama investigated Americanization and industrial growth; the more personal and performative work of Nobuyoshi Araki and Eikoh Hosoe; and photography addressing the present culture and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Organized thematically, the show explores topics such as Japan’s relationship with America, changes in the city and countryside and the emergence of women, especially Miyako Ishiuchi, Rinko Kawauchi and Lieko Shiga, as significant contributors to contemporary Japanese photography.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 2016 Exhibitions Release 7 Major support for Japanese Photography from the Postwar to Now is provided by Lisa and John Pritzker.

For a complete listing of exhibitions currently on view, visit sfmoma.org/exhibitions-events.

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