Donald and Doris Fisher’s assortment of blue-chip modern artwork has been on view on the San Francisco Museum of Trendy Artwork since 2016, a number of years after the museum organized a long-term mortgage—a 100-year-long one, to be precise—with the Fisher Artwork Basis. Now, a decade after the preliminary set up, SFMOMA has introduced an overhaul of the Fisher Assortment galleries. The brand new presentation will open on April 18, 2026.
“Reimagined: The Fisher Assortment at 10” will characteristic 250 artworks by 35 fashionable and modern artists. In all, the reinstallation will cowl 60,000 sq. toes of gallery house. The mission has been led by Ted Mann, the Fisher Collections mission assistant curator, and Gamynne Guillotte, SFMOMA’s chief training and public engagement officer.
Donald and Doris Fisher—longtime ARTnews High 200 Collectors—based the Hole, Inc. clothes model in 1969, and started amassing artwork quickly after, with vital holdings of labor by artists like Alexander Calder, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol, amongst many others. Donald died in 2009; his and Doris’s son Robert Fisher was on SFMOMA’s board of trustees for over 20 years, till stepping down this summer season. (He’s now chair emeritus.)
“Reimagined” is unfold throughout 4 flooring on the museum, which every flooring having its personal theme. The third flooring will concentrate on playful, large-scale sculptures—and their associated drawings and fashions—by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The fourth flooring is damaged into monographic galleries devoted to 14 totally different artists featured within the Fisher assortment, amongst them Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, and Roy Lichtenstein. The fifth flooring will showcase work by three artists the Fishers collected in depth: Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, and Ellsworth Kelly. Lastly, on the sixth flooring, shall be galleries devoted to Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, and different artists “whose works use supplies and processes to look at the psychic and bodily legacies of nationalism and colonialism,” in accordance with a press release from the museum.
There will even be an in depth timeline tracing the historical past of the Fisher Assortment on the sixth flooring, and a studio house for hands-on actions.
Christopher Bedford, director of SFMOMA, described the reinstallation as “a revelation in its storytelling about artists, collectors and the social dynamics that impressed and formed them.”
