Donald and Doris Fisher’s collection of blue-chip contemporary art has been on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 2016, several years after the museum arranged a long-term loan—a 100-year-long one, to be exact—with the Fisher Art Foundation. Now, a decade after the initial installation, SFMOMA has announced an overhaul of the Fisher Collection galleries. The new presentation will open on April 18, 2026.
“Reimagined: The Fisher Collection at 10” will feature 250 artworks by 35 modern and contemporary artists. In all, the reinstallation will cover 60,000 square feet of gallery space. The project has been led by Ted Mann, the Fisher Collections project assistant curator, and Gamynne Guillotte, SFMOMA’s chief education and public engagement officer.
Donald and Doris Fisher—longtime ARTnews Top 200 Collectors—founded the Gap, Inc. clothing brand in 1969, and began collecting art soon after, with significant holdings of work by artists like Alexander Calder, Gerhard Richter, and Andy Warhol, among many others. Donald died in 2009; his and Doris’s son Robert Fisher was on SFMOMA’s board of trustees for over two decades, until stepping down this summer. (He is now chair emeritus.)
“Reimagined” is spread across four floors at the museum, which each floor having its own theme. The third floor will focus on playful, large-scale sculptures—and their related drawings and models—by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The fourth floor is broken into monographic galleries dedicated to 14 different artists featured in the Fisher collection, among them Philip Guston, Agnes Martin, and Roy Lichtenstein. The fifth floor will showcase work by three artists the Fishers collected in depth: Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, and Ellsworth Kelly. Finally, on the sixth floor, will be galleries dedicated to Anselm Kiefer, William Kentridge, and other artists “whose works use materials and processes to examine the psychic and physical legacies of nationalism and colonialism,” according to a statement from the museum.
There will also be a detailed timeline tracing the history of the Fisher Collection on the sixth floor, and a studio space for hands-on activities.
Christopher Bedford, director of SFMOMA, described the reinstallation as “a revelation in its storytelling about artists, collectors and the social dynamics that inspired and shaped them.”
