Ongoing Events
Walking Tour of San Francisco's Korean Immigration History (MONTHLY)
Everyone knows about San Francisco’s Chinatown, but so few know about the small yet vibrant Korean immigrant community that took root here. From the merchants and political exiles who landed in San Francisco in the late 1800s, to the students, activists and families who landed on Angel Island during the Japanese occupation of Korea, these pioneers left their mark with their impressive organizational skills, their fervent anti-Japanese activism and their devotion to family and the church. We will visit locations where the earliest Korean settlers lived, worked and gathered and hear how they created a community to support each other in their new land, in a time marked by extreme hostility and prejudice against Asians. Join the free SF Korean Immigration History walking tour, offered once a month.
Flesh Witness brings together contemporary artists, Bernice Akamine, Lani Asunción, Pelenakeke Brown, Crystal Z Campbell, Jisoo Chung, Sean Connelly, Kyuri Jeon, Jane Jin Kaisen, Mao Ishikawa, Slow Futures Laboratory, and Stephanie Syjuco, whose work examines global histories and ongoing conditions of militarism across Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the Korean Peninsula, Okinawa, the Philippines, Hawai‘i, and Samoa, the group exhibition examines how military power is inscribed in landscapes, bodies, and archives, revealing how imperial dominance has been established and maintained through intervention and occupation throughout the region. Flesh Witness includes artworks spanning from the 1970s to newly created work, ranging from video to sculpture, photography, mixed media, and installation. In a present moment marked by border violence, territorial occupation, genocide, and ecological crisis, Flesh Witness reimagines the Pacific region through the intersecting legacies of military imperialism and envisions new shared futures of Oceanic peoples and diasporas. Flesh Witness is organized by REDCAT guest curators GYOPO and Amy Kahng, with support from Katy Dammers, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, REDCAT.
Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective at the Asian Art Museum (OPEN: September 25, 2026 to January 25, 2027)
For over six decades, pioneering artist Ha Chong-Hyun (b. 1935) has explored what painting becomes when freed from all existing conventions. Ha’s work prizes the interaction of his materials: using pressure, gravity, and tools ranging from torches to everyday utensils, he transforms the surfaces of canvases up to eight feet tall into a treasure trove of texture and physicality. His first museum exhibition in North America, Ha Chong-Hyun: Retrospective offers an unprecedented look at the creative evolution of one of Korea’s most influential contemporary artists.
RM x SFMOMA: Between You and Me at SFMOMA (OPEN: October 3, 2026 to February 7, 2027)
RM x SFMOMA will be the first-ever museum exhibition featuring artworks from the personal collection of RM of BTS, a defining force in global pop. The exhibition brings together 200 works from the collections of RM and SFMOMA, offering a rare chance to see modern and contemporary Korean artworks in conversation with artworks from around the world. Many of the artworks have never before been exhibited to the public in the US. Among the key Korean artists represented in the collection of RM are Yun Hyong-keun, Park Rehyun, Kwon Okyon, Kim Yun Shin, To Sangbong, and Chang Ucchin, in addition to works by numerous notable contemporary artists based around the world. RM x SFMOMA will highlight resonances and themes shared among these works and complementary SFMOMA collection artworks by Korean artist Kim Whanki as well as American and European artists such as Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, Henri Matisse, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Paul Klee. Curated by RM. See what inspires the voice of a generation.
