SFMOMA Opens New Work: Raven Chacon, a Five-Channel Film Installation, on October 24

SFMOMA opens New Work: Raven Chacon on Saturday, October 24, 2026. The exhibition runs through November 7, 2027 on Floor 6, according to the museum’s upcoming exhibitions page. Member previews are October 23 and 24.

What’s in the Show

Chacon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and artist whose work connects Diné worldviews with Western classical, avant-garde and noise music traditions, per SFMOMA’s 2026-27 exhibitions announcement. For this commission he debuts a five-channel silent film with drawings and an ambient soundtrack of spaghetti western instrumentals and drone noises.

The film pairs Ray Bradbury’s 1950 book The Martian Chronicles with footage from the Prelinger Archives film collection to depict travelers visiting Southwest tribal lands. SFMOMA says the work, presented in the year of the U.S. semiquincentennial, considers the Doctrine of Discovery as an ongoing principle behind the expansion of territory, “both terrestrial and beyond.”

Visiting

Where: SFMOMA, 151 Third St., Floor 6. SFGuide’s SFMOMA page covers the building and getting there.

Hours: Monday, Tuesday and Friday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm; Thursday, noon to 8pm; closed Wednesday, per sfmoma.org/visit.

Admission: $30 adults, $25 seniors 65 and older, $23 full-time students with ID, free for visitors 18 and younger and for members.

Also at SFMOMA This Season

O. Smith: Artivist, drawings made inside San Quentin, is on Floor 2 through June 20, 2027. Sarah Sze’s Forever is Composed of Nows opens on Floor 1 on November 21, 2026 and is free to see. For more October openings, see Things to Do in San Francisco in October 2026.

Sources: SFMOMA upcoming exhibitions; SFMOMA press release, August 19, 2026 (updated October 9); SFMOMA visitor information.

Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.