KAWS Family

15 Nov 2025 – 03 May 2026
San Francisco, USA
sfmoma.org
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KAWS: FAMILY invites visitors into the artist’s vibrant and emotionally charged world. Presented as the artist’s first major museum exhibition on the West Coast, the show spans three decades of work, tracing his ability to tap into shared feelings and collective culture.

Paintings, drawings, sculptures, and interventions, from ad takeovers to collaborations and toys, show the breadth of KAWS’s evolving visual language, built around recurring figures and reimagined pop imagery.

At its center stands FAMILY (2021), a monumental bronze sculpture that gathers KAWS’s well-known characters together. Their gestures of tenderness and fragility mirror our own experiences of care and connection. By reframing familiar animated icons through his own lens, KAWS turns nostalgia into reflection, creating space for empathy and shared cultural memory.

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