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Introducing Tucker Nichols x SFMOMA

Meet our newest collab: Tucker Nichols x SFMOMA! This collection brings the Bay Area artist's distinctive visual language into everyday life.

Tucker on inspiration for the Collection:
"A lot of the collection comes back to how I feel about San Francisco, which to me has never been about the bridge or Alcatraz. It's the specific feeling that lands about six minutes after you finish the burrito. It's the cluster of renegade parrots shrieking overhead where you least expect them. It's the nicknames only outsiders use. I don’t care what people call it—it’s still the best city I've ever lived in." —Tucker Nichols







Tucker Nichols Matisse Reflection

“I think of artists I admire more in terms of giving permission, like opening up the space for whatever might come next.” —Tucker Nichols 

Hear Bay Area artist Tucker Nichols reflect on Matisse’s influence, then experience Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal for yourself before the exhibition closes September 27.

Tucker Nichols

Tucker Nichols is a well known Bay Area artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, books, and mail art. Rooted in close observation and a light touch, his work finds humor and warmth in the everyday. He has exhibited at SFMOMA, the Denver Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum, and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and his drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and McSweeney's. His books include Flowers for Things I Don't Know How to Say (Chronicle Books, 2024) and Mostly Everything: The Art of Tucker Nichols (McSweeney's, 2025).