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Buddhist Realms
October 25, 2107–April 22, 2018Exquisite examples of Buddhist art from the Himalayan region.
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Global Lives Project
October 25–December 29, 2017This collaborative video project captures twenty-four hours in the lives of diverse individuals across the globe.
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On the Hour / Hayoun Kwon
November 1–December 29, 2017I Suddenly Hear the Flap of Wings
Commissioned for BAMPFA’s outdoor screen, Kwon’s imaginative digital animation evokes a woman who transformed her apartment into an aviary.
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Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane
November 22, 2017–July 15, 2018Moletsane’s vibrant, large-scale portraits for the Art Wall draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
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Breaking ICE
January 31–May 20, 2018A Community Response to a Citizenship Test
An interactive installation based loosely on the 100 questions used to test aspiring US citizens.
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee
January 31–April 22, 2018View artworks and ephemera from the Cha archive at BAMPFA in dialogue with her best-known work, the artist's book Dictee.
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Jay Heikes / MATRIX 269
February 14–April 29, 2018Recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings that offer both a reflection on our cultural moment and a commitment to the material properties of the art object
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Cal Conversations: Dreaming the Lost Ming 夢回金陵
February 21–May 13, 2018Created in collaboration with a UC Berkeley course, this exhibition explores the cataclysmic end of the Ming dynasty through paintings and literature of China’s long seventeenth century.
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Agony in Effigy: Art, Truth, Pain, and the Body
February 21–June 17, 2018This selection of historical works explores how physical violence and suffering have been represented in art, from the promise of transcendence to political critique.
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Al Wong: Lost Sister
March 28–June 17, 2018Al Wong’s photocollage portraits of the sister he never met form a meditation on displacement and the collision between personal and geopolitical histories.
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The 48th Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
May 11–June 17, 2018This annual showcase celebrates the diverse and exceptional work of new graduates from the MFA program at Cal.
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Master Traces, Transcultural Visions
May 16–September 16, 2018Works dating from the second century through the twentieth reveal how Buddhist power was visually expressed and transmitted throughout Asia.
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Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri / MATRIX 270
May 23–August 26, 2018New work by two artists who got their start in San Francisco in the 1990s and have maintained a strong artistic dialogue ever since.
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Color, Form, Unicorn: Recent Acquisitions
June 6-August 19, 2018Recent additions to the BAMPFA collection feature unusual approaches to color and form—plus a unicorn.
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
June 30–November 18, 2018The first retrospective of an enormously influential artist whose photographs capture the creative subcultures of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary
July 4-September 2, 2018Leonard’s photographs are rare, intimate documents of life in Oakland in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
July 11–October 14, 2018This first survey of Vicuña’s work stages a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
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Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019The pioneer of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics creates a new piece for BAMPFA’s Art Wall.
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Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection
September 19–December 16, 2018BAMPFA’s outstanding collection of historical European art—including several important new acquisitions—is showcased in this exhibition, the culmination of a major research and conservation effort.
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Christina Quarles / MATRIX 271
September 19–November 18, 2018A gathering of paintings by Quarles, whose work tussles with culturally prescribed identities and probes the margins where meaning remains unfixed, illegible, and subject to question.
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Redacted: Art for Human Rights
September 19–December 10, 2018A selection of works from the BAMPFA collection that use redacted content to question the relationships between power, information, and censorship and consider the precarious nature of truth.
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Boundless: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Home and Abroad
October 3, 2018–May 26, 2019Featuring works by renowned contemporary Tibetan artists alongside rare historical pieces, this exhibition highlights how artists explore the infinite possibilities of visual forms to reflect their transcultural, multilingual, and translocal lives.
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Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static
October 17, 2018–January 27, 2019This new retrospective charts the painter’s career from the 1960s through the 1990s, showcasing abstract experiments in form, texture, and color that are both formally rigorous and rich with sensuality and humor.
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Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
November 7, 2018–March 3, 2019Discover the connections between the scientific and artistic revolutions of the early twentieth century with this groundbreaking exhibition, which reveals how artists responded to scientific advances with bold new forms of creative expression.
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Ink, Paper, Silk: One Hundred Years of Collecting Japanese Art
December 12, 2018–April 14, 2019An exceptional selection of scroll paintings, screens, woodblock prints, lacquerware, and ceramics demonstrating the breadth and beauty of Japanese art.
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Arthur Jafa / MATRIX 272
December 12, 2018–March 24, 2019A gallery exhibition and complementary screenings of videos by Arthur Jafa, whose work expands the concept of black cinema while exploring African American experience and race relations in everyday life.
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Masako Miki / MATRIX 273
January 9–April 28, 2019A magical installation inspired by Shinto beliefs and the shape-shifting beings of Japanese folklore.
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Get Dancin’: Selections from the Collection
January 9–March 31, 2019The exuberance, romance, and beauty of dance are central themes in this wide-ranging selection of works.
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Aaron Marcus: Early Works
February 6–June 30, 2019In these multicolored transformations of computer-generated forms, the artist makes connections between art, science, design, and visual poetry.
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Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction
February 27–July 21, 2019Spanning the entirety of the artist’s career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmann’s prolific and innovative artistic practice.
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