On View

exhibitions
film series
event series

  • Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer

    November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023

    In his West Coast solo project debut, Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer (b. 1937) debuts the new work below/here/above/ahead/was as part of BAMPFA’s Art Wall commissioned series.

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  • Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World

    December 14, 2022–May 7, 2023

    Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World explores how artists and practitioners across two millennia have understood and utilized one of the core tenets of Buddhism—dependent arising, which posits that cycles of existence (saṃsāra) arise from past actions and... View

  • Rina Kimche

    January 11–March 26, 2023

    This is the first solo exhibition in the United States of the work of Israeli-based artist Rina Kimche (born 1934). Kimche’s diminutive sculptures are modern in their reductive, abstract simplicity and in their expression of the material essence of their clay medium.

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  • Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human Melting

    January 25–April 23, 2023

    This exhibition represents a small portion of the vast body of creative work by the late Berkeley-based artist and teacher Frank Moore (1946–2013). Over the course of more than five decades, Moore, who was born with a physical disability, used painting, performance, public access... View

  • Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

    February 4–July 23, 2023

    Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of longtime Bay Area artist Mesa-Bains. Presenting work from the entirety of her career for the first time, this exhibition, which features nearly 60 works in a range of media,... View

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Morakot (Emerald)"

    March 8–May 7, 2023

    Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World

    Independent filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation Morakot (Emerald), a work in the BAMPFA collection, is on view as part of the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World.

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  • Out of Africa: Selections from the Kramlich Collection

    March 8–April 30, 2023

    This selection of photographs and two video installations centers the continent of Africa as a site of extraction, exploitation, and displacement for economic gain.

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  • Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again

    April 12–July 30, 2023

    Cal Conversations

    Alexandre Dumas’s Afro reassembles the “scattered pieces” of Dumas and his circle, including American actress, poet, and painter Adah Isaacs Menken.

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  • Fifty-Third Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition

    May 12–July 23, 2023

    For over half a century, BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice have collaborated to present an exhibition of works by Master of Fine Arts graduates. This year’s exhibition includes the exceptional work of Irma Barbosa, Gericault De La Rose, Eniola Fakile, Juniper... View