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Kay Sekimachi: Geometries
May 28–October 24, 2021This survey spans the innovative career of Kay Sekimachi, whose experimental objects fold together art and craft, found and made, and Japanese and American artistic traditions.
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The 51st Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine...
June 11–July 11, 2021BAMPFA presents works by this year’s MFA graduates from the Department of Art Practice at Cal.
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The Enduring Mark
August 6–November 28, 2021Six Centuries of Drawing from the Gray Collection
Celebrating drawing as an expression of the beauty, vigor, and ephemerality of life, this exhibition charts a history of European and American drawing from the fifteenth to the twentieth century with works by Rubens, Degas, Klee, Picasso, and more.
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Art Wall: Luchita Hurtado
August 6–March 20, 2022Developed from a drawing that delineates the differing strata of earth's material structure, BAMPFA's Art Wall commission is Hurtado's most monumental painting to date and among the last works she made.
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New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
August 28, 2021–January 30, 2022Featuring more than 150 works, most made since the year 2000, this major survey presents a kaleidoscopic view of feminist practices in contemporary art.
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On the Hour: Night Watch
September 16–October 31Screening hourly on BAMPFA's Outdoor Screen, Shimon Attie's 2018 video work features twelve portraits of refugees who fled violence and discrimination in their homeland and were granted political asylum in the United States.
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Lines of Thought
January 5–July 3, 2022Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection
This collection-based exhibition of gestural paintings from the 1950s to the present features works by key international figures who have continued to explore artistic possibilities within or in dialogue with gestural abstraction
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Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson
January 12–June 12, 2022This exhibition debuts a recent gift of eleven Tongson paintings and pairs them with historic paintings from BAMPFA’s extensive Chinese painting collection, demonstrating the relationship between his genius and that of past masters.
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Recent Acquisitions from the BAMPFA Collection
March 2–April 24, 2022This exhibition of recent acquisitions by the museum demonstrates BAMPFA’s ongoing work to expand the global art historical canon through the art of lesser known makers and marginalized groups.
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The Artist’s Eye: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John...
March 19–July 17, 2022Curated by four established Bay Area artists, this exhibition centers their respective artistic visions and engages the space where the artist—as curator, collector, and maker—meets the museum.
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On the Hour: A Cool Million
April 18–22, 2022This Earth Week, BAMPFA is proud to be participating in this public initiative for climate awareness led by artists and institutions to expand environmental arts programming and support the conservation of land central to the California hydrological cycle.
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Art Wall: Caroline Kent
April 27–October 30, 2022BAMPFA commissioned Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent to present The Sounds Among Us, a large-scale, self-reflective yet otherworldly meditation on the museum as a site of intimate performance and public engagement.
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The 52nd Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
May 13–July 24, 2022BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice host an exhibition of works by the Master of Fine Arts class of 2022: Erica Deeman, Edgar Fabián Frías, Kavena Hambira, Hala Kaddoura, Ahn Lee, and Rivka Valérie Louissaint.
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Whitney Bradshaw: OUTCRY
July 13–December 3, 2022This large-scale presentation of Bradshaw's photographic project features one hundred women engaging in unbridled self-expression as an act of defiance against patriarchal oppression. Running three times daily on the outdoor screen.
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by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the first comprehensive exhibition of Knowles's work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
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Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023An international movement of the 1960s and 1970s of artists working across disciplines and in a decidedly anti-commercial manner, this exhibition offers an opportunity to see Fluxus materials and many artworks in the form of a box, including numerous Fluxkits by a wide variety of... View
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Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279
August 10, 2022–January 8, 2023Hannah Levy’s tactile, creaturelike sculptures infuse the stripped-down lines of Modernist design with a visceral tension that is simultaneously sterile and erotic, amusing and disturbing.
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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 11, 2022Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making.... View
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Lena Wolff and Hope Meng: VOTE
October 8–November 8, 2022The return of Wolff’s iconic poster series encourages viewers to make their voices heard at the ballot box in support of urgent and timely issues: for reproductive freedom, gun reform, trans rights, environmental justice, and democracy at large.
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Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer
November 30, 2022–May 31, 2023In 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, 2023Endless 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
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Rina Kimche
January 11–March 26, 2023This 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, 2023This 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
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Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
February 4–July 23, 2023Amalia 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
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul "Morakot (Emerald)"
March 8–May 7, 2023Endless 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, 2023This 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, 2023Cal 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, 2023For 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
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