Today's Films
Today's Events
11 AM–7 PM
Art Lab
Today's Gallery Hours
Open 11AM–7PM
Current Exhibitions
Through August 26
Through September 2
Through September 2
Through September 16
Through October 14
Through November 18
Through March 3
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Persona
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Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs (June 10)
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In Person
Feral Fabric with Amanda Walters & Paulina Berczynski
Sunday, August 26
12 PM
Discover how undomesticated cloth can be in this hands-on workshop with the artists.
Full: Maggi Payne & Laetitia Sonami
Sunday, August 26
7 PM
Two of the Bay Area’s finest composers and intrepid musical pioneers team up for an evening of solo and collaborative performances, electroacoustic music, and sound art.
Linda H. Rugg on Summer Interlude
Wednesday, August 29
3:10 PM
Join the UC Berkeley professor for the first in this fall's public In Focus lecture/screening series on Ingmar Bergman.
Alex Saragoza on Creativity, Migration, Transformation
Thursday, August 30
12 PM
The organizer of this fall's Arts + Design Thursdays lecture series discusses the connections among creative works, the experiences of migration, and the possibilities of personal and social transformation.
Wavy Gravy
Sunday, September 2
2 PM
Combining performance and oral history, the Berkeley-based hippie icon shares his unique experience of living a life of creative activism with fun as a ruling factor.
Christina Quarles: Artist's Talk
Thursday, September 20
6 PM
The MATRIX artist discusses her work with curator Apsara DiQuinzio, illuminating the role of ambiguity in her representation of race and sexual identity.
Art Historian Catherine Lusheck
Saturday, September 29
1:30 PM
Why Style Matters—Connoisseurship and the Old Masters delves into intriguing issues about attribution and why an appreciation of the “hand of the artist” truly mattered in the European Renaissance.
Tsherin Sherpa: Artist’s Talk
Sunday, October 7
3 PM
The contemporary Tibetan artist, featured in Boundless, discusses themes of displacement and identity in his work.
Olivia Young on Christina Quarles
Wednesday, October 10
5:30 PM
An exploration of the dynamics of excess, visibility, and form as instruments of black queer longing in Quarles's work, now on view in MATRIX 271.
Apsara DiQuinzio on Harvey Quaytman
Wednesday, October 17
12 PM
The curator of Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static offers an overview of the exhibition, tracing the trajectory of the artist’s career.
On View
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Sculpting in Time
Visionary films that infuse images of the world with metaphysical mystery.
August 4–30, 2018 -
Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
A new, site-specific installation by the creator of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics.
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019 -
Subtle Subversion: The Films of Alain Tanner
Championing dreamers and dropouts, political radicals and disaffected youth, Tanner’s films from 1960s to the 1980s feel just as urgent today.
July 26–August 19, 2018 -
Bergman 100: An Emerging Style
Rarely screened films by Ingmar Bergman from 1949–64 presented in an intimate, salon-style setting
July 20–August 19, 2018 -
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
The first retrospective of this influential artist, who described his own work as “uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects,”
June 30–November 18, 2018 -
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
The artist's first survey exhibition addresses discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
July 11–October 14, 2018 -
Jacques Becker
Rediscover the films of this classic French director.
July 12–August 31, 2018 -
Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary
Rare, intimate photographs of life in Oakland in the 1960s and 1970s.
July 4-September 2, 2018 -
Way Bay 2
A fresh iteration of our innovative exhibition exploring the creative energies that have emerged from the Bay Area over the past two centuries.
June 13–September 2, 2018 -
Michelangelo Antonioni, a retrospective
Explore the full range of this Italian Modernist master’s dazzling work in this comprehensive retrospective.
June 15–August 31, 2018 -
Color, Form, Unicorn: New Acquisitions
Recent additions to the BAMPFA collection feature unusual approaches to color and form—plus a unicorn.
June 6-August 19, 2018 -
Alicia McCarthy & Ruby Neri / MATRIX 270
New work by two artists who have maintained a strong artistic dialogue since meeting in San Francisco in the 1990s.
May 23–August 26, 2018 -
Master Traces, Transcultural Visions
Works from second through twentieth-century Asia reveal how Buddhist power was expressed and spread through art.
May 16–September 16, 2018 -
Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
Ongoing