Past Exhibitions

Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration

September 3–December 11, 2022

Undoing 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. This exhibition traces images from history that contribute to the entrenched cultural beliefs associated with today’s carceral system.

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Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

May 8–November 27, 2022 View

Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson

January 12–June 12, 2022

This 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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Jumana Manna / MATRIX 278

December 8–March 6, 2022 View

On the Hour: Night Watch

September 16–October 31

Screening 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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Art Wall: Luchita Hurtado

August 6–March 20, 2022

Developed 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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Aaron Marcus: Early Works

February 6–June 30, 2019

In these multicolored transformations of computer-generated forms, the artist makes connections between art, science, design, and visual poetry.

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AMERICA AMERICA: Art for Human Rights

March 22–April 16, 2017

Works from the collection examining the history of US human rights.

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Will Brown / MATRIX 259

June 12–September 13, 2015

Inspired by enigmatic stories about Dan Flavin’s 1978 site-specific installation at BAMPFA, Will Brown’s MATRIX exhibition includes installations outside BAMPFA’s Bancroft Way building, an artist book displayed in UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library, and a one-night theatrical production written by poet and playwright Kevin Killian.

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The 45th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 15–June 14, 2015

We are honored to present the work of six promising artists-Leslie Dreyer, Tanja Geis, Lee Lavy, Michelle Ott, Sofie Ramos, and Matt Smith Chavez-in the forty-fifth edition of the annual MFA exhibition. This year's presentation will be held at the Berkeley Art Center, 1257 Walnut Street, Berkeley.

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Eric Baudelaire / MATRIX 257

2/4/15 to 2/21/15 MATRIX 257 features the work of French-American artist Eric Baudelaire, who explores intricate facets of representation through a keen unraveling of entangled narratives. The exhibition comprises film screenings at the PFA Theater and an installation, film screenings, and public conversations at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco. View

Eric Baudelaire / MATRIX 257

February 4–February 21, 2015

MATRIX 257 features the work of French-American artist Eric Baudelaire, who explores intricate facets of representation through a keen unraveling of entangled narratives. The exhibition comprises film screenings at the PFA Theater and an installation, film screenings, and public conversations at Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco.

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Joseph Holtzman / MATRIX 256

October 17–December 21, 2014

Joseph Holtzman's paintings on marble achieve remarkable chromatic and tonal effects by exploiting the transparency of oil paint and the unusual capacity of the stone surface to absorb and reflect light. The themes and motifs of these highly personal paintings are drawn from Holtzman's interest in historical painting and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decorative arts, and often depict family and friends, cultural personalities, historical figures, and literary characters.

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American Wonder: Folk Art from the Collection

October 1–December 22, 2014

Discover the early years of our nation through portraits, landscapes, commemorative mourning pictures, weather vanes, and decorative sculptures that reflect the daily lives and aspirations of Americans between the years 1776 and 1865. American Wonder begins in Colonial New England, evoking the world of early settlers, and ends in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the pitched optimism of the Gold Rush met with dreams of a post-Civil War American Eden.

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John Zurier / MATRIX 255

September 12–December 21, 2014

Berkeley-based artist John Zurier's luminous, abstract canvases capture qualities of light and the changing effects of the atmosphere. MATRIX 255 debuts a new body of paintings and watercolors that evoke the ice, fog, wind, water, and light of the Icelandic landscape, while also tapping into more timeless, contemplative states.

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Geta Brătescu / MATRIX 254

July 25–September 28, 2014

MATRIX 254 presents a focused selection of key works by Geta Brătescu (b. 1926), a central figure in postwar Romanian art. Brătescu's multidisciplinary practice-which includes collage, drawing, video, textiles, performance, installation, photography, graphic design, and printmaking-is characterized by a playful, experimental approach and frequent use of role-playing and self-portraiture.

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Looking Intently: The James Cahill Legacy

July 23–December 21, 2014

In fond memory of James Cahill (1926–2014), we present this selection from the collection in tribute to his tremendous generosity and commitment to Berkeley and to BAMPFA.

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Hofmann by Hofmann

July 2–December 22, 2014

In 1963 Hans Hofmann donated nearly fifty paintings in support of the burgeoning University Art Museum (now BAMPFA). As we prepare to move to our new building in downtown Berkeley, it seems fitting to revisit the enduring vitality and generosity of Hofmann's extraordinary gift with a selection of the works selected personally by the artist for BAMPFA.

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Color Shift

June 18–August 24, 2014

Inspired by Josef Albers, who taught that developing a "sensitive eye for color" was a key component of the modernist project, Color Shift explores color relationships within abstract compositions. The exhibition puts into dialogue a broad range of media and includes work by Jennifer Bartlett, Dan Flavin, Xylor Jane, Ruth Laskey, Ron Nagle, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and more.

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Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible

June 11–September 14, 2014

Self-described “visionary” artist Forrest Bess (1911–1977) created a signature aesthetic, painting simple landscapes characterized by planar bands and coded symbols derived from dreams. Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible pairs Bess's paintings, dating from 1946 to 1970, with an installation of archival materials curated by sculptor Robert Gober that illuminates Bess's art and life.

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What #isamuseum?

May 23–December 31, 2014

Is a museum fun? Truthful? Political? Artist Sam Durant invites you share your thoughts on isamuseum.org and on Twitter using #isamuseum.

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Envisioning Human Rights: The Next Generation

April 23–September 21, 2014

We have teamed up with the Human Rights Center at the UC Berkeley School of Law to celebrate their twentieth anniversary with a juried exhibition of artworks by University of California students that address a broad spectrum of social justice issues.

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Will Rogan / MATRIX 253

April 11–June 29, 2014

For MATRIX 253, Will Rogan has created a new body of work that explores various time scales-past, present, and future-as evinced in a reversed order or a backward motion. Primarily taking the form of photography, collage, sculpture, or video, Rogan's work possesses a subtlety and quietude that inspire thoughtful consideration of the material effects of time and space.

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The Elephant's Eye: Artful Animals in South & Southeast Asia

March 5–July 6, 2014

Elephants take center stage in this delightful exhibition that focuses on the representation of animals in the art of India, Thailand, and Cambodia. Discover how animals evoke the power of kingdoms, embody the wisdom of saints, and inspire devotional desire.

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Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles

February 12–April 27, 2014

Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles features monumental sculptures and lyrical drawings by the internationally acclaimed artist and author. The exhibition focuses on six major sculptures named in memory of the assassinated civil rights leader, which are marked by the dynamic interplay of material and thematic opposites.

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The Possible

January 29–May 25, 2014

Combining studio, school, library, gallery, and stage, The Possible is an open platform for exploring diverse creative techniques. This experimental exhibition transforms our galleries into workshops-a ceramics studio, dye lab, print shop, and recording studio-to foster collaboration among artists and between artists and visitors. Come and be a part of the process.

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Kids Club

January 29–December 21, 2014

Explore and create in Kids Club, a special gallery dedicated to involving children in creative work. Designed in conjunction with the artists of The Possible. Admission to the BAMPFA Galleries always free for children 12 and under.

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Paz Errázuriz / MATRIX 251

January 17–March 30, 2014

MATRIX 251 presents two series by Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz, La manzana de Adán (Adam's Apple) and Boxeadores (Boxers), both of which were made during the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The photographs display Errázuriz's authentic and deeply human approach to portraying people living on the margins of society.

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Anna Maria Maiolino / MATRIX 252

January 17–March 30, 2014

This exhibition of work by São Paulo–based artist Anna Maria Maiolino features a group of four videos from the 1970s and early 1980s that use the body to express the experience of living under an oppressive regime.

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Art for Human Rights

November 13–November 25, 2013

Powerful drawings and paintings from Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib series commemorate Art for Human Rights.

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Multiple Encounters

November 6–February 16, 2014

Multiple Encounters puts the video work of Yang Fudong in direct dialogue with historical Chinese paintings from our collection, and suggests that some of the ambiguous qualities of Yang's work may be inherited from the Chinese classical tradition.

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Linda Stark / MATRIX 250

October 18–December 22, 2013

Los Angeles–based artist Linda Stark has been making figurative and abstract paintings with heavily built-up surfaces of paint since the late 1980s. MATRIX 250 highlights her more recent series of “adorned” and “branded” paintings, which conflate the surface textures of the painting with various aspects of the female body.

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Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting

September 25–December 22, 2013

Beauty Revealed proposes new ways of viewing and understanding the genre of later Chinese painting known as meiren hua, or beautiful women painting. The exhibition features over twenty rare, exquisite paintings of women in intimate settings, such as the garden, home, bath, and brothel.

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Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993–2013

August 21–December 8, 2013

This first midcareer survey of the work of Yang Fudong presents photographs, films, and video installations by a leading figure in China's contemporary art world and independent cinema movement. Yang reflects the ideals and anxieties of the generation that came of age after the Cultural Revolution and is struggling to find its place in the rapidly changing society of the new China.

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Zarouhie Abdalian / MATRIX 249

August 2–September 29, 2013

MATRIX 249 showcases the work of Oakland-based artist Zarouhie Abdalian, whose work often responds to the specific attributes of a given location, architectural setting, or social landscape. For this exhibition, the artist has created new sculptures for Gallery A that explore the interrelated, yet distinct, states of noise, silence, and the absence of sound.

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Thingamajigs: Migrations, Maps & Labyrinths

July 21–August 16, 2013

We are pleased to welcome Thingamajigs Performance Group as our first-ever L@TE artists-in-residence. With the help of audiences and local collaborators Thingamajigs investigates the meanings of travel, migrations, maps, and labyrinths in a series of linked performances, talks, a workshop, and open rehearsals.

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Deities, Demons, and Teachers of Tibet, Nepal, and India

June 26–September 14, 2014

Joyful and sensual sculptural figures of Indian deities and dancers join radiant images of enlightened beings from Tibet and Nepal in Deities, Demons, and Teachers, which presents a rotating display of works by anonymous Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan artisans.

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Gazing into Nature: Early Chinese Painting

June 5–October 20, 2013

We are delighted to present, for the first time in ten years, a selection of BAMPFA's earliest Chinese paintings. These rare works by twelfth- to fifteenth-century landscape and bird-and-flower painters demonstrate the sophistication and accomplishment of the early Chinese painting tradition.

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Unruly

June 4–July 14, 2013

Unruly highlights new acquisitions in which line, form, color, and surface operate in willful and surprising ways. Includes work by Linda Geary, Clare Rojas, Leslie Shows, David Simpson, Leo Valledor, and others.

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The 43rd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 17–June 16, 2013 BAMPFA presents the work of the 2013 M.F.A. graduates of UC Berkeley's Department of Art Practice. View

Hans Hofmann: Rectangles

May 17–September 1, 2013

Now closing August 25. Drawn exclusively from BAMPFA's unsurpassed collection of paintings by the tremendously influential Abstract Expressionist artist, Hans Hofmann: Rectangles celebrates the completion of a comprehensive conservation project.

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Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection

May 17–August 25, 2013

Taking as its point of departure the work of Nicole Eisenman, on view in MATRIX 248, Ballet of Heads brings together works from the collection that demonstrate the inexhaustible variety and texture of the human form in art.

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Rebar: Kaleidoscape

May 12, 2013–December 21, 2014

We invite you to experience Kaleidoscape, an interactive seating sculpture designed by the San Francisco–based firm Rebar. Come rearrange the modular pieces to create a customized environment for study, relaxation, or socializing, or use the sections to create a crystalline landscape. Take a picture of your Kaleidoscape composition and share it on our photostream!

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Nicole Eisenman / MATRIX 248

May 3–July 14, 2013

MATRIX 248 showcases the work of New York–based artist Nicole Eisenman, who has been steadfastly expanding dialogues surrounding painting and drawing since the 1990s. Intermixing styles associated with American Regionalism and the Italian Renaissance with German Expressionism, Eisenman brings history to bear in her canvases and drawings, yet twists the imagery to infuse these familiar forms with her own incisive social commentary and aesthetic voice.

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Art For Human Rights

April 1–April 14, 2013

As part of our ongoing Art for Human Rights program, we display paintings and works on paper from acclaimed Colombian artist Fernando Botero's provocative Abu Ghraib series (2004–06).

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul / MATRIX 247

February 15–April 21, 2013

MATRIX 247 presents Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2007 video installation Morakot (Emerald), where ghostly voices share their stories as the camera lingers on dust, light, and memory in the empty rooms and hallways of a defunct Bangkok hotel that once housed Cambodian refugees.

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Anna Halprin / MATRIX 246

February 15–April 21, 2013

For MATRIX 246, visionary choreographer Anna Halprin stages the final performances of her groundbreaking 1965 dance, Parades and Changes, and we display scores, photographs, and other documentation of the history of the dance.

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Silence

January 30–April 28, 2013 Inspired by John Cage's groundbreaking composition 4'33", and the centenary of the composer's birth, Silence considers the absence of sound as both subject and medium in modern and contemporary art and film. The exhibition includes work by Joseph Beuys, Stan Brakhage, Giorgio de Chirico, Maya Deren, Nathaniel Dorsky, Marcel Duchamp, René Magritte, Christian Marclay, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Doris Salcedo, Tino Sehgal, Stephen Vitiello, and Andy Warhol, among others. View

Rudolf de Crignis / MATRIX 245

January 30–May 5, 2013

MATRIX 245, Rudolf de Crignis's first solo museum exhibition in the United States, brings together fourteen paintings and a series of graphite works on paper from 1991 to 2006. De Crignis (1948–2006) is best known for radiant abstract works, layered hues of blue that he called "catalysts to create the space and the light."

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Facing Two Directions: A Japanese Painter Looks to China

January 30–May 19, 2013

A magnificent pair of screens painted by Sakaki Hyakusen forms the centerpiece of this exhibition. The masterful Hyakusen (1697–1752) was an artist facing two directions: one towards the traditions of China and the other toward the future of Japanese Nanga painting.

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Himalayan Pilgrimage: Sacred Space

December 5–May 26, 2013 View

Trimpin: Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra / MATRIX 244

November 2–December 23, 2012

Trimpin's Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra celebrates the one-hundredth birthday of the avant-garde composer Conlon Nancarrow (1912–97) with an interactive sculptural sound installation comprising three reconstructed salvaged pianos as well as percussive instruments originally designed and built by Nancarrow. Commissioned by Other Minds in collaboration with BAMPFA in conjunction with Nancarrow at 100: A Centennial Celebration.

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Art for Human Rights

October 31–November 11, 2012

As part of the new BAMPFA program Art for Human Rights, we feature several works from Fernando Botero's provocative Abu Ghraib series, as well as a sculpture by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and newly acquired photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones that focus on aspects of the Black Panther movement.

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Points of Departure

October 3–December 2, 2012 View

Devotion

August 24–November 4, 2012

Devotion brings together works from the collection toexplore the relationship between viewer and image in fourteenth to eighteenth century devotional art from the West. Among the artists included are Rubens, Dürer, Rembrandt, Patinir, and Caracciolo.

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Barry McGee

August 24–December 9, 2012

This first midcareer survey of the globally influential San Francisco–based artist showcases the broad range of Barry McGee's compassionate and vivacious work. Taking over the entire lower level of the museum, the exhibition includes rarely seen early etchings, letterpress printing trays and liquor bottles painted with his trademark cast of down-and-out urban characters, constellations of vibrant op-art painted panels, animatronic taggers, and an elaborate re-creation of a cacophonous street-corner bodega, along with many new projects.

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Lutz Bacher / MATRIX 242

July 18–October 7, 2012

MATRIX 242 presents Bien Hoa (2006–07), an important but rarely seen series that sheds light on the elusive practice of Berkeley-based artist Lutz Bacher. The series juxtaposes enlargements of photographs taken by a soldier in Vietnam, unearthed by the artist at a local salvage store, with the versos of the originals, which reveal the soldier/photographer's handwritten annotations. As in much of her work, in this series Bacher uses found objects to prompt questions without offering clear answers.

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D-L Alvarez / MATRIX 243

July 18–October 7, 2012

D-L Alvarez's first solo museum exhibition explores the aesthetic guises that sometimes mask unspeakable horrors. MATRIX 243 pairs The Closet, a drawing series from 2006–07 based on the 1978 horror film Halloween, with Something to Cry About (I and II) (2007), patchwork bodysuits draped on armatures that evoke the skins of corpses.

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At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions

July 18–December 23, 2012

At the Edge features works that have entered the BAMPFA collection over the past two years that convey a sense of reaching-and sometimes crossing-limits of perception and experience. Among the works on view are dreamlike, mystical, and otherworldly visions, as well as images of life at its dramatic extremes.

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Himalayan Pilgrimage: Liberation Through Sight

June 15–November 25, 2012

The journey of Himalayan Pilgrimage continues with Liberation Through Sight, which focuses on artwork created as vehicles to enlightenment. Works on view include an exceptionally rare set of seven paintings depicting the lineage of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (c. 1815), as well as images of compassionate and wrathful deities of the Tibetan pantheon.

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The 42nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 18–June 10, 2012

Be among the first to encounter the work of seven exceptional artists as they embark on their careers in the Forty-Second Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition.

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Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 241

January 27–May 20, 2012

The collagist Robert Warner has arranged the contents of thirteen boxes given to him by reclusive artist Ray Johnson (the "Bob Boxes") on tables and on the gallery walls. The collages, letters, drawings, beach trash and other found objects reveal Johnson's stream-of-consciousness flow through the matter and memory of everyday life. “Once you get into Johnson art, it's very hard to leave . . . take that immersive trip with a highly knowledgeable and profoundly committed guide” (Holland Cotter, New York Times).

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Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240

January 27–May 20, 2012

Meet celebrities and other fabulous people in this diverse selection of portraits taken by Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s with his favorite camera, the Polaroid Big Shot. A generous gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, these images reveal a little-known but seminal aspect of Warhol's practice.

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Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection

January 18–June 10, 2012

Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this spring at BAMPFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.

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The Reading Room

January 15, 2012–December 21, 2014

Come hang out in The Reading Room, a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction. On selected Fridays, The Reading Room becomes the site of readings by poets and writers.

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Sun Works

November 9–May 6, 2012

The sun's power to illuminate, yet also to scar, makes itself known in the works of Sarah Charlesworth and Chris McCaw on view in Sun Works. Part of a larger series that explores how current events are represented photographically in the media, Charlesworth's Arc of Total Eclipse (1979) tracks a solar eclipse across the front pages of multiple newspapers. Like Charlesworth, McCaw is also interested in questioning the role of the photograph as a simple representation of reality. For Sunburned GSP #488 (2011), he used a handmade view-camera to capture the path of the sun on a paper negative, creating an ambiguous, ethereal image.

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Richard Misrach: Photographs from the Collection

October 12–February 5, 2012

In conjunction with 1991: Oakland–Berkeley Fire Aftermath, Photographs by Richard Misrach, we are pleased to present works by Richard Misrach from the BAMPFA collection. In addition to the entire Graecism portfolio (1979–82), Richard Misrach: Photographs from the Collection also includes samplings from the artist's acclaimed series Golden Gate (2000), Desert Cantos (1987–97), and Bravo 20 Bombing Range (1986).

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1991: The Oakland-Berkeley Fire Aftermath Photographs by Richard Misrach

October 12–February 5, 2012

In October 1991, immediately following a catastrophic firestorm that struck the Oakland and Berkeley hills, renowned Bay Area photographer Richard Misrach ventured into the fire zone armed with his eight-by-ten-inch view camera, recording both stark vistas and intimate details of destroyed homes. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fire, BAMPFA and the Oakland Museum of California each present forty photographs from the series, including fourteen large-format images whose immense scale invites the viewer to enter into Misrach's quiet elegies.

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Silke Otto-Knapp: A light in the moon / MATRIX 239

September 30, 2011–January 15, 2012

With layered washes of similarly hued watercolors, the canvases of London-based German artist Silke Otto-Knapp seem at first monochromatic, but slight changes in light or a viewer's position reveal figures or landscapes. Conflating the mediums of painting and performance, Otto-Knapp draws from the vocabulary of abstraction to renew our engagement in the act of seeing.

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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage

August 3–November 27, 2011

The first major museum presentation of Schwitters's work to appear in the United States in more than twenty-five years, Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage examines one of the most daring and innovative figures of the international avant-garde. Including assemblages, collages, sculpture, and a reconstruction of his room-size sculptural installation Merzbau, the exhibition places particular emphasis on the significance of color and light in the artist's work and explores the relationship between his collage and painting.

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Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series

August 3–September 23, 2011

Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero created an intense torrent of drawings and paintings responding to abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. In 2009, the artist donated fifty-six works from this series to BAMPFA, an extraordinary gift made in recognition of Berkeley's historic role in the arena of free speech.

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Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAMPFA Collection

July 6–December 18, 2011

In celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Italian unification, we present Rome, Naples, Venice: Italian Masterworks from the BAMPFA Collection. This exhibition brings together striking works by Mannerist and Baroque artists, including Caravaggio, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giambattista Tiepolo, and Il Cavaliere d'Arpino, that reflect a vibrant range of artistic innovation from three of Italy's great cities.

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Desirée Holman: Heterotopias / MATRIX 238

June 26–September 18, 2011

Heterotopias, which combines live action with digital animation, is one of a trilogy of videos in which Desirée Holman imagines and interrogates the human tendency to engage in fictional narratives. Holman constructs a Möbius-like relation between real and virtual, self and avatar, action and play, fantasy and fiction.

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Thomson & Craighead: Flipped Clock

Online only

June 1–August 31, 2011

Flipped Clock, by the British artist duo Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, is an online digital clock display that is inverted vertically. Flipped Clock takes an image created to be a display (a clock face) and puts it on display. Inverting the numbers underscores this quotation and asks us to consider the artifice behind this taskmaster of modern life.

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Inarguably Uncertain: The 41st Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 20–June 26, 2011

Come see the newest talents to arrive on the art-world stage in the Forty-First Annual M.F.A. exhibition. The M.F.A. exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive offers UC Berkeley M.F.A. graduates in art practice the opportunity to present their work in the museum galleries and, in the process, gain valuable experience working in a professional museum setting. This year's artists include Corinna Nicole Brewer, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, Narangkar Glover, Plinio Alberto Hernandez, Merav Tzur, Chris E. Vargas, and David Gregory Wallace.

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Create

May 11–September 25, 2011

Create is a major survey exhibition that brings together work made at three pioneering centers for artists with developmental disabilities: Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, San Francisco's Creativity Explored, and NIAD Art Center in Richmond. Showcasing twenty artists, who work in a variety of media and styles, Create celebrates the thirty years of phenomenal achievement that has been nourished in these small but influential artistic communities.

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Jill Magid: Closet Drama / MATRIX 237

March 20–June 12, 2011

Jill Magid's recent work explores the intersection of governmental power and current events. For MATRIX, Magid considers a shooting at the Texas State Capitol by Fausto Cardenas in relation to Goethe's Faust, finding in the obvious but ultimately fruitful association similar tragic themes. By turning the gallery into a stage for the reading of Faust, a “closet drama,” the piece engages the larger themes of truth and fiction, language and translation, history and legend, gesture and performance, revelation and redaction, individual and institution.

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Shelley Jackson: Skin

March 1–May 31, 2011

Shelley Jackson's Skin-equal parts conceptual art, performance art, literature, and Internet art-literalizes many of the tropes of Web-based art, such as decentralized authorship and the networked (common) body. In 2003, Jackson posted a 2,095-word short story on the Internet and invited readers to tattoo one word from the story on their bodies. The participants, known as “words,” gradually publish the story in the world, blurring the boundaries between online and offline.

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Abstract Now and Then 

February 16–April 17, 2011

This exhibition in two parts draws on BAMPFA's rich permanent collection to present an overview of abstraction from the 1940s to 2010, including Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, as well as works that exemplify how a new generation of artists is extending, reinterpreting, and challenging the legacy of these pivotal movements.

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Futurefarmers: A Variation on the Powers of Ten / MATRIX 236

February 6–April 17, 2011

San Francisco-based collective Futurefarmers is spending the academic year in residency at the University exploring the production and the limits of knowledge. As a framework for this research, Futurefarmers is drawing on the iconic 1977 film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames and its central image of a picnic on a blanket. Research events will be documented and made available through the project website and related publication, and will also serve as fodder for a series of public programs at BAMPFA.

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Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler 

January 26–April 10, 2011

This exhibition, celebrating Sharon and Barclay Simpson's gift to BAMPFA of sixty-two prints by James McNeill Whistler, looks at how Whistler subordinated Realism to the Modernist concerns of design, color, and tonal variation.

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Eva Hesse: Studiowork

January 26–April 10, 2011

Like other artists of the 1960s, sculptor Eva Hesse (1936-1970) pushed the conceptual and technical limits of art. Organized by The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, this exhibition presents rarely seen small-scale works, many from BAMPFA's own collection, that illuminate Hesse's studio practice and capture moments of experimentation.

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Echoes of the Past: Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting 

January 5–June 26, 2011

This selection of new acquisitions highlights the ink painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties whose work was inspired by the artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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Emily Roysdon: If I Don't Move Can You Hear Me? / MATRIX 235

December 12, 2010–March 6, 2011

Artist and writer Emily Roysdon's work explores the intersection of social, political, and aesthetic space. Roysdon's MATRIX project, produced largely on-site in Berkeley, consists of photographic work that engages with the limits, framing, and representation of movement(s), both bodily movement and social/political movements. As part of her collaborative practice, Roysdon has invited other writers to consider the project's vocabulary of use, regulation, structure, and frame in a publication that accompanies the exhibition.

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Vuk Ćosić: ASCII History of Moving Images

December 1, 2010–February 28, 2011

Vuk Ćosić created the ASCII History of Moving Images in 1998, just five years after the World Wide Web was introduced to the general public. Rendered online in the visual lingo of early computers, a black screen with green letters and numbers (ASCII characters), the piece presents clips that recall points when film, television, and video were finding their voices as the new media of their day. Online only: netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu.

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Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 The Timeline

October 6, 2010–April 3, 2011

With the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, BAMPFA presents the first comprehensive overview of Bay Area avant-garde film and video. The book is accompanied by an exhibition featuring posters, flyers, and rare ephemera; a film and video series bringing artists to Berkeley to screen their work at the PFA Theater; and a series of special Radical L@TE programs.

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Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum / MATRIX 234

September 26–November 28, 2010

Marjolijn Dijkman's exhibition title refers to the first modern atlas, the “Theater of the World,” published in 1570. For Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, an ongoing photographic project initiated in 2005, Dijkman has archived and organized over 9,000 images in order to rethink existing representations of the world. The project includes an accompanying website and a freely distributed newspaper.

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Jeff Crouse: Unlogo

September 1–November 30, 2010

With an iPhone app and a website, this online exhibition enables individuals to use a phone to identify logos occurring in cellular photographs and to replace them with images drawn from an online databank. Anyone can view and contribute to the databank, suggesting and uploading images that may be substituted for a particular logo, hence undoing the original logo-Unlogo.Online only: netart.bampfa.berkeley.edu.

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Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture

August 25–December 12, 2010

A dazzling array of Japan's greatest artistic traditions from ancient to modern will be presented in BAMPFA's major fall exhibition, which will feature a selection of more than 100 works of art from one of the most significant collections of Japanese art in America.

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Hauntology

July 14–December 5, 2010

Drawn primarily from the museum's recent acquisitions of contemporary art, this exhibition explores a wide range of art through the lens of the concept of “hauntology,” a term coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in 1993 to refer to the study of social, psychological, and cultural conditions in the post-Communist period.

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David Wilson: Gatherings / MATRIX 233

July 7–August 22, 2010

Gatherings is the first-ever crossover project between the museum's MATRIX and L@TE programs. Follow the Oakland-based artist David Wilson's progress on site-specific installations in Gallery B while becoming immersed in a series of four Friday-night performances programmed in conjunction with his work.

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Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows

June 16, 2010–June 8, 2012

Explore the journey of Buddhism across several centuries and from India into Tibet through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries.

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Marisa Olson: Double Bind

June 1–August 31, 2010

With a pair of provocative YouTube videos, Olson unravels the promise and pitfalls of online participatory culture.

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No Right Angles: The 40th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 21–June 20, 2010

This year's M.F.A. exhibition introduces seven local artists-Miguel Arzabe, Bonnie Begusch, Amanda Eicher, Matt Mullins, Aliza Rand, aZin seraj, and Rebecca Suss-who challenge preconceptions about both the media and the motivations of art.

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Brent Green: Perpetual and furious refrain / MATRIX 232

May 2–September 12, 2010

Brent Green is a maker of moving things-animated films, kinetic objects, and other eccentric inventions. His MATRIX exhibition coincides with the release of his first feature film, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, a fable of love, loss, and compulsive construction.

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What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect

March 17–July 18, 2010

This retrospective surveys the witty, idiosyncratic, and introspective work of William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and “a national treasure” (Wall Street Journal). Layered with ambiguous ideas and allusions, autobiographical narrative and sociopolitical commentary, Wiley's art is rich in self-deprecating humor and absurdist insight.

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Realm of Enlightenment: Masters and Teachers from the Land of Snows

March 3–August 1, 2010

This installation of extraordinary objects from Tibet explores the role of the teacher and master in the transmission of the Buddhist canon.

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Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

March 3–May 23, 2010

In 1946, Life magazine assigned the young photographer Jack Birns to Shanghai with instructions to document the ongoing Chinese civil war. This selection of the resulting photographs, drawn from the BAM collection, vividly captures a cosmopolitan city in the midst of social and political change.

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James Buckhouse: Serg Riva

March 1–May 31, 2010

Welcome to the world of Serg Riva, self-declared “aquatic couturier, enfant terrible, and man about town”-and sly fictive creation of artist James Buckhouse.

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Nature into Action: Hans Hofmann

February 3, 2010–July 3, 2011

Drawn from BAMPFA's extensive Hans Hofmann collection, this installation reveals the relationship between nature as source and action as method in the great abstract painter's work.

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James Castle: A Retrospective

February 3–April 25, 2010

Born deaf and raised in rural Idaho, James Castle was an artist of remarkable range, subtlety, and graphic skill. This retrospective of Castle's drawings, books, and paper constructions is an “exhilarating . . . opportunity to fully consider one of America's most idiosyncratic self-taught artists” (Artforum).

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Thom Faulders: BAMscape

January 29, 2010–April 15, 2012

How often do you get a chance to sit, lounge, or study on a work of art? BAMscape invites you to interact with art-and with the museum-in unexpected ways.

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Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231

January 24–April 11, 2010

An imaginary metropolis constructed from models of buildings and vehicles that have figured in acts of violence and terrorism worldwide, Ahmet Öğüt's Exploded City engages the poetics and politics of space, architecture, and international relations.

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Joe McKay: Big Time

December 1, 2009–February 28, 2010

This new Internet artwork and iPhone app takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to the notion of “personal time.”

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French Film Posters from the BAMPFA Collection

November 25, 2009–September 12, 2010

An exhibition in the museum's Theater Gallery celebrates the art of the French film poster.

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New Pathways to Ancient Traditions: Recent Acquisitions to the Asian Art Collection

October 30, 2009–February 14, 2010

A new exhibition unveils major gifts to the BAM collection, including subtly beautiful Chinese ceramics and fascinating, intricately sculpted seals.

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Omer Fast: Nostalgia / MATRIX 230

October 25–December 17, 2009

Omer Fast's video works conflate factual and fictional narratives at the intersection of memory, history, and media. In his project for MATRIX, an interview with a Nigerian refugee is reimagined as science fiction.

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Project Projects / MATRIX 229

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Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series

September 23, 2009–February 7, 2010

Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum.

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Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm's Reach

September 23, 2009–February 7, 2010

Recording New York's downtown art world or the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, photographer Ari Marcopoulos unerringly captures the zeitgeist. This midcareer retrospective surveys the intimate and compelling work of a key documentarian of contemporary culture.

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Angelo Plessas

September 1–November 30, 2009

The first presentation of the new BAMPFA NetArt portal features whimsical and meditative works that offer a nuanced critique of social spectacle.

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth

August 26, 2009–February 7, 2010

Conceptual art takes on elemental themes in this exhibition of works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, drawn from the artist's archive at BAMPFA.

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Material Witness

July 22–December 20, 2009

Artists from Francisco Goya to Carrie Mae Weems bear witness to social issues and consider cultural memory in a new selection of works from the Berkeley Art Museum collection.

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Deborah Grant: Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard / MATRIX 228

May 31–October 11, 2009

Deborah Grant's paintings are densely layered with marks and meanings drawn from popular media, history, and personal experience. The centerpiece of her MATRIX exhibition views contemporary concerns-race, sexuality, violence-through the surprising prism of an imagined meeting between painter Francis Bacon and comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley.

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What We Can Live With: The 39th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 15–June 21, 2009

This year's M.F.A. exhibition introduces six promising local artists: Sara Bright, Lydia Greer, Laura Britt Greig, Farley Gwazda, Aaron Maietta, and Ginger Wolfe-Suárez.

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Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet

April 1–September 27, 2009

Can art inspire conservation? Can conservation inspire art? Human/Nature explores these questions and investigates the relationships between fragile natural environments and the human communities that depend upon them. The exhibition presents new works by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, and Xu Bing.

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Taking Refuge: Buddhist Art from the Land of White Clouds

February 25–May 3, 2009

A selection of rare and beautiful objects from Tibet, Nepal, and northern India represents the rich history of Buddhist art in the Himalayas.

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Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye

February 25–August 30, 2009

Galaxy creates a new constellation of works from the Berkeley Art Museum's eclectic collection, including pieces by major stars from Dürer and Rembrandt to Pollock and Warhol as well as many less familiar lights.

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Mario García Torres: Je ne sais si c'en est la cause, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials / MATRIX 227

February 22–May 17, 2009

By investigating and reconstructing ephemeral histories of conceptual art, Mario García Torres considers the functions of time and distance in our constructions of the past. The works in this exhibition excavate two such histories: Martin Kippenberger's attempt to establish a modern art museum on a Greek island, and Daniel Buren's murals at a now-derelict resort hotel.

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Gas Zappers

October 22, 2008–February 8, 2009

“A fierce, funny and inventive political satirist” (N.Y. Times), Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung offers an interactive online game that tackles global warming with political savvy and wry humor.

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Bending the Word / MATRIX 226

September 28, 2008–February 8, 2009

This exhibition brings together four artists-Martha Colburn, Patricia Esquivias, Olivia Plender, and Tris Vonna-Michell-whose work mingles fact and fiction, history and anecdote, reshaping our views of the world through storytelling.

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Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

September 10, 2008–January 4, 2009

This landmark exhibition, complemented by a broad array of public programs, offers a unique window onto four decades of extraordinary transformation in Chinese art, culture, and society.

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The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at UC Berkeley: 50 Years

June 14–August 3, 2008

For half a century, the Morrison Library's unique graphic arts loan program has been bringing original art to students. We celebrate the program's anniversary with prints by masters from Rembrandt to Matisse, once in the loan collection and now held by BAMPFA.

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Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens

June 4–August 3, 2008

Bruce Conner's photographs from a legendary San Francisco nightclub document the demimonde of three-chord chaos that was the seventies punk scene, when acts like the Avengers, Negative Trend, and the Mutants were in their anarchic heyday. In his images, Conner captured both the outcry and the surrounding silence.

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Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky / MATRIX 225

June 1–September 14, 2008

Trained as both an artist and a geographer, Trevor Paglen uses an array of tactics to map the “black world” of U.S. military and intelligence activities. His MATRIX project scans the heavens for signs of covert activity, visualizing “the other night sky.”

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Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl

June 1–August 31, 2008

Media artist Scott Snibbe animates BAMPFA's Durant Avenue entrance, making it the backdrop for a silent, dreamlike narrative of mortality, empathy, and whimsy.

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Jim Campbell: Home Movies

May 31–August 3, 2008

Jim Campbell's work manifests a poetics of the digital, upsetting common assumptions about the relationship between technology and humanity, “information” and thought. His LED installation Home Movies “brings us emotionally close, without sentimentality, to the unshareable quotient of memories.”-S.F. Chronicle

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These Canyons: The 38th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 16–June 8, 2008

This year's M.F.A. exhibition introduces seven promising emerging artists: Adrianne Crane, Renée Delores, Rosalynn Khor, Indira Martina Morre, Emily Prince, Wenhua Shi, and Sunaura Taylor.

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Hans Hofmann

May 3–August 3, 2008

A cornerstone of the Berkeley Art Museum collection is an extraordinary group of paintings by Hans Hofmann (1880–1966), the world's most extensive museum collection of this German-born artist's work. The exhibition on view draws on this collection to span nearly thirty years of Hofmann's practice, from the figurative works of the 1930s to the explosive abstraction of the postwar period.

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Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg

March 12–June 1, 2008

In May 1968 in Paris, student and worker strikes against the conservative government of General Charles de Gaulle brought the country to a standstill. Images by French photographer Serge Hambourg provide a striking eyewitness account of this pivotal moment in political and cultural history.

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Held Rectangles

March 12–August 3, 2008

Conceptual works by John C. Fernie and Lawrence Weiner from the BAMPFA collection foreground the frame.

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MATRIX/REDUX

March 9–July 6, 2008

Over the past thirty years, BAMPFA's acclaimed MATRIX Program has charted a unique course through the landscape of contemporary art. This anniversary exhibition samples from the program's history with special loans and works from the museum collection, including new acquisitions such as Kiki Smith's Crèche.

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James Lee Byars: The Perfect Audience

February 13–August 3, 2008

The art of James Lee Byars could be as grand as a global gesture or as intimate and fleeting as a kiss. A new exhibition brings together the delicate and monumental sides of the artist's work with artist's books, mail art, performance documentation, and other ephemera from BAMFA's Conceptual Art Study Center.

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Enrique Chagoya: Borderlandia

February 13–May 18, 2008

Mickey Mouse meets Aztec gods and Francisco Goya meets Jerry Falwell in the first major museum retrospective of the work of Mexico-born, San Francisco–based artist Enrique Chagoya. Chagoya draws on the European canon, Mexican folk arts, and U.S. pop icons to create paintings, drawings, and prints that are politically charged, formally sophisticated, and often scathingly funny.

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Tomás Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond: Large-Scale Implications of Small-Scale Experiments / MATRIX 224

November 18, 2007–February 17, 2008

Tomás Saraceno looks to the sky and sees possibilities for rethinking how we live in relation to one another. His artworks express at small scale his large-scale vision of a future in which cities take to the air, creating environments in a state of continuous physical and social transformation.

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Goya: The Disasters of War

November 1, 2007–March 2, 2008

Francisco Goya's famed prints bear witness to the atrocities of the guerrilla war in early-19th-century Spain. Depicting the violence with a mixture of imagination and brutal realism, they are startlingly relevant today.

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RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA

October 24, 2007–March 2, 2008

Celebrating the cultural and artistic practice of the remix, digital artworks by Ken Goldberg and Valéry Grancher from the BAMPFA collection become open-source ingredients for new creations by Michael Joaquin Grey, The Studio for Urban Projects, Jonathon Keats, and Nathaniel Wojtalik and Iris Piers.

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Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

October 13, 2007–July 20, 2008

In this recent installation, pioneering video artist Joan Jonas mines the cultural terrain of the American Southwest, as well as more personal territories. Jonas's work is “at once mysterious and transparent, strange yet familiar in an almost universal sense. She is like a magician who dazzles us while revealing the secret to every trick.”-N.Y. Times

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Their Own World: Chinese Paintings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

October 10–December 23, 2007

A small selection of landscapes provides important cornerstones for understanding painting in the turbulent environment of mid-17th-century China.

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One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now

September 19–December 23, 2007

Bringing together a multiplicity of media and methods and representing widely divergent points of view, this major exhibition presents works by seventeen young artists who challenge and extend the category of “Asian American art.” “The works in (the exhibition) are pleasantly uncategorizable. . . . And by virtue of being so conceptually diverse, so defiantly without formula, they reveal a maturation, or at least an evolution, in the way that these creators view the very ideas of Asianness, Americanness, and art itself.”-S.F. Chronicle

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Rosalind Nashashibi: Bachelor Machines Part I / MATRIX 223

August 26–November 4, 2007

British artist Rosalind Nashashibi makes quiet, deliberate films that luxuriate in incidental details of the everyday. Bachelor Machines Part I, her film installation in the MATRIX Gallery, chronicles the voyage of a cargo vessel from Italy to Sweden. In observing life on board, the film obliquely reveals neglected aspects of global commerce.

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David Goldblatt: Intersections

July 8–August 26, 2007

Acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt has spent the past five decades documenting his native country and its people. For his Intersections project, Goldblatt traversed the country observing the crosscurrents of "ideas, values, ethics, postures, people, and things" since the end of apartheid. The resulting photographs sharply capture the political and physical geographies of South Africa in the twenty-first century.

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Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker

July 8–September 23, 2007

Celebrated as one of the world's great contemporary filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami is also an accomplished still photographer. In conjunction with a retrospective of this Iranian master's films at the PFA Theater, a selection of his poetic photographs, including the new series Rain and Trees and Crows, is on view in the BAMPFA galleries.

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Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed

June 27, 2007–July 20, 2008

A showcase for the museum's extraordinary holdings of Asian art, including ancient pottery, classical Chinese paintings, religious art from Tibet, and provocative works by contemporary artists.

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Andrea Zittel: A-Z Travel Trailer Unit

June 6–October 14, 2007

The exhibition of Andrea Zittel's A-Z Travel Trailer Unit has been delayed while it undergoes extensive conservation treatment. We apologize for any inconvenience.Andrea Zittel creates personalized designs for living, useful artworks that make no distinction between the conceptual and the utilitarian. Her faintly retro travel habitat brings a touch of the trailer park to the museum's sculpture garden.

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fer·ma·ta: The 37th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 18–June 10, 2007

This year's M.F.A. exhibition introduces seven promising new artists: Lindsay Benedict, Ali Dadgar, Kara Hearn, Bill Jenkins, Alicia McCarthy, Joe McKay, and Jenifer K. Wofford.

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Allison Smith: Notion Nanny / MATRIX 222

May 13–August 12, 2007

Allison Smith has some interesting notions about the meanings of history and craft in contemporary life. In her latest project, inspired by nineteenth-century peddler dolls called “notion nannies,” she casts herself as an itinerant apprentice, working with other craftspeople to exchange ideas, skills, objects, and experiences along the way.

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Scott Burton: Table and Tableau

May 5–June 17, 2007

In the late 1970s and '80s, Scott Burton made a series of works exploring subtle behavioral cues and social relations through tableaux vivants, enacted "living pictures." A suite of these works, including a recorded performance and related sculptures, extends Measure of Time's consideration of time-based art.

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psyche: R&R

April 18–October 14, 2007

BAMPFA honors the centennial of the California College of the Arts with this exhibition of lyrical watercolors by Laurie Reid and funny, architecture-inflected drawings by Mark A. Rodriguez, both M.F.A. graduates of CCA.

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Kunstkammer

April 18–October 14, 2007

An eccentric array of prints, drawings, and photographs from the BAMPFAcollections fills the Theater Gallery, with works by Dürer, Whistler, Gauguin, Basquiat, and many others hung together in the style of a sixteenth-century Kunstkammer-an "art chamber" offering objects of scholarship and wonder.

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Honoring a Tradition, Honoring a Teacher: A Tribute to James Cahill

February 14–May 27, 2007

Professor Emeritus James Cahill made many contributions to the UC community during his 30-year tenure, none more lasting than the stellar collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings that are the core of the Asian art collection at BAMPFA. This exhibition presents highlights from that collection and pays tribute to a scholar whose passion for Chinese art is inspiring and infectious.

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New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

November 1, 2006–January 28, 2007 View

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

October 18–December 10, 2006 View

Grapefruit

October 18, 2006–April 1, 2007

In the spirit of imagination, BAMPFA presents a selection of "instruction paintings" from Yoko Ono's groundbreaking publication Grapefruit, which John Lennon cited as a powerful influence in the writing of his song "Imagine." Gracefully expressive, enchanting, and original, Ono's instructions allow you to take the art home in the form of a do-it-yourself idea-along with a free IMAGINE PEACE button, a gift from Ono to museum visitors.

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Allen Ruppersberg: The Singing Posters

October 18–December 10, 2006 View

As Is When and Universal Electronic Vacuum: Silkscreen Prints by Eduardo Paolozzi

October 4, 2006–April 1, 2007

Prints by Paolozzi-one of the founders of the Independent Group, a precursor to the British Pop Art movement-incorporate a dazzling array of influences, from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Frederick's of Hollywood.

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Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

June 14–September 17, 2006 View

Centers of Artistry: Indian Paintings from the Collection

May 24–October 22, 2006 View

Now-Time Venezuela, Part 2: Revolutionary Television in Catia / MATRIX 221

May 14–July 16 2006 View

The Flaming Sword of Truth: The 36th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 3–May 21, 2006 View

Now-Time Venezuela, Part 1: Worker-Controlled Factories / MATRIX 220

March 26–May 28, 2006 View

Selections from the Collection

March 1, 2006–May 4, 2008

This ongoing, evolving exhibition features a range of BAMPFA's signature works, from the 16th century to the 21st, as well as important new acquisitions.

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A Decade in the Asian Galleries: A Retrospective Honoring Sheila Keppel

March 1–May 14, 2006 View

Measure of Time

February 22, 2006–June 24, 2007

Time is of the essence in American art of the past century. Measure of Time showcases the museum's important 20th-century collection along with some significant loans to explore, over time, how artists have worked with temporality and duration. In two galleries of paintings, sculptures, and media (both analog and digital), time and motion are compressed, fragmented, mechanized, sped up, and slowed down to an almost imperceptible pace.

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The Bancroft Library at 100: A Celebration, 1906–2006

February 11–December 3, 2006 View

Jeanne Dunning: Study After Untitled

January 25–April 2, 2006 View

Dreaming California: Ruth-Marion Baruch, Bill Owens, and Larry Sultan

January 18–May 21, 2006 View

Wilhelm Sasnal / MATRIX 219

November 20, 2005–March 5, 2006 View

The Baum Award 2005: Lisa Kereszi

October 6–December 4, 2005 View

Yosemite Views from Berkeley

September 28–December 23, 2005 View

Carla Klein / MATRIX 218

September 18–November 6, 2005 View

Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco

September 14–December 23, 2005 View

Meiji à la Mode: A Modernizing Japan, 1868–1912

August 24, 2005–February 19, 2006 View

Yosemite in Time

August 10–December 23, 2005 View

Haim Steinbach / MATRIX 217

Work In Progress: Objects for People-Snapshots

July 10–September 4, 2005 View

Diana Thater's Red-Green-Blue Sun

July 1–August 14, 2005 View

Eureka: The Eureka Fellowship Awards 2002-2004

June 11–August 14, 2005 View

Irreconcilable: The 35th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 20–June 19, 2005 View

Slater Bradley / MATRIX 216

The Year of The Doppelganger

April 24–June 26, 2005 View

Home

March 23–September 18, 2005 View

Narrating Moral Models

March 9–August 7, 2005 View

Drawn by The Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens

March 2–May 22, 2005 View

Mark Manders / MATRIX 214

The Absence of Mark Manders

February 6–April 24, 2005 View

Althea Thauberger / MATRIX 215

A Memory Lasts Forever

February 6–April 10, 2005 View

Blind at the Museum

January 26–July 24, 2005 View

Painting in Everyday Life in Traditional Japan

November 3, 2004–February 27, 2005 View

The Making of a Modernist: Hans Hofmann

October 13, 2004–April 30, 2006 View

The Baum 2004

Katy Grannan

October 7–December 5, 2004 View

Ragamala Paintings

From the Jean and Francis Marshall Collection

September 20, 2004–March 13, 2005 View

Some Forgotten Place / MATRIX 213

September 19–December 19, 2004 View

Threshold: Byron Kim 1990–2004

September 15–December 12, 2004 View

Collage

August 18–December 19, 2004 View

Figurations

July 21, 2004–December 23, 2005 View

Eija-Liisa Ahtila / MATRIX 212

Intention to Fail

July 11–September 5. 2004 View

Within Small See Large

Rocks in Chinese Painting and Woodblock Printing

July 2–October 24, 2004 View

The Korean Potter

July 2–October 24, 2004 View

Compass Points: The 34th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 21–August 29, 2004 View

Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann in Postwar New York

May 21–October 3, 2004 View

Roger Ballen

Photographs

May 12–August 15, 2004 View

Julie Mehretu / MATRIX 211

Manifestation

April 18–June 27, 2004 View

Eccentrics and Court Painters in Eighteenth-Century China

March 3–June 27, 2004 View

Simryn Gill / MATRIX 210

Standing Still

February 8–April 5, 2004 View

Time's Shadow

Photographs trom the Jan Leonard and Jerrold Peil Collection

February 5–August 8, 2004 View

Ant Farm 1968–1978

January 21–April 25, 2004 View

The Garden

December 7, 2003–July 3, 2004 View

Helen Mirra / MATRIX 209

65 Instants

November 23, 2003–January 25, 2004 View

The Baum

An Emerging American Photographer Award

September 25–November 30, 2003 View

Jim Campbell / MATRIX 208

Memory Array

September 21–November 16, 2003 View

Gene(sis)

Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics

August 27–December 7, 2003 View

G-Commerce

August 27–December 7, 2003 View

Hans Hofmann: Selections from the Berkeley Art Museum Collection

August 1–December 29, 2003 View

Anna Von Mertens / MATRIX 207

Suggested North Points

July 13–September 7, 2003 View

Japanese Figure Style

July 2–October 26, 2003 View

Far Away–Nearby: The 33rd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 16–July 27, 2003 View

Chiho Aoshima / MATRIX 205

Macromatrix for Your Pleasure

April 22–August 3, 2003 View

Cai Guo-Qiang / MATRIX 204

Macromatrix for Your Pleasure

April 22–August 3, 2003 View

Angela Bulloch / MATRIX 206

Macromatrix for Your Pleasure

April 22–August 3, 2003 View

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba / MATRIX 203

Memorial Project Vietnam

April 6–June 29, 2003 View

Everything Matters

Paul Kos, a Retrospective

April 2–July 20, 2003 View

The Black Panthers 1968

Photographs by Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones

March 26–September 21, 2003 View

Catherine Sullivan / MATRIX 201d

Minimatrix: The Chironomic Remedy

March 16, 2003 View

Turning Corners

February 26, 2003–January 22, 2006 View

Cerith Wyn Evans / MATRIX 201c

Minimatrix: Take Your Desires for Reality

February 9, 2003 View

Berni Searle / MATRIX 202

A Matter of Time

February 2–March 23, 2003 View

The Asian Galleries

River Goddess

February 1–April 1, 2003 View

Fred Wilson

Objects and Installations, 1979- 2000

January 22–March 30, 2003 View

Fred Wilson

Aftermath

January 22–November 23, 2003 View

Intaglio Prints

December 18, 2002–March 16, 2003 View

A Brush With Truth

Japanese Buddhist Ink Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries

December 11, 2002–June 22, 2003 View

Painted Tales from India

December 4, 2002–June 22, 2003 View

Beyond Preconceptions

The Sixties Experiment

October 26–December 29, 2002 View

Dean Smith / MATRIX 201b

Minimatrix: Black Hole Sun #3 (X-Ray Vision)

October 20–November 17, 2002 View

Yehudit Sasportas / MATRIX 200

By the River

October 10, 2002–January 19, 2003 View

Tony Feher / MATRIX 201a

Minimatrix: I'm Tired of Toast

September 22–October 20, 2002 View

Constructing the 1930'S

August 28–December 8, 2002 View

The Subject Is Art: 1400- 1800

August 21, 2002–February 9, 2003 View

XXL II

August 14, 2002–February 23, 2003 View

Richard Misrach

Berkeley Work

August 14–October 13, 2002 View

Alexander Rodchenko

Modern Photography, Photomontage, and Film

August 14–October 13, 2002 View

Vincent Fecteau / MATRIX 199

Recent Sculpture

August 8–October 6, 2002 View

Micropainting

The Portrait Miniature

July 10–December 29, 2002 View

Fast Forward Ii

June 19, 2002–February 9, 2003 View

T. J. Wilcox / MATRIX 198

Smorgasbord

June 16–July 28, 2002 View

Friends and Rivals

Nanga Painters Baiitsu and Chikutô

June 12–December 1, 2002 View

V.I.P.

June 5–August 18, 2002 View

New Knowledge: The 32nd Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 18–July 28, 2002 View

Komar and Melamid

Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project

April 10–July 24, 2002 View

Sanford Biggers / MATRIX 197

Psychic Windows

April 7–June 2, 2002 View

Marion Brenner

The Subtle Life of Plants and People

March 20–May 26, 2002 View

Masterworks of Chinese Painting

In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds

March 13–May 16, 2002 View

Sowon Kwon / MATRIX 196

Average Female (Perfect)

January 27–March 24, 2002 View

Migrations

Photographs by Sebastião Salgado

January 16–March 24, 2002 View

Ansel Adams in the University of California Collections

A Photographer at Work

December 12, 2001–March 10, 2002 View

Thomas Scheibitz / MATRIX 195

I-Geometrica B

November 18, 2001–January 13, 2002 View

Fast Forward

An Exhibition Highlighting Our Growing Collection

October 17, 2001–February 24, 2002 View

Jessica Bronson / MATRIX 194

Heaps, Layers, and Curls

September 16–November 11, 2001 View

Ceal Floyer / MATRIX 192

37' 4"

September 16–November 11, 2001 View

The Lady at the Window

Qing Dynasty Figure Painting in the Qing Dynasty

September 12, 2001–February 28, 2002 View

The Dream of the Audience

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951- 1982)

September 12–December 16, 2001 View

Martin Puryear

Sculpture of the 1990s

September 12, 2001–January 13, 2002 View

Hans Hofmann

Real/Life

September 12, 2001–May 16, 2002 View

Ricky Swallow / MATRIX 191

For Those Who Came in Late

April 22–May 27, 2001 View

Ed Osborn / MATRIX 193

Vanishing Point

March 18–May 13, 2001 View

Ernesto Neto / MATRIX 190

A Maximum Minimum Time Space Between Us and the Parsimonious Universe

February 18–April 15, 2001 View

Muntadas

On Translation: The Audience

February 7–April 29, 2001 View

Joe Brainard

A Retrospective

February 7–May 27, 2001 View

The Mule Train

A Journey of Hope Remembered

January 17–March 26, 2001 View

Tacita Dean / MATRIX 189

Banewl

November 29, 2000–January 28, 2001 View

Continuous Replay

The Photographs of Arnie Zane

October 25–December 24, 2000 View

Wolfgang Laib / MATRIX 188

Pollen from Pine

October 14–December 17, 2000 View

Amazons in the Drawing Room

The Art of Romaine Brooks

October 11, 2000–January 21, 2001 View

Shirin Neshat / MATRIX 187

Turbulent

September 21–November 12, 2000 View

Videospace

The National Center for Experiments in Television, 1967-1975

September 14–November 15, 2000 View

Mandala

The Architecture of Enlightenment

July 19–September 17, 2000 View

Doug Aitken / MATRIX 185

Into The Sun

July 9–September 3, 2000 View

Now: The 30th Annual University of California, Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition

May 19–July 2, 2000 View

Anne Chu / MATRIX 184

April 16–June 18, 2000 View

China

Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic

April 12–June 18, 2000 View

Peter Doig / MATRIX 183

Echo-Lake

February 13–April 10, 2000 View

2x2

Architectural Collaborations

January 22–April 16, 2000 View

Ken Goldberg / MATRIX 186

Ouija 2000

January 16–March 26, 2000 View

Equal Partners

Men and Women Principals in Contemporary Architectural Practice

December 15, 1999–March 19, 2000 View

Roma/ Pacifica

The Phoebe Hearst International Architectural Competition and the Berkeley Campus, 1896-1930

December 8, 1999–April 23, 2000 View

Teresita Fernández / MATRIX 182

Supernova

December 5, 1999–January 30, 2000 View

Elisabeth Sunday

Mystics and Healers Holy People and Their Messages

October 14, 1999–January 9, 2000 View

Katy Schimert / MATRIX 181

Oedipus

September 26–November 21, 1999 View

Tobias Rehberger / MATRIX 180

Sunny–Side Up

August 29–November 14, 1999 View

From People to Paradox

The Photographs of Gérard Castello-Lopes

July 7–September 26, 1999 View

Emerge

New Work by UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduates

May 22–August 15, 1999 View

Show and Tell

A Selected History of Photography and Video

April 14–August 15, 1999 View

Rigo 99 / MATRIX 179

3/1/99 to 6/30/99 View

A Measured Quietude / MATRIX 178

Contemporary Irish Drawings

January 16–April 25, 1999 View

Peter Shelton / MATRIX 177

Sixtyslippers

November 11, 1998–March 28, 1999 View

Rancho Deserta

The Photographs of Tim Goodman

October 21, 1998–January 3, 1999 View

Carrie Mae Weems / MATRIX 176

Ritual and Revolution

July 22–September 27, 1998 View

Honoré Daumier

January 14–March 29, 1998 View

Premonition

Luc Tuymans, Drawings

October 15, 1997–January 11, 1998 View

Baua Devi and the Art of Mithila / MATRIX 175

August 15–October 20, 1997 View

Jochen Gerz / MATRIX 174

August 1, 1997–May 20, 1998 View

Rosie Lee Tompkins / MATRIX 173

June 1–August 15, 1997 View

Garrett Eckbo / MATRIX 172

Modern Landscapes for Living

January 15–March 9, 1997 View

Tchai / MATRIX 171

October 9–December 31, 1996 View

Hans Hofmann and the New York School

September 25–November 24, 1996 View

Edward Hagedorn / MATRIX 170

July 15–August 20, 1996 View

Uri Tzaig: Homeless / MATRIX 169

April 15–June 20, 1996 View

Louise Bourgeois

Drawings

January 24–March 24, 1996 View

Chris Marker / MATRIX 168

January 1–April 15, 1996 View

Conrad Atkinson / MATRIX 167

October 1–December 22, 1995 View

The New Child

British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830

August 23–November 19, 1995 View

Helene Aylon

Bridge of Knots

July 15–September 3, 1995 View

Agnes Martin / MATRIX 166

July 15–September 21, 1995 View

Jumping Lines: Maisin Art and Rainforest Conservation / MATRIX 165

April 15–July 1, 1995 View

In a Different Light

January 11–April 9, 1995

In a Different Light,co-curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, explores the resonance of gay and lesbian experience in twentieth-century American art. Remarkably, these artists, living in a generally hostile social climate-amidst the constant threat of "gay-bashings," proscriptive legislative initiatives, and surrounded by the tragedy of AIDS-not only persist in making art, but do so in a spirit of humor, generosity, and flamboyance.

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Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson / MATRIX 164

August 20–November 20, 1994 View

Ouattara / MATRIX 163

April 25–June 25, 1994 View

Felix Gonzalez-Torres / MATRIX 161

January 15–March 20, 1994 View

Allan Sekula / MATRIX 162

January 15–March 20, 1994 View

Richard Tuttle / MATRIX 160

October 15, 1993–January 1, 1994 View

Larry Eigner / MATRIX 159

June 15–October 15, 1993 View

Doug Hall / MATRIX 158

April 20–June 15, 1993 View

Linda Roush-Hudson / MATRIX 157

March 20–June 20, 1993 View

Lutz Bacher / MATRIX 155

February 15–April 15, 1993 View

Jonathan Hammer / MATRIX 156

February 15–April 15, 1993 View

Cecilia Vicuña / MATRIX 154

November 20, 1992–January 20, 1993 View

Matt Heckert / MATRIX 153

September 15–November 20, 1992 View

Raymond Pettibon / MATRIX 151

July 1–September 1, 1992 View

Gilberto Zorio / MATRIX 152

July 1–September 1, 1992 View

Manuel Ocampo / MATRIX 150

April 15–June 15, 1992 View

Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds / MATRIX 149

January 20–April 1, 1992 View

Herminia Albarran Romero / MATRIX 148

October 15–December 15, 1991 View

Howard Hodgkin / MATRIX 147

September 21–December 15, 1991 View

Tim Maul / MATRIX 146

July 1–September 15, 1991 View

Ernst Caramelle / MATRIX 145

July 1–September 15, 1991 View

Zoe Leonard / MATRIX 143

April 15–June 20, 1991 View

Lewis De Soto / MATRIX 144

April 15–June 20, 1991 View

Kiki Smith / MATRIX 142

February 7–April 14, 1991 View

Jim Shaw / MATRIX 141

November 7–December 20, 1990 View

Charles Ray / MATRIX 140

November 1–December 20, 1990 View

Dieter Roth / MATRIX 139

September 15–October 20, 1990 View

Cindy Sherman / MATRIX 138

September 1–October 20, 1990 View

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / MATRIX 137

July 15–September 1, 1990 View

Richmond Burton / MATRIX 136

July 1–August 20, 1990 View

Lorna Simpson / MATRIX 135

May 1–July 1, 1990 View

Ed Ruscha / MATRIX 134

May 1–July 7, 1990 View

Sophie Calle / MATRIX 133

February 1–April 25, 1990 View

Group Material / MATRIX 132

November 1, 1989–January 20, 1990 View

Stefan Kürten / MATRIX 131

September 15–November 7, 1989 View

Adrian Piper / MATRIX 130

August 15–November 1, 1989 View

Salvatore Scarpitta / MATRIX 129

July 15–September 15, 1989 View

Kevin Larmon / MATRIX 128

June 7–August 25, 1989 View

Judith Barry / MATRIX 127

May 15–July 1, 1989 View

Richard Misrach / MATRIX 126

April 1–May 21, 1989 View

Nayland Blake / MATRIX 125

March 25–May 1, 1989 View

Al Souza / MATRIX 124

March 1–April 1, 1989 View

The V-Girls / MATRIX 123

February 16–February 17, 1989 View

Alfredo Jaar / MATRIX 122

February 1–March 15, 1989 View

Suzan Frecon / MATRIX 121

January 15–March 1, 1989 View

David Ireland / MATRIX 120

October 7–December 7, 1988 View

Meyer Vaisman / MATRIX 119

July 20–September 20, 1988 View

Peter Fischli and David Weiss / MATRIX 118

June 25–September 25, 1988 View

Bill Fontana / MATRIX 116

April 1–May 1, 1988 View

Bertrand Lavier / MATRIX 117

April 1–June 15, 1988 View

The Starn Twins / MATRIX 115

March 15–May 15, 1988 View

John Chamberlain / MATRIX 114

January 15–March 15, 1988 View

Mitchell Syrop / MATRIX 113

October 21, 1987–January 15, 1988 View

Sean Scully / MATRIX 112

October 15–December 15, 1987 View

Joel Fisher / MATRIX 111

August 7–October 15, 1987 View

John Roloff / MATRIX 110

July 7–October 7, 1987 View

Robin Winters / MATRIX 109

May 1–June 30, 1987 View

Elizabeth Murray / MATRIX 108

April 15–June 15, 1987 View

Douglas Hollis / MATRIX 107

February 21–May 31, 1987 View

Jim Goldberg / MATRIX 106

February 15–March 15, 1987 View

James Lee Byars / MATRIX 105

Philosophy of Question

February 1–February 22, 1987 View

James Lee Byars / MATRIX 104

The Perfect Death

February 1–February 22, 1987 View

Eric Fischl / MATRIX 103

December 15, 1986–February 7, 1987 View

Bruce Conner / MATRIX 102

December 15, 1986–February 7, 1987 View

Giulio Paolini / MATRIX 101

October 7–November 21, 1986 View

Barbara Kruger / MATRIX 100

August 15–October 21, 1986 View

Robert Hartman / MATRIX 99

August 7–September 21, 1986 View

Bryan Hunt / MATRIX 98

July 15–September 7, 1986 View

Robert Moskowitz / MATRIX 97

May 21–July 15, 1986 View

Ed Rossbach / MATRIX 96

May 7–June 7, 1986 View

Mary Lucier / MATRIX 95

April 21–May 21, 1986 View

Tony Cragg / MATRIX 93

March 20–May 20, 1986 View

John Baldessari / MATRIX 94

March 20–May 20, 1986 View

David Hockney / MATRIX 92

February 7–March 21, 1986 View

Bill Woodrow / MATRIX 91

December 2, 1985–January 21, 1986 View

Pat Steir / MATRIX 90

November 7–December 22, 1985 View

Nan Goldin / MATRIX 89

October 3, 1985 View

Ruth Morgan / MATRIX 87

September 21–November 30, 1985 View

Gifford Myers / MATRIX 88

September 21–November 15, 1985 View

Martin Puryear / MATRIX 86

August 1–September 22, 1985 View

Robert Cumming / MATRIX 85

July 15–September 15, 1985 View

Stanley Saitowitz / MATRIX 84

May 7–July 7, 1985 View

Christopher Brown / MATRIX 83

April 20–July 15, 1985 View

Alice Neel / MATRIX 82

March 15–April 15, 1985 View

Joan Logue / MATRIX 81

February 9–March 7, 1985 View

Jean Michel Basquiat / MATRIX 80

January 15–March 15, 1985 View

Rupert Garcia / MATRIX 79

November 22, 1984–January 15, 1985 View

Jake Berthot / MATRIX 78

November 22, 1984–January 22, 1985 View

Doug Hall / MATRIX 77

October 15–November 15, 1984 View

Lars Lerup / MATRIX 76

September 22–November 15, 1984 View

Arthur Ollman / MATRIX 75

August 7–September 4, 1984 View

Kenneth Noland / MATRIX 74

August 1–September 30, 1984 View

Jennifer Bartlett / MATRIX 73

May 22–July 22, 1984 View

Richard Artschwager / MATRIX 71

March 15–May 15, 1984 View

Nancy Spero / MATRIX 72

March 15–May 15, 1984 View

Georg Baselitz / MATRIX 70

January 22–March 7, 1984 View

Lewis Baltz / MATRIX 69

January 1–March 30, 1984 View

Robert Mangold / MATRIX 68

December 1, 1983–January 15, 1984 View

Michael Asher / MATRIX 67

November 1–December 31, 1983 View

Oliver Lee Jackson / MATRIX 66

October 22–November 30, 1983 View

Shigeko Kubota / MATRIX 65

October 1–October 31, 1983 View

Sol Lewitt / MATRIX 63

August 15–September 30, 1983 View

Irvin Tepper / MATRIX 64

August 15–October 15, 1983 View

Christopher Wilmarth / MATRIX 62

May 22–August 7, 1983 View

Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan / MATRIX 61

May 7–June 7, 1983 View

Arthur Carraway / MATRIX 60

April 1–May 15, 1983 View

Leon Golub / MATRIX 59

February 9–April 15, 1983 View

Ger van Elk / MATRIX 58

February 1–March 31, 1983 View

Dorothy Reid / MATRIX 57

December 15, 1982–January 31, 1983 View

Alexander Calder / MATRIX 56

November 1, 1982–January 15, 1983 View

Elmer Bischoff / MATRIX 55

October 22–December 15, 1982 View

Howard Fried / MATRIX 54

August 1–October 15, 1982 View

Eva Hesse / MATRIX 53

July 15–October 15, 1982 View

Julian Schnabel / MATRIX 52

May 15–July 31, 1982 View

Hamish Fulton / MATRIX 51

May 1–June 30, 1982 View

Chuck Close / MATRIX 50

March 1–April 30, 1982 View

Maynard Dixon / MATRIX 49

December 15, 1981–March 7, 1982 View

Janis Provisor / MATRIX 48

11/15/81 to 1/31/82 View

Helen Levitt / MATRIX 47

October 1–November 30, 1981 View

Francesco Clemente / MATRIX 46

August 1–October 15, 1981 View

Johan Hagemeyer / MATRIX 45

June 1–August 31, 1981 View

Brian Eno / MATRIX 44

6/1/81 to 7/31/81 View

Enzo Mari / MATRIX 43

4/20/81 to 6/30/81 View

Arnaldo Pomodoro / MATRIX 42

4/1/81 to 5/15/81 View

Joseph Zucker / MATRIX 41

1/20/81 to 3/7/81 View

Richard Diebenkorn / MATRIX 40

1/15/81 to 3/1/81 View

Tom Marioni / MATRIX 39

11/1/80 to 12/31/80 View

Balthus / MATRIX 38

11/1/80 to 12/31/80 View

Paul Kos / MATRIX 36

8/1/80 to 9/30/80 View

Jess / MATRIX 37

8/1/80 to 10/31/80 View

Roger Brown / MATRIX 35

5/1/80 to 7/31/80 View

Robert Bechtle / MATRIX 33

3/1/80 to 3/31/80 View

Milton Avery / MATRIX 34

3/1/80 to 5/31/80 View

Scott Burton / MATRIX 32

2/13/80 to 3/2/80 View

Michelangelo Pistoletto / MATRIX 31

1/1/80 to 3/31/80 View

The Kipper Kids / MATRIX 28

10/1/79 to 10/31/79 View

Joseph Cornell / MATRIX 30

10/1/79 to 1/31/80 View

Andy Warhol / MATRIX 29

10/1/79 to 1/31/80 View

Wright Morris / MATRIX 27

8/1/79 to 10/31/79 View

Michael Singer / MATRIX 25

8/1/79 to 10/31/79 View

Jene Highstein / MATRIX 26

8/1/79 to 10/31/79 View

Joan Brown / MATRIX 24

6/1/79 to 8/31/79 View

Patrick Ireland / MATRIX 23

5/1/79 to 8/31/79 View

Michael Snow / MATRIX 22

4/1/79 to 5/31/79 View

Edward Kienholz / MATRIX 21

4/1/79 to 6/30/79 View

Ron Nagle / MATRIX 19

2/1/79 to 3/31/79 View

Richard Serra / MATRIX 20

2/1/79 to 5/31/79 View

Alan Saret / MATRIX 18

1/1/79 to 3/31/79 View

Louise Bourgeois / MATRIX 17

12/1/78 to 2/28/79 View

Juan Downey / MATRIX 16

11/1/78 to 1/31/79 View

Robert Irwin / MATRIX 15

10/1/78 to 12/31/78 View

Willem de Kooning / MATRIX 12

9/1/78 to 11/30/78 View

M. Louise Stanley / MATRIX 14

9/1/78 to 11/30/78 View

Jim Pomeroy / MATRIX 13

9/1/78 to 10/31/78 View

Jay DeFeo / MATRIX 11

7/1/78 to 8/31/78 View

Jon Borofsky and Megan Williams / MATRIX 10

6/1/78 to 8/31/78 View

Ron Gorchov / MATRIX 8

5/1/78 to 7/31/78 View

Dianne Blell / MATRIX 9

5/1/78 to 6/30/78 View

William Wegman / MATRIX 6

4/1/78 to 5/31/78 View

Kim Macconnel / MATRIX 7

4/1/78 to 5/31/78 View

James Lee Byars / MATRIX 5

3/1/78 to 3/31/78 View

James Lee Byars / MATRIX 4

The Perfect Kiss

3/1/78 to 3/31/78 View

Ursula Schneider / MATRIX 1

2/1/78 to 4/30/78 View

Susan Rothenberg / MATRIX 3

2/1/78 to 4/30/78 View

Ree Morton / MATRIX 2

2/1/78 to 4/30/78 View