Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions
  • Art Wall: Luis Camnitzer

    November 30, 2022–July 16, 2023

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

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  • Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

    February 4–August 13, 2023

    Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of longtime Bay Area artist Mesa-Bains. Presenting work from the entirety of her career for the first time, this exhibition, which features nearly 60 works in a range of media, including fourteen major installations, celebrates Mesa-Bains’s important contributions to the field of contemporary art locally and globally.

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

    Cal Conversations

    April 12–July 30, 2023

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

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

    May 10–July 23, 2023

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

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  • What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection

    June 7, 2023 - June 9, 2024

    What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection inaugurates a year-long presentation of the BAMPFA collection, bringing a contemporary perspective to the museum’s global art holdings.

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