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Past Exhibitions-
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks by women artists from the Shah Garg Collection, illuminating transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among pathbreaking artists from the postwar era to the present.
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To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection
August 14, 2024–July 6, 2025To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection draws from BAMPFA’s art and film collections to explore how museums collect, care for, and amplify the work of artists who celebrate ideas of impermanence and cycles of decay and regeneration.
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Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry
Campus Collaborations
October 9, 2024–February 23, 2025Part of BAMPFA’s Campus Collaborations series, Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry is the collective’s first solo US museum exhibition. Known for its intimate portrayals of Syrian life amid upheaval, Abounaddara debuts a new three-channel film installation, The Imagemaker, exploring the world-making powers of one of the last craftsmen of stamped cloth in Damascus.
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Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall Height
January 18–July 13, 2025Tanya Aguiñiga creates sculptures and installations using natural materials and objects gathered from her environment. Her Art Wall installation at BAMPFA is her first solo presentation in the Bay Area. Aguiñiga presents a series of rust prints depicting a thirty-foot ladder made using an actual object that she found near the US–Mexico border.
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MATRIX 286 / Amol K Patil: A Forest of Remembrance
January 18–April 27, 2025Amol K Patil works across painting, sculpture, performance, and video and excavates the lived experiences of Mumbai’s working class. For his first solo exhibition in the United States, the artist presents a newly commissioned body of work that reconfigures the architecture of the city’s chawls into a space of collective memory and dynamic protest.
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Teaching Wall / After Lives: Drawing As Trace
Campus Collaborations
January 30–March 23, 2025This exhibition presents works on paper drawn from BAMPFA’s collection, organized in partnership with Todd Olson, Professor of Early Modern Art in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley. It offers historical and cultural perspectives on a keystone of fine arts training: drawing the human figure through direct observation of a live model. This display provides students with direct access to artworks and themes connected to their classes in the History of Art and Art Practice Departments.
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New Acquisition / Sky Hopinka: Sunflower Siege Engine
March 12–August 17, 2025Sky Hopinka’s video Sunflower Siege Engine is a poetic meditation on history, resistance, and place.
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Making Their Mark: The Next Generation
Student Art Display
March 26–April 20, 2025Organized as a collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School and BAMPFA’s Education Department, this monthlong show presents work in a range of media by students in Berkeley High School’s senior AP Art class made in response to the exhibition Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection.
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Fifty-Fifth Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
May 14–July 27, 2025Celebrate bold new works by six emerging artists in the Fifty-Fifth Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, where innovative practices meet powerful explorations of community, memory, and transformation.
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Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California
June 7, 2025—November 30, 2025Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California traces the flow and flourishing of quilts in the context of the Second Great Migration. These quilts explore the medium’s unique capacity for connecting kin across time and space, holding memory and ancestral knowledge, and opening up space for beauty and ingenuity.
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Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread
August 6, 2025–February 1, 2026Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread is the first North American survey on the work of the historically underrecognized Korean artist Lee ShinJa (b. 1930, Uljin, South Korea; lives and works in Seoul). Spanning more than five decades between the 1950s and the early 2000s, the exhibition showcases the artist’s bold innovations in fiber through forty monumental textile works, woven maquettes, and preparatory sketches.
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