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Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions-
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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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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Collection Focus / 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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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 8, 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 of the work of the historically under-recognized Korean artist Lee ShinJa (b. 1930, Uljin, South Korea; lives and works in Seoul). Spanning more than five decades, from the 1950s to 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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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
January 17–April 26, 2026Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings is the first retrospective in over two decades dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Beginning her artistic career in the Bay Area during the early 1970s, Cha produced an expansive range of works across text-based media, video, and performance. Best known for her posthumously published book, Dictee (1982), which weaves the personal and familial into historical narratives of displacement through word and image, Cha’s interdisciplinary practice gave shape to the experimental art scenes in San Francisco, New York City, and beyond.
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