Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

  • Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

    June 6–November 29, 2026

    Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing will be the most significant retrospective of the work of Maren Hassinger, presenting her work across sculpture, performance, video, and installation from the early 1970s to the present. Hassinger’s work addresses social and cultural issues through an awareness of interconnectedness, ephemerality, and relationships between humans and the natural world. These themes emphasize the importance of caring for the things we share in contrast to the things that divide us. The exhibition will survey Hassinger’s expansive career, making connections across her practice and asserting her dynamic place in the history of contemporary art.

  • Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you

    October 30, 2025–June 6, 2027

    Painter Sarah Cain (b. 1979, Albany, New York; lives and works in Los Angeles) presents the site-specific installation To—you know—you. Returning to UC Berkeley, where she received her MFA in 2006, the artist continues her intuitive approach to painting, improvising the installation on-site at the museum.

  • Jean-Luc Godard’s Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts

    July 8, 2026–July 4, 2027

    Commissioned nearly sixty years ago by Tom Luddy (1943–2023), then the Program Director of the Pacific Film Archive, the works in the exhibition Jean-Luc Godard’s Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts were designed by American painter and graphic artist Gvido Augusts (1932–2022) on the occasion of the filmmaker's first visit to Berkeley in March 1968 for a retrospective of his films.

  • Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las frutas del labor

    August 5, 2026–July 11, 2027

    For the next installment of BAMPFA's annual Art Wall series, Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. 1991, Bogotá, Colombia; lives and works in Oakland) presents a site-specific installation that pays homage to art handlers. Las frutas del labor brings visibility to the often-overlooked yet essential part that art handlers play in museums and collection care, celebrating their vital contributions to cultural institutions.

  • Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

    August 5, 2026–July 11, 2027

    Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection is a yearlong exhibition that invites visitors to contemplate spiritual, social, environmental, and political possibilities through artworks from a vast range of historical periods and places. This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary presentation of artworks from BAMPFA's collection considers utopia as an ongoing project rooted in the pursuit of social justice, and a future in which all have the resources to thrive.

  • Campus Collaborations / Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces

    August 12–November 15, 2026

    Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the first US retrospective of Chilean artist Lotty Rosenfeld (1943–2020), one of the most important feminist artists of the twentieth century. Through printmaking, collage, video, and site-specific installation, she encoded political gestures to contest the militarization of public space and celebrated the imagination as the antidote to systems of control.

  • Teaching Gallery / Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis

    August 26, 2026–January 24, 2027

    This exhibition is part of Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, a series of art installations taking place across UC Berkeley’s campus, which considers the legacies of nuclear testing and colonization in relation to climate crises. Featuring a selection of artworks from the BAMPFA Collection, it invites us to recognize our shared responsibility for planetary care.

  • Campus Collaborations / Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War

    September 9–December 13, 2026

    Private Frontiers presents new and recent work in photography, video, and installation by four contemporary artists who engage the Cold War as a prism for understanding today’s media-saturated world. Through methodologically-driven practices drawing on historical archives, news broadcasts, pop songs, and game theory, Naeem Mohaiemen, Prajakta Potnis, TJ Shin, and Tiffany Sia examine media as a crucial arena in which politics was articulated and contested in the second half of the twentieth century.