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The Enduring Mark
August 6–November 28, 2021Six Centuries of Drawing from the Gray Collection
Celebrating drawing as an expression of the beauty, vigor, and ephemerality of life, this exhibition charts a history of European and American drawing from the fifteenth to the twentieth century with works by Rubens, Degas, Klee, Picasso, and more.
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Art Wall: Luchita Hurtado
August 6–March 20, 2022Developed 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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New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
August 28, 2021–January 30, 2022Featuring more than 150 works, most made since the year 2000, this major survey presents a kaleidoscopic view of feminist practices in contemporary art.
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On the Hour: Night Watch
September 16–October 31Screening 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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Lines of Thought
January 5–July 3, 2022Gestural Abstraction in the BAMPFA Collection
This collection-based exhibition of gestural paintings from the 1950s to the present features works by key international figures who have continued to explore artistic possibilities within or in dialogue with gestural abstraction
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Spiritual Mountains: The Art of Wesley Tongson
January 12–June 12, 2022This 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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Recent Acquisitions from the BAMPFA Collection
March 2–April 24, 2022This exhibition of recent acquisitions by the museum demonstrates BAMPFA’s ongoing work to expand the global art historical canon through the art of lesser known makers and marginalized groups.
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The Artist’s Eye: Tammy Rae Carland, David Huffman, Lava Thomas, John...
March 19–July 17, 2022Curated by four established Bay Area artists, this exhibition centers their respective artistic visions and engages the space where the artist—as curator, collector, and maker—meets the museum.
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On the Hour: A Cool Million
April 18–22, 2022This Earth Week, BAMPFA is proud to be participating in this public initiative for climate awareness led by artists and institutions to expand environmental arts programming and support the conservation of land central to the California hydrological cycle.
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Art Wall: Caroline Kent
April 27–October 30, 2022BAMPFA commissioned Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent to present The Sounds Among Us, a large-scale, self-reflective yet otherworldly meditation on the museum as a site of intimate performance and public engagement.
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The 52nd Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
May 13–July 24, 2022BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice host an exhibition of works by the Master of Fine Arts class of 2022: Erica Deeman, Edgar Fabián Frías, Kavena Hambira, Hala Kaddoura, Ahn Lee, and Rivka Valérie Louissaint.
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Whitney Bradshaw: OUTCRY
July 13–November 8, 2022This large-scale presentation of Bradshaw's photographic project features one hundred women engaging in unbridled self-expression as an act of defiance against patriarchal oppression. Running three times daily on the outdoor screen.
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by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022)
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the first comprehensive exhibition of Knowles's work, spanning the entire breadth of her still-active career, from her intermedia works of the 1960s to participatory and relational art from the 2000s.
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Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & More
July 20, 2022–February 12, 2023An international movement of the 1960s and 1970s of artists working across disciplines and in a decidedly anti-commercial manner, this exhibition offers an opportunity to see Fluxus materials and many artworks in the form of a box, including numerous Fluxkits by a wide variety of... View
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Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279
August 10, 2022–January 8, 2023Hannah Levy’s tactile, creaturelike sculptures infuse the stripped-down lines of Modernist design with a visceral tension that is simultaneously sterile and erotic, amusing and disturbing.
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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 18, 2022Undoing 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.... View
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