On View
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Buddhist Realms
October 25, 2107–April 22, 2018Exquisite examples of Buddhist art from the Himalayan region.
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Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane
November 22, 2017–July 15, 2018Moletsane’s vibrant, large-scale portraits for the Art Wall draw on both traditional African visual culture and Afrofuturism.
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Way Bay
January 17–June 3, 2018Explore the creative energies that have emerged from the Bay Area over the past two centuries with this sweeping array of art, film, performance, poetry, and archival materials.
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Breaking ICE
A Community Response to a Citizenship Test
January 31–May 20, 2018An interactive installation based loosely on the 100 questions used to test aspiring US citizens.
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee
January 31–April 22, 2018View artworks and ephemera from the Cha archive at BAMPFA in dialogue with her best-known work, the artist's book Dictee.
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Jay Heikes / MATRIX 269
February 14–April 29, 2018Recent paintings, sculptures, and drawings that offer both a reflection on our cultural moment and a commitment to the material properties of the art object
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Agony in Effigy: Art, Truth, Pain, and the Body
February 21–June 17, 2018This selection of historical works explores how physical violence and suffering have been represented in art, from the promise of transcendence to political critique.
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Cal Conversations: Dreaming the Lost Ming 夢回金陵
February 21–May 13, 2018Created in collaboration with a UC Berkeley course, this exhibition explores the cataclysmic end of the Ming dynasty through paintings and literature of China’s long seventeenth century.
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Al Wong: Lost Sister
March 28–June 17, 2018Al Wong’s photocollage portraits of the sister he never met form a meditation on displacement and the collision between personal and geopolitical histories.