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Art Wall: Karabo Poppy Moletsane
November 22, 2017–July 15, 2018

Moletsane’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, 2018

Explore 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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Agony in Effigy: Art, Truth, Pain, and the Body
February 21–June 17, 2018

This 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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Al Wong: Lost Sister
March 28–June 17, 2018

Al Wong’s photocollage portraits of the sister he never met form a meditation on displacement and the collision between personal and geopolitical histories.
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The 48th Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
May 11–June 17, 2018

This annual showcase celebrates the diverse and exceptional work of new graduates from the MFA program at Cal.
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Master Traces, Transcultural Visions
May 16–September 16, 2018

Works dating from the second century through the twentieth reveal how Buddhist power was visually expressed and transmitted throughout Asia.
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Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri / MATRIX 270
May 23–August 26, 2018

New work by two artists who got their start in San Francisco in the 1990s and have maintained a strong artistic dialogue ever since.
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Color, Form, Unicorn: Recent Acquisitions
June 6-August 19, 2018

Recent additions to the BAMPFA collection feature unusual approaches to color and form—plus a unicorn.
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Way Bay 2
June 13–September 2, 2018

A fresh iteration of our innovative exhibition exploring the creative energies that have emerged from the Bay Area over the past two centuries.
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Joanne Leonard: Intimate Documentary
July 5-September 2, 2018

Leonard’s photographs are rare, intimate documents of life in Oakland in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
July 11–November 18, 2018

The first retrospective of an enormously influential artist whose photographs capture the creative subcultures of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen
July 11–October 14, 2018

This first survey of Vicuña’s work stages a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change.
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Art Wall: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
August 15, 2018–March 3, 2019

The pioneer of the 1960s design phenomenon Supergraphics creates a new piece for BAMPFA’s Art Wall.
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