BAMPFA — Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Diller Scofidio + Renfro's stainless-steel wrapper joins a bold contemporary exhibition program to one of the world's great film archives.
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2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
Core focus: Contemporary art, artists' film, Asian art
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8 shows currently open
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you
Site-specific painting installation in the atrium.
Oct 30, 2025 — Jun 6, 2027 · Berkeley
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Retrospective of sculpture, performance, video and installation.
Jun 6, 2026 — Nov 29, 2026 · Berkeley
Jean-Luc Godard's Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts
Posters made for Godard's 1968 Berkeley retrospective.
Jul 8, 2026 — Jul 4, 2027 · Berkeley
Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las frutas del labor
Site-specific installation honouring museum art handlers.
Aug 5, 2026 — Jul 11, 2027 · Berkeley
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Aug 5, 2026 — Jul 11, 2027 · Berkeley
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
First US retrospective of the Chilean feminist artist.
Aug 12, 2026 — Nov 15, 2026 · Berkeley
Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis
Teaching Gallery exhibition.
Aug 26, 2026 — Jan 24, 2027 · Berkeley
Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War
Contemporary artists on the Cold War through photography, video and installation.
Sep 9, 2026 — Dec 13, 2026 · Berkeley
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BAMPFA — Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive · Berkeley
Atrium Projects / Sarah Cain: To—you know—you
Site-specific painting installation in the atrium.
Oct 30, 2025 — Jun 6, 2027 · Berkeley
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Retrospective of sculpture, performance, video and installation.
Jun 6, 2026 — Nov 29, 2026 · Berkeley
Jean-Luc Godard's Early Films: Posters Designed by Gvido Augusts
Posters made for Godard's 1968 Berkeley retrospective.
Jul 8, 2026 — Jul 4, 2027 · Berkeley
Art Wall / Marcel Pardo Ariza: Las frutas del labor
Site-specific installation honouring museum art handlers.
Aug 5, 2026 — Jul 11, 2027 · Berkeley
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Aug 5, 2026 — Jul 11, 2027 · Berkeley
Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces
First US retrospective of the Chilean feminist artist.
Aug 12, 2026 — Nov 15, 2026 · Berkeley
Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis
Teaching Gallery exhibition.
Aug 26, 2026 — Jan 24, 2027 · Berkeley
Private Frontiers: Media Legacies of the Cold War
Contemporary artists on the Cold War through photography, video and installation.
Sep 9, 2026 — Dec 13, 2026 · Berkeley
MATRIX 290 / Keka Enriquez: History Painting
Dec 2, 2026 — Apr 25, 2027 · Berkeley
MATRIX: 50 Years of Experimentation
Jan 23, 2027 — Apr 18, 2027 · Berkeley
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
Career-spanning exhibition featuring more than fifty works by Rashid Johnson exploring the search for freedom and the complexity of the human condition.
Jun 5, 2027 — Nov 28, 2027 · Berkeley
Past shows (52) · show· hide
- Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFAOct 3, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026
- Collection Focus / Meriem Bennani: Life on the CAPSMay 6, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026
- Teaching Gallery / The Politics of the PosterMay 13, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026
- Countermyths: Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA ExhibitionMay 13, 2026 – Jul 26, 2026
- Art Wall / Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)Aug 13, 2025 – Jul 5, 2026
- Object Oriented: Abstraction and Design in the BAMPFA CollectionSep 10, 2025 – Jun 28, 2026
- Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser CollectionMar 4, 2026 – Jun 28, 2026
- Teaching Gallery / Environmental Justice, Art, and RaceJan 21, 2026 – May 10, 2026
- MATRIX 289 / Zeinab Saleh: Signs of a softer worldDec 10, 2025 – Apr 19, 2026
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple OfferingsJan 24, 2026 – Apr 19, 2026
- Lee ShinJa: Drawing with ThreadAug 6, 2025 – Feb 1, 2026
- MATRIX 288 / Andro Eradze: Shifting StillnessSep 10, 2025 – Dec 21, 2025
- Teaching Gallery / Panther Meadows and Dangerous Worlds: Contemporary Readings of Asian American LandscapesAug 20, 2025 – Dec 14, 2025
- Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in CaliforniaJun 8, 2025 – Nov 30, 2025
- MATRIX 287 / Berenice Olmedo: To ti ên einaiAug 13, 2025 – Nov 23, 2025
- Collection Focus / Sky Hopinka: Sunflower Siege EngineMar 12, 2025 – Aug 24, 2025
- Teaching Gallery / Beyond Face Value: Meditations on PortraitureMay 7, 2025 – Aug 17, 2025
- Fifty-Fifth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition: The Currents BeneathMay 14, 2025 – Jul 27, 2025
- Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga: Border Fall HeightJan 18, 2025 – Jul 13, 2025
- To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent CollectionAug 14, 2024 – Jul 6, 2025
- MATRIX 286 / Amol K Patil: A Forest of RemembranceJan 18, 2025 – Apr 27, 2025
- Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg CollectionOct 27, 2024 – Apr 20, 2025
- Teaching Gallery / Lives on Paper, Drawing as TraceJan 30, 2025 – Mar 23, 2025
- Campus CollaborationsOct 9, 2024 – Feb 23, 2025
- Teaching Gallery / Water, Art, and CaliforniaAug 28, 2024 – Dec 22, 2024
- Art Wall / Rose D’Amato: Mission ChevroletAug 7, 2024 – Dec 15, 2024
- MATRIX 285 / Young Joon Kwak: Resistance PleasureAug 7, 2024 – Dec 15, 2024
- On the Outdoor Screen / Kathryn Andrews: Victoria Woodhull, Belva Ann Lockwood, Abigail Scott Duniway [ . . . ]Oct 1, 2024 – Dec 6, 2024
- On the Outdoor Screen / Lena Wolff and Hope Meng: Art for DemocracyOct 1, 2024 – Nov 6, 2024
- On the Outdoor Screen / Michele Pred: United for FreedomOct 1, 2024 – Nov 6, 2024
- A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great MigrationApr 13, 2024 – Sep 22, 2024
- MITH & CO.: Fifty-Fourth Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts ExhibitionMay 1, 2024 – Jul 21, 2024
- Art Wall / Yee I-Lann: TIKAR/MEJA/PLASTIKJan 24, 2024 – Jul 14, 2024
- What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA CollectionJun 7, 2023 – Jul 7, 2024
- MATRIX 283 / Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobrezaDec 13, 2023 – Apr 14, 2024
- MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story ChangingDec 13, 2023 – Mar 10, 2024
- Duane Linklater: mymotherssideOct 7, 2023 – Feb 25, 2024
- On the Outdoor Screen: Lessons in SemaphoreJan 15, 2024 – Feb 15, 2024
- Art Wall: Xylor JaneAug 16, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024
- MATRIX 281 / Kenneth Tam: The Founding of the WorldAug 16, 2023 – Nov 26, 2023
- MATRIX 282 / Griselda Rosas: Yo te cuidoAug 30, 2023 – Nov 19, 2023
- Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of MemoryFeb 4, 2023 – Aug 13, 2023
- Cal ConversationsApr 12, 2023 – Jul 30, 2023
- Fifty-Third Annual UC Berkeley Master of Fine Arts ExhibitionMay 10, 2023 – Jul 23, 2023
- Art Wall: Luis CamnitzerNov 30, 2022 – Jul 16, 2023
- Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist WorldDec 14, 2022 – May 7, 2023
- Out of Africa: Selections from the Kramlich CollectionMar 8, 2023 – Apr 30, 2023
- On the Hour: Three short films by William KentridgeMar 9, 2023 – Apr 30, 2023
- Frank Moore / MATRIX 280: Theater of Human MeltingJan 25, 2023 – Apr 23, 2023
- Rina KimcheJan 11, 2023 – Mar 26, 2023
- Fluxus Reverb: Events, Scores, Boxes & MoreJul 20, 2022 – Feb 12, 2023
- Hannah Levy / MATRIX 279Aug 10, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023