Past Exhibitions and events
PAINTING OURSELVES INTO SOCIETY
SAFE COMMUNITIES USE ART AND INCLUSION AS A SOLUTION, NOT PRISONS!
SEPTEMBER 21ST, 2024 — JANUARY 12TH, 2025
CURATED BY ORLANDO SMITH & RAHSAAN THOMAS
Berkeley commonplace: Light Blocks 3d Theater
Community partner in the gallery
contributOrs include: Shantré Pinkney, Paul Taylor, and Jake Rose
August 17 - September 1, 2024
Letter from the network
annual juried members show
Curated by pj gubatina policarpio & juan omar rodriguez
may 25 - july 6, 2024
Collage detail by Alexandria LaRoche with kristin vanderlip taylor, Anne Vastola, Michele Randall and Stephen Tomasko
BERKELEY COMMONPLACE: POSTAL COLLAGE PROJECT NO. 13
COMMUNITY PARTNER IN THE GALLERY
Featured over 200 collaborators in 16 countries
may 4 - may 12, 2024
Betty Kano To Theresa II (1982) Acrylic on canvas. 108 x 66”
In the Presence Of:
Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association
Lucy Arai, Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lenore Chinn, Terry Acebo Davis, Shari Arai DeBoer, Hisako Hibi, Nancy Hom, Betty Kano, Genny Lim, Hung Liu, Barbara Jane Reyes, Pallavi Sharma, Cynthia Tom, Flo Oy Wong, and Nellie Wong
Curated by Christina Hiromi Hobbs
January 27 - April 20, 2024
Naming Our Time
Tosha Stimage, Charlene Tan, Alexa Burrell, and Erina C. Alejo
Curated by Qianjin Montoya
October 27, 2023 - January 13, 2024
rabbit hole
FRED MARQUE DEWITT, MARK HARRIS, DANIELLE NANOS-LUZ, COURTNEY DESIREE MORRIS, ARLEENE CORREA VALENCIA, CONNIE ZHENG
JURIED BY adrianne ramsey
AUGUST 12 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
2023 JURIED MEMBERS EXHIBITION
Dalar Alahverdi, Alexis Arnold, Katayoun Bahrami, Lizzy Blasingame, Lisa Conrad, Carolina Cuevas, Lee Oscar Gomez, Emily Gui, Sabina Kariat, Ben Leon, Parul Naresh, Will Pang, Johanna Poethig, Callan Porter-Romero, Helia Pouyanfar, Leonard Reidelbach, Hilda Robinson, Eugene Rodriguez, Leyla Rzayeva, kaory santillan, AJ Serrano, Yana Verba, Amy Yoshitsu.
JURIED BY hoi Leung
JUne 3 – july 2, 2023
Xandra Ibarra, Scum in Ecstasy, 2022. Two-channel, HD, 3:52 minutes. Image courtesy of the artist.
Collage by Keiran Best with Kriste Lindberg, Laura Heidotten, Kim Breit and Ellie Litzenberg
BERKELEY COMMONPLACE: POSTAL COLLAGE PROJECT NO. 12
nearly 300 collaborators in sixteen countries
Berkeley Commonplace is a Community Partner; this exhibition is not official programming of Berkeley Art Center
MAY 13–MAY 2, 2023
THE LETTERS OF MINA HARKER
DENA AL-ADEEB, SHOLEH ASGARY, KERRI CONLON, RED CULEBRA (GUILLERMO GALINDO AND CRISTOBAL MARTíNEZ), MADELEINE FITZPATRICK, BEHNAZ AND BAHARAK KHALEGHI, HEESOO KWON, TRACY REN, CHELSEA RYOKO WONG, RUPY C. TUT
CURATED BY NAZ CUGUOGLU
JANUARY 21–MARCH 12, 2023
Artist-in-Residence, Angelica Trimble-Yanu photographed with Iyeska installation.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: ANGELICA TRIMBLE-YANU
Lynette Betancur, Alma Leppla, Tricia Rainwater, Loreum, Steven Flores, and Angelica Trimble-Yanu
OCTOBER 1 – OCTOBER 1, 2022: GALLERY CLOSED FOR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
OCTOBER 16 – NOVEMBER 11, 2022: HOLDING, CEREMONY
Cherisse Alcantara, Scaffolding 3 (Clement Street), 2022, oil on linen over panel, 18 in. x 24 in. x 1.5 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
2022 JURIED MEMBERS EXHIBITION
Cherisse Alcantara, Kristin Anderson, Norman Aragones, Austin Boe, Amy Brown, Serena Corson, Dana DeKalb, Claire Dunn, Jy Jimmie Gabiola, Ann Holsberry, Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales, Sarah Klein, Charles Lee, Zoe Loa, Judit Navratil, Breanna Parks, Callan Porter-Romero, Anthony A. Russell, Selby Sohn, Raisa Solis, Camilo Villa
JURIED BY ELENA GROSS
JULY 2 – AUGUST 6, 2022
Tosha Stimage, Lots of Flowers, 2022, mixed media, overall box dimensions 5.75 in. x 6 in. x 1 in. Prints by Sun Night Editions, Oakland. Commissioned by Berkeley Art Center.
Tristan Crane, Rawiyah (from the series Here), 2019, archival pigment print, 34 in. x 25 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
ALL OF US ALL OF US
Tristan Crane, First Exposures Mentors & Mentees, The Q-Sides (Brown Amy, Vero Majano, Kari Orvik), and Marcel Pardo Ariza
Curated by Roula Seikaly
APRIL 16 – JUNE 18, 2022
John Moore, Bopbopbelebopbamboom, 1997, acrylic on canvas, 10 in. x 8.25 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
MIDAS: How Art Becomes Life & Life Becomes Art
Ricki Dwyer, Linda Geary, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Sahar Khoury, Jerry Leisure, Kyle Lypka & Tyler Cross, and John Moore
Curated by Squeak Carnwath
January 29 – March 26, 2022
BAC at the Mills Building San Francisco
Alice Beasley, Leo Bersamina, Alexandra Cicorschi, Uma Rani Iyli, Maya Kabat, Mel Prest, Brian Singer, Simon Tran and Rochelle Youk
Off-site Exhibition
Curated by Artsource Consulting
October 22, 2021 – February 10, 2022
Installation view of Suspended Matter. Photo by Minoosh Zomorodinia
SUSPENDED MATTER
Julia Goodman, Asma Kazmi, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Jenifer K Wofford
Curated by Patricia Cariño Valdez
October 30, 2021 – January 15, 2022
David Huffman, Step Pyramid #1, 2007, acrylic on paper. Image courtesy of the artist.
Uplift/Heavy Lift
Milena Arango, Alexandra Bailliere, Cristine Blanco, Mariet Braakman, Alexandra Cicorschi, Brian Conery, Jillian Crochet, Reniel Del Rosario, Leeza Doreian, Clea Felien, Lindsey Filowitz, Jo Ford, Yana Goldfine, Cynthia Gonzalez, Uma Rani Iyli, Kacy Jung, Mihee Kim, Melody Kozma-Kennedy, Ahn Lee, Natasha Loewy, Fredi Lopez, Mary V. Marsh, Mareiwa Miller, Judit Navratil, Beril Or, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Callan Porter-Romero, Mel Prest, Felix Quintana, Tracy Ren, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Rivera, Jose Sanchez, Brian Singer, Amrita Singhal, Dobee Snowber, Nga Trinh, Alice Wu, Michelle Yi Martin, Rochelle Youk
Curated by Thea Quiray Tagle
June 12 – July 1, 2021
Nicki Green, SOFT BRICK, 2017, glaze on recycled stoneware with painted MDF and bricks from Peter Voulkos’ kiln at UC Berkeley, 55 in. x 36 in. x 36 in. © Nicki Green. Courtesy of the artist.
Origin Stories: Expanded Ceramics in the Bay Area
Ebitenyefa Baralaye, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik and María Inés Leal García, The Brick Factory, Ilana Crispi, Futurefarmers, Nicki Green, Dana Hemenway, Kari Marboe, Mutual Stores, Stephanie Syjuco
Curated by Tanya Zimbardo
March 10 – May 8, 2021
Roya Ebtehaj, PressInt Continous, 2020, still from 3D animation. Courtesy of the artist.
The Option To…
Kimberley Acebo Arteche, Roya Ebtehaj, Feral Fabric, Dionne Lee, Adia Millett, and Astria Suparak
Digital Projects
OCTOBER 2020 — FEBRUARY 2021
Emma Robbins, Treaty No. 2, 2018, Fire Rock Casino playing cards and porcupine quills, 12-3/4 in. x 10-1/2 in. Image courtesy of the artist.
We Have Teeth Too
Natalie Ball, Jordan Ann Craig, Emma Robbins, Amanda Roy
Curated by Natani Notah
October 10, 2020 – december 19, 2020
Image courtesy of Sanctuary City Project
SANCTUARY CITY PROJECT — BANNERS
SERGIO DE LA TORRE, CHRIS TREGGIARI
Site Project
September 11–DECEMBER 10, 2020
Stacey Goodman, This Tree — Devotion, 2020, video still. Image courtesy of the artists
EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD:Creative Collaboration in the age of ecological concern
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality, Adriane Colburn, Alicia Escott, Stacey Goodman, Chanell Stone, Livien Yin, Minoosh Zomorodinia
Curated by Svea Lin Soll
July 25 – September 28, 2020
Laura Van Duren, Embracing Eva, 2020
Some Speechless Thing
Laurence Elias, Lisa Espenmiller, Jane Fisher, Laine Justice, Toby Kahn, Christine Meuris, Maggie Preston, Laura Van Duren, A.L. Woods
MEMBERS EXHIBITION II
Juried by Griff Williams
February 8 – March 6, 2020
A.L. Woods, #23, 2019
ROUND TABLE [COLLABORATION]: Check It Out
ROUND-ROBIN COLLABORATION
Lobby ProjecT
August 17 – December 21, 2019
Cute Rage Press, Put It On Blast: This Institution… stickers, 2019
Ready
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Janaki Jagannath & Cece Carpio; Cute Rage Press (Aram Han Sifuentes & Ishita Dharap); Rebecca Goldschmidt; Vero Majano; Nyeema Morgan & Mike Cloud; Kim Nguyen
Curated by Related Tactics: Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson
October 26 – December 12, 2019
Victoria May, Studies in Convulsion #2–4, 2014
hot love — cold facts
Andrea Borsuk, Frédéric Doazan, Matt Gonzalez, Mildred Howard, Victoria May, Catie O’Leary, Ward Schumaker, Katherine Sherwood, Vanessa Woods
Curated by Jack Fischer
August 17 – October 12, 2019
Chris Evans, Reconstructions Performance Ritual, Excavation, 2019. Photo by Sibila Savage.
Bodies on the line: Sound, Performance, Endurance
Simone Bailey, Chris Evans, Beatrice L. Thomas (aka Black Benatar)
Curated by Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen
june 8–July 20, 2019
Joyce Nojima, Untitled, 2018
look at me hungry
Kim Bennett, Arthur Huang, Xi Nan, Joyce Nojima, Sandra Ono, James Sansing
Curated by Mel Prest
april 12 — May 23, 2019
Kim Laughton
FIFTH ANNUAL glas animation festival
KIM LAUGHTON
March 21 — March 24, 2019
outside the lines: busd YOUNG ARTISTS EXHIBITION
students in Berkeley elementary and middle schools
IN CONJUNCTION WITH Alameda County’s Art is Education Month
ARTWORKS SELECTED BY BUSD art teacherS
March 1 — March 16, 2019
Rochelle Youk, Still Life Chaekgeori, 2018
All that glitters
Jennie Braman, Mary Burger, Dana DeKalb, Donna Fenstermaker, Shelley Gardner, Christine Meuris, Kimberly Rowe, Sally Smith, Simon Tran, Stephen Whisler, Rochelle Youk
MEMBERS EXHIBITION II
Juried by Walter Maciel
january 26 — February 16, 2019
Christine Meuris, Pangea, 2018
HERE: MEMBERS EXHIBITION PART 1
single work by each participating artist
December 12, 2018 — January 1, 2019
Nabeela Sajjad, Purity
universal messages: new vistas contemporary muslim women artists in the bay area
Salma Arastu, Bassamat Fayoumi Bahnasy, Manli Salimah Chao, Rabea Chaudhry, Rubina Kazi, Yasmin Khafagy, Azeem Khaliq, Nabeela Sajjad, Ayesha Samdani
Curated by Salma Arastu
November 3 — December 2, 2018
Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, Ciné Encanto, 2011
of dreams AND reality
Rose Borden, Adrienne Defendi, Anthony Delgado, Gene Dominique, Dan Fenstermacher, Linda Fitch, Ralf Hillebrand, Ken Hoffman, Ellen Konar and Steve Goldband, Tom Lavin, Mitch Nelles, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Cindy Stokes, Denise Tarantino, Nick Winkworth
Curated by Ann Jastrab
september 15 — october 25, 2018
Rudy Lemcke, CLOUD FOREST
queer technology
Rudy Lemcke, Colleen Jennings, Aaron Reed, Kara Stone, Lark VCR
CURATED BY Elliot Anderson
july 21 — september 2, 2018
Tabitha Soren, Lindsey (003766), 2012
wonder women
Helen Berggruen, Kay Bradner, Stacey Carter, Dana DeKalb, Lisa Esherick, Robbin Henderson, Naomie Kremer, Diana Krevsky, Tabitha Soren, Jan Wurm
Curated by George Krevsky
may 26 — July 8, 2018
LEAH ROSENBERG & JEREMIAH JENKINS: the measure of enjoyment
LEAH ROSENBERG, JEREMIAH JENKINS
AGILITY PROJECTS
April 7—May 13, 2018
SIGNALS: FOURTH ANNUAL glas animation festival
NICOLAS SASSOON, RICK SILVA
GLAS ANIMATION FESTIVAL
March 22 — March 25, 2018
divining triptychs: printmaking, dance & poetry across millennia
Alan Bern, Lucinda Weaver, Robert Woods
PARTNER PROJECTS
march 7 — march 17, 2018
Jeannie O’Connor, MacArthur Mayhem, 2017
this place
Peter Baczek, Monique Boyd, Timothea Campbell, Victoria Hamlin, Shelly Hoyt, Jeannie O’Connor, Nancy Mona Russell
JUried by Maria Porges
February 3 — March 4, 2018
Rodney Ewing, installation view
Lava Thomas, installation view