Past Exhibitions
ARCHIVES YET TO COME
lynse cooper · lindsey filowitz · Jy jimmie flora gabiola · Mary w.d. graham · Nneka kai · Charles lee · qadir parris
CURATED BY HANNAH WAITERS
FEBRUARY 8 - MAY 4, 2025
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
2024 juried members show: Letter from the network
Katherine Akey · Jordan Bento · Daniel Brickman · Amy Brown · Sydney Brown · Mary Campbell · Kristiana Chan · Lynse Cooper · Tara Daly · Dale Eastman · Elina Frumerman · Emma Gobler · Courtney Griffith · Charlotta Hauksdottir · thad higa · Becky Jaffe · Clementine Keenan · Isabella King · Kimiko Kogure · Ahn Lee · Dani Lopez · Catherine Mackey · Mary V. Marsh · Teddy Milder · Parul Naresh · Morgann Nieto · Liam O'Connor · Kelley O'Leary · Youngmi Angela Pak · Rosa Park · Jeanna Penn · Callan Porter-Romero · Tana Quincy Arcega · Sophia Ramirez · Priyanka Rana · Yunfei Ren · Abel Rodriguez · Renetta Sitoy · Andrew Sun · Paul Taylor · Daniela Tinoco · Larisa Usich · Laura Van Duren · Yue Xiang
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 · Nellie Wong
Curated by Christina Hiromi Hobbs
January 27 - April 20, 2024
Naming Our Time
Tosha Stimage · Charlene Tan · Alexa Burrell · 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: Excursions
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 · 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) · 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 · 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
October 30, 2021 – January 15, 2022
october 30, 2021 - january 15, 2022
Curated by patricia cariño valdez
David Huffman, Step Pyramid #1, 2007, acrylic on paper. Image courtesy of the artist.
2021 Juried members show: 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 · 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