About Exhibitions
The Berkeley Art Museum provides the UC Berkeley and Bay Area communities with an ambitious schedule of exhibitions exploring international art, both historical and contemporary. Each year, the museum presents diverse and important temporary exhibitions that range from classical Asian art to challenging work by today's artists. The exhibition program includes installations that highlight the richness and scope of the museum collections, as well as the MATRIX Program, presenting recent avant-garde work. BAM has mounted important exhibitions of the works of Juan Gris, Jay DeFeo, Robert Colescott, Joan Brown, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sebastião Salgado, Paul Kos, and many others, as well as thematic exhibitions such as Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art; Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the '50s & '60s; The Here and the Hereafter: Images of Paradise in Islamic Art; In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice; Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy; and Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds.
