MATRIX Exhibitions
In six to eight exhibitions each year, the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art introduces the Bay Area community to provocative views expressed by international avant-garde artists, creating a local connection to the current global dialogue on contemporary art and demonstrating that the art of this moment is vital, dynamic, and often challenging. Confronting traditional practices of display and encouraging new, open modes of analysis, MATRIX provides a framework for an active interchange between the artist, the museum, and the viewer. There have been 230 MATRIX shows at the Berkeley Art Museum over the past thirty years, featuring artists such as John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Nan Goldin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Nancy Spero, and Andy Warhol. In recent years the selection of MATRIX artists has become more international in scope, with the roster including Sanford Biggers, Teresita Fernández, Ricky Swallow, Tobias Rehberger, Ernesto Neto, Berni Searle, and Anne Chu, representing countries including Germany, Iran, Australia, Brazil, and China.
View current MATRIX exhibition
Browse past MATRIX exhibitions: 230 exhibitions, covering 30 years
View alphabetical list of MATRIX artists
The MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis.
Additional donors to the MATRIX Program include The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the UAM Council MATRIX Endowment, Jane and Jeffrey Green, Maryellen and Frank Herringer, Wanda Kownacki and John Holton, Charles and Naomie Kremer, Lenore Pereira and Richard Niles, Paul L. Wattis III and Anne Wattis, and other generous supporters.
