University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)

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November 13, 2019

Sylvia Fein, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012. Egg tempera on gesso board, 24 x 24 inches. Collection of the artist. © 2019 Sylvia Fein.

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Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275

November 5, 2019

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Feminist Art Coalition

September 18, 2019

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Kader Attia

January 8, 2019

Masako Miki, Karakasa-obake (Umbrella Ghost); Ungaikyo (Possessed Mirror); and Kinoko (Mushroom Ghost), all 2018. Wool on foam, walnut and wenge wood, 74 x 21 x 21 inches, 25 1/2 x 35 x 10 inches, 38 x 34 x 19 inches, respectively. Courtesy of the artist and CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.

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Masako Miki
MATRIX 273

December 5, 2018

Arthur Jafa, The White Album (still), 2018. Continuous video projection; color, sound; approx. 40 min. Commissioned by BAMPFA. © Arthur Jafa, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York / Rome.

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Arthur Jafa
MATRIX 272

October 17, 2018

Harvey Quaytman: Second Cupola Capella, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 73 x 157 inches. Harvey Quaytman Trust. Courtesy of Van Doren Waxter, New York.

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Harvey Quaytman
Against the Static

September 11, 2018

Christina Quarles, Small Offerings, 2017. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches. BAMPFA, purchase made possible through a gift of an anonymous donor. Photo: Jonathan Bloom.

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Christina Quarles
MATRIX 271

May 23, 2018

Left: Alicia McCarthy, Untitled, 2018. Color pencil and spray paint on paper, 20 x 20 inches. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Gift of the artist. Right: Ruby Neri, Two Women, 2018. Ceramic with glaze, 34 x 32 x 22 1/2 inches. Photo: Lee Thompson. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Alicia McCarthy and Ruby Neri
MATRIX 270

February 14, 2018

Jay Heikes, Zs, 2017. Steel slag, salt, glue, pigment, ink, fiberglass, rubber snakes, copper wire, acorn husks, rocks, dirt. 51 x 38 x 4 in. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen.

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Jay Heikes
Jay Heikes / MATRIX 269

October 7, 2017

JJ PEET, REGULATED VIEWING (still), 2017. HD video, color, silent, 28:30 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

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JJ PEET
THE VACANT AMERICAN

September 24, 2017

Left: Miyoko Ito, Tabled Presence, 1971. Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of Alice Brunner, Chicago. © The Estate of Miyoko Ito. Photo: Michael Tropea. Right: Veronica De Jesus, George Kuchar, 2011. Mixed media on paper, 10 15/16 x 13 5/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

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Miyoko Ito / MATRIX 267
Veronica De Jesus / MATRIX 268

April 4, 2017

Cliff Hengst in Mr. Akita by Asher Hartman, Emily Joyce: Sun Burn (Split) 1, 2012. Acrylic screenprint on Fabriano paper mounted on panel, 54 x 54 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston. Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.

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Asher Hartman and Cliff Hengst / MATRIX 264
Irwin Kremen / MATRIX 265
Sam Contis / MATRIX 266

December 8, 2016

Michael Armitage, Diamond Platnumz, 2016. Oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 66 15/16 x 118 1/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London. © Michael Armitage. Photo: White Cube, Ben Westoby.

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Michael Armitage / MATRIX 263

September 21, 2016

Pat O’Neill, Runs Good (still), 1970/2012. Three-channel continuous video projection, transferred from 16mm; color, sound. BAMPFA purchase: Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange. Image courtesy of the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.

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Pat O’Neill / MATRIX 262

June 29, 2016

Cecilia Edefalk, Silver Roots, 2010. Polished bronze, 21 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches. © Cecilia Edefalk. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

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Cecilia Edefalk / MATRIX 261

May 4, 2016

Otobong Nkanga, From Where I Stand: Glimmer, 2015. Performance at M HKA, Antwerp. Photo: Christine Clinckx.

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Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260

October 27, 2015

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Tarek Atoui / MATRIX 258

June 8, 2015

Interior view of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, c. 1978. The green light in the stairway is from Dan Flavin’s untitled (for Gretchen, a colorful and fond match), 1977–78. Photo: Colin McCrae.

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Will Brown

February 3, 2015

Eric Baudelaire, Letters to Max (still), 2014. HD video, color, sound, 103 minutes.

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Eric Baudelaire, presented with Kadist Art Foundation

October 12, 2014

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Joseph Holtzman

September 11, 2014

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John Zurier

July 25, 2014

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Geta Brătescu

April 9, 2014

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Will Rogan

January 17, 2014

Top: Paz Errázuriz, La Palmera, Santiago, from the series “La manzana de Adán,” 1982. Bottom: Anna Maria Maiolino, stills from X, 1974, Y, 1974, In/Out Anthropophagy, 1973–74, Ad Hoc, 1982.*

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Paz Errázuriz and Anna Maria Maiolino

October 15, 2013

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Linda Stark

August 16, 2013

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Yang Fudong

July 24, 2013

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Zarouhie Abdalian

May 3, 2013

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Nicole Eisenman

February 12, 2013

Left: Anna Halprin, Parades and Changes, 1970. Right: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Morakot (Emerald), 2007.*

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Anna Halprin and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

January 22, 2013

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Rudolf de Crignis

October 29, 2012

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Trimpin: Nancarrow Percussion Orchestra

August 17, 2012

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Barry McGee

July 13, 2012

Left: Lutz Bacher, Bien Hoa, 2006–07 (detail). Inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 24 x 36 inches.
Right: D-L Alvarez, The Closet #14, 2006–07. Graphite on paper, 17 ½ x 21 ¼ inches.*

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Lutz Bacher and D-L Alvarez

January 16, 2012

Left: Andy Warhol: Frau Buch, 12/1980; Polacolor 2; 4-1/4 x 3-3/8 in.; gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Right: Ray Johnson: Untitled valise from Bob Box Archive, 1988–95; mixed media; dimensions variable. Photo: Tod Lippy, from Esopus 16.

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Two exhibitions

June 22, 2011

Desirée Holman: video still composite from “Heterotopias,” 2011; three-channel HD video; 13 mins.; courtesy of the artist and Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.

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Desiree Holman’s Heterotopias

March 14, 2011

Jill Magid, “The Sky From the Capital Steps,” 2010.
Digital photograph.

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Jill Magid’s Closet Drama

December 10, 2010

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Emily Roysdon: If I Don’t Move Can You Hear Me?

September 23, 2010

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Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

April 22, 2010

Brent Green
Still from Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, 2010
16mm film and digital photographs transferred to digital video; color, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York

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Brent Green: Perpetual and furious refrain

February 16, 2010

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Thom Faulders: BAMscape

January 25, 2010

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Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City

November 3, 2009

Innovative concepts of performance are inspired by the architecture of BAM/PFA’s Gallery B (partial view); programs presented at L@TE. Photo: Joe Fletcher.

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L@TE: Friday Nights @ BAM/PFA

October 20, 2009

Omer Fast, Nostalgia (still), 2009. Courtesy of the artist; gb agency, Paris; Postmasters, New York; and Arratia, Beer, Berlin. Photo: Thierry Bal.

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MATRIX 230: Omer Fast

June 2, 2009

Deborah Grant
Suicide Notes To The Self
2008
(detail)
oil, archival ink, paper, flashe paint, and enamel on five birch panels
72 x 240in.
Courtesy of the artist and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles.

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MATRIX 228: Deborah Grant

February 20, 2009

The Grapetree Bay Hotel, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, December 2006
Photo: Mario García Torres
From Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, 2009;
dual 35mm slide projection, sound

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MATRIX 227: Mario Garcia Torres

September 26, 2008

Tris Vonna-Michell:
Finding Chopin, 2008; performance still, Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, 2008;
courtesy of the artist and Cabinet, London. Photo: Karl Petersson.

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MATRIX 226: Bending the Word

September 6, 2008

Wang Guangyi: Chanel No. 5, 2001; oil on canvas; 2 panels, 120 x 78 in.; Sigg Collection.

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Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

June 1, 2008

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Trevor Paglen

April 24, 2008

Kiki Smith: Crèche, 1995
phosphorous bronze
various dimensions, 3 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. to 10 x 20 x 9 in.
gift of Richard and Lenore Niles.

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Thirty years of MATRIX

March 12, 2008

Arrested protestor at the demonstration of artists, writers, and students, Place du Palais Royal, July 16, 1968; digital print from 35mm black-and-white negative; 25 3/8 x 19 3/4 in.; Hood Museum of Art, gift of the artist, 2006.90.31; photo courtesy of the artist.

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Serge Hambourg

February 13, 2008

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Enrique Chagoya

November 16, 2007

Tomás Saraceno: Biosphere MW32 Air-Port-City, 2007; installation view, Pinksummer Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy, 2007; elliptical PVC pillows, air, polyester webbing, rope, flora and fauna, and people; dimensions variable; courtesy of the artist.

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Tomas Saraceno at BAM / PFA

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