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UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice provides rigorous practical, conceptual, and critical und

Your source for all Department of Art Practice events and other art events of interest on the UC Berkeley Campus including exhibitions at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery and the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The Worth Ryder Gallery is located at 116 Kroeber Hall, and is open Monday through Thursday, Noon to 5pm. The gallery has served as a cultural and artistic hub for students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and the bay area cultural community since 1960.

05/28/2026

The Department of Art Practice is now accepting applications for a pool of temporary lecturers to teach studio courses, including but not limited to ceramics, printmaking, drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, video, foundations of visual thinking, and seminars in contemporary global art. Some of these courses are offered in summer sessions only.

Duties include teaching a studio and/or lecture course (or courses), advising enrolled students, and holding a regular office hour. A Lecturer helps students build conceptual and critical foundations, and practical studio skills that focus on materials, methods, form, content, history, and process. Advanced degree, or current enrollment in an advanced degree program required.

Complete applications received by Monday, June 8, will be given priority consideration for classes in the fall 2026 semester. Subsequent rounds of hiring may be conducted at later dates throughout the year.

Learn more and apply via the link in our bio or visit art.berkeley.edu.

05/13/2026

Art Practice is saddened to share the passing of Mary Lovelace O’Neal on May 10, 2026 at the age of 84. Lovelace O’Neal joined the faculty of Art Practice as an Assistant Professor in 1979, and retired after an illustrious career in 2006.

Over the course of her life, Lovelace O’Neal developed a singular visual language that was acutely personal and profoundly political. Drawing on a broad range of influences—from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism—Lovelace O’Neal’s practice was at once worldly and philosophical, parsing social themes of race and gender while remaining fully immersed in conceptual and metaphysical investigations of joy, exuberance, nature, and the sublime.

Throughout her six-decade career, Lovelace O’Neal produced a remarkable body of work—paintings, drawings, and prints, all reconciling the intimate and the monumental, the minimalist and the expressionist, personal narrative and collective mythology. Often working on a grand scale, Lovelace O’Neal was renowned for her keen sensitivity to color and unexpected use of materials. Her practice moved fluidly between figuration and abstraction—the suggestion of human, animal, and architectural forms often lurking beneath vivid, painterly surfaces—while enigmatic, often inscrutable, titles hinted opaquely at narratives never fully revealed.

Lovelace O’Neal spent much the last 20 years of her life in Mérida, Mexico with husband and artist Patricio Moreno Toro. In 2024, the artist’s final body of work, The Mexico Works, debuted at Boesky Gallery in New York. With these monumental paintings—all made between 2021 and 2023—the artist mined the visual language she developed over her long career, iterating on the imaginative forms, innovative materiality, and inventive handling of color that characterize her oeuvre.

Portrait of Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Photo: Aubrey Trinnaman

Installation views, HECHO EN MÉXICO—a mano (MADE IN MEXICO—by hand), Boesky Gallery, New York. Photos: Lance Brewer

Photos and text courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery.

05/07/2026

Opening next week: The 56th UC Berkeley MFA Thesis Exhibition opens May 15! Join us at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) for the opening 4-5pm with reception and panel discussion after. Come celebrate these amazing artists and listen to them discuss their work with exhibition curators Omar Farah and Tausif Noor. Gallery admission is included with ticket purchase.

04/13/2026

ANNUAL STUDENT PRINT SALE
FRIDAY, April 17, 12-5PM
SATURDAY, April 18 (CAL DAY), 11-5PM
Anthropology and Art Practice Building rm 265
**CASH ONLY
* wide variety of student prints including screen prints, relief, etchings, monotypes, cyanotypes and more!

03/23/2026

📣 Come see works from Professors Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller, and Genevieve Quick at this new exhibition!

Click on My Mouth: Language and Technology
March 17 - May 22, 2026

The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San José State University is pleased to present Click on My Mouth: Language and Technology (March 17– May 22, 2026). Guest curated by Tanya Zimbardo, the exhibition features artworks made in the Bay Area by Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily Martinez); Ahna Girshick; Asma Kazmi, Jill Miller and Kathy Wang; Judy Malloy; Jenny Odell; Genevieve Quick; Abram Stern; and Christine Tamblyn.

Free and open to the public
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday 12 pm - 7 pm, Wednesday 10 am - 4pm, Thursday 10 am - 1pm and by appointment (Monday - Friday).

03/18/2026

📣 This weekend!

Open Inquiry: UC Arts at the Sausalito Center For The Arts brings together a new generation of artists emerging from the renowned art practice programs at the UCLA, the UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. This exhibition, which runs from March 14 to April 16, features current students and graduates from the last two decades, whose innovative practices carry forward the artistic legacy of the UC arts.

UC Berkeley, Department of Art Practice participants:
Eleni Berg - Juliette Fifi Rae Berman - Viviana Martinez Carlos - Kristiana Chan - Reniel Del Rosario - Priyanka D’Souza - Ricki Dwyer - Tanja Geis - Nicki Green - Emily Gui - Ahn Lee - Isabella Manfredi - Merissa Mann - Hector F. Munoz - Sofie Ramos - Lucy Stark - Becky Suss - Bryant Terry - Eli Thorne - Shirin Towfiq - Samuel Wildman

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 21
4pm - 6pm
RSVP at tinyurl.com/SCA-UCARTS

Deans Panel
Sunday, March 22
1pm
From Studio to Society: The Value and Future of UC Art Education

Learn more at: https://www.sausalitocenterforthearts.org/open-inquiry

03/06/2026

📣MFA OPEN STUDIOS 2026— Saturday March 14, 2026‼️

UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice presents MFA Open Studios featuring the class of 2026 and 2027. See what our grads are working on, meet the artists, and enjoy snacks and drinks at our scenic San Francisco Bay-side studios at the Richmond Field Station.

Open Studios activities include a film screening by .ha and

When:
Saturday, March 14th from 12pm to 6pm

Location:
Richmond Field Station,
1301 S. 46th Street, building 161,
Richmond CA

Artists include:
Jaebin Lee
Bhavani Srinivas
Rel Robinson .robinson
Lorain Khalil Rihan
Mark T. Duffy
Eleni Berg
GG Campos
Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán
Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩
Swaleha Masude .ha
Zuhoor Al Sayegh

02/02/2026

‼️🚨Announcing🚨‼️
Our Spring 2026 Public Lecture Program 🌷🌻🪻

2/26 King Cobra: creates corporeal sculptures—that utilizes glass alongside silicone, beads, crystals, rubber, synthetic hair, mysterious goo, and other materials—to explore the frequently suppressed and traumatic histories of medical exploitation of the Black body, as well as diseases spread by White Europeans during the transatlantic slave trade. Lecture sponsored by Berkeley Center For New Media, UCB Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology, Center for Race and Gender, and the Department of English.

4/2 Carmen Winant: utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building.

4/16 bryant terry(MFA class of 2025): explores resilience, cultural memory, and liberation through an interdisciplinary approach that bridges cooking, sculpture, sound, video, and social practice.

All Lecture will take place in the Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB), room 285. All lectures are free and open to the public.

01/23/2026

Kicking off our Spring 2026 Lecture Series with ‼️
🗓️:February 26, 2026
📍: 285 Anthropology and Art Practice Building (AAPB)
Event is free and open to the public.

KING COBRA (she/they), known online as the silicon don, lives and works in Philadelphia. COBRA has created corporeal sculptures—that utilize glass alongside silicone, beads, crystals, rubber, synthetic hair, mysterious goo, and other materials—to explore the frequently suppressed and traumatic histories of medical exploitation of the Black body, as well as diseases spread by White Europeans during the transatlantic slave trade. Her most recent solo exhibitions include WHITE MEAT at JTT Gallery NY(2023), REVOLTED at the New Museum NY(2022), Pale in Comparison at The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2022) and Steal Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm -HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark (2021) In addition to her sculptural practice, she is a body modifier and filmmaker. Tattoo is an extension of her explorations in flesh, mark making, and the relationship between image physical pain.

Support for this event provided by Berkeley Center for New Media, UCB English Department, UCB Ethnic Studies Department, UCB Department of Women and Gender Studies, UCB Anthropology Department, and UCB Center for Race and Gender.

01/15/2026

The first-year MFA program’s exhibition “Bent Pins Have a Place” will open on Tuesday, January 20 at Worth Ryder Art Gallery!

Titled after “Note 51: Beauty is a Method” from Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, this exhibition is a meditation on grief and loss in response to a world in turmoil; and hope for a future yet to come. One where we change together to create something sustainable, a resurrection of the beauty that remains despite all of this. Christina Sharpe writes “What is beauty made of? Attentiveness whenever possible to a kind of aesthetic that escaped violence whenever possible—even if it is only the perfect arrangement of pins”

January 20-February 13, 2026

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, AAPB 116

Opening Reception: January 22, 4-6pm

Gallery Hours: Tues/Thurs 12-6pm, Wed 1-6pm, Fri 1-5pm

This exhibition features the work of:

Bhavani Srinivas

Jaebin Lee

Lorain Khalil Rihan

Mark T. Duffy

Rel Robinson .robinson

Poster Design: Jaebin Lee

12/24/2025

“I like pushing what painting is, what painting is to different people, how you can engage with anyone from any walk of life,” she said. “I want to break the painting out of its preciousness.”

Sarah Cain, 2006 MFA Alum of Art Practice, is showing a new exhibit at titled “Sarah Cain: To — you know — you.” The installation will stay up until June 2027. You can get tickets for BAMPFA online or at the front desk. Admission is free for all UC Berkeley students, staff and faculty, and for all visitors every first Thursday of the month.

Original article credit: Anne Brice, https://artshumanities.berkeley.edu/news/come-sit-stay-while-how-alum-sarah-cain-invites-visitors-her-paintings
Photo credits: Slide 1, Philip Cheung; Slide 2, Jonathan Vanderweit; Slide 3 Chris Grunder

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