UC Berkeley Art Practice

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.

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