Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings | January 24 - April 19, 2026

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings is the first retrospective in over two decades dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Beginning her artistic career in the Bay Area during the early 1970s, Cha produced an expansive range of works across text-based media, video, and performance. Best known for her posthumously published book, Dictee (1982), which weaves the personal and familial into historical narratives of displacement through word and image, Cha’s interdisciplinary practice gave shape to the experimental art scenes in San Francisco, New York City, and beyond.

Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection | March 4 - June 28, 2026

Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection presents paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, and photographs from the collection of Penny Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser, which are part of a generous bequest to the BAMPFA Collection. Cooper, a celebrated criminal defense attorney and advocate for social justice, and Rosenwasser, a poet and cofounder of the Bay Area–based feminist publishing house Kelsey Street Press, have been longtime supporters of BAMPFA and champions of women artists for six decades. Arranged into groupings reflecting themes of abstraction, design, and representations of the body, the exhibition reflects both the dynamism of art making over the last half century and the close personal relationships that the couple has developed with artists, many of whom have exhibited at BAMPFA.

Gathering work made from the 1960s to the present, Rhapsody maps the tremendous contributions of an international and intergenerational group of artists to movements ranging from Minimalism and Conceptualism to cross-disciplinary experimentations. The exhibition also traces the influence of second-wave feminism on artists as they navigated social and political transformation on a global stage. Rhapsody is titled after a major work by Jennifer Bartlett from 1975–76, which spurred Cooper and Rosenwasser’s love of collecting and supporting women artists in the Bay Area and beyond.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue featuring an interview with Cooper and Rosenwasser by Margot Norton, Chief Curator, and texts by Tausif Noor, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle.

Images:

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Aveugle Voix, 1975. Performance documentation, 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco. Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Other Things Seen, Other Things Heard, 1978. Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation.

Installation view of Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection, March 4–June 28, 2026, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA. Photo: Chris Grunder