Archives - YBCA

Enjoy this digital journey through our history with the launch of our first online archive. Please reach out if you have intel to share that can help us build this archive!

Public Art

Audio Archive Booth

Sholeh Asgary

2023

Engage with artist Sholeh Asgary’s Audio Archive Booth to record stories, reflections, experiences, hopes, dreams, pasts, and futures of the Iranian diaspora.

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Public Art

Insufficient Memory

Sean Fader

2019–2023

An interactive Google Earth map which allows you to engage with a digital memorial to LGBTQ+ lives.

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Public Art

Tend Your Orchard

Cece Carpio and Miguel “Bounce” Perez of Trust Your Struggle

2021–2023

A new mural on YBCA’s glass passageway in collaboration with SOMA Pilipinas.

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Public Art

WANDERLUST, A Joyful Noise

June Grant

2022–2023

A public artwork featuring colorful expressions that call attention to locations typically taken for granted.

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Public Art

MOURNING IS AN ACT OF LOVE

SF Urban Film Fest

February 12—May 10, 2021

Films, photos, and participatory art ask us to reconsider memorials making, and reimagine how we build public experiences that are rooted in our histories, acknowledge our grief, and use love to inspire us to work together for our collective future.

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Exhibitions

AFTER LIFE (we survive)

Presented by YBCA

November 9, 2020–February 7, 2021

A new multimedia public art experience that brings artists together to explore speculative and real modes of survival.

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Public Art

The Monument as Living Memory

A Collective Architectural Intervention led by Caleb Duarte

October 12, 2020–April 18, 2022

This work illustrates the closure, dismantling, and restructuring of institutions, the toppling of monuments, and the uprising of a palpable collective spirit across our country.

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