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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!
Exhibitions
Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue
December 1, 2017–March 25, 2018
A series of paintings rendered almost exclusively in one of the earliest artificially developed pigments used by European painters—Prussian Blue.
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Exhibitions
Edgar Arceneaux
December 1, 2017—March 25, 2018
Edgar Arceneaux explores historical patterns around race and representation through drawings, installations, and theater.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program C
Presented by YBCA
September 16 & 21, 2017
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, Larry Arrington, Sandra Lawson Ndu, Minoosh Zomorodinia & Fogbeast perform.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program B
Presented by YBCA
September 15 & 23, 2017
Fauxnique and RAWdance perform.
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Performances
Transform Fest Fall 2017: Program A
Presented by YBCA
September 14 & 22, 2017
Visual and performance artist Jesse Hewit and street-dance theater company Embodiment Project perform.
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Festival
Transform Fest Fall 2017
Presented by YBCA
September 14–23, 2017
Seven newly commissioned performances by prolific Bay Area artists—spanning from contemporary dance to experimental performance—to pop-up installations, community conversations, and even a late-night party that creates dance floor citizenship
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Exhibitions
Space Brainz–Yerba Buena 3000: Damon Rich & Jae Shin
June 30, 2017–January 28, 2018
Where the art center becomes a laboratory for dissecting how power works through built space.
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Public Art
Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)
Jerome Reyes
June 21, 2017-June 21, 2021
Abeyance honors three Bay Area natives by sharing their stories of migration, displacement, and resilience.
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Exhibitions
Tania Bruguera: Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder
June 16–October 28, 2017
A survey exhibition that presents all of Bruguera’s long-term, socially engaged art projects to date.
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Performances
Last Blue Couch in the Sky
Kim Epifano presented by YBCA
June 2–4, 2017
Featuring site-specific dance and performance happenings in the street, on fire escapes, and throughout public space.
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Performances
Dearest Home
Kyle Abraham presented by YBCA
May 16–20, 2017
A work about love, longing, and loss that weaves together movement and vulnerability with cross-cultural conversation and community action.
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Performances
For You
Erika Chong Shuch presented by YBCA
April 1, 2017
Erika Chong Shuch crafts performances informed and inspired by select submissions from local creatives.
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Performances
The Blues Project
Dorrance Dance presented by YBCA
March 16–18, 2017
A dynamic evening of rhythm, original live music, explosive energy, and raw emotion.
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Exhibitions
Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman – Visualizing Citizenship: Seeking a New Public Imagination
March 10–June 18, 2017
Presenting case studies for more expansive and inclusive ways of thinking of the relationships between the United States and its neighbors
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Dance
Clas/sick Hip Hop
Amy O'Neal & UnderCover presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Clas/sick Hip Hop brings you “Opposing Forces” and “UnderCover Presents: A Tribute to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
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Performances
Opposing Forces
Amy O'Neal presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Utilizing tropes of contemporary performance to expose fears around feminine qualities in our culture through the hyper masculine dance style of breaking.
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Performances
A Tribute to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
UnderCover presented by YBCA
February 16–18, 2017
Fifteen Bay Area ensembles pay homage to Grammy award–winning, iconic artist Lauryn Hill.
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Exhibitions
Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
February 10–May 21, 2017
An acclaimed retrospective of Bay Area artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s revolutionary career from the 1960s to the present day.
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Performances
les vérités
Gregory Dawson presented by YBCA
January 27–28, 2017
“les vérités” builds on the rich, raw, highly energized style of movement that dawsondancesf has been building for the past decade.
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Exhibitions
Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg
October 14, 2016–February19, 2017
An intricate case study of participation and coproduction between an artist and a specific community.
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Exhibitions
Tom Sachs — Space Program: Europa
September 18, 2016—January 15, 2017
Tom Sachs and his team of astronauts set their sights on the next frontier of space exploration.
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