Exhibitions

AFTER LIFE (we survive)

November 9, 2020–February 7, 2021

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

Films

Jeffrey Gibson: Nothing is Eternal

Presented by YBCA and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

October 30–November 3, 2020

Conceived during this pandemic era, the immersive video work depicts the American flag in unsettling stillness, as a marker of territory, and projected onto bodies, while set to a heartrending soundtrack.

Public Art

The Monument as Living Memory

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.

Public Art

Tosha Stimage: Infinite center, infinite sun

Co-presented with The Lawn Art Project

September 25 – October 25, 2020

The first of a series of installations for the public to take part in, curated by YBCA for the Lawn Art Project.

Art & Civic Experience

Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America?

April 1–October 1, 2020

A digital art and civic experience that examines the issues around the 2020 Census and its direct impact on each individual living in America.

Films

Pocket-Size Cinema in Spain: Experiments in Super-8

Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque

February 27, 2020, 7:30 PM

A program of contemporary and historic films made in Super-8mm by Spanish filmmakers.

Films

let me tell you what home looks like

Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA

February 8, 2020, 7 PM

As cities gentrify, black artists and activists create new narratives, shift the audience gaze, amplify unheard voices, and showcase their resilience.

Films

Diaspora: Identity and the Pathos of Global Labor

Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA

February 6, 2020, 6:30 PM

Films and a panel discussion explore personal experiences of diaspora within the global labor market.

Festival

SF Urban Film Fest 2020

Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA

February 3–8, 2020

Exploring Place and the Populist Revolt, investigating how cities are ground zero for the struggle to find or hold on to a place, for both incumbents and newly arrived.

Films

Be Water: Civil Disobedience and the Fight for Democracy in Hong Kong

Presented by SF Urban Film Fest & YBCA

February 3, 2020, 6:30 PM

Alex Yong Kang Chow co-curates this event looking at the Hong Kong demonstrations from the lived experience of the student protestors.

Films

Interludes: New and Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque

January 23, 2020, 7:30 PM

New and recent works by the master filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.

Public Art

WE ARE THE ASTEROID III

Justin Brice Guariglia

December 9, 2019–April 30, 2020

Guariglia’s solar-powered LED highway message board draws audiences into lively discussions about the climate crisis.

Exhibitions

The Body Electric

September 6, 2019–February 23, 2020

Works by an intergenerational and international group of artists who have seized upon the screen as a place to rethink the body and identity.

Public Art

Jerome Reyes: Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)

June 21, 2017-June 21, 2021

Abeyance honors three Bay Area natives by sharing their stories of migration, displacement, and resilience.

Public Art

Statement marquee from Escuela de Arte Útil (School of Useful Art)

Tania Bruguera

2017–2025

YBCA continues to activate the marquee with timely and responsive messages generated from artists and community partners.