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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!
Public Art
Let’s Build from Here
Innosanto Nagara
2022-2025
A site-specific public artwork highlighting the power of collaborative future-building.
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Public Art
Now We Are Here
Fredericko Alvarado
July 15, 2021–September 11, 2022
A site-specific mural in YBCA’s Grand Lobby inspired by the Wiphala flag.
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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
love @ first line
Anna Sergeeva
2021–2025
A new site-specific public artwork by Anna Sergeeva featuring the first lines of love poems.
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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
Presented by YBCA
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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Public Art
Jerome Reyes: Abeyance (Draves y Robles y Vargas)
Presented by YBCA
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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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.
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