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A group exhibition for the first-year Art Practice MFA cohort, titled Revolt Against the Sun, opened in the Worth Ryder Art Gallery on January 29, 2025. In addition to featuring the work of six artists (Eleni Berg, GG, Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán, Kristiana Chan 莊礼恩, Swaleha, Zuhoor Al Sayegh...Read more about Grad Student Kim Yu collaborates with first-year MFA cohort

The Phi Beta Kappa Society is excited to announce that Professor Shannon Jackson is a...Read more about Phi Beta Kappa Selects Shannon Jackson for 2025-2026 Visiting Scholar Program

This exhibition presents works on paper from BAMPFA’s collection, organized in partnership with Todd Olson, Professor of Early Modern Art in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley. It offers historical and cultural perspectives on a keystone of fine arts training: drawing the human...Read more about BAMPFA exhibition, Teaching Wall / After Lives: Drawing As Trace

UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) have been awarded $2.6 million to support a groundbreaking multi-year initiative titled “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times.” Through collaborative...Read more about UC Berkeley Awarded .6 Million Grant for “A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times”

The department is pleased to announce the publication of Ribera’s Repetitions Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples by Professor Todd Olson.

The seventeenth-century Valencian artist Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his career in Spanish Viceregal Naples, where he...Read more about New Publication by Todd Olson

The Cal Alumni Association's latest magazine issue, California, has published a wonderful article about our alums who have become curators.

Read the story, written by Dano Nissen'18...Read more about History of Art Alumni Spotlighted in California Magazine

Aglaya Glebova's book, Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin (Yale UP, 2022), has been shortlisted for the 2024 Best First Book Award by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)....Read more about Aglaya Glebova's book is shortlisted for the 2024 Best First Book Award

The Historic New England’s Book Prize Committee has selected our own Margaretta Lovell’s book, Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America, as an Honor Book for the 2024 Historic New England Book Prize.

"Historic New England is the oldest...Read more about Margaretta Lovell Honored by Historic New England's 2024 Book Prize

Faith Enemark, Department Manager & Academic HR Analyst for the Departments of Rhetoric, Film & Media Studies, has received the 2023–24 Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award in the Letters and Science Division.

The L&S Golden Bear Staff Achievement Awards...Read more about Faith Enemark Receives Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award

We are proud to celebrate recent fellowships, awards, and positions won by our spectacular graduate students. Congratulations, all!!!

Fellowships and Grants

Michele D'Aurizio

- Townsend...Read more about Celebrating Graduate Student Achievements in 2023-2024

The annual newsletter is now here! Thanks to everyone who contributed texts and photographs, and thanks to editors Shannon Jackson, Henrike Lange, Atreyee Gupta, Gudny Gunnarsdottir, and designer Julie Wolf.Read more about Art History Newsletter 2024

H.Art, the History of Art Undergraduate Association at UC Berkeley, has launched a new undergraduate art history journal, see/saw. The inaugural issue features original research and artwork by thirteen students from universities across the United States as well as Ireland and...Read more about Announcing a new undergraduate art history journal

Congratulations to the Class of 2024 who participated in our Commencement ceremony!

We are delighted to share six new episodes as part of Relevance of Place, an online film series that invites artists, architects, designers, and creative thinkers to explore the meaning of “place” as a global, local, and personal concept, as well as “place” as it refers specifically to Tippet...Read more about Shannon Jackson hosts six new artist interviews with Tippet Rise Art Center

The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage (FESCH) has won a major grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support provenance research on ancient art
and artifacts. The Phase II Research and Development grant from the Division of Preservation and
...Read more about Lisa Pieraccini, Advisory Council Member for MAPRA announces a major grant from the NEH to The Foundation for Ethical Stewardship of Cultural Heritage