For its 2024 Juried Members Exhibition, the Berkeley Art Center invites artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area to submit their best works in any media to our open call. Artworks of any theme will be considered.

Submitting is free for current members. New and renewing members can sign up at a sliding scale of $15–$55 on our website. Up to three Juror's Awards will be chosen to receive a one-on-one studio visit with the juror via Zoom, and a special Audience Award will be announced at the exhibition closing.

Jurors
PJ GUBATINA POLICARPIO  is a curator, educator and community organizer with over 10 years of experience in arts and culture, leading innovative and rigorous initiatives that engage artists and diverse communities. He has organized exhibitions and programming in San Francisco and internationally, including Notes for Tomorrow (Independent Curators International, 2021-Present), Under the Same Sun (Edge on the Square, 2023) Notes on Cultural Evidence (slash art, 2023), Conversations on Carlos Villa: World-Making and Cross-Cultural Solidarity (Asian Art Museum, 2022), Tarsal by Metatarsal (Headlands Center for the Arts, 2021), Solidarity Struggle Victory (Southern Exposure, 2019), and Rally: Queer Art and Activism (Dixon Place, 2017). PJ is co-founder of Pilipinx American Library, an itinerant library and programming platform dedicated to diasporic Filipinx perspectives. His publications are in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Born in the Philippines, PJ immigrated to the United States in his early teens. He lives and works between San Francisco and New York City.

JUAN OMAR RODRIGUEZ (he/him) is an assistant curator at the San José Museum of Art. His recent curatorial projects include Encode/Store/Retrieve, Chelsea Thompto: The Fog, and Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News at SJMA. Juan Omar previously held curatorial positions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, in addition to organizing several exhibitions as an independent curator. His writing has been featured in the Latinx Project at NYU's online arts publication, Intervenxions.

Timeline      
Submission Deadline: March 19, 2023, by 10:59PM PT/11:59 MT.
Accepted Artists notified: May 2, 2024 
Drop-Off Dates: May 13-17, 2024, 11am–5pm by appointment
Exhibition Dates: May 25–July 6, 2024

Application Requirements

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Recent artworks in all media are welcome.
• A short artist statement or project statement is required.
• In order to accommodate and appropriately present all submitted work, the show will be an exhibition of “small works” with a size limit of 30 inches in any direction, including frames. Out of fairness to other exhibiting artists, BAC will refuse entries that exceed size limits.
• Freestanding sculpture may be up to 48 inches tall and no more than 24 inches in any other dimension. BAC will provide pedestals.
• No artwork will be accepted without a fully completed submission form. The submission form deadline is March 19, 2023, at 10:59 pm PT.
• Works must be ready to hang, dry, and framed where appropriate. Pieces with special hanging requirements should include hardware and a clear, typed set of instructions, where appropriate.
• Artists must provide all necessary equipment with regard to sound and video works.
• Work must have the artist's name clearly written on back unless the nature of the work makes it impossible to do so.

Eligibility Criteria

ELIGIBILITY

• Recent artworks in all media are welcome.​
• Only greater Northern California Bay Area residents may submit. Sorry, we cannot pay for shipping.
• Must be current member of Berkeley Art Center.