Past Exhibitions and Events

Isaac Julien. Photo by Thierry Bal. Courtesy the artist; Angela Davis. Photo by KK Ottesen.

Online Event

Angela Davis and Isaac Julien in Conversation, Moderated by Sarah Lewis

Activist and scholar Angela Davis joins artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the influence of Frederick Douglass on contemporary movements for racial

Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour, 2019 (installation view, detail) Ten-screen installation 35mm film and 4k digital, color, 7.1 surround sound. 28'46'' Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Online Event

B. Ruby Rich, Kass Banning, Warren Crichlow, and Isaac Julien in Conversation

Isaac Julien is joined by editors and contributors to Film Quarterly for a discussion about sensorial immersion and human rights in the artist’s moving-image

Isaac Julien. Photo by Thierry Bal. Courtesy the artist; Leila Weefur (she/they/he), Artist, Writer, & Curator. Visiting Lecturer – Art Practice, UC Berkeley. Courtesy the artist.

Online Event

Isaac Julien and Leila Weefur in Conversation

Artist Isaac Julien and curator Leila Weefur appear in conversation to discuss their exhibitions concurrently on view at McEvoy Arts.

Charlene Tan Researching and Remembering, Salvaged Post-consumer plastics, 2020 Post-consumer plastic, shade tarp, wood 168 x 60 x 108 inches Courtesy the artist

Exhibition

In This Light

In This Light, a virtual and offsite exhibition, celebrates the resiliency of artists from The Minnesota Street Project Studio Program in times of uncertainty.

Exhibition

Orlando

Orlando draws upon the themes of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel to celebrate openness, curiosity, and human possibility.

Zackary Drucker Unison, 2013–2017, HD digital video, color, sound, 8 min. Courtesy the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

Screening Room

certainty is becoming our nemesis

An international collection of short films on transformation and self-invention, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

McEvoy Arts at Home

Strange Culture

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s genre-bending, bio-tech “documentary” starring Tilda Swinton forecasts uncanny similarities to society’s current moment.

Performance

Brontez Purnell as Orlando as Brontez Purnell: “My” Journey

Brontez Purnell explores Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in an immersive, multidisciplinary performance.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya. Image courtesy of the artist

McEvoy Arts at Home

In Conversation: Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Julia Bryan-Wilson

Photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya and professor Julia Bryan-Wilson discuss the artist’s work in this online conversation co-presented by McEvoy Arts and UC Berkeley.