BAM's long and fruitful history with the visual arts includes displaying new works by outstanding contemporary masters on the front of the BAMbill, as well as staging exhibitions featuring some of the hottest emerging artists. Find a comprehensive look back at BAMart's history below.
2008 Spring Exhibitions
Brooklyn Next Art: The Jazz Photographs of Fran Kaufman (curated by Danny Simmons)
Morgan O'Hara: Live Transmissions
Brooklynartproject.com: Connected Unconscious
Exposure Checks: Polaroids and Images by Ed Lachman
Talking With Pictures (with MoCADA and NYU Africa House)
Sundance Institute at BAM:
New Frontiers
2008 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Eddie Martinez*
2007 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Robert Wilson*
2007 Next Wave Art Exhibition Artists
Bradley Castellanos, James Esber, Yu-Sheng Ho, Dominic McGill, Jean Shin, Leo Villareal
2007 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Melora Kuhn*
2007 Spring Exhibitions
Brooklyn Next Art: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles: Variations in Black and White (selected by Danny Simmons, curated by Florence Neal)
Captured: Ten Pratt Institute Photographers
Ago! Amée!! Thirty Years of Dance Africa (with MoCADA)
2006 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
McDermott & McGough
2006 NextNext Visual Art Exhibition Artists
Alejandro Cesarco, Wes Heiss, Beth Krebs, Fay Ku, Steve McClure, Barbara Probst, Adam Schrieber, Stephen Sollins, Hendrika Sonnenberg & Chris Hanson, Yuken Teruya
2006 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Clayton Brothers
2006 Selected Spring Exhibitions
Black Music: Bebop to Hip Hop (curated by Danny Simmons & Mark Blackshear)
Reflections of Light (with ICP and Friends of the Island Academy)
The Beautiful Game (with Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art)
2005 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Mary Heilmann
2005 NextNext Visual Art Exhibition Artists
Marsha Cottrell, Chris Doyle, Joe Fig, Ellen Harvey, Jeff Konigsberg, Carey Maxon, Carrie Moyer, Ivan Navarro, Katia Santibañez, Courtney Smith, Jered Sprecher, Jim Torok
2005 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Peter Schuyff
2005 Selected Spring Exhibitions
Project Diversity: Magical Realism (with SONYA)
2004 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Kojo Griffin
2004 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Louise Bourgeois
Alex Katz
William Wegman
2003 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Roy Kortick
2003 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Cecily Brown
2002 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Yoshitomo Nara
Clifford Ross
2002 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Dennis Oppenheim*
2001 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Denise Green*
2001 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Andres Serrano
2000 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Robert Frank
2000 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Saint Clair Cemin
1999 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Jennifer Bartlett
1999 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
George Condo
1998 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Christian Boltanski
1998 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Mark Podwal*
1997 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Julio Galan*
1997 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Louise Bourgeois
1996 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Jim Dine*
1996 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Julian Lethbridge*
*Work is available for purchase. Please see
Available Works for more information.
Image: Melora Kuhn, Collapse, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 96 x 70 inches, Courtesy of the artist and ZieherSmith, New York