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 fiercest emerging artists. Find a comprehensive look back at BAMart's history below, featuring a fusion of notable newcomers and some of the most celebrated artists of our time.
2009 Spring Exhibitions
Chris Piazza :The Winter Show
Greg Lindquist: Brooklyn Industry
Edward Grazda: New York Masjid
2009 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Julie Heffernan
2008 Next Wave Art Exhibition Artists
Jesse Bercowetz, Emily Cameron, Darina Karpov, Milton Rosa-Ortiz, Josh Shaddock
2008 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Chuck Close
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 NextNext Visual Art Exhibiton Artists
Louis Cameron, Anne Deleporte, Aunrico Gatson, Chitra Ganesh, Mala Iqbal, Il Lee, Michelle Segre, Brian St.-Cyr, Amanda Trager, Mark Dean Veca
2004 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Kojo Griffin
2004 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Louise Bourgeois
Alex Katz
William Wegman
2003 NextNext Visual Art Exhibition Artists
Joe Amrhein, Louise Belcourt, Lee Boroson, Jane Fine, Luis Gispert, K.K. Kozik, Frank Magnotta, Jason Middlebrook, Wangechi Mutu, and Mauro Restiffe.
2003 Next Wave Festival BAMbill Cover Artist
Roy Kortick
2003 Spring Season BAMbill Cover Artist
Cecily Brown
2002 NextNext Visual Art Exhibition Artists
Leslie Brack, Dawn Clements, Adam Cvijanovic, Lee Etheredge IV, Debbie Grant, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Stuart Hawkins, Elana Herzog, Christopher Johnson, Lisa Kereszi, David Kramer, Norma Markley, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Lindsey Nobel, David Opdyke, Marilla Palmer, Sheila Pepe, Hyungsub Shin, Greg Stone, Scott Teplin and Judi Wertheim
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
1995 Next Wave Poster Artist
Jonathan Lasker
1994 Next Wave Poster Artist
Robert Moskowitz
1993 Next Wave Poster Artist
Rosemarie Trockel
1992 Next Wave Poster Artist
Phillip Taaffe
1991 Next Wave Poster Artist
David Hammonds/Papo Colo
1990 Next Wave Poster Artist
Carroll Dunham
1989 Next Wave Poster Artist
Ross Bleckner
1988 Next Wave Poster Artist
Sherrie Levine
1986 Next Wave Poster Artist
Susan Rothenberg
1985 Next Wave Poster Artist
Frank Stella
1984 Next Wave Poster Artist
Francesco Clemente
1983 Next Wave Poster Artist
Roy Lichtenstein