BAMart Visual Artists

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

Credit: Melora Kuhn, Collapse, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 96 x 70 inches, Courtesy of the artist and ZieherSmith, New York