Fifty-Sixth Annual UC Berkeley MFA Exhibition @ BAMPFA

The 2026 graduates of UC Berkeley’s MFA program—Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL, Kristiana Chan 薧礼醑, Swaleha Masude, and Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán—discuss their work with exhibition curators Omar Farah and Tausif Noor on the occasion of BAMPFA's fifty-sixth annual MFA exhibition.

For over fifty years, BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice have partnered to present an exhibition of work by graduating MFA students. This year’s exhibition will present works by six artists from the class of 2026: Zuhoor Al Sayegh, Eleni Maria Berg, Itzli OCIEL, Kristiana Chan 薧礼醑, Swaleha Masude, and Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán. The works on display represent the culmination of rigorous research and experimental making across two years of collaborative study.