Tours
Every Saturday, 2pm |
September 28, 2019–February 23, 2020
Beginning September 28th, join us every Saturday at 2pm for a guided tour of The Body Electric. Meet in the YBCA lobby learn more about the exhibition overview, background of each piece, insider details, and more.
First Floor Galleries
Ticket Info
Free with gallery entrance
YBCA presents the West Coast debut of The Body Electric, an expansive array of more than 70 works revealing the ways that technology changes our collective understanding of the body, everyday life, and sense of self.
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Lead image: Trisha Baga, Mollusca & The Pelvic Floor, 2018, installation view, The Body Electric, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2019. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photographs by Charlie Villyard.
Exhibition image: Juliana Huxtable, Lil’ Marvel, 2015. Color inkjet print, ed. AP of 3. Courtesy the artist and JTT, New York
The Body Electric is organized by the Walker Art Center. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation. Additional support provided by Ellen and Jan Breyer and the David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.
The Body Electric is curated by Pavel Pyś, curator, Visual Arts with Jadine Collingwood, curatorial fellow, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center. The YBCA presentation is organized by Susie Kantor, Curator of Exhibitions.
Support is provided by the Changing the Ratio Circle of Advisors: Abundance Foundation, Berit Ashla, Diana Cohn, EMIKA Fund, Jennifer C. Haas Fund, La Mar Cebichería Peruana, Rekha Patel, Catalina Ruiz-Healy and Jonathan Kevles, Vicki Shipkowitz, and Meg Spriggs. Additional thanks to the Facebook Artist in Residence Program. David Packard and M. Bernadette Castor, and the Selvage Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation.
YBCA exhibitions are made possible in part by: Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellows Program, with additional support by Kevin King and Meridee Moore.
YBCA programs are made possible in part by: Bloomberg Philanthropies and The James Irvine Foundation, with additional funding by National Endowment for the Arts, Grosvenor, and YBCA Members.
