The Worth Ryder Art Gallery (WRAG) is an educational art space that has served as a cultural and artistic resource and community center for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni, and the Bay Area community since 1960, and is a central social and artistic hub of the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.
The gallery supports students in exhibiting their artwork in a professional gallery context, serves as an exhibition platform for emerging contemporary artistic strategies, and brings challenging and thought-provoking artwork to the UC Berkeley campus. It is named after painter and founding chair of the department, Worth Ryder. To view the archive of past exhibitions, click here.
VIDRINE is our ancillary space showcasing video, digital art, and installation. It is located around the corner from the Worth Ryder Art Gallery in the lobby of the Anthropology and Art Building.
Upcoming Exhibits:
Bodies Of Evidence
December 3: Bodies Of Evidence- Reception, 4 - 6 pm, Worth Ryder Art Gallery (AAPB 116)
Exhibition open December 2 through December 11, 2025
Please mark your calendars to view the upcoming Senior Thesis exhibition Bodies of Evidence. From feminist reimaginings of myth and patriarchal fear to intimate depictions of mental health, body, and faith, this exhibition moves through the various spaces of contradictions and confrontations. Many works reclaim histories obscured by gender, colonialism, or family silence, while others reframe familiar forms based on tarot cards, personal archives, and architecture as vessels for contemporary reflection. Through the use of painting, sculpture, new media and even live plant matter, these various artists have produced a wide body of work this fall semester.
Themes of displacement and belonging surface throughout this exhibition, highlighting immigrant stories rendered in augmented reality; explorations of queerness, spirituality, and cultural duality; tributes to ancestral labor and craft; and reimagined landscapes that merge folklore, ecology, and memory. Other artists confront modern anxieties like climate grief, digital overload, and isolation.
Together, this exhibition becomes both a gathering and a grounding: an invitation to witness how we endure, connect, and bloom amid uncertainty.
The exhibit features work by:
Alyssa Marie Thomas, Aiyana Harris, Allan Mizuguchi, Angelina Springer,Annette Leber, Bella Veale, Cassidy Lung, Chloe Wang, Christina Lee, Ellie Castro, félix valdovinos, Fiona Joy McDermott, Grace Meindl, Isabelle Valdez, Jimena A.V., Katie Wang, Kimmi Choi, Julia Anne Castillo, Lauren Kim, Lingliuye Shi, Macyn Metten, Madeline Charlton, mariela barcenas, Mica Townsend, Nailah Babatunde-Bey, Ockjeong Cho, Thao My Duong Vo, Titania, and Wenjia Song
Exhibition dates: Wed. Dec. 2 - Fri, Dec. 11, 2025.
Opening Reception: Wed. Dec. 3, 2025, 4-6 pm
Internships
The Worth Ryder Art Gallery Internship program is an opportunity to learn how art exhibitions are put together, to gain experience in the day-to-day functioning of an art gallery from the inside, to work with professional curators and artists. More information.
Past Exhibitions
As we build our exhibit archive, please visit https://www.instagram.com/worthryder/.
Visit
Regular Hours:
To Be Announced, generally Tues-Fri 12-5 p.m. Fall and Spring semesters, during exhibition periods, or by appt.
Free and open to the public.
Location:
116 Anthropology & Art Practice Building, First Floor
UC Berkeley Campus
Near the intersection of College Avenue and Bancroft Way
How to get to the Worth Ryder Art Gallery
Gallery Director: Gazelle Samizay