Exhibits and Events

Installations and Exhibits

August 26, 2026 - January 24, 2027
Teaching Gallery: Artists on Colonization, Nuclear Legacies, and Climate Crisis
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
September 1, 2026 - March 2027
Remembering the Future: Nuclear Testing, Rising Seas, and the Marshall Islands
Photographs by Mark Klett and text by William L. Fox
Giannini Hall
Presented in partnership with Rausser College of Natural Resources
September 21, 2026 - March 2, 2027
Exhibit: Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Doe Library
September 21 - 24, 2026
MEJENKWAAD
Photographs by Michael Light
Memorial Glade
October 5 - November 24, 2026
Video Installation
Vidrine, Worth Ryder Gallery, Anthropology and Art Practice Building
Pieces by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Michael Light, Michael Pinsky, and David Buckland. Compilation produced by Jordan Dozzi-Perry.
Spring 2027
Exhibit: Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here
David Brower Center

September 22, 2026
Opening Reception: Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here
4:30 - 7 PM
Morrison Room, Doe Library
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Doe Library
September 23, 2026
Remembering the Future - Artist and Curator Led Tour with Mark Klett and William L. Fox
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Giannini Hall
Presented in partnership with Rausser College of Natural Resources
September 23, 2026
Film Screening: Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here
5:15 - 8:00 PM
Northgate Hall - UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Journalism
October 16, 2026
Planting Oceania Workday
3:00 PM
Gill Tract Community Farm/Hekšen Creek
Please email Kourtney Kawano (kckawano@berkeley.edu) for more information
November 23, 2026
Book Talk: Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania
Mary X. Mitchel (Rutgers University)
3:30 - 5:00 PM
2223 Philosophy Hall
Presented by the Department of History and the Institute of International Studies

Image Credits:
Meghann Riepenhoff creating beach cyanotypes with Jo-Jikum youth group, Film still, Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, 2025.

Navigator Clancy Takia on Traditional Marshallese Canoe, Film still, Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, 2025.

Michael Light diving in Bravo Crater, Film still, Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here, 2025.