Kala Art Institute Gallery

2990 San Pablo Ave.

Berkeley, CA 94702

Email: kala@kala.org

Phone: (510) 841-7000

Website: kala.org

Contact: Mayumi Hamanaka

Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12-5pm; Saturday, 12-4pm

Current Exhibition

Joanna Cortez, Priya Suresh Kambli, Klea McKenna, Ainslee Alem Robson, and Mei Chen Tseng — What We Hold

Start Date: 09/19/2026

End Date: 12/23/2026

Reception/Events

Exhibition History

Editorial

“We're a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again”

“We're a Mystery Which Will Never Happen Again” takes its title from one of e.e. cummings short, intimate poems that is a love poem, but it is also a meditation on time, on the impossibility of repetition, on the singularity of every encounter.

Past Editorial

"Bookness"