From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

“From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art” presents work by twenty-four artists who grapple with memories that are not their own.

The diverse group of local and international art practitioners, some of whom have never before exhibited in the United States, consider many forms of inherited, often traumatic, memory from the personal to the collective. Through their works, many of the artists search, question, and reflect on the representation of truths related to ancestral and public narratives of historical moments such as the Holocaust, the struggle for civil rights for African Americans, and the Vietnam War among others—ultimately attempting to deal with their own past. Others imagine memories from a future present.

The artists, working in a variety of media including sculpture, film, photography, mixed media, and more include Christian Boltanski, Nao Bustamante, Binh Danh, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Bernice Eisenstein, Eric Finzi, Nicholas Galanin, Guy Goldstein, Fotini Gouseti, Ellen Harvey, Aram Jibilian, Loli Kantor, Mike Kelley, Lisa Kokin, Ralph Lemon, Rä di Martino, Yong Soon Min, Fabio Morais, Elizabeth Moran, Vandy Rattana, Anri Sala, Wael Shawky, Hank Willis Thomas, and Yamashiro Chikako.

From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) and is co-curated by CJM Assistant Curator Pierre-François Galpin and independent curator Lily Siegel.

WHEN: November 25, 2016–April 2, 2017

TIME: Open daily (except Wed.): 11am–5pm and Thursday, 11am–8pm

WHERE: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, San Francisco

Website: thecjm.org