The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is presenting *Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings*, the first survey of the late conceptual artist’s work in over two decades. Running from January 24 to April 19, the exhibition draws on BAMPFA’s substantial holdings of Cha’s art and archives, showcasing her multidisciplinary practice—including concrete poetry, mail art, textiles, ceramics, performance, and film. Curator Victoria Sung, alongside curatorial associate Tausif Noor, aims to de-emphasize Cha’s best-known work, *Dictée*, and instead highlight the fluidity of her process, revisiting themes across different media from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. The show features a recreation of her 1980 film *Exilée*, documentation of performances such as *Réveillé dans la Brume* (1977), and early ceramics and textiles never before shown publicly.
This exhibition matters because it offers a more complete and nuanced understanding of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, an artist whose legacy has often been reduced to her posthumously published book *Dictée*. By foregrounding her experimental, process-driven practice and her engagement with diaspora, language, and dislocation—themes she explored decades before they became central to contemporary art discourse—the show positions Cha as a prescient figure in conceptual and Asian American art. The inclusion of works by her mentors Jim Melchert and Terry Fox, along with eight other artists, underscores the collaborative and communal nature of her practice, while a programmed three-hour reading of *Dictée* affirms her enduring influence.