Made in L.A. 2025

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Made in L.A. 2025 is the seventh iteration of the Hammer’s signature biennial exhibition that showcases artists practicing throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The 28 participants in the exhibition present work not only made in the city but also grounded in its complex and unfolding terrain. Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature. The works presented in this year’s biennial include film, painting, theater, choreography, photography, sculpture, sound, and video. Attitude draws them together: Each engages with this city in ways alternately literal, formal, material, and metaphoric. Conceived or made in Los Angeles, they are of this city and nowhere else.

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The Artists

Sculpture of two ladybugs with noses and large eyes laying on top of each other

Alake Shilling

A hand holds a picture, ripped in two but repaired, with various abstracted figures

Ali Eyal

Archival image of a large-scale mural painted on the side of a freeway

Alonzo Davis

A tabletop set with an eclectic array of household objects: a white rose, a hammer, a pocketwatch, etc etc

Amanda Ross-Ho

Abstract painting in peach, red, and orange tones

Beaux Mendes

Two men sit at a couch behind a set of turntables, as partygoers gather around them

Black House Radio / Michael Donte

Abstract sculpture in reds, blues, browns, black, and grays

Brian Rochefort

Bruce Yonemoto

A simple wooden box: on the left, two small mounds of sand sit in the box, with a stamp reading "EROSION SERIES," on the right, the box top with the words "JOHN DOE CO." burned into it

Carl Cheng

Blurred image of a torso wearing blue shorts with orange boxers peaking above the waistband, the white band of the underwear reading "TOMMY HILFIGER" in black letters

David Alekhuogie

Video taken from a moving car while passing a corner store with sign reading "FIGUEROA MARKET," neon lights glowing from inside the building

Freddy Villalobos

Installation image of a red room with sculptures made of transparent glass, yellow shapes, and electronic components

Gabriela Ruiz

Expressive painting of a Black man, face turned toward the sun, in front of a gingko tree with yellow leaves

Greg Breda

Light, neutral colored square grid with occasional flowers

Hanna Hur

Collage of a group of Black boys, jumping from the roof of a modern architecture home into a body of water

Hood Century / Jerald Cooper

A large advertising poster at Messeplatz station shows a "Worldebt" credit card and the tagline "Unlimited"

John Knight

A line of lime green ashtrays in different shapes, including a swimming pool, a billboard, and a slide

Kelly Wall

Abstract painting with soft-hued blue, white, green, and brown shapes

Kristy Luck

Leilah Weinraub

Pink toned still of a man approaching a wall papered over with posters reading "The film the FBI doesn't want you to see"

Mike Stoltz

Multimedia installation with blue lighting

Na Mira

A figure in a white dress shirt and black pants puts eyedrops in her eyes

New Theater Hollywood / Max Pitegoff and Calla Henkel

Black-and-white image of the back of a person's head with short black hair, pointing a metal object at another figure wearing a black suit and hat

Nicole-Antonia Spagnola

Black-and-white image of a light-colored car with its front crashed into the ground in front of a palm tree

Pat O’Neill

Installation featuring a crumbling wall of cinderblocks with handpainted images and pink neon lights

Patrick Martinez

A figure with long bangs smiles wide, the image blurred as if from motion

Peter Tomka

Widline Cadet

Five dancers in casual clothing interact with contsruction materials

Will Rawls

Made in L.A. 2025 is organized by Essence Harden, independent curator, and Paulina Pobocha, Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and former Hammer Museum Robert Soros Senior Curator, with Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, curatorial assistant.

The exhibition is made possible by the Mohn Family Foundation and members of the Hammer Circle. Major support is provided by The Billy and Audrey L. Wilder Foundation, Miky Lee, and Mark Sandelson. Generous support is provided by The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation; Bill Hair; Susan Genco and Mitch Kamin; J.P. Morgan; Dori Peterman Mostov and Charles Mostov; and Orange Barrel Media. Additional support is provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Stephanie Roach, Directors; McCrea Foundation; Sherry and Joel McKuin; the Pasadena Art Alliance; The Rhonda S. Zinner Foundation and Jonathan Segal; and Michael Silver.

Media sponsorship is provided by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles and LAist.