Past Art & IdeasExhibitions Exhibitions Exhibitions Public Programs Collections Artist Initiatives Explore Online Academic Programs K-12 & Families Sibling navigation On View Upcoming Past Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Feb 6 – May 15, 2022 This is a past exhibition The first major retrospective of the groundbreaking Los Angeles video and performance artist. Hammer Projects: Kiyan Williams May 28 – Aug 28, 2022 This is a past exhibition The first solo museum exhibition for artist Kiyan Williams, an installation of sculptural forms, is a meditation on the notion of the “ruined” body and its potential to transcend and generate new futures. Karon Davis: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Feb 11 – Apr 9, 2023 This is a past exhibition This installation of three figures rendered in Davis’s familiar lexicon of plaster and wire remarks on the long and continuing legacies of violence in American schools. A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II May 22 – Aug 21, 2022 This is a past exhibition The second presentation in the Hammer's works on paper gallery includes prints, drawings, and photography-based works by artists such as Robert Gober, Sonia Gomes, Jasper Johns, Nam June Paik, and Barbara T. Smith. Refik Anadol: Machine Hallucinations: Nature Dreams Oct 8 – Nov 8, 2022 This is a past exhibition This AI data sculpture draws upon more than 300 million images to create multisensory experience that commemorates the inherent beauty of the planet Earth. Picasso Cut Papers Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2022 This is a past exhibition Spanning the full career of the artist, Picasso Cut Papers is devoted to a little known yet foundational aspect of Pablo Picasso’s artistic practice. Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine Oct 11, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023 This is a past exhibition The first major survey of the visionary US painter in more than 20 years makes its Los Angeles debut. Hammer Projects: Janiva Ellis Sep 24, 2022 – Jan 22, 2023 This is a past exhibition The New York–based artist's first exhibition in Los Angeles centers on a single painting that responds to the architecture of the Hammer vault gallery. Hammer Projects: Eric-Paul Riege NOV 13, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege presents a new installation in woven sculpture, video, and performance. Joan Didion: What She Means OCT 11, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Curated by Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another.
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Feb 6 – May 15, 2022 This is a past exhibition The first major retrospective of the groundbreaking Los Angeles video and performance artist.
Hammer Projects: Kiyan Williams May 28 – Aug 28, 2022 This is a past exhibition The first solo museum exhibition for artist Kiyan Williams, an installation of sculptural forms, is a meditation on the notion of the “ruined” body and its potential to transcend and generate new futures.
Karon Davis: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Feb 11 – Apr 9, 2023 This is a past exhibition This installation of three figures rendered in Davis’s familiar lexicon of plaster and wire remarks on the long and continuing legacies of violence in American schools.
A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II May 22 – Aug 21, 2022 This is a past exhibition The second presentation in the Hammer's works on paper gallery includes prints, drawings, and photography-based works by artists such as Robert Gober, Sonia Gomes, Jasper Johns, Nam June Paik, and Barbara T. Smith.
Refik Anadol: Machine Hallucinations: Nature Dreams Oct 8 – Nov 8, 2022 This is a past exhibition This AI data sculpture draws upon more than 300 million images to create multisensory experience that commemorates the inherent beauty of the planet Earth.
Picasso Cut Papers Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2022 This is a past exhibition Spanning the full career of the artist, Picasso Cut Papers is devoted to a little known yet foundational aspect of Pablo Picasso’s artistic practice.
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine Oct 11, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023 This is a past exhibition The first major survey of the visionary US painter in more than 20 years makes its Los Angeles debut.
Hammer Projects: Janiva Ellis Sep 24, 2022 – Jan 22, 2023 This is a past exhibition The New York–based artist's first exhibition in Los Angeles centers on a single painting that responds to the architecture of the Hammer vault gallery.
Hammer Projects: Eric-Paul Riege NOV 13, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege presents a new installation in woven sculpture, video, and performance.
Joan Didion: What She Means OCT 11, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Curated by Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another.
Permanent collection Full Burn: Video from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Full Burn unfolds as a series of discrete looped encounters and thematic pairings pulled from the Hammer’s ever-expanding collection of video and other time-based media. Mar 11 – Sep 10, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Kara Walker: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection With her 12-foot painting in the round, Walker uses the silhouette to cast shadows on conventional thinking about race representation in the context of discrimination, exclusion, sexual desire, and love. Jul 8 – Sep 3, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection A selection of works from our collection that highlight the central role that drawing and sculpture occupy within Los Angeles and the broader field of contemporary art. Jun 10 – Aug 27, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Presented in conjunction with the unveiling of the Hammer’s building expansion, this exhibition is the largest presentation of the Hammer Contemporary Collection in the museum’s history. Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Hammer Projects Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota The inaugural exhibition in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby envelops the area with a unique and visceral installation. Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Kaari Upson: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection At once familiar and foreign, Upson’s works merge personal and collective traumas, desires, fears, and fantasies. Apr 22 – Jun 18, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Featured exhibitions Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio The first and most extensive museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to Bridget Riley’s drawings in over half a century. Feb 4 – May 28, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection Pioneering Chinese photography and video from the 1990s and early 2000s featuring Cao Fei, Weng Fen, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zhu Jia, and more. Feb 15 – May 14, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Karon Davis: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection This installation of three figures rendered in Davis’s familiar lexicon of plaster and wire remarks on the long and continuing legacies of violence in American schools. Feb 11 – Apr 9, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Featured exhibitions Joan Didion: What She Means Curated by Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another. Oct 11, 2022 – Feb 19, 2023 This is a past exhibition