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: Chiharu Shiota Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition The inaugural exhibition in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby envelops the area with a unique and visceral installation. 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. Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition 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. 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. 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: Eric-Paul Riege NOV 13, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege presents a new installation in woven sculpture, video, and performance. 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. 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: Chiharu Shiota Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition The inaugural exhibition in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby envelops the area with a unique and visceral installation.
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.
Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection Mar 26 – Aug 20, 2023 This is a past exhibition 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.
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.
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: Eric-Paul Riege NOV 13, 2022–FEB 19, 2023 Diné artist Eric-Paul Riege presents a new installation in woven sculpture, video, and performance.
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.
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 Groove: Artists and Intaglio Prints, 1500 to Now This exhibition surveys over five hundred years of intaglio prints drawn from the extensive collections of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum. Dec 16, 2023 – Jun 16, 2024 This is a past exhibition
Hammer Projects Hammer Projects: Vamba Bility New Haven–based artist Vamba Bility contemplates diasporic existence and its reveries through a lyrical ensemble of paintings, sculpture, textile, and sound. Jan 20 – May 19, 2024 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Hammer Contemporary Collection: Banu Cennetoğlu Sourced from Cennetoğlu’s mobile phones, computers, cameras, and hard drives, this sprawling, 127-hour video represents the entirety of the artist’s visual archive amassed over 12 years. Jan 27 – May 19, 2024 This is a past exhibition
Featured exhibitions Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s The first exhibition in North America to explore the influential art practices that emerged in South Korea in the decades following the Korean War. Feb 11 – May 12, 2024 This is a past exhibition
Permanent collection Rita McBride: Particulates The Hammer’s new gallery opens with a monumental yet ethereal sculptural installation inspired by time travel, the principles of light and space, and quantum physics. Mar 26, 2023 – Mar 3, 2024 This is a past exhibition
Lobby Wall installations Made in L.A. Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living The sixth iteration of the Hammer’s acclaimed biennial showcases 39 artists and collectives living and working in L.A., and situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life, community networks, queer affect, and indigenous and diasporic histories. Oct 1 – Dec 31, 2023 This is a past exhibition
Featured exhibitions Becoming Van Leo The first international survey of work by the late Armenian Egyptian photographer known as Van Leo, who rose to prominence as one of the Arab world’s most celebrated studio photographers from the 1940s to the 1960s. Jul 15 – Nov 5, 2023 This is a past exhibition
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