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Hammer Projects: Nicolas Party, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 30, 2016-February 19, 2017. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Hammer Projects Lobby Wall installations

Hammer Projects: Nicolas Party

September 30, 2016–February 19, 2017: Swiss artist Nicolas Party to create a site-specific wall mural for his first exhibition in Los Angeles.

Sep 30, 2016 – Feb 19, 2017 This is a past exhibition

Featured exhibitions Film & video

In Real Life: 100 Days of Film and Performance

September 2016–January 2017 - an ambitious program of daytime performances and film screenings activates the Hammer Museum’s courtyard, annex, and Billy Wilder Theater.

Sep 13, 2016 – Jan 26, 2017 This is a past exhibition

Marwa Arsanios, Still from Falling is not collapsing, falling is extending, 2016.

Film & video Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Marwa Arsanios

Marwa Arsanios’s first exhibition in Los Angeles is a wide-ranging look into the mounting garbage crisis in Beirut and the city’s recent real estate boom.

Sep 17, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017 This is a past exhibition

Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017. Photo: Brian Forrest.

Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh

The New York based multidisciplinary artist will debut a new body of work at the Hammer, her first museum survey in Los Angeles.

Sep 17, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017 This is a past exhibition

Alex Da Corte, A Night in Hell, Part II (video still), 2014.

Featured exhibitions

Off-Site Exhibition: Alex Da Corte: A Season in He'll

July 9–September 17, 2016 - The Philadelphia-based interdisciplinary artist Alex Da Corte is known for his pop-informed sensibility and embrace of theatricality.

Jul 9 – Sep 17, 2016 This is a past exhibition

Featured exhibitions Lobby Wall installations Made in L.A.

Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only

June 12–August 28, 2016 - The third iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition continues to highlight the practices of artists working throughout Los Angeles and the surrounding areas.

Jun 12 – Aug 28, 2016 This is a past exhibition

Tschabalala Self, Untitled 2, 2014

Featured exhibitions

Off-Site Exhibition: A Shape That Stands Up

March 19–May 27, 2016 - A Shape That Stands Up examines the gray space between figuration and abstraction in recent painting and sculpture.

Mar 19 – Jun 18, 2016 This is a past exhibition

David Lamelas, The Desert People, 1974

Film & video Permanent collection

Hammer Contemporary Collection: David Lamelas

Lamelas's film "The Desert People, 1974" is a fictional documentary film about a Native American reservation.

Jan 30 – Jun 5, 2016 This is a past exhibition

Tom Burr, Slumbering Object of My Sleepless Attention, 2009.

Permanent collection

Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Familiar objects are transformed into poetic works of art in this exhibition of sculptures produced since the early 1990s.

Jan 23 – May 22, 2016 This is a past exhibition

Hammer Projects: Kenny Scharf

Hammer Projects Lobby Wall installations

Hammer Projects: Kenny Scharf

For this exhibition running December 3, 2015–May 15, 2016, Kenny Scharf will create a new mural for the Hammer’s lobby wall.

Dec 3, 2015 – May 22, 2016 This is a past exhibition