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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

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

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

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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

Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Catherine Opie: Portraits

January 30-May 22, 2016, exhibition of photographic portraits of visual artists, fashion designers, and writers.

Jan 30 – May 22, 2016 This is a past exhibition

Josef Albers, Leaf Study IX, c. 1940

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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957

The first comprehensive museum exhibition in the US about Black Mountain College, an experimental liberal arts college where artists like Robert Rauchenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham studied and taught.

Feb 21 – May 15, 2016 This is a past exhibition