Past

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.

New Haven–based artist Vamba Bility contemplates diasporic existence and its reveries through a lyrical ensemble of paintings, sculpture, textile, and sound.

The first exhibition in North America to explore the influential art practices that emerged in South Korea in the decades following the Korean War.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.