Past

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.

The inaugural exhibition in the Hammer’s redesigned lobby envelops the area with a unique and visceral installation.

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.

The first and most extensive museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to Bridget Riley’s drawings in over half a century.

Pioneering Chinese photography and video from the 1990s and early 2000s featuring Cao Fei, Weng Fen, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, Zhu Jia, and more.

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.

Curated by Hilton Als, Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, a narration of the life of one artist by another.