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Jasmina Metwaly, Still from Anbar (Assem's pictures), 2019. Part of three-channel 2K video, color, sound. 12:42 min. Courtesy of the artist.

Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Jasmina Metwaly

This video installation explores concepts of power and disguise in military uniforms connected to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.

Sep 28, 2019 – Jan 19, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Lari Pittman, Untitled #5, 2010. Acrylic, Cel-Vinyl, and spray paint on gessoed canvas over wood. 102 x 88 in. (259.1 x 223.5 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. © Lari Pittman, courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Featured exhibitions

Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence

The most comprehensive retrospective of the prolific painter and long-revered teacher.

Sep 29, 2019 – Jan 5, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Installation view, Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 28—October 27, 2019. Photo: Jeff McLane.

Hammer Projects Lobby Wall installations

Hammer Projects: Yunhee Min

Min's paintings on the Hammer’s lobby staircase is the first Hammer Project to be oriented on the floor rather than the walls.

Mar 28 – Dec 1, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Betye Saar, Fragments, 1976. Color lithograph from an aluminum plate. 14 ½ × 18 ¾ in. (36.8 × 47.6 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Linda Levi and Barbara Leif. © 1976 Betye Saar

Permanent collection

belonging

This intimate exhibition centers Black American domesticity and place making.

Aug 31 – Nov 10, 2019 This is a past exhibition

A gallery wall with three Van Gogh works on paper hung on it, and didactic labels. The wall is painted a neutral brown grey and the prints are all dark brown lines on parchment colored paper.

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Van Gogh in L.A.

Van Gogh works on paper from L.A. collections are together for just a few weeks in the Armand Hammer Collection gallery.

Oct 8 – Nov 3, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Andrea Fraser: Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972

Film & video Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser

Andrea Fraser's video installation "Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972" highlights how social structures and identities shape our politics.

May 18 – Sep 15, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Fred Lonidier, Art is Opium, 1973. Vintage black and white photograph. 13 x 20 in. (33 x 50.8 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased with funds provided by The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors.

Film & video Permanent collection

Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

An intergenerational grouping of artists whose works have rarely been exhibited together.

Jun 9 – Sep 8, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Sarah Lucas, Self-portrait with Fried Eggs, 1996

Featured exhibitions

Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel

The first American survey of one of the UK’s most influential artists.

Jun 9 – Sep 1, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Meleko Mokgosi, Pax Kaffraria: Sikhuselo Sembumbulu, 2011-12 (detail). Oil and charcoal on clear primed canvas. 96 × 627 1/4 in. (243.8 × 1593.2 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchase. © 2012 Meleko Mokgosi

Permanent collection

Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection: Meleko Mokgosi

This installation explores ideas of colonialism and globalization through the experience of the Xhosa people of South Africa.

Jun 22 – Aug 18, 2019 This is a past exhibition

Hammer Projects: Tschabalala Self, installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, February 2–April 28, 2019. Photo: Joshua White.

Hammer Projects

Hammer Projects: Tschabalala Self

The Hammer presents a new iteration of Self's project Bodega Run, which examines the neighborhood convenience store as both a gathering place for community and a microcosm of how current economic and political issues are impacting people’s lives.

Feb 2 – Jun 9, 2019 This is a past exhibition