Past | Hammer Museum

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Inside the Mask

Inside the Mask reimagines the museum as without walls, as a place of community, encounter, and exchange between musicians and activists, dancers and organizers.

Feb 15 – May 17, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Hammer Projects: Leonardo Drew

Hammer Projects Lobby Wall installations

Hammer Projects: Leonardo Drew

For the Hammer’s lobby wall, Drew creates a monumental explosion of material and color that evokes the energy and entropy of an uncertain planet.

Dec 21, 2019 – May 17, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Abstract work of art hung on a wall; a rectangle divided into four quarters by a gray cross. In each quadrant is a horizontal gray line against a variegated background of red, brown, and black.

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Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit

Hsu's first US museum survey reintroduces the work of this visionary artist to a contemporary audience.

Jan 26 – Mar 15, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Installation view of 'Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019' at the Hammer Museum

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Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019

The first comprehensive survey in the United States of drawings and works on paper by the Los Angeles-based artist.

Feb 2 – Mar 15, 2020 This is a past exhibition

Rebecca Morales

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Nowhere Better than This Place

Eight objects challenge assumptions about their own material, permanence, provenance, and authorship.

Nov 23, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020 This is a past exhibition

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Hammer Projects: Max Hooper Schneider

This immersive installation is Schneider’s first solo museum show.

Sep 21, 2019 – Feb 2, 2020 This is a past exhibition

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

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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

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belonging

This intimate exhibition centers Black American domesticity and place making.

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