Exhibitions

The first institutional survey of the late Noah Davis charts the breadth and depth of the American artist’s relentless output reflecting his interests: politics, current affairs, everyday life, family histories, ancient Egyptian cosmologies, the racism of American media, art history, and architecture.

Featuring prints and drawings created at the intersection of music and dance by some twenty artists active from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition explores how works of art on paper can store sound and movement, becoming lasting visual records of ephemeral sonic and dance experiences.

Including many recent acquisitions and demonstrating the Hammer’s commitment to collecting diverse work by local and international artists, this exhibition highlights artworks that use the local, personal, and banal to tap into the universal.

Renata Petersen’s installation, an architectural intervention offering a contemporary reinterpretation of Giotto di Bondone’s Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, explores the histories of new age religious sects that are specific to the region of Southern California.

As part of a 2011 political uprising by the Purépecha community of Cherán, in Michoacán, Mexico, Colectivo Cherani has pioneered a cultural movement that seeks to recover and invigorate the plurality of cultural expressions of the Purépecha people.

Lap-See Lam’s immersive video installation Tales of the Altersea is inspired by the ruins of a dragon-shaped ship that Lam could see from her studio window in art school. The ruins of this historic vessel serve as a jumping-off point for Lam’s dreamlike story of loss, memory, and resilience.