Exhibitions and events at Los Angeles' galleries and art museums.
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Sat 19 Sep - Sat 21 Nov 2026
1030 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 10am-6.30pm
“at the core of Ida’s practice is the relationship between humanity and the natural world. His paintings consider the delicate balance between human existence and the fragile ecosystems that sustain it”
Thu 22 Oct 2026 - Mon 15 Feb 2027
7070 Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90038, Los Angeles
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
“inspired by the power of light and heat in producing remarkable objects of contemporary craftsmanship - from the flames of a potter’s kiln and the illumination that vitalizes functional artworks to the intense temperatures that mold glass and metal”
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles
Wed 30 Sep 2026 - Sun 17 Jan 2027
901 East 3rd Street, CA 90013, Los Angeles
Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
shown together for the first time in over 25 years, Ligon’s Coloring Book paintings reveal a rarely seen facet of his practice - "colorful and exuberant ... the works unfold into a rich meditation on history, authorship and the shifting nature of meaning"
Wed 30 Sep 2026 - Sun 10 Jan 2027
901 East 3rd Street, CA 90013, Los Angeles
Tue-Sun 11am-6pm
paintings and works on paper from the 1980s, a pivotal period of decisive experimentation and evolution in the late artist’s pioneering six‑decade career
Thu 17 Sep 2026 - Sat 16 Jan 2027
8980 Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90069, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
an exhibition devoted entirely to Smith’s seldom-seen and trailblazing body of work - “these luminous palimpsests compress the physical world into radiant fields that reveal a painterly sensitivity as rigorous and as radical as [his] sculpture”
Huntington Library
Los Angeles
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
1037 N. Sycamore Avenue, CA 90038, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
the gallery’s first Los Angeles exhibition of the painter, sculptor, and printmaker - “In both two and three dimensions, Jackson’s figures emerge and recede, generating a vivid sense of movement and depth”
LACMA
Los Angeles
Sat 3 Oct 2026 - Sat 9 Jan 2027
9002 Melrose Avenue, CA 90069, Los Angeles
Tue-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm
“this exhibition explores the enduring allure of Johnston’s innovative artmaking practice, which spanned seven decades of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture”
Sat 7 Nov - Wed 23 Dec 2026
opening reception today
1110 Mateo St, CA 90021, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
an exhibition of drawings that conceptualize the ebbs and flows of financial transactions, debt, mortgages, and Phelps’ own pursuit of financial stability as a mother and working artist
Sat 7 Nov - Wed 23 Dec 2026
opening reception today
1110 Mateo St, CA 90021, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
Garcia’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery “embarks on an ambitious process of worldbuilding, deconstructing and reconstructing familial histories, artifacts, and archives through sculpture, inviting a spatial encounter with the past”
Fri 13 Nov - Sat 19 Dec 2026
forthcoming
416 E. Colorado Street, Glendale, CA 91205, Los Angeles
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
MOCA Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Los Angeles
Fri 18 Sep - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
5036 W Pico Blvd, CA 90019, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 10am-6pm
renderings exploring how architecture embodies the spectacle, as well as how our bodies inhabit that built environment, shown alongside the newest installment of his series of multi-part wooden sculptures of bodily fragments, based on historical icons
Fri 2 Oct - Sat 7 Nov 2026
last day
3342 Verdugo Road, Ste A, CA 90065, Los Angeles
Wed-Sat 11am-5pm
co-curated by his son Kwame S. Brathwaite and Jesse Williams- newly-released and never-before-seen works by the photographer, media theorist, and one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century
Sat 7 Nov - Sat 19 Dec 2026
opening reception today
442 South La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
new portraits and still lifes bringing personal recollections into conversation with art-historical references, rendered in Obijiaku’s distinctive linework and graphic compositions
Sat 7 Nov - Sat 19 Dec 2026
opening reception today
442 South La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, Los Angeles
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
new work that takes the Star Quilt through a series of material transformations - mirrored installations and works on paper that show the enduring symbolic resonance of the stars
The Broad
Los Angeles
Getty Center
Los Angeles
Getty Villa
Los Angeles