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Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum

The Hammer Museum champions the art and artists who challenge us to see the world in a new light, to experience the unexpected, to ignite our imaginations, and inspire change.
Location
Los Angeles, United States
Founded in
1990

Today and upcoming events

Rubén Ortiz-Torres, 4th of July BBQ flag, 2017. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Out of the ordinary. Uncommon materials, marks, and matrices
21 Dec 2024 — 6 Apr 2025
Mona Hatoum, Bourj (detail), 2010. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Hammer contemporary collection
18 Jan — 20 Apr 2025

Current events

Christina Ramberg, Waiting lady, 1972. Courtesy of Hammer Gallery
A retrospective
12 Oct 2024 — 5 Jan 2025
Various artists, Breath(e). Toward climate and social justice, exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Breath(e). Toward climate and social justice
14 Sep 2024 — 5 Jan 2025
Various artists, Sum of the parts. Serial imagery in printmaking, 1500 to now, exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Sum of the parts. Serial imagery in printmaking, 1500 to now
13 Jul — 24 Nov 2024

Permanent events

Various artists, Armand Hammer collection, exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Armand Hammer collection
Permanent event

Past events

Leonardo Drew. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Leonardo Drew
21 Dec 2019 — 10 May 2020
Tishan Hsu. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Tishan Hsu
26 Jan — 19 Apr 2020
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Tishan Hsu: Liquid Circuit
26 Jan 2019 — 19 Apr 2020
Nowhere Better than This Place. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Nowhere Better than This Place
23 Nov 2019 — 9 Feb 2020
Jasmina Metwaly. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Jasmina Metwaly
28 Sep 2019 — 19 Jan 2020
Lari Pittman. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Lari Pittman
29 Sep 2019 — 5 Jan 2020
Max Hooper Schneider. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Max Hooper Schneider
21 Sep 2019 — 5 Jan 2020
Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden
Permanent event
Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection
Permanent event
Hammer Contemporary Collection. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Hammer Contemporary Collection
Permanent event
Grunwald Center Collection. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Grunwald Center Collection
Permanent event
Armand Hammer Collection, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Armand Hammer Collection
Permanent event
Yunhee Min. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Yunhee Min
28 Mar — 1 Dec 2019
Belonging. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Belonging
31 Aug — 10 Nov 2019
Van Gogh in L.A. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Van Gogh in L.A.
8 Oct — 3 Nov 2019
Yunhee Min. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Yunhee Min
30 Mar — 27 Oct 2019
Andrea Fraser. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Andrea Fraser
18 May — 15 Sep 2019
Celebration of Our Enemies. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Celebration of Our Enemies
9 Jun — 8 Sep 2019
Sarah Lucas. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Sarah Lucas
9 Jun — 1 Sep 2019
Meleko Mokgosi. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Meleko Mokgosi
22 Jun — 18 Aug 2019
Tschabalala Self. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Tschabalala Self
2 Feb — 9 Jun 2019
Dirty Protest. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Dirty Protest
24 Jan — 19 May 2019
Allen Ruppersberg. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Allen Ruppersberg
10 Feb — 12 May 2019
Jamilah Sabur. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Jamilah Sabur
19 Jan — 5 May 2019
Tschabalala Self. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Tschabalala Self
2 Feb — 28 Apr 2019
Math Bass. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Math Bass
29 Sep 2018 — 17 Mar 2019
Hammer Projects. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Hammer Projects
29 Sep 2018 — 17 Feb 2019
Shadi Habib Allah. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Shadi Habib Allah
22 Sep — 20 Jan 2019
Petrit Halilaj. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Petrit Halilaj
15 Sep 2018 — 20 Jan 2019
Petrit Halilaj. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Petrit Halilaj
15 Sep 2018 — 20 Jan 2019
Adrian Piper. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Adrian Piper
7 Oct 2018 — 6 Jan 2019
Adrian Piper. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Adrian Piper
7 Oct 2018 — 6 Jan 2019
Stones to Stains. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Stones to Stains
27 Sep — 30 Dec 2018
Victor Hugo, Planète (Planet), ca. 1854. Brown ink and wash over charcoal with touches of white gouache on paper. 12 1/8 × 14 9/16 in. (30.8 × 37 cm). Collection of David Lachenmann.
Stones to Stains
27 Sep — 30 Dec 2018
Made in L.A. 2018. Courtesy of The Hammer Museum
Made in L.A. 2018
3 Jun — 2 Sep 2018
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
26 Aug 2017 — 7 Jan 2018
Andrea Büttner. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Andrea Büttner
9 Sep 2017 — 7 Jan 2018
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985
15 Sep — 31 Dec 2017
Radical Women. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Radical Women
15 Sep — 31 Dec 2017
Hammer Projects: Tabaimo. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Hammer Projects: Tabaimo
12 Aug — 3 Dec 2017
Living Apart Together. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Living Apart Together
20 May — 27 Aug 2017
Marisa Merz. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Marisa Merz
4 Jun — 20 Aug 2017
Judith Hopf. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Judith Hopf
20 May — 13 Aug 2017
Andrea Bowers, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Andrea Bowers
11 Mar — 16 Jul 2017
Jimmie Durham, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Jimmie Durham
29 Jan — 7 May 2017
Jimmie Durham. Courtesy of The Hammer Museum
Jimmie Durham
29 Jan — 7 May 2017
Dubuffet Drawings. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Dubuffet Drawings
29 Jan — 30 Apr 2017
Hammer Projects: Simone Leigh, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Simone Leigh
17 Sep 2016 — 18 Jan 2017
Hammer Projects: Marwa Arsanios, Exhibition view. Courtesy of Hammer Museum
Marwa Arsanios
17 Sep 2016 — 8 Jan 2017
Hazel Larsen Archer Elizabeth Schmitt Jennerjahn and Robert Rauschenberg C. 1952. Gelatin silver print, 6 1/4 x 9 ¼ inches. Estate of Hazel Larsen Archer and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center.
Leap Before You Look
21 Feb — 15 May 2016
Heatherwick Studio, East Beach Café, Littlehampton, UK, 2005–2007. Photo: Andy Stagg
Heatherwick Studio: Provocations
20 Feb — 24 May 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Francis Upritchard. Echo Cabinet, 2011, Veneer and Italian oak, brass fittings, modelling material, wire, paint, 99.5 x 190 x 65 cm.
Francis Upritchard
25 Oct 2014 — 1 Mar 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
N. Dash. Untitled, 2013. Pigment, acrylic medium, linen, adobe, jute, wood support. 99 x 60 in. (251.5 x 152.4 cm)
N. Dash
13 Sep 2014 — 25 Jan 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Yuri Ancarani. Still from Il Capo, 2010. 35mm film, color, 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. 15 min. Courtesy of the artist and Zero..., Milan.
Yuri Ancarani
27 Sep 2014 — 19 Jan 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Robert Heinecken. Breast/Bomb #5. 1967. Gelatin silver prints, cut and reassembled, 38 1/2 × 38 1/4" (97.8 × 97.2 cm). Denver Art Museum. Funds from 1992 Alliance for Contemporary Art Auction. © 2013 The Robert Heinecken Trust
Robert Heinecken. Object Matter
3 Oct 2014 — 18 Jan 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jim Hodges. Changing Things (detail), 1997. Silk, plastic, and wire. Overall: 76 x 148 in. (1 m 93.04 cm x 3 m 75.92 cm). Dallas Museum of Art, Mary Margaret Munson Wilcox Fund and gift of Catherine and Will Rose, Howard Rachofsky, Christopher Drew and Alexandra May, and Martin Posner and Robyn Menter-Posner. © Jim Hodges.
Jim Hodges. Give More Than You Take
3 Oct 2014 — 18 Jan 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Mario Garcia Torres, still from Unspoken Dailies, 2003–09, 16mm film, black and white, sound. 66 min. Courtesy the artist and Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City.
Mario Garcia Torres
13 Sep 2014 — 4 Jan 2015 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Tony Greene. Untitled (U), 1989. Mixed media (oil on photo mounted on board). 28 ½ x 32 ½ in (72.39 x 82.55 cm). Private collection. Image courtesy of David Franz.
Made in L.A. 2014
15 Jun — 7 Sep 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Nathaniel Mellors
18 Jan — 1 Jun 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Andra Ursuta, Crush (detail), 2011, Cast urethane, wax, sneakers, wig, silicone. 60 x 40 x 9 in. (152 x 102 x 23 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Ramiken Crucible, New York.
Andra Ursuta
7 Mar — 25 May 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Robert Gober, September 12, 2005–9, Pastel and graphite, over photolithograph, on ivory wove paper. 6 x 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (15.2 x 41.3 x 33.7 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, gift of the artist (2009.145). Photo by Robert Lifson, Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery.
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
9 Feb — 18 May 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Paint on walls, Four walls, each 186 x 292 in. (472 x 743 cm), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands. Copyright Maya Hayuk
Maya Hayuk
17 Aug 2013 — 26 Jan 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
James Welling. Daylight, Weert, 1994. Inkjet print. 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm). Collection of the artist.
James Welling
29 Sep 2013 — 12 Jan 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Forrest Bess. Detail of: Before Man, 1952–53. Oil on canvas. 8-3/4 x 22-3/4 inches. Collection Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College. State University of New York, Gift of Roy R. Neuberger. Photo: Jim Frank.
Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible
29 Sep 2013 — 5 Jan 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Shawky, Cabaret Crusades The Horror Show File, 2010, Film still, church
Wael Shawky
17 Aug 2013 — 5 Jan 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Mark Leckey, In the Long Tail, 2009, Performance at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Courtesy of the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise. © The artist
Mark Leckey. On Pleasure Bent
31 Aug — 8 Dec 2013 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A. Quincy Jones, Sidney and Frances Brody, House, view of entrance. Los Angeles, California, 1948-1950, Photograph by Jason Schmidt, 2012.
A. Quincy Jones. Building For Better Living
25 May — 8 Sep 2013 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Richard Artschwager. Light Bulbs, 2007. Charcoal, pastel, and acrylic on handmade paper on soundboard in artist’s frame. 52 x 75 1/2 in. (132.1 x 191.8 cm). Private Collection. © Richard Artschwager. Photo credit: Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever.
Richard Artschwager
15 Jun — 1 Sep 2013 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Grande hazana con muertos (Wonderful heroism against dead men), Plate 39, 1863
William E. Jones. Houseguest
18 May — 18 Aug 2013 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Llyn Foulkes, Lucky Adam, 1985
Llyn Foulkes
3 Feb — 19 May 2013 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

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