Hammer Museum

Hammer Museum Art + ideas for a more just world. Exhibitions of contemporary and historical art plus weekly programs on current social issues. Always free.

Check hammer.ucla.edu to see what’s on view.

06/03/2026

Slow down with us for a moment and look closely. 🌿

Sculptor Nereyda López draws from everyday life in the Peruvian Amazon, using materials sourced from the natural world around her: plant fibers, llanchama bark, natural dyes, seeds, and balsa wood.

Her sculptures evoke protectors, spirits, and maternal figures rooted in Amazonian mythology, transforming traditional community materials into a deeply personal contemporary artistic language.

Spend time with the details in "Several Eternities in a Day." They hold entire ways of seeing.

Who gets to "take up space?" "SPACE IS THE PLACE," now on view, explores the intersection of identity, visibility, accep...
06/01/2026

Who gets to "take up space?" "SPACE IS THE PLACE," now on view, explores the intersection of identity, visibility, acceptance, and belonging:

✊🏾 Questioning who has rights and ownership
💪🏽 Pushing back against societal pressures by being unapologetically genuine to self
🫂 Refusing to shrink to make others comfortable

Featuring installations, paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multimedia works by nearly thirty artists from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, this exhibition celebrates the many ways people claim space, express themselves, and thrive beyond boundaries.

Take up space. Be seen. Belong. 🤎 ✨ Tag or share with someone who shouldn't miss this exhibition.

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SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, installation view. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, April 5—September 6, 2026. Photo: Sarah Golonka

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride, we celebrate love, self-expression, and the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.Through art and ideas, we’re...
06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride, we celebrate love, self-expression, and the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.

Through art and ideas, we’re creating space to be seen, heard, and valued.

We’re not just throwing glitter—we’re building something together. :sparkling_heart::transgender_flag:
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Yolanda Andrade, Marcha gay (Gay pride march), 1984. Gelatin silver print. Image: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased through the Board of Advisors Acquisition Fund.

Late artist Carlos Mérida was a pioneering figure in Latin American modernism.His work bridges ancient traditions with L...
05/31/2026

Late artist Carlos Mérida was a pioneering figure in Latin American modernism.

His work bridges ancient traditions with Latin American and European modernist art, creating a powerful dialogue between past and present.

Featured in "Several Eternities in a Day," Mérida opens the exhibition with a painting that references the "Popol Vuh," the sacred book of the Maya K’iche people.

His bold geometric style continues to inspire conversations around identity, tradition, and innovation in art.

Kohshin Finley’s “Hummingbird” installation in "SPACE IS THE PLACE" is a rare self-portrait rendered in his signature gr...
05/30/2026

Kohshin Finley’s “Hummingbird” installation in "SPACE IS THE PLACE" is a rare self-portrait rendered in his signature grisaille (monochromatic) style and supported by two handmade ceramic vessels he sculpted and fired.

This marks the first time Finley has merged these two mediums in his practice.

Rooted in witnessing and uplifting his community, Finley uses expansive, multifaceted visual languages to challenge monolithic narratives about Black and Brown life.

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"SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Apr 5 – Sep 6, 2026. Gallery view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Sarah Golonka

05/28/2026

🗳️ The Hammer Museum at UCLA makes voting easy! We're an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary Election, including primaries for the state’s governor, U.S. Senate, and other races. Come cast your ballot in the heart of .

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
🚶🏼‍♀️Vote in-person
📩 Drop off your vote by mail ballot during polling hours
✍️ Register to vote
🗳️ Use accessible voting equipment

POLLING HOURS
Early Voting Period: Saturday, Saturday, May 30 — Monday, June 1, 10AM–7PM
Election Day: Tuesday, June 2, 7AM–8PM

🚙 Parking is free for voters in the lot underneath the museum (entrance on Westwood Boulevard).

🗳️ Exercise your right to vote at the Hammer Museum at UCLA an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary ...
05/23/2026

🗳️ Exercise your right to vote at the Hammer Museum at UCLA an official Vote Center for the upcoming California Primary Election, including primaries for the state’s governor, U.S. Senate, and other races.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
🚶🏼‍♀️Vote in-person
📩 Drop off your vote by mail ballot during polling hours
✍️ Register to vote
🗳️ Use accessible voting equipment

POLLING HOURS
Early Voting Period: Saturday, Saturday, May 30 — Monday, June 1, 10AM–7PM
Election Day: Tuesday, June 2, 7AM–8PM

🚙 Parking is free for voters in the lot underneath the museum (entrance on Westwood Boulevard).

Join the millions of Angelenos making their voices heard! Plan your vote today!

https://hmmr.buzz/VotePrimary26

In "Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud," the artist turns a critical eye toward consumer culture and childhood.These detail sho...
05/21/2026

In "Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud," the artist turns a critical eye toward consumer culture and childhood.

These detail shots from Cloud's "Painted Clothing (2007–08)" are made from children’s garments, layered with symbols like dragons, fairies, and rainbows—images that feel magical, but are often mass-produced and marketed.

Cloud builds each work using stretcher bars, embedded materials, and thick oil paint, blurring painting and sculpture while asking how identity is shaped from the start.

Save this + tell us: what images defined your childhood?

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📸 Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud, March 28, 2026–January 7, 2027, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: ashley kruythoff and Sarah Golonka

Artist Naomi Gamarra explores migration, memory, and cultural inheritance through sculptures that bring together ceramic...
05/19/2026

Artist Naomi Gamarra explores migration, memory, and cultural inheritance through sculptures that bring together ceramic, textiles, seeds, salt, and found materials.

Techniques like crochet—learned from her grandmother—become a way of holding onto memory.

Working with materials such as ceramic, textiles, seeds, and salt, she brings together personal memory and broader histories shaped by colonization.

Her work asks: how do we remember, adapt, and carry home with us? 🏡🧳🧵

🏷️ Save this + share something you’ve carried across generations.

05/18/2026

Through our exhibitions, conversations, film series, readings, and performances, the Hammer Museum at UCLA is here to be a vibrant intellectual and creative nexus for you.

Located in the heart of Westwood Village, we welcome you and yours to enjoy our galleries, courtyard, and spaces.

We are open Tuesdays through Sundays, 11AM–6PM, and open late to 8PM on Fridays.

Admission to the Hammer is always free.

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10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90024

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

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