Even Extra Exhibitions to See in 2026

As summer time involves a detailed, we’re wanting onward to extra of this yr’s thought-provoking explorations of artwork, design, and tradition coming quickly to LACMA. Some exhibitions dive into narratives that unfold proper right here in L.A., from Los Angeles artist Eileen Cowin’s boundary-blurring pictures to town’s influential Brockman Gallery. Others invite you to rethink the areas and supplies that outline our on a regular basis lives, just like the groundbreaking textiles of Japanese designer Reiko Sudō and shifting visions of dwelling from the twentieth century.

Read on to study extra about among the current and upcoming exhibitions at LACMA, and do not forget that your go to to the museum additionally consists of entry to the David Geffen Galleries, our new dwelling for the everlasting assortment that showcases dozens of shows exploring much more artwork and concepts throughout time and geography.

Eileen Cowin, The Uninvited Visitor, 2025, printed 2026, © Eileen Cowin, courtesy of the artist

Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise
August 23, 2026–January 3, 2027

This exhibition presents the provocative pictures and video of the Los Angeles–based mostly artist who has explored romance and rivalry, the non-public and the political, and the monotony and thriller of each day life, for greater than 50 years. Often blurring the excellence between nonfiction and fiction, Cowin attracts on cinema, literature, poetry, and portray to form her photographic narratives. This survey highlights the artist’s work with experimental photographic processes, Polaroids, inkjet prints, and movies, that includes works from LACMA’s assortment and different Southern California museums.

Reiko Sudō for NUNO in collaboration with Saitō Sangyō Co., Ltd., Nami osa (“Wavy Reed,” aka “Reed Ripple”), 1997, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, bought with funds offered by Sue Tsao, © NUNO Corporation, photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan J. Urban

Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO
September 20, 2026–March 7, 2027

Reiko Sudō is a textile alchemist who, for greater than 40 years, has pioneered revolutionary textiles that merge custom with experimentation and handicraft with expertise. Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO supplies an in-depth survey of the acclaimed Japanese designer’s work created along with her textile collective NUNO, usually in collaboration with unbiased artisans and workshops throughout Japan, and utilized by celebrated architects. The largest retrospective of Sudō’s textiles to this point, Textile Alchemy options over 100 limited-edition textiles along with quite a few objects, together with drawings, sketches, uncooked supplies, instruments, mock-ups, and prototypes. The exhibition traces her creative journey and divulges NUNO’s creative selections that rework supplies into fascinating textiles, whereas serving to to protect regional crafts and historic manufacturing facilities, and highlighting sustainability points. 

Bob Lerner, Anne Anderson in RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen, 1959, kitchen designed 1956, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LOOK Magazine, Photograph Collection, © Robert S. Lerner Photography, LLC

Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias
September 27, 2026–March 14, 2027

Between 1925 and 1985, Americans have been supplied an astonishing array of home utopias. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic homes assembled in a day, push-button home equipment, and desktop computer systems all formed aspirations about reside. Through architectural fashions, drawings, pictures, movies, and objects starting from sinks to tv units, Home of the Future traces how the American dwelling of tomorrow was imagined, packaged, and offered—by whom, and for whom. While these visions promised abundance and technological transformation, the exhibition additionally asks who was excluded from that future, and who imagined radical alternate options.  

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #3, 1977, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, © 2026 Cindy Sherman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, digital picture © Museum Associates/LACMA

The Kitchen and Its Discontents
September 27, 2026–March 14, 2027

Historically a web site of girls’s labor, the kitchen has additionally been the topic of their design analysis and cultural critique. The Kitchen and Its Discontents brings two influential kitchens from LACMA’s assortment into dialog: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s 1926–30 kitchen for the New Frankfurt social housing program in Germany, and Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier’s 1948–50 kitchen for L’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, France. These designers utilized trendy ideas of effectivity and modularity to the house, with the purpose of bettering girls’s lives. However, the fact was at all times extra difficult, as revealed in pictures, prints, and ads from LACMA’s assortment, which study the on a regular basis messes and simmering tensions within the home terrain, depicting the kitchen as a contested house for labor and dwelling. It is offered concurrently with Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias.

Alonzo Davis, Self Portrait Inside Series, 1974, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, bought with funds offered by the Modern and Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions Endowment, © Alonzo Davis Studio, photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan Urban

The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
October 18, 2026–January 24, 2027

This is the primary large-scale exhibition devoted to the impression of the Brockman Gallery, based in South L.A. by brothers Alonzo and Dale Brockman Davis within the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Their house grew to become important for younger artists of coloration, nurturing the early careers of David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, and Carrie Mae Weems, amongst others. Featuring wealthy archival materials and over 60 artistic endeavors throughout media—all with ties to the Davises’ community-oriented undertaking—the exhibition traces how the Davises cultivated an area for creative experimentation, mental trade, and multicultural neighborhood.

Roberto Gil de Montes, San Sebastián del trópico, 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, reward of Graham Steele, © Roberto Gil de Montes, picture courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto Mexico City/New York, photograph by Gerardo Landa/Eduardo López (GLR Estudio)

Roberto Gil de Montes: Water Drops on Burning Rocks
December 20, 2026–June 20, 2027

Water Drops on Burning Rocks is the primary main exhibition surveying 5 many years of manufacturing from this important artist. Gil de Montes has a creative trajectory that’s inflected by his beginning and formative years in Mexico; his expertise as an immigrant and artwork pupil within the United States; his a few years in Los Angeles as a working towards artist; and his transfer to a small coastal city in Mexico. His artwork and its existential questions think about and join each nations, making his work, ceramics, prints, and drawings essential to the ever-evolving notions of Latinx and Latin American artwork.