ARTISTS
2025
Presenting an expansive slate of exhibitions across both of its venues, The Museum of Contemporary Art announced its forthcoming exhibition schedule and invites audiences to experience bold commissions, landmark collaborations.
For the past half-century, artist Takako Yamaguchi has combined diverse motifs to form paintings that subtly critique art-historical precedents, from Ancient Greek architectural tropes.
In Tricia Wright: The Naturalist, Wright’s works are a personal celebration and inquiry into her relationship with nature, the passing of time and the value of human touch.
The Los Angeles artist practices what she calls “abstraction in reverse,” starting from basic shapes to construct landscapes.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced several key leadership transitions to its Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2025, reflecting the museum’s continued evolution, stewardship, and commitment to championing contemporary art and artists.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is presenting MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi from June 29, 2025 through January 4, 2026 at MOCA Grand Avenue.
The first durational work by the Pussy Riot co-founder.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA) has mounted a momentous exhibition called Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 that dramatically expands the canon of photorealist art.
The Museum of Contemporary Art presents Diary of Flowers: Artists and Their Worlds, a new collection exhibition bringing together more than eighty artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection.
In 1995, artist Jim Hodges produced A Diary of Flowers – Above the Clouds, an installation of one hundred flower drawings, made from ballpoint ink on paper napkins.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Diary of Flowers: Artists and Their Worlds, a new collection exhibition bringing together more than eighty artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection.
While many things about museums have changed over the years, and many more are changing now, the growth of their permanent collections has remained a constant.
Photorealism has always had a mixed reputation. A niche genre of painting popularised during the 1960s by artists like Richard Estes, Audrey Flack.
MOCA’s “Ordinary People” manages to tell a story about photorealism that is eclectic, diverse, condescending and drab.
Announced last year, the MAC3 collection is comprised of more than 350 artworks by Los Angeles-based artists, most of which were collected by the Mohns over the last 20 years.