Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in June 2026

LA is gearing up for FIFA World Cup 26™ frenzy this month, along with a starry line-up of exhibits from Frank Gehry at Gagosian Beverly Hills to Catherine Opie’s latest works searching for the ‘blue hour’ in Norway at Regen Projects, along with a group show at David Zwirner galleries, also including Lauren Halsey, that searches for the ‘magic hour’ in Los Angeles. For rare dual family exhibits in the Hollywood area, Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar is on view at Roberts Projects, while her granddaughter, ceramicist Maddy Inez, has a show at Megan Mulrooney.

Los Angeles Art Exhibitions: what to see in June 2026

World Cup Soccer Exhibit

Torrance Historical Society & Museum until 31 August 2026

In celebration of the upcoming FIFA World Cup 26™, and in recognition of Torrance being the birthplace of AYSO Soccer, the Torrance Historical Society invited Miguel Salazar and Julie Randall to share their private soccer collection that showcases items accumulated from 1998 to 2026. This includes memorabilia such as an autographed jersey from legendary Brazilian soccer star Pelé. Other artifacts and keepsakes representing major soccer events highlight the global impact and lasting legacy from organizations such as the FIFA World Cup, the Women’s World Cup, AYSO, LA Galaxy, and Olympic Soccer, are on display.

Let's Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar

Roberts Projects until 22 August 2026

As part of a series of exhibitions and initiatives celebrating Saar's 100th birthday this summer, this exhibition explores the central role of costume design in Saar's early career and throughout her life as a mother and artist. The archivally-driven show features over 200 objects, including costume designs, photographs, drawings, garments, jewelry, artworks, and historic materials from the 1950s–1970s.

Maddy Inez’s Nascence

Megan Mulrooney Gallery until 20 June 2026

Ceramicist Maddy Inez is the granddaughter of renowned Black feminist sculptor Betye Saar and daughter of artist Alison Saar. She primarily works in clay, exploring intergenerational memory, healing, and treating ceramics as both material and metaphor for collective remembrance. Her recent work explores colonial agriculture, monofarming, and the erasure of agricultural diversity. Building on her ‘love letter to soil’ series, her new show explores gardening as an act of resistance. She’s created 20 new ceramic vessels - each one is an ode to a different plant brought over during the transatlantic slave trade from a Sudanese Hibiscus plant, Black-eyed peas, Black sesame, okra, poppy, Palestinian olives, and wild thyme.

Frank Gehry

Gagosian Beverly Hills until 27 June 2026

This is the first exhibition of works by Frank Gehry since his passing in 2025. This presentation was realized in collaboration with the artist’s family and designed by the Gehry studio. Among the animal-themed works on display are the life-size sculpture Bear with Us (2014) that was also the basis for a clutch bag designed by the artist for Louis Vuitton in 2023; Untitled (Black Crocodile New York) (2023), which was produced in ColorCore Formica and silicone; and Fish on Fire (2023), the last of Gehry’s fish sculptures to be rendered in copper.

Catherine Opie: Holding Blue

Regen Projects until 3 July 2026

This exhibit marks Catherine Opie’s twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery. The new photographs and sculptures flow between Opie’s investigations into the formal and theoretical qualities of the photographic medium and the singularities of the Norwegian landscape while searching for the ‘blue hour.’ Through meditations on temporality, embodiment, and the preciousness of the natural world, these works extend Opie’s longstanding practice of closely observing the social and physical world around her.

Epic Abstraction

James Fuentes until 18 June

This solo exhibition of historic works by Al Held (1928–2005) is the first in five decades, and occupies a pivotal place in postwar concrete expressionism, acclaimed for his monumental geometric paintings that achieve emotional intensity through rigorous geometric clarity. The works made between 1959 and 1965 chart Held’s dramatic progression from earlier pigment-heavy gestural abstractions to a disciplined vocabulary of hard-edged geometry.

Will I Live Again

Babst Gallery until 27 June 2026

This solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Justin Ortiz includes new paintings and works on paper. The artist returns time and time again to the same figure, among fractured cities and ancient faces. Historical through-lines run deeply within Ortiz's work: Dürer’s gestures filtered through Sigmar Polke, Greek sculptural forms refracted through Jordaens and Rubens. 

Beneath the Avocado Tree

Simchowitz Hill House, Pasadena, until 25 July 2026

Ken Taylor Reynaga’s solo exhibition centers around a particular kind of shade, soft and irregular, shifting with the wind, where time slows just enough to notice what usually slips by. The work centers on the oftenunseen laborers whose bodies imprint the land even as they disappear into it. Drawing on migration, inheritance, and arthistorical influences, Reynaga creates images both specific and mythic, holding beauty and exhaustion in layered, unresolved surfaces.

Delta by TJ Shin

Ehrlich Steinberg until 11 June 2026

This is the last chance to view the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery. This ambitious project brings together a multi-channel video installation, drawings, and a newly commissioned text by writer and professor Sunny Xiang. Continuing Shin’s ongoing research into the historic and contemporary impact of Cold War nuclear tensions, the exhibition examines how systems of militarization and governance shape decision-making, social contracts, and racial meaning.

Keith Tyson: The Generative Universe

Hauser & Wirth DTLA Until 16 August 2026

British artist Keith Tyson’s first exhibition in Los Angeles since 2009 brings together paintings, sculptures, drawings, and mixed media works spanning the past three decades, while making a powerful case for the universe as a single generative system: a constantly shifting, causal network in which forms arise, transform, and dissolve. Tyson, who originally trained as an engineer, was an early practitioner of generative art, and this series showcases chemical reactions and fluid dynamics that create their own swirling, unpredictable imagery, and his ongoing Still Life series, where he reimagines the genre through shifting scientific, mathematical, and art historical frameworks.

Curation of Time

Brodin Gallery until 28 June 2026

Founded by Danica Derpic in 1998, D2 Art has spent decades shaping private collections, luxury residences, and cultural spaces through a deeply personal curatorial approach that bridges contemporary art, architecture, and collector culture. This exhibit brings together works by Tony Brown, Matthew Heller, Mark Acetelli, Martin Durazo, Jacob Hashimoto, and others in a layered presentation exploring artistic relationships, evolving practices, and the emotional resonance built through years of creative dialogue.

No Spectators

REEF gallery DTLA from 13 June until 25 July 2026

Visionary photographers have been documenting the past eighty years of mayhem at the Olympic Auditorium - L.A.’s home for visceral entertainment from boxing to wrestling, roller derby, and music in a theatrically charged atmosphere. The larger-than-life performers and ecstatic crowds came from all over the city to enter the cavernous arena at the corner of 18th Street and Grand Avenue. 

This new exhibition focuses on the music from Bob Willoughby’s groundbreaking images of L.A.’s 1950s rhythm and blues scene to iconic punk rock photos shot by Edward Colver, Ann Summa, Alison Braun, and Robbie Robinson to vivid color shots of Fela Kuti by Kurt Mahoney. 18th & Grand is a multimedia cultural project using a historic venue to tell a larger story about Los Angeles. Comprising an Emmy-Nominated documentary film directed by Stephen DeBro (fans of the film include Ed Ruscha), a large-scale, award-winning exhibition, screenings, panels and events, with participants Cheech Marin, Gustavo Arellano, Carlos Palomino, John Doe, Julio César Chávez, and many other notable figures. 

California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)

David Zwirner 4 June until 1 August 2026

Organized by Helen Molesworth, this group exhibit features an A-list curation of works by artists who make up the fabric of the city’s vibrant and diverse arts scene while showcasing the West Coast terroir of Los Angeles. Expect a range of mediums that depict the light and space movement from the 1960s and 1970s, in its current modern-day form, from the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean during the ‘magic hour’. The line-up of talent includes Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Sonia Boyajian, Noah Davis, rafa esparza, Jennifer Guidi, Lauren Halsey, EJ Hill, Thomas Houseago, Manuel López, Rodney McMillian, Mr. Wash, Catherine Opie, Hilary Pecis, Lari Pittman, Jason Rhoades, Cauleen Smith, and Lily Stockman

Lauren Halsley’s sculpture garden

South Central LA, permanent 

Artist Lauren Halsey’s public sculpture park and garden in South Central LA is now open to the public. Architecture studio Current Interests, led by Mira Henry and Matthew Au, served as the architectural collaborators on the project. Entitled sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles, the project will serve as a living shrine and tribute to the neighborhood that Halsey and her family have called home for several generations, with dedicated space for a full slate of programming led by Halsey's Summaeverythang Community Center.

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

The Broad from 23 May until 11 October 2026

Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at her first solo museum exhibition in Southern California. Materials from the artist’s international campaigns for peace and displays of anti-war activism will also be on view, such as Acorn Event (1968) and Bed Peace (1969), projects done in collaboration with her late husband, John Lennon.

Organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of Ono’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation (first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica), inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in a living expression of hope in the city.

Titled Photon Camp

PACE until June 6

For his first-ever solo exhibition in Los Angeles, and on the West Coast of the U.S., Kyoto-based Kohei Nawa brings together 20 new works from two of his iconic sculptural series - PixCell and Prism - creating a cohesive environment in which his sculptures engage directly with the architecture of the gallery’s main exhibition space. This is also Nawa’s first installation comprising both his PixCell and Prism series, which he has developed continuously over the course of his career, exploring tensions between the natural and the artificial, the real and the fictional, and the sacred and the profane.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Coyote

PDC Design Gallery until 3 July 2026

Harry Fonseca (1946-2006) is widely considered one of the most prominent Native artists from California, and is recognized by his use of his distinct representation of his Coyote figure, which he used both to explore aspects of his own kaleidoscopic identity and confront dominant narratives.

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: Ninety-six and Pissed

The Library at MAF until 18 July 2026

This exhibition presents over thirty new drawings that meld cartoon characters with Celtic runes and Egyptian hieroglyphics, placed in dialogue with the artist’s earlier iconic drawing Wonder Woman (2007), and a selection of hand-built ceramic sculptures.

Liu Xiaodong: Host

Lisson until 13 June 2026

Marking his first exhibition in Los Angeles, renowned figurative painter Liu Xiaodong focuses an entire painting project on a single subject for the first time in his career. His subject? Industrial and suburban Detroit through the lens of John Mcintyre - a Detroit-based tattoo artist and medieval combat fighter, and his loyal band of brothers, depicted in full armor mid-battle in a snowy forest, inking tattoos on bodies, and lounging in a backyard hot tub.

Outsiders, Outcasts, Rebels + Weirdos: Punk Culture 1976–86 

The Skirball Cultural Center from 20 May until 6 September 2026

2026 marks fifty years since punk burst beyond New York City, a scene with a notable number of musicians of Jewish heritage. This exhibit highlights the stories of Jewish punks and fellow travelers, including Malcolm McLaren, plus members of the Ramones, the Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, Blondie, the Patti Smith Group, and more. By centering these narratives within the broader story of punk, the exhibition underscores how artists from many communities helped shape a movement that continues to challenge norms around identity, power, and belonging. Featuring more than 500 objects and pieces of ephemera, including clothing by fashion designers Vivienne Westwood.

A Queer Arcana: Art, Magic, and Spirit

Palm Springs Art Museum until Oct 2026

Take a drive out to the desert before the soaring summer temperatures kick-in, for a group exhibition bringing together 35 queer artists whose work spans more than 100 years (1909–2026). Collectively, they explore magic, esoteric spirituality, and occult knowledge as tools for survival, resistance, and world-building. Presented as part of the museum's Q+ Art initiative, curated by David Evans Frantz, Curator-at-Large of Q+ Art, this show explores how queer artists throughout time have turned to esoteric systems to cultivate community and imagine new social and spiritual frameworks.

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

Hammer Museum until 23 August 2026

This groundbreaking exhibition features 22 indigenous and brown artists using organic and living materials from cacao, tree bark, avocado, and lemon to examine and expose the ongoing political discourse.

Characterized by their diversity and internationality (50% of the artists are indigenous, while the other 50% consider themselves part of the brown cultures.) Some of the participating LA-based artists commissioned for their work include Raven Chacon - the first Native American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music; Carmen Argote, Jackie Amezquita, Edgar Calel, Rose B. Simpson, among others.

MARYTA& HENRYTIMI

HENTRYTIMI Los Angeles, until 30 June 2026

Mary Ta, the Los Angeles–based design visionary has launched MARYTA& – a new curated gallery and international platform for the exhibition and presentation of design objects, installations, and concepts. Established to encourage collaboration, collecting, discovery, and education, the gallery will celebrate and share the work of multiple cultural and creative forces.

HENRYTIMI los angeles, an installation of functional artworks, rooted in nature, and made by hand in Italy, that spans a gallery space of 8,000 square feet that include artworks made with natural stone rock on burnished brass metal, and a rare thermopolium made out of solid stone with black volcanic clay vessels that was inspired by ancient Romans and the ruins of Pompeii.

Simultaneously, MARYTA& also unveiled The HENGE Collectors Lounge, an immersive, refined and material-driven environment designed by Ugo Cacciatori featuring modular seating, cast-metal tables, and a sculptural quartzite bar at her former MASS Beverly Blvd. space.

Free and Queer: Black Californian Roots of Gay Liberation

California African American Museum, until 28 February 2027

This exhibit centers Los Angeles as a foundational site of Black queer cultural power, shaped through networks of resistance across neighborhoods, institutions, and grassroots communities. Curated by Susan D. Anderson, the exhibition foregrounds the role of Black queer cultural labor, bringing into focus a history that has often been left out of both mainstream LGBTQ+ narratives and dominant accounts of the civil rights movement. At a moment when queer history and representation are under renewed political pressure, the exhibition feels especially timely and urgent.

Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles 16 August 2026

Eileen Harris Norton has built an inspiring art collection and forged a philanthropic legacy by focusing upon the work of women artists, as well as artists of color and of her native California. Marking fifty years since Harris Norton made her first acquisition - a print purchased in 1976 directly from Los Angeles artist and African American arts advocate Ruth Waddy, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ will present more than 80 works from Harris Norton’s holdings in an exhibition conceived to celebrate the connoisseurship and commitment to social justice.

Taking its title from a 1990 painting by Kerry James Marshall, ‘Destiny Is a Rose’ features paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Catherine Opie, Yoshitomo Nara, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, and many others.

Five Centuries of Works on Paper: The Grunwald Center at 70

Hammer Museum

Part I: until 17 May 2026

Part II: June 7 – October 25, 2026

The Hammer Museum at UCLA is presenting a two-part exhibition celebrating the 70th anniversary of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. With more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artist’s books, the center’s collection of works on paper is among the most significant in the United States. Part One, features nearly 100 works reflecting the breadth of the collection, from the Renaissance to present day, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vassily Kandinsky, Käthe Kollwitz, Ansel Adams, Elizabeth Catlett, Corita Kent, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha, and Vija Celmins.

The Art of the Album – The Photography of Danny Clinch

Wrensilva on Melrose Ave. until Spring 2026

For a completely immersive experience, Wrensilva LA Listening Studio on Melrose has launched a photo and listening installation with more than three decades of music culture and lifestyle photography by Danny Clinch. This installation brings iconic images together with the album covers they helped define, plus the vinyl itself, played on a Wrensilva record console. It’s a rare chance to stand inside the relationship between image, artist, and record. Featured artists include 2Pac, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, and more, that reveal living documents of artists in their element, images that become inseparable from the songs, the albums, and the eras they helped shape.

The AIDS Monument 

West Hollywood Park, permanent

Jaws: The Exhibition

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures until 26 July 2026

For a final end-of-the-summer fling, Jaws: The Exhibition - in the Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Gallery, will be the largest presentation ever mounted for the Oscar® winning Steven Spielberg classic and feature scene breakdowns, interactive experiences, behind-the-scenes stories, and some 200 original objects, many never before put on public display. And, yes, it’s still terrifying 50-years later.

Big Art. Bigger Dreams.

Downtown LA, until 2028

DTLA Alliance, has partnered with Street Art for Mankind (SAM) and the City of Los Angeles to create a public art museum launching in real time starting with three massive murals by acclaimed LA-based artists. With support from the Coca-Cola Company, a total of 12 large-scale works will be created that will reimagine downtown’s skyline and streetscape by 2028 when the city is set to host the Olympic Games.

Each mural celebrates global values of sustainability, education, and women’s empowerment, turning walls into landmarks. David Flores is creating a massive, vibrant mural on the Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) depicting a skateboarding scene, Emily Ding is bringing to life a powerful and elegant mural of two women walking arm-in-arm on the Figueroa Eight while Shamsia Hassani is crafting a poetic triptych on The Bloc.

Intuit Dome

Inglewood, permanent

One of the most exciting art collections to hit Los Angeles can be found at the new home for the LA Clippers in Inglewood. The cutting-edge sports venue recently unveiled the monumental, site-specific, outdoor artworks commissioned for the Intuit Dome which opens to the public this August. The $11 million public art collection features a collection of globally recognised artists, selected by Ruth Berson, former deputy director of curatorial affairs at SFMOMA, who have deep ties to Los Angeles and intertwine their artistic talents with sports.

Glenn Kaino’s massive sculpture Sails, made of painted steel and wood looms in the form of the clipper ships that connected the world via the ocean’s trade routes. In this ship, basketball is the cultural wind that can connect us all.

Michael Massenburg’s mural of printed porcelain enamel on steel panel features figures of basketball, tennis, and soccer players, singers, musicians, and dancers, titled Cultural Playground expresses the artist’s belief that 'the two most profound things that unite people are the arts and sports.'

Jennifer Steinkamp’s digital artwork Swoosh, uses the entire surface of the Intuit Dome, designed by the architectural firm AECOM, with five animations will transform the surface of the dome and light up the sky with geometric panels.

Patrick Martinez’s sculpture Same Boat uses a neon sign to create an image that reproduces a statement by the late Civil Rights leader Whitney M. Young: “We may have all come on different ships but we’re in the same boat now.”

On a wall adjacent to Same Boat, you will find Kyungmi Shin’s stained-glass mosaic with stainless steel tracery, Spring to Life. For this work, Shin drew inspiration from Centinela Springs, the now-vanished water source in South Los Angeles that once supported the Tongva people and the land they cultivated. (If you would like to see more of Shin’s work, the artist has a solo exhibition at Craft Contemporary until 8, September 2024.)

The Dome opening features an exhibition of photographs by Catherine Opie (on loan from MOCA) evoking the experience of community. “We designed Intuit Dome to be a place that brings people together,” said Gillian Zucker, CEO of Halo Sports & Entertainment. “When it came to our public art, we wanted to deliver a collection that is as compelling to people well versed in art as it is to a novice viewer. We are eager to make these unique works, from these amazing artists, available to everyone.”

Mineo Mizuno: Homage to Nature

The Huntington, Pasadena, until 25 May 2029

The Huntington holds a library with British medieval manuscripts, including the 15th-century Ellesmere tome of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; 16 themed gardens with more than 83,000 living plants; an art museum and more.

In the main garden area on the vast grounds, Mineo Mizuno’s sculpture celebrates the beauty of wood in its natural state and emphasises its potential as a reusable and renewable resource. This site-specific work explores the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystem, as well as the destruction of the forest and its potential for regeneration.