As summer comes to a close, we're looking onward to more of this year's thought-provoking explorations of art, design, and culture coming soon to LACMA. Some exhibitions dive into narratives that unfold right here in L.A., from Los Angeles artist Eileen Cowin’s boundary-blurring photography to the city's influential Brockman Gallery. Others invite you to reconsider the spaces and materials that define our everyday lives, like the groundbreaking textiles of Japanese designer Reiko Sudō and shifting visions of home from the 20th century.
Read on to learn more about some of the current and upcoming exhibitions at LACMA, and remember that your visit to the museum also includes access to the David Geffen Galleries, our new home for the permanent collection that showcases dozens of presentations exploring even more art and ideas across time and geography.
Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise
August 23, 2026–January 3, 2027
This exhibition presents the provocative photography and video of the Los Angeles–based artist who has explored romance and rivalry, the personal and the political, and the monotony and mystery of daily life, for more than 50 years. Often blurring the distinction between nonfiction and fiction, Cowin draws on cinema, literature, poetry, and painting to shape her photographic narratives. This survey highlights the artist’s work with experimental photographic processes, Polaroids, inkjet prints, and videos, featuring works from LACMA’s collection and other Southern California museums.
Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO
September 20, 2026–March 7, 2027
Reiko Sudō is a textile alchemist who, for more than 40 years, has pioneered innovative textiles that merge tradition with experimentation and handicraft with technology. Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudō and NUNO provides an in-depth survey of the acclaimed Japanese designer’s work created with her textile collective NUNO, often in collaboration with independent artisans and workshops across Japan, and utilized by celebrated architects. The largest retrospective of Sudō’s textiles to date, Textile Alchemy features over 100 limited-edition textiles together with numerous objects, including drawings, sketches, raw materials, tools, mock-ups, and prototypes. The exhibition traces her artistic journey and reveals NUNO’s inventive choices that transform materials into fascinating textiles, while helping to preserve regional crafts and historic production centers, and highlighting sustainability issues.
Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias
September 27, 2026–March 14, 2027
Between 1925 and 1985, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic utopias. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, and desktop computers all shaped aspirations about how to live. Through architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, and objects ranging from sinks to television sets, Home of the Future traces how the American home of tomorrow was imagined, packaged, and sold—by whom, and for whom. While these visions promised abundance and technological transformation, the exhibition also asks who was excluded from that future, and who imagined radical alternatives.
The Kitchen and Its Discontents
September 27, 2026–March 14, 2027
Historically a site of women’s labor, the kitchen has also been the subject of their design research and cultural critique. The Kitchen and Its Discontents brings two influential kitchens from LACMA’s collection into conversation: 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 applied modern principles of efficiency and modularity to the home, with the aim of improving women’s lives. However, the reality was always more complicated, as revealed in photographs, prints, and advertisements from LACMA’s collection, which examine the everyday messes and simmering tensions in the domestic terrain, depicting the kitchen as a contested space for labor and living. It is presented concurrently with Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias.
The Brockman Gallery: Los Angeles, 1967–1990
October 18, 2026–January 24, 2027
This is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the impact of the Brockman Gallery, founded in South L.A. by brothers Alonzo and Dale Brockman Davis in the wake of the Watts Rebellion. Their space became vital for young artists of color, nurturing the early careers of David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others. Featuring rich archival material and over 60 works of art across media—all with ties to the Davises’ community-oriented project—the exhibition traces how the Davises cultivated a space for artistic experimentation, intellectual exchange, and multicultural community.
Roberto Gil de Montes: Water Drops on Burning Rocks
December 20, 2026–June 20, 2027
Water Drops on Burning Rocks is the first major exhibition surveying five decades of production from this essential artist. Gil de Montes has an artistic trajectory that is inflected by his birth and early life in Mexico; his experience as an immigrant and art student in the United States; his many years in Los Angeles as a practicing artist; and his move to a small coastal town in Mexico. His art and its existential questions imagine and connect both countries, making his paintings, ceramics, prints, and drawings critical to the ever-evolving notions of Latinx and Latin American art.