LACMA Presents Grounded

August 28, 2025 1:31 pm

Image credits: Claudia Alarcón & Silät, The Shell of Memory (El caparazón de la memoria), 2024, © Claudia Alarcón & Silät, courtesy of the artist and Cecilia Brunson Projects, photo by Phoebe dHeurle; Courtney M. Leonard, BREACH #2, 2016, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Autry Museum of the American West, in honor of Dr. Loren G. Lipson and purchased jointly with funds provided by the Horiuchi Ancient Art Fund, © Courtney M. Leonard, photo courtesy of the artist; (right) Leslie Martinez, Fertile Valley of Grief, 2023, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, promised gift of Allison Berg and Laurence Berg, © Leslie Martinez, courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, photo by Paul Salveson

Los Angeles- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Grounded, a multi-media exhibition that invites visitors to contemplate land not just as terrain, but as a foundation to explore history, ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home. Through 40 works by 35 artists based across the Americas and the Pacific, the exhibition illuminates how human experience is embedded in the land. Artists consider the lasting effects of colonialism and imperialism; share stories of forced migration and displacement; engage with Indigenous mythologies and motifs; and retell ancestral histories by forging new aesthetic languages.

Grounded is co-curated by Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art; Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Song Associate Curator of Contemporary Art; and Nancy Thomas, Senior Deputy Director for Art Administration and Collections at LACMA.