A Closer Look: Recent Identity and Race-based Exhibitions in Los Angeles

From January to July 2024, four group exhibitions opened in Los Angeles that used race and identity as an organizing methodology, presenting the work of Black, Asian American, and Latinx artists. The exhibitions took place in both museums and galleries and examined such topics as networks of mutual support; collective contributions to culture; conceptual approaches to identity and family history; community building and activism. Within the context of how exhibitions in past decades took up identity and the politics of representation and with the backdrop of the current political and cultural climate, this panel asked what is the importance of race and identity-based group exhibitions today? How has the approach to such exhibitions changed over time and what is the value, or purpose, now?
We gathered the curators of the four exhibitions to participate in a conversation on curatorial practices and the ambitions and challenges of their projects.
On Wednesday, July 24, 2024, audiences joined us for 𝘈 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬.
𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱, ICA LA Good Works Executive Director and co-curator, 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (February10-July 28, 2024)
𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀, artist and co-curator, 𝘙𝘌𝘛𝘙𝘖𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘸𝘰), Hauser & Wirth (February 27-May 5, 2024)
𝗗𝗿. 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝗻, curator, 𝘈𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺, USC’s Pacific Asia Museum (January 26-April 24, 2024)
𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗽𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀, artist and co-curator, 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (February 24-June 1, 2024)
𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘇𝘂 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼, artist and co-curator, 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (February 24-June 1, 2024)
𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵, art historian and program moderator, Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Department of Visual Arts and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
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