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Louis Verdad: TONÁNTZIN
September 14, 2024 - May 10, 2025 Louis Verdad: TONÁNTZIN features a commissioned artwork by Mexican-American fashion designer Louis Verdad and a team of…
CONEXIONES: Cultivating Community Action
September 14, 2024 – May 10, 2025 CONEXIONES: Cultivating Community Action is a collaborative and informational exhibition and meeting space for nine community partners where…
Jaime Muñoz: Truth Is A Moving Target
July 14, 2024 - January 26, 2025 LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes presents Jaime Muñoz: Truth Is A Moving Target, the artist’s first…
18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium | August 11, 2023 through Sunday, May 19, 2024
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes presents 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium, an exhibition recounting the 80-year history (1925-2005) of the Olympic Auditorium, the home…
The View From Here: Architecture as Witness to History | Permanent Exhibition | 2d Floor
LA Plaza’s Vickrey-Brunswig Building, Plaza House, and adjoining two-and-a-half-acre campus are located in the historic heart of Los Angeles. The museum resides within both the…
Recetario para la memoria – May 13 through November 11, 2023
Pozole, mole and flan … these are the foods of sustenance, of enjoyment, and for a tragic number of Mexican families, the foods that…
Gloria Molina: Community Champion through August 15, 2023
Gloria Molina (1948 - 2023) was a lifelong resident of Los Angeles County, a region she served for many years. She was the first…
Community Quilt of Hope through August 15, 2023
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes invites Los Angeles County residents to contribute to the Community Quilt of Hope, a participatory activity to construct…
Hostile Terrain ‘94: The Undocumented Migration Project | September 17, 2022 – July 16, 2023
Content Warning: This exhibition contains highly sensitive and graphic content, including photographs, objects, films and recordings related to migrant hardships and death. We invite…
Arte para la gente, The Collected Works of Margaret Garcia | July 22, 2022-June 11, 2023
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes presents Arte para la gente, The Collected Works of Margaret Garcia, a retrospective exhibition with more than 75…
The Legacy of Cacao at LA Plaza Cocina | November 5, 2022 – April 30, 2023
LA Plaza Cocina opened its newest exhibition, The Legacy of Cacao, which focuses on chocolate, one of the most popular foods in the world,…
Abuelita’s Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories | May 22 through October 23, 2022 | LA Plaza Cocina
LA Plaza Cocina, an extension of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and the nation’s first museum and teaching kitchen dedicated to Mexican food,…
L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989 | Through Aug 14, 2022
Highlighting the artistic contribution that Los Angeles-based Chicana/o artists made to American art, this exhibition, consisting of 51 artworks by 31 artists, investigates how…
“Going to the 1984 Olympics” by Frank Romero | November 22, 2021 – August 6, 2022
Going to the 1984 Olympics, the original painting by Frank Romero which served as the basis for his iconic mural overlooking the Hollywood Freeway, is on…
Patriotism in Conflict: Fighting for Country and Comunidad | November 14, 2021 through June 19, 2022
Marking fifty-one years since the National Chicano Moratorium took place in East Los Angeles, where more than 30,000 participants marched to protest the Vietnam…
3B Collective, Chicano Moratorium Mural, 2021 | Through June 19, 2021
3B Collective is a Los Angeles-based group of artists and designers who produce individual works, create site-specific installations, public artworks, and murals. 3B’s works…
Carlos Almaraz: Evolution of Form | Through February 13, 2022
Carlos Almaraz: Evolution of Form focuses on the earlier periods in the artist’s life that played a significant influence on his artistic styles and…
Only Light Can Do That by Patrick Martinez | May 7, 2021 – September 5, 2021
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes presented a large-scale neon mural installation exhibition by multimedia artist Patrick Martinez. Activating LA Plaza’s Vickrey-Brunswig and Plaza…
afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my city | February 22, 2020 – September 29, 2021
LA Plaza explores the history and contemporary experiences of Afrolatinidad in Los Angeles through art, photographs, and personal objects in "afroLAtinidad: mi casa, my…
Linda Vallejo: Brown Belongings
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes announces its forthcoming exhibition, Linda Vallejo: Brown Belongings, a collection of new and recent work from the Los…
¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals Under Siege
Los Angeles was once the mural capital of the world. Thousands of murals were painted in the city during the late twentieth century, most…
Landscapes & Land Dwellers: Photography of Place by Rafael Cardenas
Take a walk with self-taught photographer Rafael Cardenas as he traverses northeast, east, and downtown L.A. Through new and rarely-exhibited photographs, Cardenas explores the…
!Ya Basta! The East L.A. Walkouts and the Power of Protest
During one week in 1968, ten thousand East Los Angeles high school students walked out of class. Protesting unequal conditions in their schools, they…
Education Not Deportation
For this companion installation to ¡Ya Basta! The East L.A. Walkouts and the Power of Protest, youth from Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) took…
Past Exhibitions