Past Exhibitions
New Voices: The 2024 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 18, 2024 – June 29, 2024
“New Voices: The 2024 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition” highlights exceptional artworks produced at East Los Angeles College since the 2022-2023 academic year.
Alice Wang: We Are Extraterrestrial
May 4, 2024 – August 3, 2024
In her first solo museum exhibition in the United States, We Are Extraterrestrial, artist Alice Wang showcases recent prints and glass sculptures, alongside newly-commissioned ceramic sculptures, film, and an artist book. These works are the result of her immersive research…
TEDDY SANDOVAL AND THE BUTCH GARDENS SCHOOL OF ART
October 21, 2023 – March 2, 2024
A central figure in LA’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Teddy Sandoval was an active participant in both U.S. and international avant-garde movements. For 25 years, he produced subversive, yet playful artworks that explored the codes of gender and sexuality and continuously mined archetypes of masculinity through his signature icon of a faceless man, often sporting a mustache. This was the first museum retrospective dedicated to the artist.
Yoshie Sakai: Grandma Entertainment Franchise
October 21, 2023 – February 3, 2024
In her first solo museum exhibition, Grandma Entertainment Franchise, artist Yoshie Sakai brings together three immersive installations produced over the last three years: Grandma Day Spa, Grandma Nightclub, and Grandma Amusement Park. These three distinct but interconnected installations, composed of…
Kang Seung Lee: The Heart of A Hand
March 25, 2023 – July 22, 2023
Kang Seung Lee: The Heart of A Hand pays tribute to Goh Choo San (1948–1987), a pioneering Singaporean-born choreographer who died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of thirty-nine. Although Goh choreographed and performed for prominent ballet companies throughout Asia, Europe, and North America during his lifetime, his legacy remains largely absent from queer, cultural, and dance histories in the United States.
NEW VOICES: THE 2022 DISTRICT WIDE JURIED STUDENT ART EXHIBITION
November 5, 2022 – January 21, 2023
For more than sixty years, the student art exhibition at East Los Angeles College has showcased exceptional artworks produced on campus throughout the academic year. This year, the exhibition expanded to invite students from all nine campuses of the Los…
Librería Donceles
September 17, 2022 – June 24, 2023
“Librería Donceles” is a socially engaged art project created by artist and educator Pablo Helguera out of a desire to address the lack of bookstores that serve the growing Hispanic and Latinx communities in the United States.