Iwan Bann, Exhibit photos courtesy of Hammer Museum – by Raven Halfmoon, Edgar Calel
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Editor, Secret Los Angeles
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April 3, 2026
An otherworldly new exhibition is about to open at the Hammer Museum.
Several Eternities In A Day, the museum’s newest exhibition, features over 100 artworks from nearly two dozen artists, including commissioned works by Jackie Amézquita, Carmen Argote, Edgar Calel, Raven Chacon, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Patricia Dominguez. The artists are from across the Americas, including Brazil, Mexico, Standing Rock, Argentina, Los Angeles, and more.
The exhibition is embracing “the unpredictable nature of living materials,” reads a press release. “These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.”
Zoë Ryan, museum director, hopes the exhibition will allow guests to “reconsider how we relate to the world around us, and illuminate what it means to belong.” Museums are typically meant to preserve, Ryan pointed out at a press preview on Friday, but these objects are “designed to evolve, to decay, and eventually, to disappear entirely.”
Several Eternities is the first of four exhibitions for the Hammer Museum’s spring exhibition openings.
What else is showing at the Hammer Museum right now?
The museum’s spring exhibitions include:
SPACE IS THE PLACE: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Arthur Jafa: The White Album
Hammer Projects: Mike Cloud
The Hammer Museum is free to enter. The garage costs $8 for the first three hours.
📍Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024