This Week in LA: June 11→17
In this Edition: Photography's Long Memory, Light as Material, and Collecting as Portrait — Across LA's Gallery Scene
This week runs from the street to the collection, with light, architecture, and the restless machinery of looking in between. Peter Fetterman Gallery showcases The Hunter, Daido Moriyama’s first major Los Angeles exhibition — decades of grainy, high-contrast street photography shot on the move, where the camera behaves less like a recorder than a predator’s eye. David Zwirner reprises one of Southern California’s defining movements with California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version), a group show that treats light not as subject but as material and asks what the region’s great experiment in perception means to a generation working now. Hauser & Wirth Downtown turns a collection into a portrait with Destiny Is a Rose, more than eighty works assembled over fifty years by Eileen Harris Norton — a sustained commitment to women, artists of color, and California practice told through what she chose to keep.
The MAK Center‘s Schindler House hands its modernist landmark to the Danish collective SUPERFLEX for Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons, conceptual proposals for a city shared with animals, microbes, and the non-human world. And Michael Kohn Gallery debuts Ian Burns’s Object Poetry, kinetic assemblages of salvaged material and live video that turn the gallery into a space of active observation — objects that watch back.
The full lineup is below.
On View Now
Peter Fetterman Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Daido Moriyama: The Hunter
On view through September 5, 2026
@peterfettermangallery
Daido Moriyama’s first major Los Angeles exhibition gathers the grainy, high-contrast street photography that made him one of the defining figures of postwar Japanese image-making — restless black-and-white frames shot on the move, where the camera behaves less like a recording device than a predator’s eye. The Hunter takes its title from that posture: Moriyama prowling the city for the accidental, the blurred, the half-seen, treating photography as an act of pursuit rather than composition. The prints carry the texture of their making — smeared light, hard grain, a world caught at speed — and Peter Fetterman’s Bergamot Station gallery frames that instinct as a single sustained chase.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture | West Hollywood
SUPERFLEX: Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons
Opens June 12, 2026 — closing date pending
@makcenter
The Danish collective SUPERFLEX brings more than thirty years of practice to the MAK Center’s Schindler House, filling Rudolph Schindler’s modernist landmark with the group’s blend of conceptual mischief and social engineering. Rainbows, Sponges, Flies, and Spoons extends SUPERFLEX’s long-running interest in systems built for more than just humans — works that imagine the city as something shared with animals, microbes, and the non-human world, and treat play as a form of serious infrastructure. Sited inside one of LA’s foundational works of architecture, the exhibition stages a friction between modernist order and the collective’s cheerfully destabilizing proposals.
Michael Kohn Gallery | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Ian Burns: Object Poetry
June 11 – September 12, 2026
@kohngallery
Ian Burns builds sculptures that refuse to sit still — kinetic assemblages of salvaged material, live video, and improvised mechanism that turn the gallery into a space of active observation, where meaning is something the viewer assembles in real time. Object Poetry gathers human and non-human forms that watch, move, and respond, collapsing the distance between the thing looked at and the act of looking. Burns treats the everyday object as raw grammar — wired, rigged, and set in motion until the familiar becomes strange and the mechanical starts to feel almost alive.
David Zwirner | East Hollywood, Los Angeles
California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)
On view through August 1, 2026
@davidzwirner
David Zwirner in Melrose Hill/Hollywood reprises one of Southern California’s most consequential movements — Light and Space, the 1960s and ‘70s investigation into perception, atmosphere, and the physical behavior of light — and asks what it means to a generation of artists working now. The 21st Century Version gathers work that treats light not as subject but as material, with surfaces, volumes, and installations calibrated to the way the eye adjusts, doubts, and fills in what it cannot quite resolve. The exhibition reads as both homage and argument: that the region’s defining contribution to postwar art was never a style but a method of attention, one the current century has only made more urgent.
Hauser & Wirth | DTLA
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
On view through August 16, 2026
@hauserwirthlosangeles
Spanning more than eighty works assembled over fifty years, Destiny Is a Rose turns Eileen Harris Norton’s collection into a portrait of the collector herself — a sustained commitment to women, artists of color, and California practice that long predated the market’s attention. Hung across Hauser & Wirth’s Downtown galleries, the exhibition reads less as a survey than as an argument made in acquisitions, each work a record of where Norton chose to look and what she chose to keep. Painting, sculpture, and mixed media accumulate into something closer to autobiography — the shape of a life told through the art it gathered.
Also On View
Santa Monica
A Simple Game — Group Show · Marshall Gallery · Through July 18, 2026
@marshall.gallery
West Hollywood/Hollywood
Roger Herman: California Poppies — Carpenters Workshop Gallery · June 11 – September 20, 2026
@carpentersworkshopgalleryCatherine Opie: Holding Blue — Regen Projects · Through July 3, 2026
@regenprojectsSally Gabori: a story place out to sea / William Turnbull: Origins (1946–1959) — Karma · Through July 17, 2026
@karmakarma9Leica Emerging: Valentin Goppel — Leica Gallery LA · Through August 31, 2026
@leicagalleryla
Mid-Wilshire
Double Take: Photographs in Pairs — Group Show · Fahey/Klein Gallery · June 11 – July 18, 2026
@faheykleingalleryAlex Gardner: Animals / Gabriel Rico / Makiko Kudo: Reincarnation — Perrotin · Through July 11, 2026
@perrotin
DTLA
Body Memory / Evita Tezeno: Coming Home — Luis De Jesus Los Angeles · June 14 – August 15, 2026
@luisdejesuslosangelesEver Baldwin: Spotlight — Vielmetter Los Angeles · Through July 11, 2026
@vielmetterRare Earth / Shannon Cartier Lucy: Bucket of Birds — Night Gallery · Through August 15, 2026
@nightgallery
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