This week Los Angeles settles into the hang after last week’s opening wave: paper rooms, painted interiors, domestic utopias, and the cast list of an authoritarian stage. At Matthew Marks Gallery, Thomas Demand shows seventeen new photographs of paper reconstructions, bringing his Model Series practice into the Orange Grove space as built worlds held only long enough to be pictured. At Vielmetter Los Angeles, Shanna Waddell’s Chapter 3: Interiors and Exteriors turns rooms and thresholds into painting and sculpture, domestic space treated as something that can be entered, rebuilt, and looked back at. Westwood’s Hammer Museum continues Hammer Projects: Gê Viana, the Brazilian artist’s first U.S. institutional presentation, working installation, video, and sculpture into a single channel of research and image.
Downtown at MOCA Grand Avenue, Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol’s Regime: Dramatis Personae hangs black-and-white portraits of archetypal political roles (the dictator, the masked police officer, the ideological tourist, the one from Hollywood), modeled by LGBTQ+ activists in Caracas and labeled not with names but with the social functions they perform. And at LACMA, Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias opens Saturday in the Resnick Pavilion, tracing six decades of American domestic futures through architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, and objects (self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances), and asking who those futures were packaged for, and who was left out.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Matthew Marks Gallery | West Hollywood
Thomas Demand
September 19 – November 7, 2026
@matthewmarksgallery
Seventeen new photographs of paper constructions fill Matthew Marks’s Orange Grove space. Thomas Demand rebuilds the world in paper and cardboard, then photographs the reconstruction until the model becomes the only evidence left. The Model Series has always treated the photograph as a record of something that existed only to be pictured; here the reconstructions sit close enough that the paper’s edges and joints remain part of what you see. What holds is the image, not the room that made it.
Vielmetter Los Angeles | DTLA
Shanna Waddell: Chapter 3: Interiors and Exteriors
September 19 – October 31, 2026
@vielmetter
At Vielmetter’s Santa Fe Avenue space, Chapter 3: Interiors and Exteriors works painting, sculpture, and mixed media across the problem of the room: what an interior holds, what an exterior withholds, and how the threshold between them becomes a subject rather than a passage. The title treats interiors and exteriors as equal terms, not as background for figures. On view through the end of October in the Arts District.
Hammer Museum | Westwood
Hammer Projects: Gê Viana
September 19, 2026 – February 7, 2027
@hammer_museum
Gê Viana’s first U.S. institutional presentation is a Hammer Project spanning installation, video, sculpture, and mixed media. The Brazilian artist’s research-driven practice treats image and object as parts of one channel rather than separate media. The project format gives the work room to operate as a temporary occupation of the museum rather than a fixed survey, and the run extends through early February.
MOCA Grand Avenue | DTLA
Alexander Apóstol: Regime: Dramatis Personae
September 20, 2026 – January 3, 2027
@moca
Regime: Dramatis Personae turns Alexander Apóstol’s long inquiry into art and political power in Latin America into a cast list. Shot in Caracas with LGBTQ+ activists modeling archetypal figures of populist and authoritarian government, the black-and-white portraits carry no personal names, only the social functions the sitters perform. In the Los Angeles selection, those roles read as a working script still in production.
LACMA | Mid-Wilshire
Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias
September 27, 2026 – March 14, 2027
@lacma
Between 1925 and 1985 Americans were sold an array of domestic utopias: self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day, push-button appliances, desktop computers. Home of the Future at LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion gathers the architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, and household objects through which those futures were imagined, packaged, and sold. The exhibition treats the American home of tomorrow as both a design history and a marketing campaign, asking what abundance looked like, who was excluded from it, and who imagined radical alternatives. It opens Saturday and runs through mid-March.
Also On View
West Hollywood
Randy Wray: Hothouse — Karma — September 19 – October 24, 2026 · @karmakarma9
Objective Truths — Roberts Projects — September 19 – October 24, 2026 · @robertsprojects
DTLA
Sarah Miska: Happy Trails — Night Gallery — September 19 – October 31, 2026 · @nightgallery
Mid-Wilshire
Jordan Nassar: Describing Clouds — Anat Ebgi — September 19 – October 31, 2026 · @anatebgigallery
Hollywood
Vanessa Prager: Talk to Me — Diane Rosenstein Gallery — September 19 – October 24, 2026 · @dianerosenstein
HARD LINE WOMEN — Nonaka-Hill — September 16 – November 7, 2026 · @nonakahillgallery
Emmanuel Louisnord Desir: Rough Ways of The Delicate Ones — Sebastian Gladstone — September 19 – October 31, 2026 · @sebastiangladstone
Cypress Park
Amy MacKay: Neither Land Nor Water — la BEAST Gallery — September 19 – October 31, 2026 @la_beast_gallery
Manhattan Beach
Bryan Ida: Portrait Remix — Bluerider ART — September 19 – November 21, 2026 · @blueriderarttpsh
Claremont
Isabel Beavers: Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams — Pitzer College Art Galleries — September 19 – December 12, 2026 · @pitzerartgalleries
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