LA Artists

In an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles that pairs Kelley with contemporary voices, curator Jay Ezra Nayssan explores the late American artist’s shades of loneliness

At Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, the artist’s solo exhibition takes viewers from the desert into the jungle via the ocean

With major shows at MCA, Chicago and Hauser & Wirth London, the artist assesses his past, present and future

At Hauser & Wirth, New York, Mark Bradford shows new paintings alongside video work and sculpture that probes histories of race, land and migration

We speak to the Iranian artist, a highlight of the Focus section from Frieze Los Angeles 2023, about her experience as part of the Los Angeles diaspora and making work in the wake of traumatic news from back home

Terence Trouillot profiles the maverick painter, reflecting on how the artist’s work is intertwined with his community and personal histories

At Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, a survey of the artist’s work from the past 30 years likens painting to shooting practice

Ahead of his Creative Time commission in New York, the artist speaks with poet Harmony Holiday

On the tenth anniversary of Kelley’s death, Dan Fox rereads the artist’s writing and criticism

For the inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s island outpost, the artist has created a new series of paintings and sculptures that span from the European discovery of the New World to racialized urban zoning 

At Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square in Ontario, the artist combines threads of illness, vulnerability, healing and love in textiles centered on the queer Black body 

Rianna Jade Parker on a new work from the artist’s first UK solo show

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance 

A specially commissioned visual essay by the artist, ahead of his Hammer Museum retrospective

‘The sheer farce of it. Wonderful. That was what made so much sense and felt so good’

‘The exhibition was one of the most formative and memorable things I’ve ever seen’

With a new show opening at Simon Lee Gallery, London, the Los Angeles-based artist talks walking the razor-thin line between poetry and cultural politics

Born in Venezuela in 1920, emigrating to New York at the age of nine, the artist ranged gracefully across the mid 20th century

Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, USA

Friends and collaborators remember his life and work