Image Credit: Yuchi Ma, Red Threads (我很爱你) (still), 2022. Courtesy the artist. For LACE’s ninth Emerging Curators presentation, Carrie Chen curates the screening series A Fossil, A Ruin, A Memory, ... [Read More]
Welcome to the LACE Archive
The archives ensure the preservation and availability of an unbroken forty-year record of LACE, the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles. Many of the historically significant ephemeral practices presented at LACE now only exist as writings, photographic documents, and videotapes. The archives present an irreplaceable collection of these works. The archives also ensure that the work of current artists will remain part of a rich historical record. The archives make the history of LACE accessible to the public and link the organization’s rich past with a vibrant future.
Searchable Online Archive: 1978 - Now
A comprehensive list of exhibitions, performances, events, screenings, benefit auctions, lectures, and news, are searchable here through the LACE Online Archive. Most participating artist and curator names are also tagged. Images, videos, reviews, and other documentation are continually added.
The Getty and the LACE Archives
In celebration of our 40th Anniversary in 2018, The Getty Research Institute (GRI) acquired the physical archive of LACE. The LACE Records, 1978 to today, covers the first four decades of exhibitions and programs at the institution; future records of the active contemporary art site will be added to the GRI’s collection. The LACE Records include photography, ephemera, correspondence from artists, promotional materials, video documentation of events and performance, and other records. The archive will ultimately be cataloged and digitized by the GRI and made available to researchers.
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE
In 2018, LACE invited artist and curator Matias Viegener to present the Project Room exhibition The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE. The exhibition was packed with original and printed materials, and visitors could take home examples of publications and ephemera from our 40-year history.
LACE Publications
Read LACE publications for free by clicking here.
Generative Exchanges: Of Seed, Soil, and Stars Closing Reception
Of Seed, Soil, and Stars, installation view, USC Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery, 2023. Courtesy LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Photograph by Jackie Castillo Generative Exchanges Closing ... [Read More]
Of Seed, Soil, and Stars Curator Tour
Of Seed, Soil, and Stars, installation view, USC Roski Studios Building, 2023. Photograph by Juan Silverio. Of Seed, Soil, and Stars Curator Tour with Emerging Curators Joy A. Anderson and Robin ... [Read More]
LACE Announces Selene Preciado as Curator and Director of Programs
LACE has appointed Selene Preciado as the organization’s new Curator & Director of Programming. Selene Preciado was LACE’s first Emerging Curator in 2016, co-curating Customizing Language with ... [Read More]
PST ART Featured in The New York Times
The Getty Gives $17 Million to Museums for Pacific Standard Time, The New York Times (un)disciplinary tactics: Beatriz da Costa showcases the collaborative work of Beatriz da Costa (1974–2012) as ... [Read More]
