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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.

Press Release

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.

PigeonBlog Launch and Workshop | Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics

PigeonBlog (2024), photo by Juan Silverio. PigeonBlog Launch and Workshop | Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics Saturday, October 19, 2024, 2:30–4 PM Release begins at 2:30 PM, free and ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics, Bob Matsuyama, Crenshaw Dairy Mart, leslie garcia, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Pigeonblog

Selene Preciado Featured in Major Mexican Press

Selene Preciado and Daniela Lieja Quintanar at Ser todo Es ser parte/To Be Whole Is To Be Part, curated by Selene Preciado at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Photo by Ray Barrera. By ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, News Tagged With: Daniela Lieja Quintanar, El Universal, Heber Rodriguez, Selene Preciado

PST ART | Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics

Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar with Ana Briz as part of PST ART: Art and Science Collide  Presented at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery 4800 ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 2022, 2024, beatriz da costa, da costa, getty foundation, Pacific Standard Time, pigeon, PST, pst 2024, science, technology, undisciplinary, undisciplinary tactics

LACE Screening Room | Radical Botany

Emily Drummer, Field Resistance (still), 2019. Courtesy the artist. Radical Botany Curated by Anya Ventura LACE Screening Room Download the Digital Program Saturday, August 3, 2024, 2–5 ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, LACE, Screening, Video Tagged With: Ayushi Shriramwar, Chichi Castillo, Elizabeth Dayton, Eva Wu, kim ye, LACE Screening Room, May May Peltier, Naomi Fleur Jahan, Neda Chaturvedi, Tahir Ahmed Qureshis, Yin Q, Yoon Grace Ra

LACE and LAMAG Announce Opening of Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics on September 7

Los Angeles, August 1, 2024—Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is thrilled to announce the opening of  the organization’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Beatriz da Costa: ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2020-Current Year, Exhibition, LACE, News Tagged With: ana briz, art and science collide, beatriz da costa, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, DCA, getty, Getty PST, lamag, pst art

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LACE’s Lightning Fund Opens August 15, 2025!

PRESS RELEASE: Announcing LACE’s Next Emerging Curators

Announcing the 2025 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Awards

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VideoLACE is now live as part of the LACE Digital VideoLACE is now live as part of the LACE Digital Archive! Check out the link in our bio to watch documented performances from the last few years with more to come. Explore documentation from LACE projects including “This Home, Forever” (2025), “ENDURANCE” (2025), “ABUNDANCE” (2024), and “APOLAKI” (2023).
“A Tender Excavation” approaches research-base “A Tender Excavation” approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists who work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation.

LACE is thrilled to introduce three of the artists featured in the exhibition...

❥ Jamil G Baldwin (@juh_mile) was born in Lancaster, CA and raised in and across the Inland Empire and Los Angeles. Baldwin’s work explores the ability of the photographic document to reconstitute the histories of images and material into value systems of care.

❥ Camille Wong (@camillexwong) is a research-based artist living in Los Angeles, CA. Their practice examines power, geopolitics, and historiography through the lens of media and spectacle. They approach the gaze of ethnography by authoring the personal into the world through experimental documentary.

❥ Artemisa Clark (@bustilacaca) is a multidisciplinary artist from Los Angeles. She received a MA in performance studies from Northwestern University in 2016 and a MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego in 2015. She has exhibited and presented research in spaces such as MOCA, The Hammer, the Mexican Consulate, the Vincent Price Art Museum, and more.

Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 2–5 PM at CSULA’s Luckman Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
Swipe to see selections from LACE’s archive over Swipe to see selections from LACE’s archive over the last almost 50 years!

LACE is excited to announce that we will be at the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar this Saturday, October 18, at CSULA! The event will feature 80 local and regional collections, along with practical workshops and exclusive presentations by archivists, filmmakers, and preservationists.

This year’s Archives Bazaar is presented by the LA as Subject Research Alliance in partnership with the USC Libraries, the Cal State LA University Library, and the Cal State LA Pathway Programs Office.

The Archives Bazaar runs from 10–3 PM in the Golden Eagle Ballrooms at Cal State LA. Admission is free. For the full program and exhibitor list, visit laassubject.org.

Slide 1: “The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE” (March 15, 2018 – November 7, 2021). Photos by Chris Wormwald (@christopherwphoto).
Join LACE and multidisciplinary artist Marnie Webe Join LACE and multidisciplinary artist Marnie Weber (@marnieweberstudio) on Thursday, November 13 from 7-9 PM at the Philosophical Research Society (@philosophical_research_society) for the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, “House of the Whispering Rose” (2025). The screening will also feature Weber’s film “Song of the Sea Witch” (2020).

Filmed at the historic Beverly Estate in Beverly Hills, where silent film star Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst shared their final days, “House of the Whispering Rose’’ takes place against a backdrop of forgotten wealth and grandeur.

Following the screening, LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs Selene Preciado (@selene__preciado) speaks with Marnie Weber to learn more about the making of the films and her collaborations. Light refreshments will be provided.

Reservations are filling up quickly and space is limited. RSVP at the link in our bio.

This program is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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