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You are here: Home / LACE / 2020-Current Year / Announcing the Renovation of LACE!

Announcing the Renovation of LACE!

Rendering of The Hollywood Arts Collective, Hollywood Blvd. facing south with the new LACE façade on the right and housing behind.

Dear Friends—
We are excited to share news about the next step in the evolution of LACE. Many of you know that LACE’s roots begin in El Monte with the founding CETA artists, who later set up a space at 240 S. Broadway in Downtown LA. Following a few years there, LACE moved to 1804 Industrial Street, where it remained until 1993 before moving to the current 6522 Hollywood Blvd. location.

LACE’s current gallery and two adjacent spaces to the east are in a 1919 building owned by the City of LA and will undergo major construction beginning in 2022 to create The Hollywood Arts Collective. Adding to the rapidly growing arts scene this new Hollywood cultural nexus includes a skylit paseo and courtyard leading to the Glorya Kaufman Theatre, non-profit arts spaces, and The Actors Fund Western Region Headquarters. LACE is the visual arts anchor in the new complex, retaining its street-level storefront location with a re-designed façade and a renovated interior featuring a skylit gallery and mezzanine offices.

The LACE Team will temporarily re-locate in the neighborhood during the renovations to continue both in-person and virtual programming before returning to its renovated gallery. The final exhibition projects in our current space wrap up this fall – come by to catch the Emerging Curator project, Parable 003; Estación Intergalactix Station; and The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE. For over 27 years LACE has been embedded in the Hollywood community and we will continue to offer free and accessible programming that welcomes visitors to experience thought-provoking contemporary art.

LACE programming in 2022 includes: the Emerging Curator program presentation of Cat Jones’s project, Reclaiming Performance: A Revolutionary Act; Micaela Tobin’s (White Boy Scream’s) experimental opera, APOLAKI: Still Here; and Cantadora: Shamana de Cabaret, Carmina Escobar’s collaboration with Asher Hartman. In addition, LACE continues virtual bilingual programming related to last summer’s exhibition Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento. The LACE curatorial team is researching and preparing the 2024 Pacific Standard Time Art + Science presentation, (Un)disciplinary Tactics, an exhibition centering the work of Beatriz da Costa.

The Getty acquired the LACE Archives in 2018 (over 400 boxes), so researchers will have access to those materials and they can be cross-referenced with The Getty’s other rich archives. Look for announcements about upcoming LACE Sales before the end of the year! We thank the LACE community for continued support of our mission and look forward to sharing more updates.

Warmest regards from The LACE Team,
Sarah Russin, Executive Director
Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Chief Curator and Director of Programming
Juan Silverio, Exhibitions and Operations Manager
Bren Perry, Communications Coordinator
Fiona Ball, Grants Manager

About The Hollywood Arts Collective
The project is a culmination of 11 years of cultural planning and development by The Actors Fund, developers Thomas Safran & Associates, and the City of Los Angeles Departments of Housing, Cultural Affairs and Transportation.

Located at the former parking lot behind LACE, The Hollywood Arts Collective will feature a Residential Building with 151 units of affordable housing, three resident gardens, and the new home for The Actors Fund Western Region Headquarters. The adjacent Arts Building on Hollywood Blvd. will be home to Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), the under 99-seat Glorya Kaufman Theater, a courtyard, and nonprofit arts office spaces.

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“This Home, Forever,” curated by 2025 LACE Emerging Curator Nahui Garcia (@_nahui) is a two-day performance series which sparked thoughts about the potential erosion of LA’s diverse and vibrant urban ecosystem against the backdrop of gentrification. This program featured performances by: 011668 (@0ll668), Perras Bravas (@perras.bravas), Los Angeles Poverty Department (@lapovertydepartment), Michele Lorusso (@michelelorusso), Pacoima Techno (@pacoimatechno), and Jaklin Romine (@jakioeoeo), held at Heidi Duckler Dance (@heididucklerla) on the rooftop of the historic Bendix Building on June 7 and 8, 2025.

“This Home, Forever” is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Pasadena Art Alliance. Video documentation by Miguel Loza, Daniela Apodaca Hernandez, and Alexis Luna.
⚡️LACE is launching our next round of applicat ⚡️LACE is launching our next round of applications for the 2026 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Award on August 15, 2025.⚡️

This year, LACE will award 10 artist project grants $6,000 each and one $10,000 grant to a mid- or advance-career artist.

To support applicants, LACE is offering a virtual information session on July 31 at 1PM PDT, on Zoom. This session will include an overview of the Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Award eligibility guidelines, application platform tips, as well as an opportunity to ask questions. This session is open to anyone interested in applying to this year’s Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Award, and will be recorded and posted on our website. 

Learn more and RSVP at the link in our bio!
This Saturday, the LACE Screening Room presents, “Obsidian Reflections” from 2–5 PM at the Philosophical Research Society (@philosophical_research_society).

This film program is followed by a musical performance with multimedia NeoCumbia artist El Keamo (@el_keamo). El Keamo is the alias of Alfredo González-Martínez, a first-generation Mexican-American multimedia artist from Reseda, California. With an innovative blend of cumbia sonidera, tribal, house, and acid genres, El Keamo’s Neocumbia project is a modern interpretation of traditional Latin rhythms fused with electronic synthesis, creating a unique sound that is both familiar and boldly avant-garde.

This event is FREE and you can RSVP at the link in our bio!

Video courtesy El Keamo.
You can now watch all the performances from "ENDUR You can now watch all the performances from "ENDURANCE" on the LACE website as part of our digital archive! 

"ENDURANCE" presented performance art and interdisciplinary work by elder artists. These artists use their practices to share wisdom, knowledge, and experiences that they have gained throughout their lives. This series is a companion program to LACE’s 2024 performance series, "ABUNDANCE," both featuring often invisibilized bodies.

This program was held at L.A. Dance Project from May 16–17, 2025.

The online presentation of "ENDURANCE" is supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles (@culture_la).

Photos by Angel Origgi (@angeloriggi)

Image Captions in order:
Sheree Rose, "The Most Dangerous Woman in America!" (2025)
Sharon Kagan, "...and then this happened..." (2025)
Anna Homler, Jeff Schwartz, and David Javelosa, "VOE Variations" (2025)
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