Works by Otis College Community Featured in the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025
The landmark biennial runs through March 1, 2026.
Made in L.A. 2025 marks the seventh edition of the Hammer Museum’s signature biennial exhibition, showcasing artists practicing throughout the greater Los Angeles area. According to the museum, the 28 participants in the exhibition “present work not only made in the city but also grounded in its complex and unfolding terrain.” The show opened in October and runs through March 1, 2026 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.
Since its inception in 2012, Made in L.A. has highlighted the diversity and depth of the city’s artist communities. Each iteration has provided a snapshot of contemporary art in Los Angeles through multiple generations and disciplines, from painting and film to performance and installation. Made in L.A. 2025 continues that legacy, celebrating work that is “of this city and nowhere else.”
Otis Community in the Exhibition
Otis College is proud to recognize the following alumni and faculty whose work is included in Made in L.A. 2025:
Alonzo Davis (’73 MFA Fine Arts; ’71 BFA Fine Arts)
Davis was an artist, teacher, gallerist, and community organizer who passed away earlier this year. An article, “Remembering Alonzo Davis (1942-2025),” describes Davis as “an artist who, after encouragement from his mentor Charles White, worked exclusively in series, repeating motifs to explore them as far as possible.”
Davis’s mural, originally painted along the 110 Freeway for the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, has been re-created for Made in L.A., where it can be seen on Wilshire Boulevard. Davis’s work in the show
John Knight (former faculty)
Knight examines the built environment and works in situ with a wide range of forms, including architectural interventions and installations. Knight’s work in the show
Kelly Wall (’13 BFA Fine Arts; faculty)
California is central to Wall’s work. She delves into nostalgia with her objects and invites viewers to project themselves into the work. Wall currently teaches sculpture at Otis. Wall’s work in the show
Bruce Yonemoto (’79 MFA Fine Arts)
Yonemoto has worked in video and digital media installation since the mid 1970s, with many of his early works being done in collaboration with his brother, Norman, who passed away in 2014. Yonemoto works at the intersections of art and commerce, of the gallery world and the television screen. Yonemoto’s work in the show
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“If you don’t live in Los Angeles, you might think that there’s no community and that everything is fractured,” said Pobocha to the LA Times. “And I think one of the things that you see throughout the course of this presentation is that, in fact, there are so many points of connection, especially in the arts community.”
Made in L.A. 2025 is organized by: Essence Harden, independent curator; Paulina Pobocha, Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and former Hammer Museum Robert Soros Senior Curator; and Jennifer Buonocore-Nedrelow, curatorial assistant.
Made in L.A. 2025 is on view through March 1, 2026 at the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Admission to the museum is free.
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