May 26, 2023
Darren Bader is looking to cap a two-decade artistic career by selling something valuable. Not the witty and poetic sculpture he’s known for, but his own name...
May 20, 2023
On the occasion of Thornton Dial's first major presentation in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with the artist's son, sculptor Richard Dial; curator Essence Harden; and artist Umar Rashid on the life and work of the late artist...
May 10 – October 1, 2023
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is pleased to announce If You Really Knew, an intimate and focused look at the career of Birmingham, Alabama-born artist and musician Lonnie Holley...
April 15, 2023
To celebrate the final day of Asuka Anastacia Ogawa’s exhibition pedra, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a sound bath meditation in the exhibition space, led by Jackson Englund of Mystic Harmonies...
March 4 – May 7, 2023
Sleeping Figure might be a cubist rendition of a classical odalisque, except here the cubes are shipping containers belonging to the globalized movement of goods and trade...
February 18, 2023
On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, Blum & Poe presents a walkthrough of Alma Allen's recent exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery, led by writer and curator Douglas Fogle...
February 9 – June 26, 2023
Anahuacalli Museum is pleased to present Nunca Solo (Never Alone), a solo presentation by the sculptor Alma Allen. Rather than a retrospective of existing works, the Tepoztlán, México-based artist has elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze sculptures for the museum and grounds...
February 7 – June 11, 2023
Umar Rashid's presentation for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present has roots in the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO in 2012...
December 9, 2022
Umar Rashid aka Frohawk Two Feathers carries his history everywhere he goes. The Los Angeles-based artist seen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and MoMA PS1, reinterprets Colonial art to converse with younger generations about the histories of Black American life...
December 6, 2022
Camil, who recently moved from Mexico City to a farm in Acatitlán, will have her first monograph published next fall...
November 28, 2022
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Ugandan artist Collin Sekajugo. Sekajugo’s first presentation with the gallery will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week, followed by a forthcoming solo exhibition at the gallery...
November 19, 2022
On the occasion of Linder's exhibition Sex-Pol at Blum & Poe Los Angeles, join us for a live film score of two films—Linder's A dream between waking and sleeping (2022) and Rabit's Angelica / Safe (2022)—performed by Rabit and Maxwell Sterling...
November 12, 2022
Armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, Linder Sterling cuts away at imagery from Playboy and other magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism...
November 7, 2022
There was something telling that Anna Park disclosed this week as she opened her solo show, Mirror Shy, at Blum and Poe. "When I moved to NYC, there was just so much going on, and I was taking it all in and painting that feeling. I think my new work is absorbing something different now...
November 6, 2022 – April 30, 2023
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Henry Taylor: B Side, the first exhibition to survey the remarkable career of this Los Angeles artist in his hometown, and the most extensive museum presentation of Henry Taylor’s work to date...
October 27, 2022
Farmer, fisherman and ceramicist Kazunori Hamana has a passion for patina. Kenji Hall drops by his coastal atelier in Japan...
October 26, 2022
The artist’s survey at MOCA, with its empathetic portraits and quirky sculptures, speaks to the larger struggle of Black artists to achieve a level of recognition that is long overdue...
October 15, 2022
One of the most influential sculptors since World War II, Benglis changed the trajectory of various artistic movements without ever quite belonging to any of them. At age 80, she’s only beginning to give us a more complete understanding of her work...
October 1, 2022
Three Landscapes brought together a trio of artists who lived and worked, both individually and collaboratively, in Marin County, California, during the 1960s and ’70s: dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin (1920–2021); her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009); and sculptor JB Blunk (1926–2002)...
September 23, 2022
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce joint global representation of Acaye Kerunen, a pioneering installation artist whose work is included in the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy in Uganda’s first-ever national pavilion...
September 22, 2022 – March 13, 2023
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce Umar Rashid's exhibition at MoMA PS1: Ancien Regime Change 4, 5, and 6. This is the artist's first solo museum exhibition in New York City...
July 23, 2022
In celebration of What Have They Done with America?, Lonnie Holley’s first exhibition in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with Holley and two-time Academy Award-winning actor, producer, author, and activist Jane Fonda...
July 7 – 30, 2022
Join Blum & Poe for a series of summer events in celebration of upcoming exhibitions with Lonnie Holley; Dave Muller; and JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Halprin...
July 7, 2022
His paintings refer to race and racism, pride and prejudice, in ways that startled, seduced, elucidated, and horrified. Now they are at the New Museum...
June 30 – October 9, 2022
The New Museum is pleased to present the final iteration of the traveling exhibition Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America’s most adventurous and subversive artists, Robert Colescott...