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About the Exhibition
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began opens at LACMA on October 12, 2025, and runs through March 29, 2026, as a part of The Hyundai Project at LACMA, a joint initiative between Hyundai Motor and LACMA established in 2015.
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began is the artist’s first major museum exhibition in Los Angeles. Introducing more than 20 new works including Tavares Strachan’s most expansive neon piece and one of his largest sculptures to-date, this multi-sensory exhibition spotlights the artist’s excavation of histories that have been rendered invisible within mainstream narratives, particularly in relation to the Black diaspora.
Weaving together sculpture, painting, text and music, the exhibition transports visitors to unique environments ranging from uncanny everyday spaces to surreal landscapes. In these immersive spaces, Strachan invites his audience to rethink the ways in which we represent and discuss history, and more significantly, what histories we lionize.
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began evokes a barbershop, a laundromat, a field of Indian-Rice Grass, and other scenes across seven galleries. Encyclopedia of Invisibility (2018) is Strachan’s take on the Britannica encyclopedia. With more than 2,000 pages and an amalgamation of over 17,000 entries, this artwork relays information about people, places, events and stories that the artist feels have been rendered “invisible” in mainstream narratives.
ENOCH (2018) and Robert (2018) highlight the artist’s longstanding engagement with space exploration, and in particular the story of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black astronaut in the United States. ENOCH, a canopic jar that features a sculpted portrait of the astronaut, emerged from the artist’s participation in LACMA's Art + Technology Lab, presented by Hyundai Motor, through which he collaborated with SpaceX to launch this artwork into orbit around Earth.
A collection of new bronze sculptures addresses the form and the role of public monuments, not only asking who we choose to commemorate, but also interrogating our broader impulse to laud individual figures. The series installation includes Flip Monument (Christophe x Napoleon) (2025), a towering 16.5-foot-tall resin icon engineered specifically for LACMA’s galleries.
About the Artist
Tavares Strachan's artistic practice activates the intersections of art, science, and politics, offering uniquely synthesized points of view on the cultural dynamics of scientific knowledge. The artist was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas, and currently lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA in Glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2006. He draws on both the resources and community of his birthplace, dividing his time between his studio in New York and Nassau, where he has established an art studio and scientific research platform B.A.S.E.C. (Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center). He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship (2022), Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute (2019–20), Frontier Art Prize (2018), the Allen Institute's inaugural artist-in-residence (2018), Tiffany Foundation Grant (2008), Grand Arts Residency Fellowship (2007), and Alice B. Kimball Fellowship (2006).
About the Program
The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology
The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA supports exhibitions and programs that spark dialogue, inspire empathy, and encourage collaboration beyond boundaries. As a first step towards this goal, we supported the museum’s acquisition of major works by Robert Irwin and James Turrell, two now legendary artists who were members of LACMA’s original Art and Technology Lab program (1967–1971). Continuing its mission, The Hyundai Project: Art + Technology at LACMA presents exhibitions that illuminate the profound interplay between art and technology, underscoring their pivotal role in comprehending humanity and shaping our encounters with the future.
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