LOS ANGELES, CA.- Presenting an expansive slate of exhibitions across both of its venues, The Museum of Contemporary Art announced its forthcoming exhibition schedule and invites audiences to experience bold commissions, landmark collaborations, and collection focused presentations that illuminate the ideas shaping contemporary art today. Together, the exhibitions traverse performance, environmental inquiry, global modernisms, and the museum’s own evolving history—offering fresh perspectives, immersive experiences, and new opportunities for reflection and dialogue.

Praised by Los Angeles Times as “the most significant show in an American art museum right now,” MONUMENTS continues at The Geffen Contemporary and The Brick through May 3, 2026. This landmark exhibition reflects on the histories and legacies of post-Civil War America as they continue to resonate today, bringing together a selection of decommissioned monuments, many of which are Confederate, with contemporary artworks borrowed and newly created for the occasion.

At WAREHOUSE at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, MOCA Focus: Diane Severin Nguyen (February 27–March 1, 2026) presents the West Coast premiere of the artist’s new performance WAR SONGS, a live project that reimagines anti–Vietnam War protest music to examine how the aesthetics of past resistance movements shape identity, power, and cultural memory today.

At MOCA Grand Avenue, Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous (February 24 August 2, 2026) unfolds over two distinct presentations: the U.S. debut of the sprawling installation Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun at MOCA Grand Avenue (February 24 August 2, 2026) and a special one-evening, free concert of the late composer Isang Yun’s Double Concerto (1977) by the LA Philharmonic on March 10, 2026 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Michael Asher (February 24–August 2, 2026) offers a focused survey of the artist’s influential site-specific and conceptual work, presenting twenty projects through material components, documentation, and an accompanying guide, alongside a selection of Asher’s gifts to MOCA that underscore his lasting impact on the museum’s history.

Two collection installations are presented at MOCA Grand Avenue, including Good on Paper: Works from the Gene J. and Betye M. Burton Acquisitions Endowment (February 24–August 2, 2026) which highlights the depth of MOCA’s works-on-paper collection while honoring the Burton family’s visionary support and enduring impact on the museum’s history; and Selections from the Collection (April 26–September 20, 2026) brings together works from the 1940s to the 1970s—including key collection highlights and recent acquisitions by artists such as Mark Rothko, Luchita Hurtado, Piet Mondrian, and Betye Saar—to showcase MOCA’s extraordinary historical depth, global perspective, and enduring commitment to artistic experimentation.

The inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize exhibitions (November 15, 2026–June 6, 206) present newly commissioned projects by Cecilia Vicuña, whose multi-phase Quipu of Encounters: The Dream of Water engages communities in Chile and Los Angeles around shared water crises, and Julian Charrière, whose immersive environments explore the fragility and resilience of planetary water systems— together reflecting the Prize’s commitment to artists working at the vital intersections of art, climate, and environmental justice, at MOCA Grand Avenue.

Following MONUMENTS, at The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA presents a dynamic selection of works that trace four decades of the museum’s visionary collecting. MOCA’s Collection at the Geffen (August 2, 2026– March 7, 2027) highlights the historical depth, curatorial innovation, and diverse perspectives that have shaped MOCA’s evolving relationship to contemporary art.

Looking ahead to 2027, Afterlives: Japanese American Artists and the Postwar Era (February 28– September 12, 2027) examines how a generation of Japanese American artists, photographers, and architects transformed their practices in the aftermath of wartime incarceration, foregrounding transpacific influences and challenging nationalist narratives of postwar modernism.

Ann Goldstein, Interim Maurice Marciano Director of MOCA, stated: “Our upcoming season demonstrates the extraordinary range of voices and ideas that define MOCA today—from Diane Severin Nguyen’s powerful West Coast premiere at WAREHOUSE to Haegue Yang’s immersive installation and our focused survey of Michael Asher’s groundbreaking practice. Alongside these projects, our collection exhibitions highlight both the profound depth of MOCA’s holdings and the visionary generosity that built them. We are proud to present a broad range of dynamic projects spanning performance, environmental justice, global modernisms, and the evolving stories of our renowned and singular collection of contemporary art. Together with the acclaimed MONUMENTS exhibition, MOCA’s upcoming year demonstrates our steadfast commitment to audacious programming that fosters broader understanding of the most significant art and issues of our time.”

Clara Kim, MOCA’s Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, adds: “Our forthcoming exhibitions—and the collection presentations that accompany them demonstrate how contemporary art can bridge geographies, connect histories, and illuminate the issues that resonate in society today. At MOCA, we strive to foster a dialogue that is both rooted in Los Angeles and reverberates globally. With the Schmidt Prize commissions, Cecilia Vicuña and Julian Charrière offer urgent meditations on water, climate, and collective responsibility, and Afterlives brings necessary visibility on artistic practices shaped by displacement and resilience during the postwar era, and a diasporic lens on the formation of postwar modernisms.”

Continuing into 2026 at MOCA Grand Avenue, Fictions of Display (through January 4, 2026) reimagines the relationship between theater, performance, and visual art through Claes Oldenburg’s The Store and works from the collection; Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds (through March 1, 2026) offers a sweeping exploration of how artists construct personal and collective worlds across geographies and generations.

Through its 2026 and 2027 exhibitions, MOCA continues to foster critical reflection, spark meaningful dialogue, and deepen engagement with contemporary art’s evolving role in shaping culture and society.