The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Grounded, a multi-media exhibition that invites visitors to contemplate land not just as terrain, but as a foundation to explore history, ecology, sovereignty, memory, and home. Works include pieces by interdisciplinary artist and weaver Sarah Rosalena (2022 Awardee), among several others working across disciplines.

Through 40 works by 35 artists based across the Americas and the Pacific, the exhibition illuminates how human experience is embedded in the land. Artists consider the lasting effects of colonialism and imperialism; share stories of forced migration and displacement; engage with Indigenous mythologies and motifs; and retell ancestral histories by forging new aesthetic languages.

Other works include Lisa Reihana’s monumental video installation In Pursuit of Venus [infected] that reimagines colonial narratives from her perspective as a Māori artist; photographs and video by Clarissa Tossin, Laura Aguilar, and Ana Mendieta that trace the artists’ bodies in dialogue with the earth; paintings and sculptures by Eamon Ore Girón, Courtney M. Leonard, and Rose B. Simpson that blend technology with Indigenous iconography and craft; and works by Leslie Martinez and Abraham Cruzvillegas that upcycle everyday materials to document consumption and to suggest possibilities for renewal.

Grounded is co-curated by Rita Gonzalez, Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art; Dhyandra Lawson, Andy Song Associate Curator of Contemporary Art; and Nancy Thomas, Senior Deputy Director for Art Administration and Collections at LACMA.