Gallery view of Primarium: A Case for Cursive exhibition featuring historical manuscripts, interactive displays, and global scripts highlighting the evolution of cursive writing.

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On View Now

Explore current exhibitions and see student creativity come to life in our galleries.

South Campus

1111 building | 1111 S. Arroyo Parkway

Conejo Negro: Tortilleria and Print Shop

| Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery, 1111 building |

A unique exhibition that examines the dynamics of life across the political and physical boundaries of the US/Mexico border, by artist collective Torolab.

950 building and Mullin Transportation Design Center (MTDC) | 950 S Raymond Avenue

Tiny Fainting Spell: Posters seen through color

| 950 Gallery, 950 building |

This exhibition brings together posters from the HMCT Archive selected on the basis of color.

Vernon Simpson Loves Type!

| Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) hallway |

The exhibition features a selection of legendary L.A.-based typographer and printer Vernon Simpson's (1910–2001) type-related works.

Wonder Woman 1854 by ArtCenter faculty Stephen Berkman

My Eyes are My Lens

| HMDP Gallery, Room 211 |

The exhibition features the works of Film, Photography and Imaging faculty as directors, writers, and producers in the industry.

continuum

| Graduate Gallery, MTDC |

continuum features a diverse cohort of students from disciplines. The exhibition reflects the ongoing work as part of a larger arc of inquiry, impact and momentum.

Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles

| The Oculus, 2nd Floor, MTDC |

A project organized by The Getty Research Institute that highlights Ed Ruscha’s iconic photographic documentation carried out over six decades on many of the city’s major thoroughfares.

Hillside Campus

1700 Lida Street

Resilience in the Ashes

| Ellwood Building, South Entrance |

Resilience in the Ashes is an immersive installation created with ArtCenter artists and faculty that invites reflection, remembrance, and healing in response to the January 2025 wildfires.

ArtCenter Student Gallery showcasing diverse artwork and design projects created by emerging artists and designers.

Hillside Student Gallery

| Ellwood Building, Main Entrance |

This highly visible exhibition space showcases a rotating selection of student projects curated by department chairs at the end of each term.

Opening Saturday, October 24

We Sleep with Our Feet at the Head of Our Four Footed Bed (1940) by Dorr Bothwell

Dorr Bothwell: In Her Mind's Eye

| Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery |

The first major survey celebrating the extraordinary life and work of California Surrealist artist, designer and educator Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000). Featuring more than 100 works and spanning six decades, the works reflect Bothwell's sustained engagement with experimentation, abstraction, and the imaginative possibilities of visual form.

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