Hyundai Motor and LACMA Announce the Exhibition Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began

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Hyundai Motor Company and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced the exhibition Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began, as part of the ongoing partnership between Hyundai Motor and LACMA. Opening at LACMA on October 12, 2025 and running through March 29, 2026, 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, Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began 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.'The Hyundai Project at LACMA continues to support artists working across disciplines to transcend conventional boundaries,' said DooEun Choi, Art Director of Hyundai Motor Company. 'Through our partnership with LACMA, we are honored to be part of the journey of Tavares Strachan, who invites us to reflect on the potential of narratives as a lasting force for inclusivity and transformation.''Tavares is one of the most innovative and experimental artists working today. The Day Tomorrow Began reconsiders how institutions engage Black diasporic histories and brings forward new ideas and perspectives, complicating and expanding the stories they center,' said Michael Govan, LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director. 'Hyundai Motor Company's commitment to contemporary artists, like Tavares, and to LACMA, has led to a meaningful collaboration that spans more than a decade. The Hyundai Project at LACMA has opened up so many possibilities for artists and we are grateful for their support of Tavares's first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.''This exhibition is an opportunity for viewers to not only engage with the diversity of concepts and hybrid approaches that animate Tavares's practice, but also to experience his attention to the craft of object-making and the importance of world building,' said Diana Nawi, Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA.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.Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began is part of The Hyundai Project at LACMA, a joint initiative between Hyundai Motor and LACMA since 2015. The Hyundai Project at LACMA is the longest and largest programmatic commitment from a corporate supporter in LACMA's history. With a shared commitment to offering new ways to access, understand and experience art, this partnership allows LACMA to make significant strides in two important fields, Art + Technology and Korean art scholarship, which encompasses acquisitions, exhibitions, publications and research.
This exhibition is curated by Diana Nawi, Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA, and co-organized with the Columbus Museum of Art.