Museum of Latin American Art

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is the pioneering museum in the United States dedicated to modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. Founded in 1996 by Robert Gumbiner, MOLAA houses a collection of more than 1,600 works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, mixed-media, photographs, and video art. The Museum is a multidisciplinary institution committed to providing a platform for cross-cultural dialogue through the arts, educational programs and events for the community.

Exhibits

Guided tours of our exhibitions are offered at 2:00 PM on Saturdays.

NARSISO MARTINEZ: Rethinking Essential
From August 14, 2022

Between high-impact surfaces and textures, the work of Narsiso Martinez proposes a fundamentally experimental investigation. His paintings and installations begin from a playful approach to materials, mostly simple elements, found in his physical and representative environment. This is a creative approach that is not accidental: there is an intrinsic coherence there, a symbolic closeness between the medium and its content.

ABSTRACT ART BEYOND THE FRAME
From May 1, 2022

Most works of art have frames because they serve a useful purpose, separating the realm of creation from the everyday world. But the frame is also a limitation, not only on creation, but also on perception. What happens if we stretch the boundaries? All of the works in this exhibition are geometric abstractions. They make no reference to particular cultural values, symbols, stories, or personal feelings. While this may make them seem forbidding at first, in reality the impulse behind them is utopian. Going beyond the frame, therefore, is an exciting journey.

PABLO RASGADO: TIME-BASED
From May 1, 2022

Time-Based is the first solo exhibition in a California museum for the young Mexican artist Pablo Rasgado. For this unique occasion, the primary theme of this creative setting is connected to a significant and recurrent link across his artistic production: the passage of time in connection to the landscape, urban or natural, where he experiments and investigates the immanent changes that objects possess, based on form, function, and historical symbology.

Robert Gumbiner Sculpture & Events Garden
Ongoing

The Robert Gumbiner Sculpture & Events Garden presents an extraordinary exhibition of sculpture from MOLAA’s permanent collection, internationally recognized as the most important collection of contemporary Latin American sculpture in the nation.

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