Marciano Art Foundation

MAF is temporarily closed
We are closed from July 21 – September 17, 2026 to install new exhibitions. We will reopen on September 18, 2026.
The Marciano Art Foundation is a contemporary art space in the heart of Los Angeles.
The Marciano Art Foundation is free and open to the public. All visitors must make an advanced timed-entry reservation.

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Ongoing
Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection brings together a group of fifty-eight international artists working across a wide range of mediums who each in their own way similarly send signals into the ether for us to hear.
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Ongoing

An installation by Kristen Wentrcek & Andrew Zebulon that reflects the material, ornamental, and functional history of the Marciano Art Foundation building, formerly a 1961 Scottish Rite Masonic temple designed by Millard Sheets. Named after the double-headed eagle symbol central to Freemasonry, Quaternion features an ensemble of functional furniture hand-carved from industrial-grade foam and covered in a skin-thick pigmented coating.

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Permanently On View

In this site-specific mural commissioned by the Marciano Art Foundation, Party creates a fantastical forest that grows as visitors ascend the stairwell floor by floor.

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Permanently On View

Handsome sets of documents, photographs, and Masonic paraphernalia left at the Temple are presented in the renovated Masonic library.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

September 18, 2026 – January 2, 2027

Tacita Dean’s monumental 35mm installation FILM celebrates the poetic qualities of photochemical film in its first presentation in the United States.

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September 18, 2026 – January 2, 2027
Staged across the MAF Library and Window galleries, this two-part presentation focuses on the artist as a voracious and cunning collector.
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