UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Film clip: Bruce Conner, THE WHITE ROSE, 1967,16mm, black/white, sound, 7min Courtesy of the Conner Family Trust © Conner Family Trust, San Francisco © 2025 The Jay DeFeo Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

40th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
February 19 - April 4, 2025.

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Michael Kohn Gallery is proud to announce its 40th Anniversary Exhibition, opening February 19 through April 4, 2025. The group exhibition will showcase works across disciplines by prominent artists, including Keith Haring, Chiffon Thomas, Alicia Adamerovich, Matha Alf, and more. In addition, a portion of the gallery will be transformed into a theater to premiere the restoration of Bruce Conner’s THE WHITE ROSE, 1967.

In 1985, Michael Kohn Gallery, MKG, opened its doors on Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood with a show titled “New York’s Finest.” Having recently moved back to his native Los Angeles after nearly five years in New York as an art critic and graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Kohn chose a group of artists from New York for the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, including Kenny Scharf and Futura 2000.

Over the subsequent years, MKG organized solo and group shows for some of the most important names in modern and contemporary art: Peter Halley, Christopher Wool, Richard Tuttle, Marsden Hartley, Mark Innerst, Mark Tansey, Joan Nelson, Andy Warhol, Richard Pettibone, "Twombly and Basquiat,” “Morandi and Ryman,” Dennis Hopper, Joe Goode, Bruce Conner, Lita Albuquerque, Wallace Berman, Mark Ryden, Alex Katz, James Rosenquist, Gonzalo Lebrija and many more. Over the last decade, MKG has continued to renew its commitment to emerging and mid-career artists with a global perspective through a dynamic exhibitions program with solo shows by Will Monk, Eddie Martinez, María Berrío, Ilana Savdie, Nir Hod, Li Hei Di, and Shiwen Wang.

MKG’s four-decade dedication to artists and art history is evident in its wide-ranging curatorial vision, which features artwork from 16th-century Italian Mannerist paintings and drawings to Cezanne and Picasso works on paper; American Modernists Hartley and Dove; Minimalists Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and John McLaughlin; and contemporary artists who have shaped the Los Angeles art scene over the last 40 years.

As the Los Angeles art scene continues to grow immensely, Michael Kohn and the eponymous gallery have remained a leading tastemaker in the city’s evolving cultural scene and the art world at large. Beyond the gallery walls, Kohn has been a dedicated advocate for the arts, contributing to the cultural enrichment of the Los Angeles arts community and the careers of the artists he represents.

Shiwen Wang
The river returns nothing of what it takes
October 26 – December 21, 2024

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Hadi Alijani
The Mutilated Gaze
November 9 – December 21, 2024

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Lita Albuquerque, Earth Skin

September 12 - October 19, 2024
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Chiffon Thomas, Progeny

June 20 - August 17, 2024
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William Brickel, Was It Ever Fair.

January 20 - March 2, 2024
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Rosa Loy, Glade

March 9 - April 20, 2024
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Siji Krishnan, Liminal Spaces

April 26 - June 8, 2024
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Li Hei Di, Oscillating Womb

November 2, 2023 - January 6, 2024
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Faris Heizer, These days

November 2, 2023 - January 6, 2024
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COMPOSITION

September 15 - October 21, 2023
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Ed Moses, Edges, Magmas and Waterfalls

September 18 - October 30, 2021
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101 Years of Still Life: 1920-Present

August 7 - September 11, 2021
Gallery 1 & 2

Joe Goode, 20 Years Later

June 18 - August 7, 2021
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William Brickel, I’d Tell You If I Could

June 11 - July 31, 2021
Gallery 1 & 2

Chiffon Thomas, Antithesis

April 9 - May 21, 2021
Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Jellyfish, Curated by Samantha Glaser-Weiss

January 31 - March 13, 2020
Gallery 1 & 2

Octavio Abúndez, Facts, contradictions, puzzles…

November 9, 2019 - January 16, 2020
Gallery 1 & 2

Enrique Martínez Celaya, The Tears of Things

September 13 - November 1, 2019
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María Berrío, A Cloud’s Roots

June 1 - August 30, 2019
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Heidi Hahn, Burn Out in Shredded Heaven

April 6 - May 23, 2019
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Jarvis Boyland, On Hold:

April 6 - May 23, 2019
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Gonzalo Lebrija, Veladuras Nocturnas

January 19 - March 23, 2019
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Rosa Loy, So Near And Yet So Far

November 9, 2018 - January 9, 2019
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Tony Berlant, Fast Forward

September 22 - November 3, 2019
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Jess, Secret Compartments

July 21 - September 7, 2019
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Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Sheets

June 1 - July 14, 2018
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Mark Innerst, New Paintings

April 6 - May 24, 2018
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Gesture | Form | Pop | Process

February 27 - March 29, 2018
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Engender

November 11, 2017 - January 27, 2018
Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Chingaderas Sofisticadas

September 16 - November 4, 2017
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Dennis Hopper, The Lost Album

July 8 - September 1, 2017
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Dean Byington, Theory of Machines

May 19 - June 30, 2017
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Joe Goode, Old Ideas with New Solutions

March 23 - May 13, 2017
Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Bruce Conner, LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS

February 9 - March 15, 2017
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Bruce Conner, A MOVIE

November 11, 2016 - February 8, 2017
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John Altoon, Works from the Estate

September 16 - October 29, 2016
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Ori Gersht, Floating World

July 9 - September 10, 2016
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Wallace Berman, American Aleph

May 6 - June 25, 2016
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Ryan McGinness, #metadata

March 19 - April 15, 2016
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Dean Levin, XTC

January 16 - February 27, 2016
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Lita Albuquerque, Embodiment

January 9 - February 27, 2016
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Simmons & Burke, Dutch Masters

November 6 - December 19, 2015
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Object/Space: Robert Ryman + Giorgio Morandi

September 19 - October 31, 2015
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The West Coast Avant-Garde, 1950 - Present

July 18 - September 4, 2015
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Jess’s Didactic Nickelodeon

June 6 - July 10, 2015
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William Monk, The Cloud is Growing in the Trees

May 29 - July 10, 2015
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Camille Rose Garcia, Mirror, Black Mirror

April 25 - May 20, 2015
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Tom LaDuke, Candles and Lasers

April 11 - May 20, 2015
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LAND, AIR, SEE

February 21 - April 2, 2015
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Troika, Cartography of Control

January 10 - February 12, 2015
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Eddie Martinez, Nomader

September 12 - October 25, 2014
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Lita Albuquerque, Light Carries Information

November 15 - December 20, 2014
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Joe Goode, Flat Screen Nature

July 12 - August 29, 2014
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Bruce Conner, CROSSROADS & WORKS ON PAPER

November 8 - December 20, 2014
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Mark Ryden, The Gay 90s West

May 3 - June 28, 2014
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