Get ready for the big 2022 Fall art season. This is traditionally the biggest show of any other time in the art world where most galleries put their best foot forward with their September and October exhibitions. We’ve selected a few highlights coming this Fall in Southern California.

 

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

Judith F. Baca: World Wall

September 9, 2022–February 19, 2023

 

Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles

Henry Taylor: B Side

November 6, 2022–April 30, 2023

 

The Broad

William Kentridge:
In Praise of Shadows

November 12, 2022–April 9, 2023

 

The Huntington

Gee’s Bend: Shared Legacy

September 17, 2022–September 4, 2023

 

Hammer Museum

Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine

October 9, 2022–January 8, 2023

 

Orange County Museum of Art

13 Women

October 8, 2022–October 1, 2023

 

The Getty Center

Cy Twombly: Making Past Present

August 2–October 30

 

USC Fisher Museum of Art

Louise Bourgeois: What Is The Shape Of This Problem?

September 6–December 23

 

Roberts Projects 

Kehinde Wiley

TBD

 

Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego in La Jolla

Alexis Smith: The American Way

September 15, 2022–January 29, 2023

 

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

Cindy Sherman: 1977–1982

October 27–December 30

 

Sprüth Magers

Nancy Holt: Locating Perception

October 28, 2022–January 14, 2023

 

 

  • Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1981,chromogenic color print, 24 x 48 inches; © Cindy Sherman, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

  • Ed Ruscha, Annie, 1965. Oil on canvas, 21-7/8 x 19-7/8 in (55.6 x 50.5 cm). Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, 1978.011. © Ed Ruscha

  • William Kentridge, Drawing for the film Other Faces, 2011, charcoal and colored pencil on paper, 221⁄2 x 31 inches; courtesy The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles

  • Cy Twombly, Head of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Roman,about 161–180 CE, marble, 19 5/16 x 11 13/16 x 11 13/16 inches; collection of Twombly Family, Rome; photo by Alessandro Vasari.

  • Henry Taylor, Cora, (cornbread), 2008, acrylic on canvas, 62 5/8 x 49 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; photo by Jeff McLane

  • Charles Ray, Self-portrait, 1990. Painted fiberglass, clothes, glasses, hair, glass and metal, 75 x 26 x 20 in (191 x 66 x 51 cm). Collection of Orange County Museum of Art. Museum purchase, 1990.002. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. © Charles Ray. Photo: Reto Pedrini

  • Bob Thompson, Bird Party, 1961. Oil on canvas. 54 3/8 × 74 1/4 in. (138.1 × 188.6 cm). Collection of the Rhythm Trust. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York

  • Loretta Pettway, Remember Me, 2007. Color softground and hardground etching with aquatint and spitbite aquatint, 28 3/4 × 28 3/4 in. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.