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Exhibitions


Current

 
$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives
June 10, 2025–September 28, 2025

$3 Bill celebrates the contributions of LGBTQ+ artists in the last century. From pioneers who explored sexual and gender identity in the first half of the 20th century, through the liberation movements and the horrors of the HIV/AIDS epidemics, to today's more inclusive and expansive understanding of gender, $3 Bill presents a journey of resilience, pride, and beauty.

Image: Assemblage with Pur·suit (detail), 2019, Naima Green, © Naima Green; and Front Line of Freedom San Francisco: Queer as a Three Dollar Bill, ca. 1981, Ken Wood. Collection objects from Getty Research Institute. Text, design, photo © 2025 J. Paul Getty Trust


Future

 
How to Be a Guerilla Girl
November 18, 2025–April 12, 2026

How to Be a Guerrilla Girl presents the inner workings of the anonymous feminist art collective alongside a new commission at the Getty Research Institute. Drawing on the Guerrilla Girls' archive, the exhibition explores the steps the group took to create their eye-catching and humorous public interventions. The exhibition places the Guerrilla Girls' well-known posters in the broader context of their data research, protest actions, culture jamming, and distribution methods. Coinciding with the Guerrilla Girls' 40th anniversary, the exhibition tells the story of their collaborative process and longstanding commitment to call for equity for women and artists of color in the art world.

Image: Mock-up for the poster Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? (detail), about 1989, Guerrilla Girls. Mixed media (electrostatic print on paper, ink on paper and acetate). Used with permission. © Guerrilla Girls


Off-Site

 
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s
CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, RIVERSIDE
September 13, 2025–February 15, 2026


This exhibition surveys artworks made and exchanged by Latinx and Latin American women artists from the 1960s to the present. As a mode of artistic production that relied on the postal service for the circulation and exchange of artworks, Mail Art allowed artists in repressive societies to evade strict censorship measures, providing platforms for circulating their work and for political protest. Latinx and Latin American women artists have used the postal system to transgress a varied set of restrictive systems, ranging from gender expectations to authoritarian regimes. This exhibition is supported by the GRI Council.

Urban Intervention No. 2, (detail), Graciela Sacco, from the series "Bocanada," 1993. © Graciela Sacco Estate


Events


 
 
In-person event
Screening: Made in Hollywood
Sep 21, 2025


 
In-person event
Celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025
Oct 11, 2025