Tavares Strachan’s “The Day Tomorrow Began” opened on October 15, 2025, and is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through March 29, 2026. [Don’t miss his walk-through video on Instagram.] An award-winning artist, Tavares Strachan (The Bahamas) is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery.
Also note that tomorrow, Thursday, March 19, at 7:00pm (EST) there will be a discussion that is free but requires a ticket (see RSVP): “Reimagining Monuments: A Conversation with Tavares Strachan, Paul M. Farber, Hamza Walker, and Bennett Simpson.” See descriptions below.
Event Description: How do artists challenge the histories that monuments preserve—and the absences they reveal? Join artist Tavares Strachan, Paul M. Farber, director and co-founder of Monument Lab, Hamza Walker, curator and director of The Brick, and Bennett Simpson, senior curator at MOCA, for a timely discussion on art, identity, and power. This event is presented in conjunction with Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began at LACMA and MONUMENTS at MOCA and The Brick.
Exhibition Description: Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began, the artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, invites viewers into immersive multisensory installations. Each of the exhibition’s rooms presents a distinct environment, from uncanny everyday spaces to a field of rice grass populated with ceramic figures to a gallery of monumental bronze sculptures. Strachan is interested in what has been rendered invisible within mainstream narratives. His singular artworks—across media including neon, ceramics, bronze, painting, text, music, and performance—illuminate stories through which new ideas can emerge. Strachan was a recipient of the 2014 LACMA Art + Technology Lab Artist Grant and in 2022 was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow.
From the artist’s Instagram page: “In ‘The Day Tomorrow Began’, Strachan builds an immersive exhibition centered around his ongoing project ‘Encyclopedia of Invisibility’, bringing together sculptures, paintings, textiles, neons, and reconstructed everyday environments to reconsider how history is written and memorialized. Throughout the exhibition, Strachan recreates spaces from his childhood— including a barbershop and laundry room— inviting visitors into environments that blur the line between museum space and lived experience.”
Tavares Strachan (@tavaresstrachan) is an artist whose work explores hidden histories, cultural memory, and the forces that shape who is remembered and who is forgotten. Through projects that blend research and storytelling, Strachan examines systems of knowledge and power—often challenging dominant historical narratives by foregrounding figures, stories, and perspectives that have been overlooked or erased.
For more information, see https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/tavares-strachan-day-tomorrow-began
Also see Strachan’s video on the exhibition at https://www.instagram.com/p/DV_j1Z8oPuu/
[Photo above by Johnna Arnold/courtesy SFMOMA. Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand Years, 2018, and The Encyclopedia of Invisibility, 2018, installed in Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2019–20.]
Tavares Strachan’s “The Day Tomorrow Began” opened on October 15, 2025, and is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) through March 29, 2026. [Don’t miss his walk-through video on Instagram.] An award-winning artist, Tavares Strachan (The Bahamas) is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery. Also note that tomorrow, Thursday, March 19,
