Vincent Price Art Museum

06/15/2026

VPAM will be closed this summer in preparation for a very exciting fall. Now that our most recent exhibitions have closed, we look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

And mark your calendars to join us as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibition, "Anida Yoeu Ali: The Buddhist Bug," on Saturday, Sept. 26.

In the meantime, join our newsletter at vpam.org or follow us on social media for updates. See you soon!

06/12/2026

Opening Sept. 26, 2026, VPAM proudly presents "Anida Yoeu Ali: The Buddhist Bug." Marking the first major solo exhibition of the series in the U.S., "The Buddhist Bug" is an expansive performance project that brings together myth, humor, spiritual inquiry, and the lived experience of displacement.

At its center is a monumental saffron-colored creature, nearly 328 feet in length, with a human face tightly framed in cloth at one end and a pair of feet at the other. Activated through performance, photography, and video, "The Buddhist Bug" moves through public space and everyday life, appearing in markets, temples, streets, rural landscapes, and other social spaces across Cambodia.

Anida Yoeu Ali's work expands how Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) identities are understood by foregrounding Southeast Asian migration, Muslim identity, refugee memory, and transnational experience. For the VPAM, located in a region with one of the largest and most diverse Asian American populations in the continental United States, the exhibition supports the museum’s commitment to represent the wide and complex array of AAPI artists it serves.

An opening reception and performance of "The Buddhist Bug" will be held on Saturday, Sept. 26. Details will be announced later this summer! https://vpam.org/exhibitions/anida-yoeu-alithe-buddhist-bug/

06/10/2026

Don’t forget! You have just a few more days to see “New Voices: The 2026 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition” at VPAM. Featuring work across a variety of mediums, this special exhibit of East Los Angeles College student artwork closes at 5PM on Saturday, June 13. Learn more and make plans to join us at vpam.org!

06/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us Saturday as poet, artist, and community leader Luis Javier Rodriguez walked us through the exhibition, “Always Running: The Photography of Luis J. Rodriguez.” And special thanks to Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural & Bookstore for being on-hand with a very special mini book fair! 💥

You have until 5pm on Saturday, June 13, to see this show before it leaves VPAM. Don’t miss out! Plan your visit at vpam.org.

06/08/2026

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06/05/2026

From 2024 to 2026, VPAM embarked on a major project to inventory, catalog, and digitize our permanent collection — all made possible by the efforts of an extraordinary team of registrars and photographers. 💛✨

With grant funding from the California Natural Resources Agency, VPAM contracted Nakano Logistics to take on the project. Sheryl Nakano and her team — Lana Klaib, Veronica Rascona, and Celeste Voce — worked tirelessly to catalog 2,500 artworks with the support of collections assistants Jane O’Dell (an alum of the East Los Angeles College Museum Studies program) and Veronica Lechuga. Together, the team also developed the museum’s first comprehensive collections policy, completed a baseline inventory, and reorganized the vault to serve as a multi-use space for collections care, research, and digitization.

VPAM is also grateful for the expertise of photographer Elon Schoenholz and his assistants Angel Xotlanihua and Dorian Hill in digitizing a selection of 1,425 highlights from the permanent collection. Thanks to their contributions, VPAM will be able to share many of our artworks with the public for the first time through an online collections database, to be launched later this year.

Please join us in thanking these teams for their impactful work to ensure that our collections are organized, preserved, and made accessible for all! 💫

05/28/2026

Don't miss your chance to see "Always Running: Photography by Luis J. Rodriguez" before it closes at VPAM on June 13! This exhibition marks the 30th anniversary of Luis Javier Rodriguez's first memoir, "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA."

Rare and unpublished, the photographs on view document the people and historic neighborhoods that touched and influenced Rodriguez’s early life from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Make plans to visit at vpam.org!

05/21/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of “New Voices: The 2026 ELAC Juried Student Art Exhibition" earlier this month! And congrats to all of our incredible artists! “New Voices” is on view at VPAM through June 13, 2026.

LEARN MORE: https://vpam.org/exhibitions/new-voices-the-2026-elac-juried-student-art-exhibition/

05/21/2026

05/14/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the closing celebration for "Ofelia Esparza: A Retrospective" this past weekend! You still have a few days left to check out the exhibition, which closes May 16. 🌼

Learn more: https://vpam.org/exhibitions/ofelia-esparza-a-retrospective/