Los Angeles is getting a first this fall. The Hammer Museum at UCLA in Westwood will present Felipe Baeza: Anima from November 21, 2026, through April 4, 2027 — the artist’s first major monographic institutional exhibition in Los Angeles, and a joyful chance to see one of contemporary art’s most inventive printmakers up close.
Born in 1987 in Celaya, Mexico, and now living and working in Brooklyn, Baeza brings together more than 40 works that show the full range of his material experimentation. His figurative art blends printmaking, collage and painting, layering ink, texture and fragments of paper into images that feel both ancient and entirely new.
Baeza depicts bodies in states of fragmentation, hybridity and transformation — figures he has called “fugitive” and “unruly” — to explore identity, migration and belonging with warmth, color and imagination. Up close, each work rewards slow looking, as surfaces shift and new details emerge from the layers.
Anima continues the Hammer’s long tradition of championing prints, drawings and works on paper, and joins a lively fall season at the museum. Admission is always free. The Hammer Museum, at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. — an inspiring, budget-friendly art day in Westwood.
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