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1950s

1959

Larry Bell is included in Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) annual exhibition of Southern California painting and sculpture.

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1960s

1963

Billy Al Bengston, Joe Goode, and Ed Ruscha are included in the group exhibition Six More at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

1965

Judithe Hernández receives the first Future Masters Scholarship from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which allows her to attend Otis Art Institute.

1967

Larry Bell is included in the group exhibition American Sculpture of the Sixties at LACMA.

1968

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) organizes a Billy Al Bengston retrospective that includes furniture from Larry Bell and Ed Ruscha, with installation design by a young Frank Gehry. Ruscha designs the cover for the catalogue, which is made of sandpaper.

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1970s

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1971

Allen Ruppersberg proposes Al’s Grand Hotel for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s exhibition 24 Young Los Angeles Artists, which also includes Vija Celmins, Robert Cumming, and William Wegman.

1971

David Hammons, Timothy Washington, and Charles White participate in the exhibition Three Graphic Artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

1971

Vija Celmins, Robert Cumming, Allen Ruppersberg, and William Wegman participate in 24 Young Los Angeles Artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

1972

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art organizes the traveling exhibition Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965 to 1972, which travels to the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1974.

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1978–79 1978

The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, organizes the exhibition Billy Al Bengston: Paintings of Three Decades, which travels to the Oakland Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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1980s

1981

Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Joe Goode, Bruce Nauman, and Ed Ruscha are included in the group exhibition Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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1990s

1992

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) organizes the exhibition A Tribute to Carlos Almaraz.

1992

Joe Goode has a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art titled Laboratory: Joe Goode Tornado Triptych.

1992

Joe Goode is included in the group exhibition War Babies: Prints of the Sixties from the Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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2000s

2001

Carlos Almaraz is included in the group exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000 at LACMA.

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2010s

2016

Catherine Opie has a solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art titled Catherine Opie: O.

2017

LACMA organizes the exhibition Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz.

2019

David Hammons, Judithe Hernández, and Suzanne Jackson are included in the group exhibition Life Model: Charles White and His Students at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Billy Al Bengston Carlos Almaraz Larry Bell Vija Celmins Robert Cumming Joe Goode David Hammons Judithe Hernández Suzanne Jackson Bruce Nauman Catherine Opie Allen Ruppersberg Ed Ruscha William Wegman Charles White Art Institute of Chicago California Huysman Gallery Los Angeles Oakland Oakland Museum of California Otis San Francisco Al’s Grand Hotel Los Four War Babies