Made in L.A. 2027 gets its curatorial team

The Hammer Museum and MOCA have announced that Michael Wellen and José Luis Blondet will co-curate the next Made in L.A. biennial in 2027. Wellen only moved to the city in April, while Blondet has been based there since 2010. That pairing of fresh eyes and deep local knowledge could shape what gets surfaced in interesting ways. For any artist working in or around LA, this is the kind of institutional decision that quietly shifts whose work gets seen. Curious whether anyone here has shown in or attended past editions. Did those earlier biennials feel like they actually captured what was happening on the ground?

Source: ARTnews — https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/made-in-la-2027-curators-michael-wellen-jose-luis-blondet-1234793256/