In Conversation: Tavares Strachan and Michael Govan
- Thu, Oct 9, 2025
- 7 pm - 9 pm PT
- Smidt Welcome Plaza | LACMA
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Free, RSVP required
Join artist Tavares Strachan and LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan as they discuss the artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles, The Day Tomorrow Began. Strachan's innovative practice opens perspectives on history, exploring and expanding our narratives of culture through immersive installations and artworks across media.
Tavares Strachan was born in 1979 in Nassau, Bahamas, and currently lives and works between New York City and Nassau. He received a BFA in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2006. He draws on both the resources and community of his birthplace, dividing his time between his studio in New York and Nassau, where he has established an art studio and scientific research platform B.A.S.E.C. (Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center). He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship (2022), Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute (2019–20), and LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab Artist Grant (2014), among others.
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
This exhibition was co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art.
Presented by
This exhibition is part of The Hyundai Project at LACMA, a joint initiative between Hyundai Motor Company and LACMA since
2015.
Major support provided by LACMA's Future Arts Collective, the Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation, and Pete and Michelle
Scantland.
Generous support provided by Contemporary Projects Endownment Fund, Evanne and Edward Gargiulo, Judelson Family
Foundation, and Dr. Marina Ochakoff.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation and Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, with generous annual funding from Tanya Fileva, Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Justin Lubliner, Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Maggie Tang, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Image Credits: 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, photo: Johnna Arnold/courtesy SFMOMA; Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Monica Orozco
All education and outreach programs at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Education Fund and are supported in part by the Judy and Bernard Briskin Family Foundation, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education, Alfred E. Mann Charities, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Flora L. Thornton Foundation, U.S. Bank, and The Yabuki Family Foundation.
This exhibition was co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art.
Presented by
This exhibition is part of The Hyundai Project at LACMA, a joint initiative between Hyundai Motor Company and LACMA since
2015.
Major support provided by LACMA's Future Arts Collective, the Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation, and Pete and Michelle
Scantland.
Generous support provided by Contemporary Projects Endownment Fund, Evanne and Edward Gargiulo, Judelson Family
Foundation, and Dr. Marina Ochakoff.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation and Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, with generous annual funding from Tanya Fileva, Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Justin Lubliner, Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Maggie Tang, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Image Credits: 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, photo: Johnna Arnold/courtesy SFMOMA; Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Monica Orozco