Hyundai Motor Company and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have announced the exhibition "Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began," opening at LACMA on October 12, 2025 and running through March 29, 2026. This is the artist's first major museum exhibition in Los Angeles, featuring over 20 new works including his most expansive neon piece and one of his largest sculptures to date. The multi-sensory exhibition, presented through the ongoing Hyundai Project at LACMA partnership since 2015, immerses viewers in environments such as a barbershop, a laundromat, and a field of Indian-Rice Grass across seven galleries, weaving together sculpture, painting, text, and music to excavate overlooked histories, particularly those related to the Black diaspora.
The exhibition matters because it represents a decade-long collaboration between a major automaker and a leading museum to support contemporary artists working across disciplines. Strachan's work challenges mainstream historical narratives by spotlighting figures like Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black astronaut in the United States, and his "Encyclopedia of Invisibility" (2018) reimagines the Britannica encyclopedia with over 17,000 entries on people and events rendered invisible. The show underscores how institutions can engage Black diasporic histories in new ways, expanding the stories they center and inviting audiences to rethink how history is represented and lionized.