Works on view from our permanent collection hail from around the world, and include Pre-Columbian ceramics and textiles from Mexico, Central America and Peru, Modern Mexican masters and Contemporary Art.
Del Alma: Latina Portraits from the Vincent Price Art Museum presents an intergenerational group of portraits by Los Angeles-based Latina artists, who collectively explore portraiture and cultural identity through diverse forms of creative expression. Through intimate portraits, the selected artists carefully render their subject’s strength and likeness while referencing broader themes of Latinx culture, pop aesthetics, genre painting, and matrilineal and interpersonal relationships.
For more than sixty years, the student art exhibition at East Los Angeles College has showcased exceptional artworks produced on campus throughout the academic year. Now held biannually, this district-wide exhibition showcases student artworks produced in diverse media across numerous instructional departments. In 2025, New Voices: The 2025 District Wide Student Art Biennial will spotlight works created by students between spring 2023–fall 2024 semesters.
In her first solo museum exhibition, artist Eva Aguila researches the history of the Mission grape and wine production in the Catholic Mission System to examine the effects of colonization in what was once “Nueva España,” now Mexico and California. Utilizing somatic memory and archival research, Aguila reflects on the impact of the 1524 decree by Hernán Cortés, Ordenanzas de buen gobierno (“Ordinances of Good Governance”), tracing 500 years of the Mission grape’s historical ties to religious conversion and the subjugation of Indigenous peoples.
Fabian Debora’s Love Letters presents ten intimate portraits of formerly incarcerated community members from Los Angeles, inspired by personal correspondence written to or from loved ones during their time served in prison. Each subject—diverse in backgrounds and experiences—shares messages of hope, longing, and resilience. By integrating excerpts from these letters into his portraits, Debora empowers each sitter to reclaim their own narrative.
Organized as part of LACMA’s Art Bridges Initiative, Before You Now focuses on the enduring themes of the artist’s self-portrait, as seen in a selection of works from LACMA’s collections of photographs, prints, drawings, videos, and installation art. Primarily featuring contemporary makers, the exhibition is an introduction to seeing American artists as they see themselves—or as they want to be seen by their public. They are shown contemplating their physicality in realistic fashion, highlighting their persona through symbolic tropes, or utilizing humor or conceptual methods to enlighten, exaggerate, or camouflage their reflective selves.
The mission of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is to serve as a unique educational resource for the diverse audiences of the college and the community through the exhibition, interpretation, collection, and preservation of works in all media of the visual arts.
Admission to the Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) is free and open to the public. For any questions, please contact us at
(323) 265-8841 or info@vpam.org.
To keep our community safe, VPAM is following the guidelines of Los Angeles Community College District and the Los Angeles County Public Health Department recommendations and we are requiring all visitors to be assessed for COVID-19 symptoms before entering the museum. Please fill out the LACCD COVID-19 assessment form the day of your visit, and be sure to show the front desk the final screen of the assessment on your phone when you arrive, or on a print out a copy of your assessment. You can also fill out the assessment at the museum if you need assistance.
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The Vincent Price Art Museum is proud to be one of five prestigious non-profit arts and culture organizations in Southern California that have partnered to form the Latinx Arts Alliance.
