Human Resources

Join us for a screening M. A. Guevera's collection of expirimental videos in support of his debut solo exhibition Harmonic Oscillation. The video screening will be followed by a conversation between […]

UPEND presents MARTÍN ESCALANTE + WEASEL WALTER TIM DAHL Tuesday November 30 at 8pm The L.A. debut of the lacerating sax and drums free jazz duo of MARTÍN ESCALANTE + WEASEL WALTER […]

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UPEND presents LEILA BORDREUIL NEPHILA “Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist, composer and sound-artist from France. She accesses concepts as diverse as Noise, contemporary classical, free jazz, and experimental traditions […]

I’m making a quilt. At Human Resources. To keep me warm. While I grieve. If you want. Bring me warm fabrics. Anytime between 6-10pm. While I sew. You can’t actually come […]

POSTPONED Multi disciplinary trans femme artist Sebastian Hernandez presents a new work with a group of femmes to bring forth a happening in the dark.

Pristina / Sauber Zauber / TBHQ • Proof of full vaccination and contact info required for entry to this event • Masks required at all times while inside the space […]

Noche de Amor  Music by Neyva, Romeo Diablos, Fairy Boy, Bae Banxx, Ora77k, & Soulm4te  February 11, 2021 6:30—11PM  Proof of full vaccination and contact info required for entry to […]

Two nights of screenings focusing on a trio of films by the Yonemoto brothers: Thursday, February 17th, 8:00pm:  Tickets for Thursdays screening of Garage Sale can be reserved here Bruce and […]

mark so   a future in hand     -   spilled close to the earth Outside and in, living sideways, and down   opposite the center and at the […]

Image credit: Xandra Ibarra, Chest Rest, 2020.   Human Resources Los Angeles presents Nothing lower than I, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Xandra Ibarra. The exhibition is anchored in […]

image credit: Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabha, 1973 (2019) A program of moving images and performance, by Dicky Bahto & Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, the night of March 23rd. Presale tickets can be reserved here Masks are […]

"How to Bake a Cake in the Digital Age" is a half-hour comedy special set in a cooking show that may or may not ever start, starring Christina Catherine Martinez, […]

Starts promptly at 8pm   Asher Hartman with Michael Bonnabel and Philip Littell, It’s Better to Start Out Ugly is day five of a year-long project with performers Michael Bonnabel […]

Kali Malone - Does Spring Hide Its Joy - Installation   Featuring Nika Milano, Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton Gallery Hours: Saturday April 9th 6pm-9pm* Sunday April 10th Noon-6pm Wednesday […]

UPEND presents Live premiere of "Ground Groove" – an audio video collaboration between L.A. based beat dealer Maral and Portland, Oregon based video artist Brenna Murphy (of MSHR.) An album […]

 Human Resources' 12th birthday Sarah Rara Corey Fogel Gelare Khoshgozaran Nikki Darling Rebeca Hernandez & Crystal Sepúlveda Eloe Omoe Suzy Halajian Ajani Brannum Mariel Carranza Ohan Breiding John Biortle Johnnie […]

Madison Brookshire Double or Nothing (2022) A new performance for two 16mm projectors, harmonium, sine tone, and voice Doors open at 8p Madison Brookshire lives in Los Angeles, where he makes […]

On Memorial Day, UPEND presents veteran L.A. noisemakers Dean Spunt and John Wiese live in concert as they celebrate their new record《The Echoing Shell》released this month on Drag City Records. […]

UPEND presents, the U.S. Premiere of Japanese sound artist and instrument builder FUJI|||||||||||TA and a special performance from L.A.’s own Tashi Wada. FUJI|||||||||||TA Japanese sound artist Yosuke Fujita wanted to […]

Skylar Haskard Liz Nurenberg | Anthony Bodlovic Karla Ekatherine Canseco Carlos Agredano Paul Outlaw | Joe Seely Kristina Wong   Saturday June, 25th 7-11pm     Descriptions of perfromances: Skylar […]

Join us on Thursday, June 30th at 7:30pm for a performance by Holly Harrell: Run, Run, Roxie Pickle!    Holly Harrell adapts past videos into a live performance. Through successive […]

Time to pull out your best looks. It’s prom night! Join us for a trans centered queer dance night at HRLA on July 3rd, from 8pm-midnight. From your black tie, to […]

Soft Traces An exhibition by Alex Delapena & Daniel Arthur Mendoza. Opening July 8th, 6-9pm Walk-through w the artists & Jennifer Doyle: Sunday July 10, 3pm Gallery is open daily […]

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  HRLA presents a night of poetry this Friday, July 29th at 7pm with the poets: Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Kata De la Rosa Lupita Limón Corrales Viva Padilla *A 5 dollar […]

fault lines Friday, September 23rd at 7 pm Saturday, September 24th at 2 pm and at 7 pm Tickets can be purchased here   fault lines: activation #3 at Human […]

كان يا ما كان կար ու չկար there was and there wasn’t Over two days, Haig Papazian will build a new machine/instrument which he will play on Saturday, Oct 1. […]

Join us for a fundraiser sale of artworks by MFA students to support the UC academic worker strike. There will be a cash bar, performances, live sound, and other refreshments. […]

Sticker (Michael Gross and Dakota Higgins) was born at the Stonehead Society Headquarters in Gardena, CA, into a heap of Mexican alabaster. For a year, the two lived on beans […]

The wildly prolific emo ambient musician claire rousay brings new sounds to Human Resources in the new year. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday […]

Sad Girl Summer is a solo performance by Pau S. Pescador with opening performances and installations by Luna Fisher, Emji Saint Spero and Sammie Veeler.  This event is co-hosted by […]

The Opposite a Video Art Essay by Patty Gone with opening acts bySophia Cleary Aiden Arata Wall of Ears about The Opposite:Porn Film Festival Berlin Official Selection 2022Official TrailerWhat do ‘Seinfeld’ and […]

Nebula and Gentes were initially made for an extensive installation called CHARTI and exhibited in 2016. Nebula was also shown as part of the Malta Pavilion at the Venice Biennale […]

  New performances on a Tuesday night. Amy Chiao Chicken Bones for the Capital Soul® is an American self-help, consumer goods, and performance media group. Starting in Chiao's kitchen during the 2020 […]

Transitional Apparitions of the Gutter Empyreana screening of new and recent films by Wayne KoestenbaumSunday, February 26, 20237 p.m. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum […]

Exquisite Corps: a trio of solos by mia simonović / allie miks / diana relth Human Resources Gallery Wednesday, March 1st Doors at 7pm $10 suggested donation masks are encouraged […]

Christine's 2022 Schedule C Christine Tien Wang Human Resources is ashamed to present a performative lecture by Christine Tien Wang. She will walk audiences through 12 years of filing taxes […]

THE EAR* (*or how I became a person) is a performance by interdisciplinary artist Page Person Sunday, March 19 at 5:00 pm. At a time when the very existence of […]

Matt Savitsky reads seven issues of the Los Angeles Times, dated March 19 - March 26, 2020.  This project began in 2020 as thirty daily performances done live on Instagram […]

New performances on a Tuesday night. Jmy James Kidd dog - fly free - sing, Jmy dances on a felted flying carpet Isidro Pérez García Performing as the character Tuleño, the […]

Reimagining Art Institutions and Community Saturday, April 15th at 4:00 pm This public panel will bring together artists, curators, arts organization leaders and community organizers from LA and beyond to […]

Blood is here is a collaborative manifestation between vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood. It is an idea born from a recent collective performance within Wood’s touring […]

lily, rose is an installation and performance at Human Resources Los Angeles that brings to life the world of Kelly Link’s short story through live music and theatrics by M.A. Harms, […]

The first week of Human Resources Summer Screening Series includes video and animated works by Aimee Goguen, Cosima Sch, Margaret Haines, Olivia Taussig and Peggy Ahwesh.  Camera direction, collage and […]

A casual series of moving image works, presented every Wednesday night at 9 free image by Aimee Goguen

Greetings Friends is a full-length essay film made by Pau Pescador, titled after a Disney Studio produced film. In 1941, the United States government created the Office of Inter-American Affairs […]

Presented inside Toni Hervas' exhibition the awkening

This weeks Wednesday Night Summer Screening Series features short videos Olivia Leiter and Prima Sakuntabhai. Olivia LeiterDrawing from archival materials and phone interviews, Amalgamated explores cooperation, unions, the 60s and 70s New York City tenant movement, compromises, […]

On Saturday June 10th MACULA DOG – the enigmatic, electronic, off-kilter, self-contained band and performance unit from New York City – bring themselves and their holographs to Human Recources Los […]

This event is a conversation between Ari Brostoff, author of Missing Time, and Emily Segal, author of Mercury Retrograde, about their respective books--two reflections on the cultural and political vertigo of the 2010s. Possible discussion […]

Reverb is a quartet movement based performance that thinks through ideas of queerness, kin, sorrow and the body. This performance asks the performers to question their commitment to performance, movement, […]

Local percussionist Corey Fogel hosts a program of four diverse, improvising soloists from NY, Mexico, and California.   Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist and improviser living in New York City. He […]

Opening: Saturday, June 24, 6–9pm Exhibition Dates: June 24-27, 2023 Gallery Hours: Sunday June 25 11am - 2pm and by appointment Robison’s immersive installation showcases new work in an experimental audio/visual […]

Gallery hours: Noon-6:00pm Smorgasbord is a collection of paintings and sculptures that revolve around abstracted formal investigations of colour, shape, and play. Hand-sewn fabric compactions augmented and calcified with heavily applied […]

Vocalists/multidisciplinary artists Carmina Escobar, Roco Córdova and Dorian Wood return to Human Resources as BIH, expanding on their performance of Blood is here back in April. The three consider the contexts of […]

Featuring Fmin, Dbmin, F#min, Amin, and Dbmaj in the harmonic chromatic language of soft blue, yellow, yellow-orange, soft red, and blue-green—the colors of summer sunsets along oceans and seas. Civil […]

Hothouse Dirty Looks Inc presents Hothouse, a program of erotic film and video art focusing on ‘realcore’ non-genital sex and symbolic eroticism. Originally curated as part of the exhibition Fulgora, organized […]

Gallery hours: 12 - 6pm “Our culture is defective. Perhaps you mean that we ought to study the problem and look for a solution. Perhaps we could, if it wasn't […]

Gallery hours: 12 - 6pmOpening: Friday, July 21, 7 - 9pmPoetry reading by Jennifer Tseng and performance by Christos Tejada at 8pm Waxing & Waning enveloped letterlost in transitcall her […]

FCK82 (FKA The Ensemble Whose Name is Uhhhhhmm… ) makes their first IRL appearance EVER with a screening of a 45-minute-long set created originally for the SPIEL! Games as Critical […]

First Draft is an evening of Experimental Works-in-Process for Los Angeles based dance and performance artists. The evening serves as a creative laboratory for wide-ranging artistic investigations in movement-based mediums for artists […]

A night of experimental documentary shorts weaving through the body as an archive, as well as a site of criminalization and/or pleasure—sites that are navigating history as present, past and […]

a screening of video works by Hazel Katz, Jack Coventry, Stanton Cornish-Ward, Theo Cuthand, Trent Crawford, Wren Gardiner, and more : - ) Stanton Cornish-Ward is an artist and filmmaker […]