The House America Built

26 June – 13 September, 2026

UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
3333 Avenue of the Arts
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
USA

https://langson.uci.edu/exhibition/the-house-america-built/

Taking its name from an installation by artist Daniel Joseph Martinez (b. 1957, Los Angeles) re-creating Ted Kaczynski’s cabin—a hand-built, off-grid structure symbolizing the violence that isolation and exclusion can produce—The House America Built examines how artists challenge structures or notions of power that erase specific human stories. Spanning drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and mixed media, the works on view chart histories personal and universal, local and global, to reveal how different lived realities of marginalization are obscured by the systems, places, or processes that determine how power is constructed. The exhibition, presented by the 2025–26 Orange County Young Curators cohort, invites audiences to consider what kind of society, world, or symbolic “house” we, as Americans, might be building for ourselves.

Artists: Lewis Baltz, Andrea Bowers, Hugo Crosthwaite, Sam Durant, Mona Hatoum, Alfredo Jaar, Kambui Olujimi, Pilar Quinteros, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, May Sun, and Hank Willis Thomas