UC Irvine Langson OC Museum of Art presents Hello Again and Tokio Ueyama
Spanning more than a century of art making, Hello Again introduces the newly integrated holdings of UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art, showcasing the institution’s deep strengths in California art history, with a particular focus on the 1960s and 1970s. Abandoning a rigid chronology in favor of thematic fluidity, the featured works highlight the many ways California’s artists have bypassed literal documentation to treat their physical environments as mirrors for spiritual, internal and social realities. Cross-generational dialogues collapse time, revealing how regional landscapes, domestic spaces and urban culture remain fertile territory for material and conceptual experimentation.
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Photo by Fredrik Nilsen
Pearl C. Hsiung, “Tidal Wretch, 2005
Hello Again will be on view November 13, 2026-April 11, 2027.
Tokio Ueyama: The Hollows Between Mountains
Through February 28, 2027
Drawing from Tokio Ueyama’s (1889-1954) archive and personal art collection, this exhibition – the first California museum exhibition dedicated to his work – explores the Japanese artist’s life, work and artistic network, tracing the diverse influences that shaped his practice and Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo.
Academically trained as a plein air painter, Ueyama remained active throughout the interwar period and during his incarceration in a World War II camp, painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes. This presentation marks the first museum exhibition in California dedicated to his work.
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Courtesy of Japanese American National Museum
Tokio Ueyama, “At Santa Anita (The Evacuee),” 1942
Drawing from Ueyama’s archive and personal art collection, the exhibition examines the artist’s critical reception, travels and friendships to trace the convergence of diverse artistic currents –including Impressionism, modern photography, Japanese yōga and Mexican muralism – in his practice and in the cultural milieu of Little Tokyo. To reconstruct Ueyama’s expansive artistic network, his works are presented alongside drawings, prints, photographs and paintings by artists he collected, exhibited with, and championed, including Diego Rivera, Tōyō Miyatake, Edward Weston, and Henrietta Shore.
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Photo by Eric Stephenson, courtesy Denver Art Museum
Tokio Ueyama, “Katsuura,” 1940, Oil on canvas
In its eclectic expanse, Hello Again reveals how California artists have returned to the region’s diverse topography and everyday environments as fuel for internal expression, social commentary, and material innovation, creating a complex portrait of place.
This exhibition is supported by Presenting Sponsor Visionaries in Art.
For more information about UC Irvine Langson, OC Museum of Art, go to https://langson.uci.edu/.
