"The artist Tavares Strachan grew up in Naussau with his head cocked star-wards, watching the glow of constellations twinkle and shift in infinite dimensions. It is little wonder, then, that he has never paid much attention to limitations. Since he arrived on the art scene after graduating from Yale University's MFA programme in 2006, his practice has spanned countless materials, genres, themes and storytelling schema, spanning concepts as diverse as space travel and Black haircare."
"His new solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma), The Day Tomorrow Began (until 29 March 2026), leads viewers through a maze of multi-sensory installations, combining neon, ceramics, bronze, painting, text and performance elements in service of immersive, kaleidoscopic world-building. Co-organised with the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio, The Day Tomorrow Began features 20 new works that excavate invisible histories, the sort of stories that don't fit neatly inside white supremacy's narrative of the past."
Tavares Strachan stages immersive, multi-sensory installations that combine neon, ceramics, bronze, painting, text and performance to construct kaleidoscopic environments. The Day Tomorrow Began at LACMA presents twenty new works co-organised with the Columbus Museum of Art that excavate invisible histories excluded from dominant narratives and imagine less encumbered, more equitable futures amid censorship and surveillance. Strachan's practice integrates investigative expeditions and scientific collaboration, including cosmonaut training, MIT partnerships and retracing Matthew Henson's North Pole journey. The work merges material diversity, storytelling and speculative world-building to challenge limitations and reclaim erased stories.
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