LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum announced that Ali Eyal will receive the $100,000 Mohn Award honoring artistic excellence, in conjunction with Made in L.A. 2025. As part of the award, the Hammer will also produce a publication of Eyal’s work. Carl Cheng will receive the Career Achievement Award honoring brilliance and resilience, and Greg Breda will receive the Public Recognition Award, as chosen by visitors to the Made in L.A. exhibition. Cheng and Breda will each receive $25,000.

Funded by Los Angeles philanthropists and art collectors Jarl and Pamela Mohn, the Mohn Awards have been given to artists with each edition of the Made in L.A. biennial, which began in 2012.

Hammer Museum Director Zoë Ryan said, “I am thrilled to congratulate Ali Eyal on receiving the Mohn Award. His complex and richly detailed painting is both surreal and deeply personal, and speaks powerfully to the impacts of war, globalism, and the immigrant experience in the U.S. I am also incredibly happy to see Carl Cheng’s idiosyncratic and influential body of work recognized in the Career Achievement Award. And there is no arguing that Greg Breda’s beautiful and evocative portraits were standouts in Made in L.A., as chosen by visitors to the exhibition. Finally, I am immensely grateful to Jarl and Pamela Mohn for their ongoing support of both the Made in L.A. biennial and the Mohn Awards. Their commitment to the artists and organizations of Los Angeles is genuinely inspiring.”

A jury of professional curators selected the Mohn Award and the Career Achievement Award. This year’s jury includes Gean Moreno, director of the Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Margot Norton, chief curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA); and Daniela Lieja Quintanar, chief curator and deputy director, programs, at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT).

In a joint statement about the Mohn Award winner, the jury said, “Through a singular painterly language and personal lens, Ali Eyal engages experiences of war and displacement characteristic of the last quarter century. In his monumental paintings, drawings, and installations, incongruous perspectives and mismatched scales create expansive oneiric worlds in which geopolitical tragedies meet interior landscapes. Animated by a capacious emotional range, Eyal’s work is a testimony of perseverance.”

In reference to the Career Achievement Award, the jury wrote, “For over sixty years, Carl Cheng has maintained a highly active and idiosyncratic practice, dealing with questions of authorship, ephemerality, technology, and the relationships between the natural and synthetic. Through uncompromising experimentation and continually inventive processes, he has built a truly groundbreaking body of work. This Career Achievement award recognizes Cheng’s visionary contributions and historical importance.”

The Public Recognition Award was determined by visitors to the Hammer Museum. Since Made in L.A. 2025’s opening in October, more than 90,000 people visited the museum and had the opportunity to vote for their favorite artist in the biennial.

Remarking on Greg Breda’s popular vote award, Made in L.A. 2025 co-curators Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha stated: “Greg Breda’s paintings are both luminous and reverent, marked by a spiritual clarity that centers Black interiority, care, and transcendence. His work channels an enduring quietude, capturing moments that feel at once timeless and deeply grounded in the light and flora of Los Angeles. His contribution to Made in L.A. 2025 embodies both grace and resolve, offering a meditative reflection on the presence and sanctity of Black life.”

Made in L.A. 2025 is on view at the Hammer Museum through March 1, 2026.