Mohammed Sami | Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds

Mohammed Sami's The Statue (2022), and Tunga's Seeding Mermaids (k), (p), (q), and (r) (1987) is included in Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds, on view at MOCA in Los Angeles through January 9, 2026.

Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds brings together over 80 artworks from MOCA’s renowned collection, demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through their art–building networks, circles, and mythologies. Embracing the boundaries between the personal and the social, public and private lives, as well as emotional and psychological states, works in the show privilege sites of creativity and the place of the imagination to conjure new worlds and possibilities. Friendship, love, and intimacy become important starting points for artistic expression. Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds is organized by Clara Kim, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Paula Kroll, Curatorial Assistant, and Ariana Rizo, Curatorial Assistant.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the LA MOCA website.