The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has announced the first of its new flagship commissions for art and the environment. 'Julian Charriere: Deep End' was unveiled on 5 October 2026 as one of two inaugural exhibitions of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, and will be on view at MOCA Grand Avenue from 15 November 2026 through 6 June 2027. The exhibition is the French-Swiss artist's first solo museum show in Los Angeles, and it surveys more than a decade of work at the intersection of aesthetics and planetary crisis. Early photographs and sculptures appear alongside films and newly commissioned immersive installations, tracing Charriere's engagement with geological time, human history and the possibility of reparative futures. His practice has taken him to sites around the world where natural forces meet industrial extraction and pollution. 'Deep End' will be presented alongside Cecilia Vicuna's 'Quipu of Encounters: The Dream of Water', the prize's second inaugural exhibition, so that the two artists' environmental visions can be read in dialogue across the same building. Together the pair signal the prize's ambition to back artists working where art, climate and environmental justice converge. For MOCA the announcement sets the tone for its autumn programme, positioning the Grand Avenue building as a stage for large-scale, research-driven installations. The Schmidt prize gives the museum a recurring platform for commissioning new work, and Charriere's show will be its first full demonstration of what that platform can produce. The announcement, issued on 5 October, frames the two inaugural prize exhibitions as a statement of intent for the award's future direction. For Charriere, whose decade-long practice has moved between photography, sculpture, film and newly commissioned immersive environments, the Los Angeles debut is the largest American stage yet for work that treats geological time and human history as intertwined materials.