Frieze Los Angeles will return to Santa Monica Airport from 26 February to 1 March 2026 for its seventh version and fourth yr on the century-old airport—although the positioning’s days are numbered, with a 2028 closure looming. The upcoming exhibitor listing is often wide-ranging, bringing collectively greater than 95 galleries from 22 international locations, down barely from the round 100 exhibitors who participated final February.
“This yr’s version carries a particular significance as we come collectively to have a good time each continuity and renewal,” Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s director of festivals, stated in an announcement. “Frieze Los Angeles has turn out to be an important assembly level inside our international calendar, connecting the power of the Americas with Frieze’s worldwide community of galleries, collectors and establishments.”
Returning, big-ticket individuals embrace Gagosian, Gladstone Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Tempo Gallery, Almine Rech, Thaddaues Ropac, White Dice, Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner. As all the time, the honest will embrace a powerful contingent of native Los Angeles galleries together with Matthew Brown, Château Shatto, Commonwealth and Council, Anat Ebgi, David Kordansky Gallery, The Pit and Roberts Initiatives.
Greater than a half-dozen galleries will present on the honest for the primary time subsequent yr, together with El Apartamento (which has areas in Havana, Madrid and Miami), Bradley Ertaskiran from Montréal, Milan-based Cardi Gallery, New York Metropolis’s Fort Gavensvoort, Nicodim and Lomex galleries, and London-based Josh Lilley gallery. After sitting out this yr’s version, which unfolded within the aftermath of the lethal wildfires that struck the Los Angeles space in January, a number of galleries are making comebacks to Frieze, together with Stephen Friedman Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Sprüth Magers, Craig Starr Gallery and Numerous Small Fires.
For the third yr in a row Sector, the honest’s sector for rising artists that’s supported by a partnership with the outerwear model Stone Island, shall be overseen by Essence Harden. (Harden was not too long ago appointed curator of Expo Chicago, which Frieze acquired in 2023.) The sector will function 15 US-based galleries which have been working for 12 years or much less, together with Bel Ami, Firm Gallery, Dreamsong, Fernberger, Lyles & King, Make Room, Ochi, Patron, Sea View and Hannah Traore Gallery.
The honest will function particular out of doors and public artwork commissions organised, for the fourth consecutive yr, in collaboration with Artwork Manufacturing Fund. A collection of site-specific installations will unfold across the Santa Monica Airport campus, its neighborhood park and the adjoining athletic fields. The honest can even reaffirm its dedication to up-and-coming voices in Hollywood with its seventh annual Deutsche Financial institution Frieze Los Angeles Movie Award, a prize for 18- to 34-year-old Los Angeles-based film-makers. The Frieze Affect Prize can even return, this yr offered in collaboration with the artist Titus Kaphar’s Nxthvn, an arts incubator primarily based in New Haven, Connecticut.
