Frieze Los Angeles Announces 101 Galleries for 2025 Fair
Fourteen galleries will make their debuts at the sixth edition of the fair, which returns to Santa Monica Airport in February. Save to My Ocula
Frieze has announced details of the next Frieze Los Angeles, which takes place from 20 to 23 February 2025.
The fair will gather 101 galleries, nearly half of which have a space in Los Angeles. That number is up from 95 this year, but fewer than the 124 who showed across two sites—a tent and the Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger—in 2023.
Leading galleries such as Gagosian, Gladstone Gallery, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, White Cube, and David Zwirner are all returning.
First timers include Mariane Ibrahim, Linseed, Galleria Lorcan, moniquemeloche, Galeria Lorcan O’Neill, Southern Guild, and Timothy Taylor.
The fair’s Focus section for emerging galleries is curated by Essence Harden, co-curator of Made in L.A. 2025. It will feature Bel Ami, Dominique Gallery, Make Room, Sow & Tailor, Superposition Gallery, and Tyler Park Presents, among others.
Galleries graduating from Focus to show in the main section of the fair include Matthew Brown, Sebastian Gladstone, Charlie James, and Nazarian / Curcio.
The Art Production Fund will present site-specific artworks across the grounds of Santa Monica Airport, including activations on the athletic fields and sculptures exhibited in the community park.
The fair will also present two awards: the sixth Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award and the Frieze Impact Prize.
During Frieze Los Angeles, local institutions will present exhibitions including María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold at the Getty, Olafur Eliasson: OPEN at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature at The Broad, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum, and Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at LACMA.
On 24 October, Frieze’s parent company, Endeavor, announced that it was reviewing the art fair and magazine brand for a potential sale. They said no timetable had been set for the review and no specific actions were assured. —[O]
Main image: Frieze Los Angeles. Courtesy Casey Kelbaugh and Frieze. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh.
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