Frieze Los Angeles 2026 Highlights

For Frieze Los Angeles 2026, more than 100 exhibitors installed contemporary artworks throughout the Barker Hangar of the Santa Monica Airport and a luxe, affixed temporary tent. The fair’s seventh edition featured galleries and art institutions from more than 24 countries, including major global players Gagosian, White Cube, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Almine Rech, and Pace (which was also represented here as Pace Prints, its highly respected printmaking division).

In the dizzying, high-volume early days of the fair, five presentations stood out—though so too did individual works at many other booths, including Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo’s punching bag at Hoffman Donahue.

It was hard to miss the larger-than-life white camel presented by Sprüth Magers. The cheeky piece was imagined by the late conceptual artist John Baldessari. Sprüth Magers also showcased pieces by blue-chip artists Kara Walker and David Salle.

The colorful, geometric, wall-hung works of Beverly Fishman brought levity to the walls of Jessica Silverman’s booth. They were coupled with vibrant Prismacolor on tracing paper contributions by pioneering American artist Judy Chicago.

Los Angeles and Orange County–based gallery Various Small Fires (VSF), founded in 2012, brought emotional resonance to Frieze Los Angeles with several painted depictions of the damage and distress caused by wildfires. The centerpiece—a four-panel work by Jessie Homer French—quickly became one of the fair’s most-talked-about pieces.

Anchored by an eye-catching, sand-colored Daniel Arsham sculpture and a dangling mouse-like crepe paper creation by Roberto Benavidez, Perrotin’s presentation was playful but underscored by artistic clout. Alongside Arsham, the gallery exhibited works by Paul Pfeiffer, Young-Il Ahn, Sophie Calle, Julian Charrière, Alex Gardner, Todd Gray, JR, Bharti Kher, Mr. X Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel, and Paola Pivi.

New York gallerist Hannah Traore’s installation was a focused study on the works of Brooklyn–based Turiya Adkins. All of the paintings sold, a reflection on the work’s visual intrigue—with each composition blending some combination of oil, gouache, oil pastel, and acrylic on canvas—and the ever-rising status of the artist.