When wildfires swept by the Pacific Palisades and Altadena final month, the destiny of the gala’s taking part in LA’s February Artwork Week was an open query. Many within the artwork world wonder if it was too quickly after a significant tragedy to maneuver ahead with such a grand occasion, particularly one so commercially pushed. However because the mud settled and the smoke cleared, 5 of the six gala’s — Frieze, Felix, the LA Artwork Present, The Different Artwork Honest, and Submit-Honest — introduced that they might be returning this 12 months as deliberate, citing their dedication to supporting LA’s creative neighborhood and their religion in its resilience at a fraught second. Beneath is a useful information to those exhibits together with a handful of offsite and various occasions and exhibitions that characterize the breadth and endurance of the town’s artistic communities.
FairsFrieze
February 20–23 | frieze.comSanta Monica Airport, 3027 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica
Lila de Magalhaes, “High Entomologist” (2025) (picture courtesy Matthew Brown gallery)
Frieze LA will carry almost 100 worldwide galleries to the Santa Monica Airport, with highlights together with LA-based artist Lila de Magalhaes’s chalk and thread creations at Matthew Brown’s sales space, a presentation of Noah Purifoy’s assemblages at Tilton, the US debut of Chris Burden’s 2001 set up “Nomadic Folly” at Gagosian, and South African gallery Southern Guild’s first Frieze exhibiting. Additionally preserve an eye fixed out for the Frieze Focus part that includes 12 rising galleries, organized by curator Essence Harden, and Frieze Initiatives, together with Ozzie Juarez’s homage to South Central swap meets and Madeline Hollander’s choreographed airplane rides.
Felix
February 19–23 | felixfair.comHollywood Roosevelt Resort, 7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
Chason Matthams, “Rainbow Balloon 7 (acid green) with Thomas Moran’s ‘Rainbow over the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone’ layed over with Hyacinthe Rigaud’s ‘Study of Flowers’” (2024) (picture courtesy Magenta Plains)
The beloved lodge honest returns to the Hollywood Roosevelt for its seventh version. Guests can leisurely meander out and in of ground-floor cabana cubicles surrounding the swimming pool famously painted by David Hockney earlier than heading upstairs heading upstairs to the tower displays, accessed by way of the warren of crowded, winding halls. Practically 70 galleries from around the globe together with over 30 first-time exhibitors will probably be taking part, amongst them murmurs and Charlie James from LA, Voloshyn Gallery from Kyiv and Miami, Brigitte Mulholland from Paris, and Magenta Plains and Mrs. from New York.
LA Artwork Present
February 19–23 | laartshow.comLos Angeles Conference Middle, 1201 South Figueroa Road, Los Angeles
Antuan Rodriguez’s “‘Left’ or ‘Right’/Punching Bags,” offered as a part of DIVERSEartLA in 2018 (picture courtesy LA Artwork Present)
This veteran artwork honest is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this 12 months, returning to the LA Conference Middle with over 70 galleries from around the globe. Don’t miss the retrospective of the honest’s non-commercial exhibition DIVERSEartLA, launched in 2017; Robert Vargas’s large-scale mural painted stay onsite; and a presentation of works by Inna Kharchuk, Anna Veriki, Iryna Maksymova, and Liza Zhdanova, 4 lady Ukrainian artists reflecting their experiences of warfare, displacement, and resilience.
The Different Artwork Honest
February 20–23 | theotherartfair.com2800 Casitas Ave, Atwater Village, Los Angeles
Judy Baca, “The East L.A. Student Walkouts,” new section of The Nice Wall of L.A. mural (2025) (picture courtesy The Different Artwork Honest)
The Different Artwork Honest returns for its thirteenth version in Los Angeles, relocating to a brand new spot in Atwater Village. Primarily showcasing the work of artists who shouldn’t have gallery illustration, the honest options 140 exhibitors with a give attention to accessibility, together with a number of unique and restricted version artwork below $500. Highlights embrace the presentation of a brand new part of Judy Baca’s ongoing historic mural The Nice Wall of LA (2025), Anna Marie Tendler’s “House of Self” photobooth, and a presentation of labor by the MFAs of LA, a sequence centered on rising artists from tremendous arts graduate applications within the Larger Los Angeles space.
Submit-Honest
February 20–22 | post-fair.comSanta Monica Submit Workplace, 1248 fifth Road, Santa Monica
Angela Anh Nguyen, “Counter Culture among other things…” (2023) (picture courtesy TK and the artist)
Launched this 12 months by LA gallerist Chris Sharp, Submit-Honest is a stripped-down, no frills present that payments itself as an alternative choice to the pomp and extra of the worldwide artwork honest circuit, bringing the main focus again to the artwork with affordability ($10 tickets!) and fellowship in thoughts. Situated in a Santa Monica’s former Artwork Deco submit workplace, the honest’s debut version will characteristic single-artist displays by 29 galleries, starting from the storefront house Home of Seiko and the London experimental gallery Harlesdeh Excessive Road to the worldwide powerhouse Sprüth Magers.
EventsOne Hundred %
By means of February 22 | instagram.com/griefxhope619 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles
Beatriz Cortez, “Time (Spiral)” (2024) (picture Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic)
In response to the wildfires devastated giant swaths of Los Angeles final month, Hammer Museum curator Aram Moshayedi started reaching out to artists who had been instantly affected, asking them to contribute one work every for a bunch present. The result’s One Hundred %, a pop-up profit exhibition that includes roughly 100 artists representing a various cross-section of LA’s artistic neighborhood — a placing illustration of the variety of artists impacted by the tragedy. Because the present’s title declares, 100% of the earnings will go on to the contributors.
Anti-Frieze: LA
February 21 and 22, 6–10pm | antifrieze.xyzThe Reef, 1933 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles
Avalon Greenberg Name in “ur already in eutrophia” by Amy Chiao (picture courtesy Danny Baxter)
The organizers of the Anti-Frieze efficiency pageant insist they don’t harbor any in poor health will in direction of the key artwork honest (“We think Frieze is cool!”, they exclaim). However the occasion, organized along with the CalArts REEF Residency, undoubtedly affords a non-commercial various to the market frenzy happening concurrently throughout city. Anti-Frieze options 5 “time-based experiences” unfold over two evenings, together with Genevieve Fowler’s reimagined Passover Seder “Long Stretches of Short Time,” Nicholas Ginsberg’s “Container Port no. 1,” which explores world networks of commerce by gentle and sound, and Amy Chiao’s “ur already in eutrophia,” a theatrical mediation on hygiene and geometry. Make sure that to scope out the choices earlier than you go, as attendees should RSVP upfront.
Kronenhalle Lïds
By means of March 22 | johndoegallery.com107 East eleventh Road, Downtown, Los Angeles
Set up view of Kronenhalle Lïds exhibition (picture courtesy John Doe Gallery)
The brainchild of Raffi Kalenderian and Alberto Cuadros, Raffi and Al’s is part-ongoing efficiency venture, part-group present, and part-pop-up saloon, providing a convivial house for the artwork world weary to moist their whistles. Its newest iteration is Kronenhalle Lïds at John Doe Gallery, a mash-up of the famed Swiss artwork bar and the ever present cap retailer discovered at malls all through the US. True to its irreverent spirit, the checklist of taking part artists consists of native favorites Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Mia Scarpa, and Frances Stark alongside large names which will or could not really be featured, reminiscent of Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall. For evening owls, the bar will probably be open for pleased hour from midnight to 4am on Wednesday, February 19.
Mohilef Open Studios and Canyon Castator: Cannon Fodder
Saturday, February 22, 12-4pm | instagram.com/mohilef_studios720 East 18th Road, Downtown, Los Angeles
Canyon Castator, “The Interventionist” (2025) (picture courtesy Diane Rosenstein Gallery)
Situated simply south of the ten freeway in Downtown LA, Mohilef Studios is a transformed industrial constructing that homes workspaces for 33 artists. On Saturday afternoon, they’ll be opening their doorways for a building-wide open studios occasion, with meals from Toro Antiguo, drinks by Recess and Dosi Dosi, and music by The Company Artwork Home. Concurrently at Mohilef, Diane Rosenstein Gallery will probably be opening an off-site exhibition of large-scale, maximalist pop-culture and comix-inflected work by Canyon Castator, who helped convert the Mohilef and one other constructing into artist studios along with his father and serves as an artist liaison.
Eastside Gallery Day
Friday, February 21 | instagram.com/theotherartfairVarious areas, Eastside Los Angeles
Set up view of Keith Boadwee’s Head to Toe: Works from 1990-2024 at The Pit (picture by Chris Hanke, courtesy the artist and The Pit)
A lot of the fair-related motion this week is happening on the Westside; nevertheless, a number of Eastside galleries have banded collectively to attract crowds to the opposite facet of the 405 (and even the 5!) Highlights embrace Keith Boadwee’s cheeky transgressions at The Pit, new exhibits at historic house-galleries Sea View and the Wolford Home, and a day of musical performances to accompany Tim Biskup’s print launch at Face Guts. The night caps off with an afterparty on the Silverlake Lounge hosted by Devin Troy Strother.
Redacted Lincoln Heights DTLA
February 19–23 | redacted.lacityart.orgGallery Thirtysix, 260 South Figueroa Road, Downtown, Los Angeles
Ben Quinn, “Split Star 5” (2025) (picture courtesy Wyatt Mills)
This scrappy DIY pop-up exhibition initially borrowed its identify from a well known world artwork honest juggernaut till organizers acquired a cease-and-desist letter — which they promptly screened onto t-shirts — and settled as an alternative on the absurd moniker Redacted Lincoln Heights DTLA. Organized by Wyatt Mills, Ben Quinn, and Raffi Kalenderian, the second version of Redacted will happen on the thirty sixth story of a downtown skyscraper within the aptly named Gallery ThirtySix and have the work of 20 artists together with Zoe Alameda, Solomon Rousseau, Meg Jorgenson, and others.
