Frieze Los Angeles will return to Santa Monica Airport from 26 February to 1 March 2026 for its seventh edition and fourth year at the century-old airport—though the site’s days are numbered, with a 2028 closure looming. The upcoming exhibitor list is typically wide-ranging, bringing together more than 95 galleries from 22 countries, down slightly from the around 100 exhibitors who participated last February.
“This year’s edition carries a special significance as we come together to celebrate both continuity and renewal,” Kristell Chadé, Frieze’s director of fairs, said in a statement. “Frieze Los Angeles has become a vital meeting point within our global calendar, connecting the energy of the Americas with Frieze’s international network of galleries, collectors and institutions.”
Returning, big-ticket participants include Gagosian, Gladstone Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Pace Gallery, Almine Rech, Thaddaues Ropac, White Cube, Hauser & Wirth and David Zwirner. As always, the fair will include a strong contingent of local Los Angeles galleries including Matthew Brown, Château Shatto, Commonwealth and Council, Anat Ebgi, David Kordansky Gallery, The Pit and Roberts Projects.
More than a half-dozen galleries will show at the fair for the first time next year, including El Apartamento (which has locations in Havana, Madrid and Miami), Bradley Ertaskiran from Montréal, Milan-based Cardi Gallery, New York City’s Fort Gavensvoort, Nicodim and Lomex galleries, and London-based Josh Lilley gallery. After sitting out this year’s edition, which unfolded in the aftermath of the deadly wildfires that struck the Los Angeles area in January, multiple galleries are making comebacks to Frieze, including Stephen Friedman Gallery, Gallery Hyundai, Sprüth Magers, Craig Starr Gallery and Various Small Fires.
For the third year in a row Sector, the fair’s sector for emerging artists that is supported through a partnership with the outerwear brand Stone Island, will be overseen by Essence Harden. (Harden was recently appointed curator of Expo Chicago, which Frieze acquired in 2023.) The sector will feature 15 US-based galleries that have been operating for 12 years or less, including Bel Ami, Company Gallery, Dreamsong, Fernberger, Lyles & King, Make Room, Ochi, Patron, Sea View and Hannah Traore Gallery.
The fair will feature special outdoor and public art commissions organised, for the fourth consecutive year, in collaboration with Art Production Fund. A series of site-specific installations will unfold around the Santa Monica Airport campus, its community park and the adjacent athletic fields. The fair will also reaffirm its commitment to up-and-coming voices in Hollywood with its seventh annual Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, a prize for 18- to 34-year-old Los Angeles-based film-makers. The Frieze Impact Prize will also return, this year presented in collaboration with the artist Titus Kaphar’s Nxthvn, an arts incubator based in New Haven, Connecticut.
