Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is shutting down its Los Angeles outpost after seven years. Its final show will be Bek Hyunjin’s current solo exhibition, which ends on August 29th.
The gallery announced in a statement, first reported by Artnet News and subsequently sent to Artsy, that it had made a “considered decision” not to renew its lease this September. In the statement, the gallery noted that, “After seven meaningful years on Highland Avenue, the lease’s end offered a natural pause to assess, and celebrate, all we have accomplished with the Los Angeles gallery exhibition program.”
Tanya Bonakdar founded her eponymous gallery in New York’s Soho neighborhood in 1994, before relocating to Chelsea in 1998. In 2006, the gallery doubled in size after extensive renovations. The gallery opened its Los Angeles outpost in 2018, after fielding “interest from our artists, many of whom were eager to connect more deeply with the West Coast,” according to its statement.
In the seven years since opening, the Los Angeles outpost has staged solo exhibitions for gallery artists including Shilpa Gupta, Susan Philipsz, and Laura Lima. Additionally, its gallery artists were the subjects of several major institutional exhibitions in Los Angeles. For example, Olafur Eliasson had a solo show at MOCA in 2024, and The Getty mounted a solo show for Uta Barth in 2022.
“The gallery has successfully introduced its program to Los Angeles, with numerous artists having gone on to mount major presentations in the city and beyond,” the gallery’s statement read. “With that foundation now firmly in place, and with a full slate of exhibitions continuing in New York and internationally, the gallery will continue to support its artists’ work in Los Angeles, throughout the West Coast, and beyond.”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’s announcement follows other recent closures in Los Angeles. In July, BLUM revealed it would cease operations after three decades of business, while CLEARING closed its locations in both Los Angeles and New York in early August.
