Frieze Art Fair Returns to Los Angeles
Frieze Los Angeles returns from February 26 to March 1, with a four-day contemporary art fair at Santa Monica Airport. The event will feature a "Focus Section" for emerging talent alongside dozens of satellite exhibitions at leading museums and galleries across the city.
- This marks the seventh edition of Frieze Los Angeles, which first launched in 2019 at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. The fair has since moved, holding its 2022 event near the Beverly Hilton before settling at the Santa Monica Airport in 2023. - The "Focus" section is curated by Essence Harden for her third consecutive year; it will feature 15 emerging galleries from across the United States that were founded in or after 2014. - The 2026 fair will host 95 galleries from around the world. The Director of Frieze for the Americas is Christine Messineo. - The Los Angeles event is an expansion of the original Frieze Art Fair, which was founded in London in 2003 by Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, the creators of *Frieze* magazine. - The 2024 edition of Frieze Los Angeles drew approximately 32,000 attendees over its run. Past fairs have seen significant sales, including a Richard Serra work that sold for $2 million and an Elizabeth Peyton painting for $2.8 million. - Another notable event, the Felix Art Fair, runs concurrently at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and is considered a more relaxed alternative to Frieze. - The parent company of Frieze is the global entertainment and sports company Endeavor, which acquired a majority stake in the art fair brand in 2016.
