When wildfires swept via the Pacific Palisades and Altadena final month, the destiny of the festivals collaborating in LA’s February Artwork Week was an open query. Many within the artwork world ponder whether it was too quickly after a serious 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 festivals — Frieze, Felix, the LA Artwork Present, The Different Artwork Honest, and Publish-Honest — introduced that they might be returning this 12 months as deliberate, citing their dedication to supporting LA’s creative group 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 inventive 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 deliver practically 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 USA debut of Chris Burden’s 2001 set up “Nomadic Folly” at Gagosian, and South African gallery Southern Guild’s first Frieze displaying. Additionally hold an eye fixed out for the Frieze Focus part that includes 12 rising galleries, organized by curator Essence Harden, and Frieze Tasks, 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 truthful 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 shows, accessed through the warren of crowded, winding halls. Almost 70 galleries from around the globe together with over 30 first-time exhibitors will likely be collaborating, 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 Heart, 1201 South Figueroa Avenue, Los Angeles
Antuan Rodriguez’s “‘Left’ or ‘Right’/Punching Bags,” introduced as a part of DIVERSEartLA in 2018 (picture courtesy LA Artwork Present)
This veteran artwork truthful is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this 12 months, returning to the LA Conference Heart with over 70 galleries from around the globe. Don’t miss the retrospective of the truthful’s non-commercial exhibition DIVERSEartLA, launched in 2017; Robert Vargas’s large-scale mural painted reside 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 phase 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 would not have gallery illustration, the truthful options 140 exhibitors with a deal with accessibility, together with a choice of unique and restricted version artwork beneath $500. Highlights embody 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 collection targeted on rising artists from effective arts graduate applications within the Higher Los Angeles space.
Publish-Honest
February 20–22 | post-fair.comSanta Monica Publish Workplace, 1248 fifth Avenue, 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, Publish-Honest is a stripped-down, no frills present that payments itself as an alternative choice to the pomp and extra of the worldwide artwork truthful circuit, bringing the main target again to the artwork with affordability ($10 tickets!) and fellowship in thoughts. Positioned in a Santa Monica’s former Artwork Deco put up workplace, the truthful’s debut version will characteristic single-artist shows by 29 galleries, starting from the storefront area Home of Seiko and the London experimental gallery Harlesdeh Excessive Avenue to the worldwide powerhouse Sprüth Magers.
EventsOne Hundred %
By way 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 inventive group — 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 competition insist they don’t harbor any in poor health will in direction of the main artwork truthful (“We think Frieze is cool!”, they exclaim). However the occasion, organized at the side of the CalArts REEF Residency, undoubtedly presents 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 international networks of commerce via mild and sound, and Amy Chiao’s “ur already in eutrophia,” a theatrical mediation on hygiene and geometry. Be certain to scope out the choices earlier than you go, as attendees should RSVP prematurely.
Kronenhalle Lïds
By way of March 22 | johndoegallery.com107 East eleventh Avenue, 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 undertaking, part-group present, and part-pop-up saloon, providing a convivial area 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 record of collaborating artists contains native favorites Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Mia Scarpa, and Frances Stark alongside large names which will or could not truly be featured, reminiscent of Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall. For evening owls, the bar will likely be open for joyful 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 Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
Canyon Castator, “The Interventionist” (2025) (picture courtesy Diane Rosenstein Gallery)
Positioned 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 likely 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 together 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; nonetheless, a number of Eastside galleries have banded collectively to attract crowds to the opposite facet of the 405 (and even the 5!) Highlights embody 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 Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
Ben Quinn, “Split Star 5” (2025) (picture courtesy Wyatt Mills)
This scrappy DIY pop-up exhibition initially borrowed its title from a widely known international artwork truthful juggernaut till organizers obtained 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.
