1. Frieze Los Angeles

For its 2024 edition, Frieze Los Angeles returns to Santa Monica Airport with over 90 galleries from 21 countries. This year’s Focus section, curated by Essence Harden of the California African American Museum, invites twelve galleries to showcase work that centers around the theme of ecology, particularly the relationship between organisms, humans, and their environment. Highlights include Widline Cadet presented by Nazarian/Curcio, Ser Serpas exhibited by Quinn Harrelson, and Yeni Mao for Make Room. 

This year’s Frieze Projects, curated by the Art Production Fund, is entitled Set Seen and features projects by Pippa Garner, Ryan Flores, Matt Johnson, Cynthia Talmadge, Sharif Farrag, and Derek Fordjour. Each project is in dialogue with the city’s rich history of set design and the role set designers played in camouflaging the former Douglas Aircraft Company Factory at Santa Monica Airport.

On view: February 29–March 3, 2024 | Open map

2. Felix LA Art Fair

Felix LA Art Fair returns to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel for its sixth edition with over sixty galleries. Nearly half of the exhibitors are returnees from the 2023 edition, including Charlie James Gallery, Nicodim, Morán Morán, One Trick Pony, and Sebastian Gladstone. New galleries joining this year’s edition include Heidi from Berlin, Entrance Gallery from New York, and Fernberger Gallery from Los Angeles.

Felix LA presents an additional fashion collaboration with global retailer Dover Street Market, inviting visitors to shop in a fully realized store on-site. Merchandise collaborations are available by artists Katharina Grosse, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, KAWS, Mike Kelley, Sterling Ruby, Cauleen Smith, and more. Artist Oscar Tuazon will also present a sculptural intervention that will host the first Los Angeles iteration of Comme de Garçons’ Black Market.

On view: February 28–March 3, 2024 | Open map

3. SPRING/BREAK Art Show

SPRING/BREAK Art Show returns for its 5th edition in Los Angeles with the theme INT./EXT. (interior/exterior), presenting work related to the transformation from inner to outer, architectural to transcendent, interior to domestic, and beyond. This edition brings together more than 40 exhibitors and over 60 exhibitions with artists mainly from the Los Angeles area.

Highlights include a maze-like group show by Vicky Krieps that considers the constant shape-shifting roles of women; a performance by Krieps, Mark Perkins, and Bailey Tomlinson is set for opening night. Los Angeles-based curator and writer Michael Slenske will also stage an in-fair version of The Street and the Shop, a hybrid art market, happening, and community platform.

On view: February 27–March 3, 2024 | Open map

LA Art Week Gallery Round-Up 

At Kour Pour’s Guest House, Dastan Gallery presents a group show Right About Here (February 27-March 30) that explores Tehran through the lens of photographers Arash Hanaei, Alborz Kazemi, Newsha Tavakolian, Sina Shiri, Maryam Takhtkeshian, and Mehran Mohajer. Interdisciplinary artist Karla Ekaterine Canseco will stage a live performance and walkthrough of her latest solo exhibition Grietas de Acero at murmurs (February 28, 7:00–9:00 PM). 

MAK Center and Schindler House present VALIE EXPORT: Embodied (February 28-April 7), EXPORT’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles since 2001. Embodied will explore the artist’s early practice alongside a contemporary performance program by Los Angeles-based artists. Central Server Works and G-son Studios present a new immersive performance by dance theatre company VOLTA called GLASS HOUSE that deconstructs mythologies of home (February 29–March 3). In commemoration of Black History Month, Black Revivalist and Human Resources Los Angeles present a night of ‘90s underground Black queer cinema by Stephen Winter and Lawrence Elbert (February 28, 7:30–11:30 PM).