Art Week returns to Los Angeles this year, anchored by the seventh edition of Frieze LA and its 96 participating galleries. Whether you’re drawn to headline exhibitions by major galleries, fresh perspectives from emerging artists, or bold public art commissions spread throughout the city, Los Angeles Art Week 2026 delivers an expansive and compelling snapshot of contemporary art today, with something to captivate every kind of visitor.

Frieze Projects - Body & Soul

Photo Credits: Polly Borland, BOD (2023). Courtesy: the artist

Frieze Projects: Body & Soul returns to Frieze Los Angeles with a free, public program of newly commissioned, site-specific works by Los Angeles–based artists, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund and activating the Frieze campus and surrounding spaces with artist-led, public-facing commissions. In her durational performance, Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), Amanda Ross-Ho will roll a 16-foot inflatable Earth counterclockwise around the Airport Park Soccer Field throughout the fair’s opening hours, offering a meditative reflection on cycles, scale, and our planetary existence.

Tavaras Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began at LACMA

Photo Credits: “The Day Tomorrow Began,” Tavares Strachan, Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Time

Tavares Strachan’s The Day Tomorrow Began marks the artist’s first Los Angeles museum exhibition, unfolding as a series of immersive, multi-sensory environments that move from familiar domestic scenes to a field of rice grass inhabited by ceramic figures. Across media ranging from neon and ceramics to painting and performance, Strachan brings marginalised histories into focus, challenging dominant narratives and opening space for new ways of seeing.

MONUMENTS at MOCA Geffen

Photo Credits: Steffanie Keenan for Getty Images, The Museum of Contemporary Art

MONUMENTS, co-presented by MOCA and The Brick in Los Angeles is a landmark exhibition that interrogates the legacy and removal of Confederate monuments. Bringing together decommissioned, defaced, and toppled statues with newly commissioned, contemporary artworks by artists such Bethany Collins, Karon Davis, and Kara Walker, the exhibition examines questions of race, history, and memory, framing the debate as an urgent cultural reckoning.

Eyelets of Alkaline by Lauren Quin at Pace

Photo Credits: Lauren Quin, Shepard’s Tone, 2024

Pace Los Angeles presents new paintings by Lauren Quin, marking her first solo exhibition with the gallery since joining in 2025. Defined by a deliberate “detox of color,” the works replace chromatic intensity with dense blacks and greys, where faint halos and residual hues create tension, depth, and atmospheric restraint.

Made in L.A. 2025 at The Hammer 

Photo Credits: Alonzo Davis in ‘Made in L.A. 2025’, 2025, exhibition view. Courtesy: the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; photograph: Sarah Golonka

Made in L.A. at The Hammer marks the seventh edition of the museum’s landmark biennial, spotlighting 28 artists working across the greater Los Angeles area. Spanning multiple mediums, the exhibition captures the city as a layered, dissonant ecosystem, offering a counterpoint to Frieze Los Angeles’ international perspective with a snapshot of art that could only emerge here.