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10 Must-See Shows During Frieze Los Angeles

After last year’s wildfires scorched more than 40,000 acres and displaced over 180,000 residents, the Los Angeles art community came together in ways unusual for the sprawling metropolis: Benefit exhibitions and mutual aid networks flourished. That surge of local pride and solidarity carries into this year’s Frieze week, with institutions and galleries foregrounding California artists, many closely tied to the city itself.

 

Solo presentations of historical figures like  and  (at  and , respectively) join those of rising, ultra-contemporary voices such as  and  (at  and ). At , a major exhibition devoted to storied L.A. patron Eileen Harris Norton surveys decades of advocacy while bringing together many of the region’s defining artists of the last half century.

 

The expanding art fair landscape reflects the same enthusiasm and momentum: new arrivals like ENZO in Echo Park join Frieze, Felix, The Other Art Fair, and last year’s standout addition, Post-Fair, turning the week into a citywide festival.

Here are 10 of the most anticipated gallery shows during Frieze Los Angeles 2026.

 

“What Slips Beneath the Sugar”
Feb. 24–Mar. 28
 
Rising U.K. ceramist  transforms the gallery into an immersive dinner party. At the center of the exhibition, an oval table holds glossy, sculptures of half-empty salad bowls, torn In-N-Out sauce packets, bonbons coated in suggestive white powder that falls from open baggies, and ashtrays stuffed with crinkled gold cigarette butts. The guests are absent, but it’s easy to imagine the gallery-going set who’d only just slipped out for the next event. Handmade from earthenware, fired and painted with fine pigments and gold luster, the works toggle between the hyperreal and the cartoonish, the glamorous and the abject. Berrow captures the aftermath of conviviality with a sharp eye toward the performance and excess embedded in many of the city’s social rituals.

February 19, 2026