Los Angeles
Sunshine, studios, and a booming contemporary art scene
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Exhibitions
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Venues
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Press Signals
Art & the City in Dialogue
LA's art world thrives from Boyle Heights to Culver City, with LACMA, The Broad, and a thriving gallery district redefining American art.
The City as Stage
Exhibitions in Los Angeles
The spaces where Los Angeles speaks — from major institutional surveys to gallery shows that define the city's contemporary conversation.
What's On
Los Angeles — Upcoming Shows
7 shows
Now Showing
Featured Artists
Urban Infrastructure
Los Angeles's Art Ecosystem
The institutions, galleries, and independent spaces through which Los Angeles produces, hosts, and transmits contemporary culture.
Gallery Directory
Contemporary Galleries in Los Angeles
A verified directory of Los Angeles's contemporary art galleries — each record fetched and confirmed from the gallery's official website.
A powerhouse with a critically rigorous program balancing blue-chip artists with rising stars. Known for museum-quality exhibitions and forward-thinking initiatives like Platform and David Zwirner Online, consistently placing its artists in major international biennials.
The quintessential blue-chip gallery, synonymous with market dominance and monumental exhibitions. Its vast empire spans 19 locations globally, with an unrivaled roster of superstars and estates whose presence defines major biennials and museum shows worldwide.
A historic gallery with a global footprint, known for its long-standing commitment to German painting and its sharp curatorial eye for international talent. Max Hetzler has been a key force in defining the post-war German art scene and remains a major presence worldwide.
A global powerhouse that has redefined the gallery model through ambitious expansions into rural locations, historic preservation, hospitality, and education. Their vast roster of historical estates and contemporary titans forms a fixture of major biennials worldwide.
One of the art world's most enduring forces, Pace has evolved from modernist origins to embrace cutting-edge digital art. Under Marc Glimcher's leadership, its Pace Live and Pace X programs have brought performance and new media into focus, aligning with biennial trends.
An artist-run gallery that challenges traditional gallery structures and has been influential in identifying and promoting conceptual artists. Named after a fictional character, the gallery itself functions as an art project, blurring boundaries between commerce and critique.
A pillar of the Los Angeles art scene, its roster includes many of the most influential artists of the last 30 years. The gallery has been instrumental in establishing LA as a contemporary art capital and regularly places its artists in major international exhibitions.
Known for its powerful roster of female artists and its deep engagement with photography and conceptual art. The gallery has been instrumental in establishing feminist art practice within the canon and consistently places its artists in major biennials.
Market in Los Angeles
Auction houses, upcoming sales, and market-week activity in this city.
Market Signals
Los Angeles Auction
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) scheduled an auction event in Los Angeles for September 9, 2026.
Emerging Art Auction
An auction featuring Emerging Art was held by Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) on September 9, 2026.
John Cederquist: Then & Now
A selling exhibition presenting a survey of works in wood by Southern Californian artist John Cederquist.
Post War & Contemporary Art
LAMA is holding an auction for Post War and Contemporary Art.
PRESENT TENSE: Ultra-Contemporary & Street Art
Rago and LAMA are hosting an auction dedicated to ultra-contemporary and street art.
Essential Design
Wright and LAMA are presenting an Essential Design auction featuring over 300 works by influential designers including Charles and Ray Eames, Fernando and Humberto Campana, and Zaha Hadid.
On the Rise
Artists to Watch in Los Angeles
Active voices generating signal — emerging, mid-career, and buzzworthy names surfacing in Los Angeles's current scene.
James Turrell
Hot ShowingShowing in "LACMA: California Light and Space Rediscovered" at LACMA
Robert Irwin
Hot ShowingShowing in "LACMA: California Light and Space Rediscovered" at LACMA
Mike Kelley
Hot ShowingShowing in "MOCA Los Angeles: Pacific Standard Time" at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Charles Ray
ShowingShowing in "MOCA Los Angeles: Pacific Standard Time" at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
Jenny Saville
ShowingShowing in "The Broad: Jenny Saville — Figuration" at The Broad
Erika Rothenberg
ShowingShowing in "The Broad: California Contemporary Visions" at The Broad
Simone Leigh
ShowingShowing in "The Broad: California Contemporary Visions" at The Broad
Mark Bradford
ShowingShowing in "Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles: Material Witness" at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Gallery Scene
Galleries to Watch in Los Angeles
The spaces defining Los Angeles's current moment — independent, ambitious, and generating signal in the contemporary art world.
Local Arts Coverage
Los Angeles in the Press
Live editorial signals from publications covering Los Angeles's art scene — aggregated from our global source network.
Local News Wire
Los Angeles Contemporary Art News
Fresh coverage of Los Angeles's contemporary art scene, aggregated weekly from local-language news sources.
As New York Prices Artists Out, New Haven Is Drawing Them In
Is New Haven one possible cure for a metastasized New York real estate market?
An Angeleno's Six Week Bender in the NY Art Scene
96 An Angeleno's Six Week Bender in the NY Art Scene Sammy Loren on Dimes Square readings and WeWork galleries Bad performance art, bacchanals, and so many readings! Writer-curator-publisher Sammy Lorenâa fixture of the LA art-lit undergroundâreports on his odyssey through the New York scene this week. His second contribution to the Criticsâ Table (following his dispatch from Bucharest last spring) begins at the nomadic curatorial project The Gallery, and takes us through a head spinning i
An Art Lover’s Guide to Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s art scene has sharpened in the last few years into something distinctive: institutionally serious, community-driven, and unusually porous between artists, curators, designers, musicians, and chefs.Proximity to New York and relative affordability are part of the story—Philly can sustain experimentation in ways many cities increasingly can’t.New spaces dedicated to contemporary art and design have opened alongside artist-run collectives, while a younger generation of galleries has turned the city into a place to encounter work before it reaches the market machinery of New York or Los Angeles. “What I love most about the art scene in Philadelphia is its authenticity,” said Katherine Sachs, a collector and founder of ArtPhilly, the nonprofit that launched its inaugural citywide biennial this year. “Artists and institutions can take risks and do things here they can’t do elsewhere.” Philadelphians love their city, and the art community is quick to embrace outsiders. From arty
An Art Lover’s Guide to Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s art scene has sharpened in the last few years into something distinctive: institutionally serious, community-driven, and unusually porous between artists, curators, designers, musicians, and chefs.Proximity to New York and relative affordability are part of the story—Philly can sustain experimentation in ways many cities increasingly can’t.New spaces dedicated to contemporary art and design have opened alongside artist-run collectives, while a younger generation of galleries has turned the city into a place to encounter work before it reaches the market machinery of New York or Los Angeles. “What I love most about the art scene in Philadelphia is its authenticity,” said Katherine Sachs, a collector and founder of ArtPhilly, the nonprofit that launched its inaugural citywide biennial this year. “Artists and institutions can take risks and do things here they can’t do elsewhere.” Philadelphians love their city, and the art community is quick to embrace outsiders. From arty
An Art Lover’s Guide to Philadelphia
Philadelphia’s art scene has sharpened in the last few years into something distinctive: institutionally serious, community-driven, and unusually porous between artists, curators, designers, musicians, and chefs.Proximity to New York and relative affordability are part of the story—Philly can sustain experimentation in ways many cities increasingly can’t.New spaces dedicated to contemporary art and design have opened alongside artist-run collectives, while a younger generation of galleries has turned the city into a place to encounter work before it reaches the market machinery of New York or Los Angeles. “What I love most about the art scene in Philadelphia is its authenticity,” said Katherine Sachs, a collector and founder of ArtPhilly, the nonprofit that launched its inaugural citywide biennial this year. “Artists and institutions can take risks and do things here they can’t do elsewhere.” Philadelphians love their city, and the art community is quick to embrace outsiders. From arty
The Allure of the Other Coast
Jo Rosenthal explores what really changes when artists change coasts. For years, maybe even centuries, creative people everywhere have faced the question: should I live in New York or LA? This often seems like an unsolvable issue, although some argue there’s a clear winner between the two metropolitan cities. In reality, the answer is more The post The Allure of the Other Coast appeared first on ELEPHANT.
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