This Week in LA: Feb. 26→Mar. 4
In this Edition: LA Art Week Is Here — Frieze, Felix, SHOW LA, and Gallery Highlights Across the City
LA Art Week is here. Frieze Los Angeles returns to Santa Monica Airport, Felix Art Fair takes over the Hollywood Roosevelt, and SHOW LA brings photography to The Reef—and the entire city buzzing with openings, installations, and collector energy.
Beyond the fairs, galleries across the city are staging not-to-be-missed presentations. At M+B, Mariah Robertson’s Phase Shift offers a rare two-day-only exhibition during the gallery’s raw, mid-remodel moment—including the public debut of a risograph book ten years in the making. Lisson Gallery presents Leiko Ikemura’s first Los Angeles exhibition, where reclining figures merge into landscape-bodies divided by a monumental metallic mesh wave. Over at David Zwirner, Luc Tuymans makes his LA solo debut with The Fruit Basket, anchored by a sixteen-foot-tall, nine-panel painting exploring fracture and decay. OCHI presents Cooper Cox’s The View from Upstairs, translating AI-assisted images of Idaho mountain ranges into meditative oil paintings. And at Matthew Marks, six Ellsworth Kelly paintings spanning 1953 to 2014 celebrate the artist’s bold, refined use of color—what Kelly himself called simply “the naming of colors.”
It’s a big week. Explore the full lineup below and make your plan!
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On View Now
Frieze Los Angeles | Santa Monica Airport
On view through March 1, 2026
The best contemporary art from the world’s leading galleries and artists returns to Santa Monica Airport, with ambitious installations, nonprofit collaborations, and pop-ups from LA’s favorite restaurants.
Felix Art Fair | Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
On view through March 1, 2026
Now in its eighth edition, Felix showcases exhibitors from Tokyo, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Milan, Seoul, Miami, London, Dallas, New York, and Los Angeles—with over 20 first-time exhibitors.
SHOW LA | DTLA
Photography Fair
On view through March 1, 2026
A photography fair, a community, and a creative platform—SHOW LA features a curated selection of galleries, publishers, and institutions from around the world, with a special exhibition, Low-Fi installations, talks, book signings, a photography competition, and an auction.
Nüart Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
William T. Carson + Emilio Lobato: The Space Between
February 28 – March 21, 2026
The negative space where light, material, and meaning emerge anchors The Space Between. William T. Carson’s copper installations explore perception through material restraint, while Emilio Lobato’s abstracted geometric compositions—constructed from vintage measuring sticks—reflect on record-keeping as a fundamental human behavior.
M+B | West Hollywood
Mariah Robertson: Phase Shift
February 27—28, 2026
A term borrowed from physics describing the return to a familiar bend in a spiral at a different moment in time, Phase Shift presents two distinct projects during a liminal period in the gallery’s ongoing remodeling—including a floor-to-ceiling installation and the public debut of a four-inch-thick risograph book, ten years in development.
Lisson Gallery | West Hollywood
Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon
On view through March 28, 2026
For her first exhibition in Los Angeles, Leiko Ikemura presents works exploring the relationship between the female body and the natural world—the place where two worlds come together. A huge metallic mesh wave divides the gallery, while recurring figures of reclining girls merge into larger-than-life amalgams of landscape-bodies and figure-scapes.
David Zwirner | Melrose Hill / Hollywood
Luc Tuymans: The Fruit Basket
On view through April 4, 2026
One of the most important painters working today makes his Los Angeles solo exhibition debut. The Fruit Basket considers the pervasive atmosphere of fracture specific to the United States at this moment—anchored by a sixteen-foot-tall, twenty-three-foot-wide painting composed of nine distinct panels, based on an iPhone photo of fermenting fruit projected onto a multipart screen.
OCHI | Melrose Hill / Hollywood
Cooper Cox: The View from Upstairs
On view through April 4, 2026
How is landscape imagined, mediated, and experienced? Cooper Cox painted while looking out at the same mountain range that shaped his early visual memory growing up in Idaho, translating speculative, AI-assisted images into oil paint and collapsing distinctions between observed nature and constructed representation.
Matthew Marks | Hollywood
Ellsworth Kelly: The Naming of Colors
On view through April 4, 2026
Six important paintings made between 1953 and 2014 highlight Ellsworth Kelly’s relentless exploration of formal and chromatic relationships. When critics said his work was “just a presentation of colors,” Kelly replied: “Well, that’s what it is—the naming of colors.”
Weinstein Gallery | Hollywood
SEE ME: Unapologetic Voices in Sisterhood
On view through March 1, 2026
Curated by Dominique Clayton, SEE ME brings together 17 contemporary artists—primarily based in Los Angeles—spanning painting, collage, sculpture, conceptual art, and time-based media. Historic works by Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, and Tamara de Lempicka anchor a cross-generational dialogue on visibility, agency, and the enduring force of sisterhood.
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