February in Los Angeles: see how galleries bring art into the city, at the airport.
Frieze Los Angeles
Frieze Los Angeles 2027 runs from 25 to 28 February at Santa Monica Airport. The 2027 exhibitor list and public projects are still to be announced; the 2026 edition brought around a hundred galleries and public art to the airport park. The two works below are 2026 examples: one completed through the artist’s continuous walking, the other holding memories in ceramic vessels.
Eastward aerial view of Santa Monica Airport in 2003; site context for the airport that contains Barker Hangar, not a Frieze Los Angeles exhibition view. · Report image rights
GOWOAH / Los Angeles A REASON TO GO
Santa Monica Airport campus2027.02.25 — 2027.02.28Art exhibitionsAdmission cost unconfirmed
FIND YOUR REASON
What draws you to this experience?
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2026: pushing a globe around a field
In 2026, in Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), Amanda Ross-Ho pushed an inflatable globe about 16 feet across around the football field of the airport park, without stopping.
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The turning of the Earth shrinks into one person’s lap after lap of labour; watch for a while and you feel the weight of time and effort.
Art exhibitions
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2026: stoneware holding memories
Kohshin Finley’s The Piano Player set large stoneware vessels into a grid of shelves, holding private memories of growing up in Los Angeles.
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There is no piano in it; what rewards looking is the relation between the surfaces, the volumes and the arrangement of the pots.
People who enjoy performance, ceramics and work rooted in Los Angeles, and want to combine indoor booths with outdoor projects
Before you decide
The 2027 exhibitor list, prices and public projects are still to be announced (checked 2 October); the works described are 2026 examples, not a preview of 2027.
Check admission to the tent and to the outdoor public projects separately.
The map shown is the official 2026 map; 2027 booths and routes follow the new one.
FIND YOUR PLACE
Explore the layout. Plan your route.
Official 2026 map: Booths, entrance and outdoor soccer field. Historical layout reference only; use the new edition’s plan for current booths, works and routes.
Names you usually see behind museum barriers hang in the same halls as artists just breaking through, and the same week Untitled and other fairs open along the beach.
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