The LA Art Show has solidified Los Angeles’s role as an influential creative hub and continues breaking cultural boundaries. The show now showcases over one hundred galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artists. Featuring works from artists worldwide and locally sourced, with exhibitors attending from Turkey, Spain, Belgium, Japan, Canada, France, Taiwan, London, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and South Korea, the LA Art Show brings the best of the art world to LA for a glorious celebration and exhibition.
The largest and longest-running art fair in Los Angeles, the LA Art Show is celebrating over three decades of diversity, inclusion, education, and empowerment, with its biggest event yet next year, running Feb. 19-23, 2025.
The milestone edition will feature continued collaborations while welcoming new participants, including LICHT FELD Gallery (Switzerland); Gama Gallery (Turkey), Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (UK), L.E. Gallery (Belgium), K+Y Contemporary Art (Paris), Casterline|Goodman Gallery (Aspen), Arcadia Contemporary (New York), and Fabrik Projects (Los Angeles).
South Korea will also have a significant presence, with eight galleries participating. Producer and director Kassandra Voyagis, who has helped the show to grow and evolve in her position over the past several years, says that this globally driven extravaganza highlights the universal expression of contemporary art and aims to illuminate how Los Angeles reflects it.
“We take great pride in the pioneering role we’ve played in establishing Los Angeles as a global hub for art and culture,” Voyagis shares. “Diversity is our strength, and the LA Art Show 2025 will transcend borders by showcasing the finest contemporary and modern art from around the world while also reflecting the vibrant, multicultural character of our city.”
Nostalgia and Innovation
As much as the upcoming event will reflect upon all that has come before in the thirty years of shows, there will also be some exciting and innovative new components for 2025. The show’s signature educational, non-commercial platform, DIVERSEartLA, returns for its eighth year with special programming.
This will include a retrospective curated by artist Marisa Caichiolo that looks back at its past showcases, elevating and amplifying marginalized communities. Caichiolo’s curatorial vision focuses on the program’s evolution as a disruptor that invites critical conversation around race, gender, and humanity. Eight installations from previous years add to the chronological celebration, shared in tangible form via live performance and video.
“This retrospective, which feels particularly important right now, celebrates the creative contributions of DIVERSE’s partners and highlights the platform’s vital and evolving role within the art community, “shares Caichiolo. “Visitors can expect an engaging display showcasing pivotal moments from each year through videos of performances and installations.”
Some key works on display include Viktor Freso’s 30-foot bear sculpture, presented by Danubiana Museum (Slovakia), which will be located at the entrance for DIVERSEartLA. According to the curators, the bear symbolizes power and resilience, setting the tone for the event as bolder and more ambitious than ever.
Art Installations
Here are just a few of the most buzzed-about and hotly anticipated installations set for the 2025 event:
“Celebrating Diversity by Chiachio & Giannone,” presented by the Museum of Latin American Art and curated by Gabriela Urtiaga, Chief Curator at MOLAA, featuring an installation by world-renowned Argentinian duo Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone. Created by the artists at MOLAA, along with contributions from over 3,000 Angelenos, the collaborative piece was used as a banner and carried by over 100 volunteers at the 2019 Long Beach Pride Parade.
“Dactiloscopia Rosa: Video Art and QUEER Constructions,” curated by Nestor Prieto and presented by Museo La Neomudejar (Madrid, Spain), examines sexual liberation and LGTBQ+ rights in Spain from 1970-2016. The exhibit features the Spanish museum’s archives with an emphasis on its transfeminist/queer materials reflecting the country’s social movements from over three decades under the Franco Dictatorship.
“Carlos Martiel – Cauce/Riverbed,” curated by Caichiolo, spotlights the challenges immigrants face in California and the US. The topical subject matter is explored with over 11 million undocumented migrants in mind, enacting the human tragedy behind the migrant journey of those risking everything in search of the “American Dream.”
