# The 12 best art galleries in Los Angeles

> Hollywood, West Hollywood, Mid-City and the Arts District: the twelve Los Angeles galleries worth crossing town for, what each is known for, and what is on view at them now.

Los Angeles · Top galleries · By On View, updated Oct 3, 2026 · Tags: Los Angeles, LA, Galleries, Contemporary art, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Arts District, Mid-City, Blue-chip galleries

Los Angeles has spent the last decade becoming the second gallery city of the United States, and the one where the most has changed. The galleries that grew up here, Regen Projects in 1989, David Kordansky in 2003, François Ghebaly in 2009, Night Gallery in 2010, have been joined by nearly every international name: Hauser & Wirth and Sprüth Magers in 2016, Jeffrey Deitch in 2018, Pace in 2022, David Zwirner and Lisson in 2023, Perrotin in 2024. The city now lists about 175 galleries and museums, LACMA opened its new David Geffen Galleries this April, and Frieze Los Angeles fills the last week of February. What Los Angeles gives its galleries is room: former flour mills, car showrooms, a movie theater and a recording studio, with daylight that New York dealers envy.

The galleries are spread across the basin in clusters, and a visit means choosing one or two of them. Hollywood has the most, on Highland and Sycamore Avenues and along Santa Monica Boulevard, with Melrose Hill, David Zwirner’s block of Western Avenue, ten minutes east. West Hollywood has Karma, Matthew Marks and Hauser & Wirth’s second space. Mid-City, from La Brea Avenue to the Miracle Mile, has David Kordansky, Pace, Perrotin and Sprüth Magers, across the street from LACMA. Downtown, the Arts District has Hauser & Wirth’s flour mill, Night Gallery, François Ghebaly and Vielmetter, with Chinatown just north. Gagosian is in Beverly Hills, and Bergamot Station, in Santa Monica, gathers a dozen galleries around one parking lot.

This guide picks the twelve galleries whose programs carry the most weight in Los Angeles: for the artists they represent, the exhibitions they have mounted here over the last few years, and what each brings to the city. Where a gallery has two spaces we name its main one and point to the other. The first eight are also the galleries the [Los Angeles list](https://onview.so/la) on On View opens with, so every show at each is a click away, with pictures and dates. All twelve are free; most are open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 or 11 am to 6 pm, and closed on Sunday and Monday. Each entry gives the address and hours from our listings and what is on view there today, and links to the gallery [on the map](https://onview.so/la/map). For this month’s exhibitions, see [the best gallery shows in Los Angeles in October 2026](https://onview.so/guides/best-gallery-shows-los-angeles-october-2026).

## 1. Karma

- Gallery in West Hollywood · 7351 Santa Monica Boulevard · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://karmakarma.org
- On view: Randy Wray: *Hothouse*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/karma/hothouse.md)
- On view: *Felipe Suzuki*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/karma/felipe-suzuki.md)
- Opens Oct 29: Ann Craven: *Moons (2009, 2012, 2022), 2026* (https://onview.so/la/karma/moons-2009-2012-2022-2026.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/karma

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Karma is the gallery other galleries watch. Brendan Dugan started it in New York in 2011 as a bookshop and publisher, and it grew into a gallery with an unusual double program: painters in their prime, among them Reggie Burrows Hodges, Woody De Othello, Ann Craven, Maja Ruznic, Nicolas Party and Jonas Wood, and older or overlooked artists whose reputations it has remade, from Gertrude Abercrombie, Milton Avery and Hughie Lee-Smith to Thaddeus Mosley, Peter Bradley, Manoucher Yektai and the Los Angeles painter Norman Zammitt. Its West Hollywood gallery, on Santa Monica Boulevard a few blocks from Matthew Marks, has been showing since the early 2020s, with a bookstore of Karma’s own publications; the gallery also has spaces in Chelsea and in Thomaston, Maine.

Two shows share the gallery until October 24: Randy Wray’s Hothouse, thick, burnished abstract paintings in earthy greens that he worked on over two years, and the São Paulo painter Felipe Suzuki’s first solo show with Karma, five quiet still lifes painted from memory. Ann Craven’s moon paintings follow from October 29, and the Getty Center opens an exhibition of Hodges on October 20.

## 2. David Kordansky Gallery

- Gallery in Mid-City · 5130 West Edgewood Place · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com · [@davidkordanskygallery](https://www.instagram.com/davidkordanskygallery/)
- On view: Tala Madani: *Control X*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/david-kordansky-gallery/control-x.md)
- On view: Keith Sonnier: *Inside Light, 1968–1970*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/david-kordansky-gallery/inside-light-1968-1970.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/david-kordansky-gallery

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David Kordansky is the Los Angeles gallery that became an international one without leaving. He opened in Chinatown in 2003, moved to Culver City in 2008 and in 2014 to Mid-City, just off La Brea Avenue, where the gallery now fills a compound of more than 20,000 square feet designed by Kulapat Yantrasast’s firm wHY, with two large exhibition spaces and a garden; a New York gallery followed in 2022. Many of the artists Kordansky showed early are now among the most sought after anywhere: Rashid Johnson, Jonas Wood, Mary Weatherford, Lauren Halsey, Huma Bhabha, Tala Madani, Hilary Pecis, Lucy Bull, Derek Fordjour, Shara Hughes and Sayre Gomez, with Sam Gilliam, Fred Eversley, Betty Woodman, Doyle Lane, Keith Sonnier and Tom of Finland on the historical side.

The two galleries usually hold two shows at once. Until October 24 they are Madani’s Control X, new paintings and animations, including Alphabet City, her longest film yet, and Sonnier’s Inside Light, his earliest neon works, from 1968 to 1970, an expanded version of a show first seen at the New York gallery.

## 3. Hauser & Wirth, Downtown

- Gallery in Arts District · 901 East 3rd Street · Tue–Sun 11–6
- https://www.hauserwirth.com/locations/10069-hauser-wirth-los-angeles · [@hauserwirth](https://www.instagram.com/hauserwirth/)
- On view: Glenn Ligon: *Sit So Your Back Isn’t Against The Door*, through jan 17, 2027 (https://onview.so/la/hauser-and-wirth-downtown/sit-so-your-back-isnt-against-the-door.md)
- On view: Jack Whitten: *The Numinous*, through jan 10, 2027 (https://onview.so/la/hauser-and-wirth-downtown/the-numinous.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/hauser-and-wirth-downtown

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Nothing changed the Los Angeles gallery map as much as Hauser & Wirth’s arrival in 2016. The gallery, founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, restored the Globe Mills complex in the Arts District, a former flour mill of about 100,000 square feet with buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and filled it with museum-scale galleries, a bookshop, a garden and the restaurant Manuela. It is the one gallery in the city that people visit as they would a museum, and the rare one open on Sundays. The roster includes Mark Bradford, Paul McCarthy and Henry Taylor, all of Los Angeles, with Rashid Johnson, Lorna Simpson, George Condo, Roni Horn, Pipilotti Rist, Glenn Ligon and the estates of Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, David Smith and Jack Whitten.

Downtown has two long-running shows this season: Ligon’s Coloring Book paintings, together for the first time in more than twenty-five years, and Whitten’s paintings and works on paper of the 1980s; both run into January. The second space, [Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood](https://onview.so/la/hauser-and-wirth-west-hollywood), opened in 2023 in a 1931 Spanish Colonial Revival car showroom converted by Selldorf Architects, and is showing David Smith’s spray paintings until January 16.

## 4. Gagosian

- Gallery in Beverly Hills · 456 North Camden Drive · Tue–Sat 10–5:30
- https://gagosian.com/exhibitions · [@gagosian](https://www.instagram.com/gagosian/)
- Opens Nov 4: Richard Avedon: *Hollywood* (https://onview.so/la/gagosian/hollywood.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/gagosian

Gagosian began here. Larry Gagosian opened his first gallery in Los Angeles in 1980, before New York, and the Beverly Hills gallery on Camden Drive, designed by Richard Meier, has been the company’s West Coast home since 1995. The program draws on the largest gallery in the world, and in Los Angeles it leans on the artists with local ties: Ed Ruscha, Mark Grotjahn, Lauren Halsey, Mary Weatherford, Jonas Wood, Frank Gehry and the estate of Chris Burden, alongside Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Jenny Saville, Anselm Kiefer, Urs Fischer and the estates of Richard Serra, Cy Twombly and Helen Frankenthaler.

This autumn’s two shows could not be less alike. Jia Aili’s Seeing Through, sixteen “parallel paintings” that pair oil on linen with drawing on plexiglass, closes on October 10, and on November 4 the gallery opens Richard Avedon: Hollywood, more than 120 photographs made over fifty years, from Marilyn Monroe and Katharine Hepburn to Steven Spielberg, curated by the Richard Avedon Foundation. It runs to December 19.

## 5. Regen Projects

- Gallery in Hollywood · 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://www.regenprojects.com/exhibitions · [@regenprojects](https://www.instagram.com/regenprojects/)
- On view: Elliott Hundley: *Book of Sand*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/regen-projects/book-of-sand.md)
- On view: *Silke Otto-Knapp*, through oct 24 (https://onview.so/la/regen-projects/silke-otto-knapp.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/regen-projects

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Regen Projects is the gallery that taught Los Angeles what a serious contemporary program looks like. Stuart Regen and Shaun Caley Regen opened it in West Hollywood in 1989; Shaun Caley Regen has run it since Stuart Regen’s death in 1998, and in 2012 moved it to a building by the Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan at Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue, the first of the big galleries in what is now Hollywood’s gallery district. It has never opened anywhere else. Its artists include Catherine Opie, Doug Aitken, Matthew Barney, Raymond Pettibon, Liz Larner, Toba Khedoori, Wolfgang Tillmans, Anish Kapoor, Marilyn Minter, Gillian Wearing, Walead Beshty, Kevin Beasley and Andrea Zittel, with the estates of Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner and Silke Otto-Knapp.

Until October 24 the main gallery has Elliott Hundley’s Book of Sand, his seventh show here, paintings, sculptures and tapestries named for the Borges story of a book without end, and the viewing rooms have watercolors by Otto-Knapp, who was professor of painting at UCLA and died in 2022, many of them shown for the first time. Sable Elyse Smith opens on November 6.

## 6. Matthew Marks Gallery

- Gallery in West Hollywood · 1062 North Orange Grove Avenue · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://www.matthewmarks.com
- On view: *Thomas Demand*, through nov 7 (https://onview.so/la/matthew-marks-gallery/thomas-demand.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/matthew-marks-gallery

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Matthew Marks founded his gallery in New York in 1991 and came to Los Angeles in 2012, with a building that is itself one of the city’s works of art: a windowless white stucco box on Orange Grove Avenue, designed by Peter Zellner, with a forty-foot sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly set across its facade. It opened with a Kelly show, and a second space is around the corner at 7818 Santa Monica Boulevard. The gallery’s list is short and close to canonical: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Gober, Vija Celmins, Charles Ray, Martin Puryear, Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Demand, Simone Leigh, Laura Owens, Alex Da Corte, Leidy Churchman, Trisha Donnelly and Vincent Fecteau, with Ken Price, Ron Nagle and Anne Truitt.

Both spaces are given to Thomas Demand until November 7: seventeen new photographs, most of them of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century models for opera and ballet sets that he found in museums in Vienna, Monaco and Munich, with a few of his own paper constructions printed directly onto copper.

## 7. David Zwirner

- Gallery in Melrose Hill · 606 North Western Avenue · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions · [@davidzwirner](https://www.instagram.com/davidzwirner/)
- On view: Roy DeCarava: *the sound i saw*, through oct 31 (https://onview.so/la/david-zwirner/the-sound-i-saw.md)
- On view: *Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato*, through oct 31 (https://onview.so/la/david-zwirner/amadeo-luciano-lorenzato.md)
- Opens Nov 13: Thomas Ruff: *In Series, 1979–2024* (https://onview.so/la/david-zwirner/in-series-1979-2024.md)
- Opens Nov 13: Frank Walter: *The World Through* (https://onview.so/la/david-zwirner/the-world-through.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/david-zwirner

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David Zwirner opened in Los Angeles in 2023, thirty years after his first gallery in SoHo, and chose a block of Western Avenue in East Hollywood that the art world has since learned to call Melrose Hill. Two renovated storefronts came first, at 612 and 616; in May 2024 the gallery added a new three-story building at 606, designed by Selldorf Architects, with a terrace that looks at the Hollywood sign and a bookshop for the best publishing program in the trade. The artists are the New York gallery’s: Yayoi Kusama, Kerry James Marshall, Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lisa Yuskavage and Thomas Ruff, the estates of Ruth Asawa, Alice Neel, Joan Mitchell, Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and three with deep roots in Los Angeles, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Barbara Kruger and the late Noah Davis.

Until October 31 the main building has more than 130 photographs by Roy DeCarava, the largest showing of the sound i saw since 1983, with a listening room next door, and the first California exhibition of the Brazilian painter Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato. Ruff’s In Series, 1979–2024 opens on November 13.

## 8. Sprüth Magers

- Gallery in Miracle Mile · 5900 Wilshire Boulevard · Tue–Sat 11–6
- https://spruethmagers.com
- On view: John Baldessari: *Sculptures*, through dec 19 (https://onview.so/la/spruth-magers/sculptures.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/spruth-magers

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Monika Sprüth opened her gallery in Cologne in 1983 and Philomene Magers hers in Bonn in 1991; they merged in 1998 and built one of Europe’s most respected programs, with galleries in Berlin, London and New York. Los Angeles came in 2016, in a two-story modernist building by William Pereira’s firm on Wilshire Boulevard, directly across from LACMA. The move made sense, because so many of the gallery’s artists live or lived here: John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Sterling Ruby and Analia Saban, alongside Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, Rosemarie Trockel, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, George Condo, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa and Kara Walker.

The gallery opened on Wilshire with Baldessari, and ten years on it returns to him: Sculptures, through December 19, gathers his three-dimensional work from the mid-1990s to 2018, including Beethoven’s Trumpet (with Ear), which plays the late string quartets when spoken to. George Condo follows in January. With LACMA’s new David Geffen Galleries across the street, the two make one visit.

## 9. Pace Gallery

- Gallery in La Brea · 1201 South La Brea Avenue · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://www.pacegallery.com/galleries/los-angeles · [@pacegallery](https://www.instagram.com/pacegallery/)
- On view: David Lynch: *LA*, through dec 22 (https://onview.so/la/pace-gallery/la.md)
- Opens Oct 30: Kiki Smith: *Untethered Journey* (https://onview.so/la/pace-gallery/untethered-journey.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/pace-gallery

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Pace, founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960, came to Los Angeles in 2022 by joining with Kayne Griffin, the gallery that had built one of the city’s best spaces on South La Brea Avenue: 15,000 square feet on the site of a 1940s auto showroom, with a courtyard and a permanent James Turrell Skyspace. The building suits a gallery whose history is bound up with California Light and Space: Robert Irwin, James Turrell and Mary Corse are all Pace artists, as are David Hockney, Kiki Smith, Tara Donovan, Lee Ufan and Richard Tuttle, with the estates of Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, Mark Rothko and Jean Dubuffet and the Calder Foundation.

Through December 23 the gallery has David Lynch: LA, the first presentation of Lynch’s work in his home city since his death in 2025: five series of photographs made between 1979 and 2008, from women’s faces wreathed in smoke to pictures of the city’s buildings. Pace’s Kiki Smith show opens on October 30 at [Jeffrey Deitch](https://onview.so/la/jeffrey-deitch), which presents it jointly.

## 10. Jeffrey Deitch

- Gallery in Hollywood · 925 North Orange Drive · Tue–Sat 11–6
- https://deitch.com/los-angeles/exhibitions
- Opens Oct 30: Kiki Smith: *Untethered Journey* (https://onview.so/la/jeffrey-deitch/untethered-journey.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/jeffrey-deitch

Jeffrey Deitch ran Deitch Projects in SoHo from 1996 to 2010, left to direct MOCA in Los Angeles until 2013, and came back to the city as a dealer in 2018, with a 15,000-square-foot warehouse on North Orange Drive designed by Frank Gehry. It was the first big gallery on the blocks around Sycamore Avenue, which Lisson, Sean Kelly, Tanya Bonakdar and others have since made Hollywood’s gallery district, and in 2022 he added a second space on Santa Monica Boulevard, in the former Radio Recorders studio where Elvis Presley and Billie Holiday recorded. Deitch shows are events, large, theatrical and often curated group exhibitions, in a space that can take them.

Urs Fischer’s bronzes and dust paintings closed on October 3, and the gallery is installing until October 30, when two shows open with a reception from 6 to 8 pm: Barry McGee’s Another Round and Kiki Smith’s Untethered Journey, presented with Pace, her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in thirty years.

## 11. Lisson Gallery

- Gallery in Hollywood · 1037 North Sycamore Avenue · Tue–Sat 10–6
- https://lisson.com/exhibitions · [@lisson\_gallery](https://www.instagram.com/lisson_gallery/)
- On view: Oliver Lee Jackson: *Form Follows Feeling*, through nov 7 (https://onview.so/la/lisson-gallery/form-follows-feeling.md)
- Opens Nov 20: Leon Polk Smith: *Line, Color, and the Concept of Space* (https://onview.so/la/lisson-gallery/line-color-and-the-concept-of-space.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/lisson-gallery

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Nicholas Logsdail founded Lisson in London in 1967, and the gallery introduced Minimal and Conceptual art to Britain before building a roster that runs from Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Richard Long and Julian Opie to Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Lee Ufan, Sean Scully, Hiroshi Sugimoto, John Akomfrah, Olga de Amaral and Carmen Herrera, with the estates of Hélio Oiticica and Mira Schendel. It opened in New York in 2016, in Shanghai in 2019 and in Los Angeles in April 2023, in a two-story industrial building with bow-truss ceilings on Sycamore Avenue that had been a nightclub.

The Los Angeles program has made a point of artists the West Coast knows better than the East, Kelly Akashi and Oliver Lee Jackson among them. Jackson’s Form Follows Feeling, his first show here with the gallery, runs to November 7: paintings from several decades with a group of marble and mixed-media sculptures never shown in public before. Leon Polk Smith follows on November 20.

## 12. François Ghebaly

- Gallery in Arts District · 2245 East Washington Boulevard · Tue–Sat 11–6
- https://ghebaly.com · [@francoisghebaly](https://www.instagram.com/francoisghebaly/)
- On view: Amol K Patil: *The Piled Up Traces*, through oct 31 (https://onview.so/la/francois-ghebaly/the-piled-up-traces.md)
- On view: Ann Leda Shapiro: *Through the Tunnel*, through oct 31 (https://onview.so/la/francois-ghebaly/through-the-tunnel.md)
- On On View: https://onview.so/la/francois-ghebaly

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François Ghebaly opened his gallery in Chinatown in 2009, moved to Culver City and, in 2013, to a 12,000-square-foot warehouse on East Washington Boulevard, south of the Arts District, which he shares with other art organizations. It is the gallery of its generation in Los Angeles, the one that found the artists museums are now collecting: Kelly Akashi and Sayre Gomez showed here early, and the list today includes Candice Lin, Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Neïl Beloufa, Farah Al Qasimi, Ludovic Nkoth, Kathleen Ryan, Max Hooper Schneider, Genesis Belanger and the estate of Channa Horwitz. The gallery also has a space in New York, on Grand Street, and a small one in Beverly Hills.

Downtown, until October 31, Amol K Patil shows bronzes, kinetic works and drawings on Mumbai’s workers’ housing, his first presentation in Los Angeles, beside six decades of works on paper by Ann Leda Shapiro. The Beverly Hills space, on Camden Drive, down the street from Gagosian, has the painter Xie Lei until October 24. [Night Gallery](https://onview.so/la/night-gallery), ten minutes away, is the natural second stop.

## Frequently asked questions

### Where are the art galleries in Los Angeles?

In six main clusters. Hollywood has Regen Projects, Jeffrey Deitch, Lisson, Sean Kelly, Michael Kohn and Various Small Fires, with David Zwirner, Wilding Cran and James Fuentes in Melrose Hill, just east. West Hollywood has Karma, Matthew Marks, Hauser & Wirth’s second space and Gemini G.E.L. Mid-City, La Brea and the Miracle Mile have David Kordansky, Pace, Perrotin, Sprüth Magers, Roberts Projects, Anat Ebgi and Fahey/Klein. The Downtown Arts District has Hauser & Wirth, Night Gallery, François Ghebaly, Vielmetter and Luis De Jesus, with Charlie James and Bel Ami in Chinatown. Beverly Hills has Gagosian and Marc Selwyn, and Bergamot Station, in Santa Monica, has ROSEGALLERY, Craig Krull and Peter Fetterman. [The map](https://onview.so/la/map) shows them all.

### Are Los Angeles art galleries free, and when are they open?

Yes, every gallery here is free, with no ticket or appointment. Most are open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 or 11 am to 6 pm, and closed on Sunday and Monday; Gagosian closes at 5:30, and Hauser & Wirth’s downtown complex is open Tuesday to Sunday. Openings are usually on a Thursday, Friday or Saturday evening, from 6 to 8 pm, and are free and public. Check the gallery’s page for the hours of the current show.

### How do I plan a gallery day in Los Angeles?

By neighborhood, and by car. A Hollywood day takes in Regen Projects, Jeffrey Deitch and Lisson on foot, then David Zwirner in Melrose Hill and Karma and Matthew Marks in West Hollywood, each a ten-minute drive. A Mid-City day pairs David Kordansky, Pace and Perrotin with Sprüth Magers and [LACMA](https://onview.so/la/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art), which face each other across Wilshire Boulevard. Downtown, start at Hauser & Wirth, which has a restaurant and opens on Sundays, and go on to Night Gallery, François Ghebaly and Vielmetter. Saturday is the day when everything is open and street parking is easiest.

### When is Frieze Los Angeles, and is there a gallery week?

Frieze Los Angeles is the city’s main art fair and the center of its art week: the next edition runs from February 25 to 28, 2027, at Santa Monica Airport, with the Felix fair at the Hollywood Roosevelt the same week, and galleries open their strongest shows of the year around it. There is no citywide gallery weekend in the autumn; the season opens in mid-September, when most of the shows now on view began.

### Which Los Angeles museums show contemporary art?

[LACMA](https://onview.so/la/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art) opened its David Geffen Galleries, the new Peter Zumthor building over Wilshire Boulevard, in April 2026. The [Hammer Museum](https://onview.so/la/hammer-museum), in Westwood, is free and has a Huguette Caland retrospective. [MOCA](https://onview.so/la/moca-grand-avenue) and [The Broad](https://onview.so/la/the-broad) face each other on Grand Avenue, downtown; the [Institute of Contemporary Art](https://onview.so/la/institute-of-contemporary-art-los-angeles) is in the Arts District, near Hauser & Wirth; the [Marciano Art Foundation](https://onview.so/la/marciano-art-foundation), on Wilshire, is showing Tacita Dean; and the [Getty Center](https://onview.so/la/getty-center) opens a Reggie Burrows Hodges exhibition on October 20.

### Which Los Angeles galleries show emerging artists?

[Night Gallery](https://onview.so/la/night-gallery), which Davida Nemeroff started in a Lincoln Heights strip mall in 2010 and moved to the Arts District in 2013, is the best known. [Commonwealth and Council](https://onview.so/la/commonwealth-and-council) in Koreatown, [Charlie James Gallery](https://onview.so/la/charlie-james-gallery) and [Bel Ami](https://onview.so/la/bel-ami) in Chinatown, [Anat Ebgi](https://onview.so/la/anat-ebgi) on Wilshire, [Make Room](https://onview.so/la/make-room) in Hollywood and [The Pit](https://onview.so/la/the-pit) in Atwater Village all show artists early, many of them from the city’s art schools.

For what to see at these galleries right now, read [the best gallery shows in Los Angeles in October 2026](https://onview.so/guides/best-gallery-shows-los-angeles-october-2026), and for everything on view in the city, galleries and museums together, open [the list](https://onview.so/la) or [the map](https://onview.so/la/map). The weekly email, under Resources in the bar along the top, has each week’s openings and closings.

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