Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is shutting down its Los Angeles outpost after seven years. Its remaining present will probably be Bek Hyunjin’s present solo exhibition, which ends on August twenty ninth.
The gallery introduced in a press release, first reported by Artnet News and subsequently despatched to Artsy, that it had made a “thought-about determination” to not renew its lease this September. Within the assertion, the gallery famous that, “After seven significant years on Highland Avenue, the lease’s finish supplied a pure pause to evaluate, and have fun, all we’ve completed with the Los Angeles gallery exhibition program.”
Tanya Bonakdar based her eponymous gallery in New York’s Soho neighborhood in 1994, earlier than relocating to Chelsea in 1998. In 2006, the gallery doubled in dimension after in depth renovations. The gallery opened its Los Angeles outpost in 2018, after fielding “curiosity from our artists, lots of whom have been keen to attach extra deeply with the West Coast,” based on its assertion.
Within the seven years since opening, the Los Angeles outpost has staged solo exhibitions for gallery artists together with Shilpa Gupta, Susan Philipsz, and Laura Lima. Moreover, its gallery artists have been the topics of a number of main institutional exhibitions in Los Angeles. For instance, Olafur Eliasson had a solo present at MOCA in 2024, and The Getty mounted a solo present for Uta Barth in 2022.
“The gallery has efficiently launched its program to Los Angeles, with quite a few artists having gone on to mount main displays within the metropolis and past,” the gallery’s assertion learn. “With that basis now firmly in place, and with a full slate of exhibitions persevering with in New York and internationally, the gallery will proceed to help its artists’ work in Los Angeles, all through the West Coast, and past.”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery’s announcement follows different current closures in Los Angeles. In July, BLUM revealed it would cease operations after three a long time of enterprise, whereas CLEARING closed its locations in both Los Angeles and New York in early August.
