The LA Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center January 7–11, 2026, marking its 31st edition as the city’s largest and longest-running art fair. Privately owned and independently operated, the fair has long been a major part of Los Angeles’s cultural calendar, both due to its curatorially passion and its international scope, which is even more in play this year with the addition of the show’s new Latin American Pavilion.
The event is led once again by director and producer Kassandra Voyagis, and will present over 100 global exhibitors for this year’s event. Tickets are available at www.laartshow.com, with 15 percent of all proceeds benefiting the American Heart Association’s Life is Why™ campaign.
Always an adventure in art, this year’s fair introduces a number of firsts. Dublin’s Oliver Sears Gallery becomes the first gallery from Ireland to participate in the fair, while fresh fFrom London’s West End, Pontone Gallery will showcase works by self-taught Manchester artist and former professional rock drummer Chris Rivers, an artist whose vivid and surreal paintings and hand-gilded editions include elements of astronomy, mythology, and celestial mapping.
Also new on the exhibitor list are first-time participants including Gefen Gallery (San Francisco), Steidel Contemporary (Lake Worth), and Corridor Contemporary (Tel Aviv). Also present will be ten plus South Korean galleries, and longtime participant Rehs Galleries of New York, which has exhibited at the fair since 1994.
Other galleries include Switzerland’s LICHT FELD Gallery, presenting the first public showing in over four decades of Karl A. Meyer’s 1980s woodcut prints, and Corridor Contemporary, which is offering a major presentation of cinematic figurative works by Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri. Korean gallery J&J Art will feature Elegant Freedom, a presentation of Hanji-based works by Jinny Suh which reinterpret Korean tradition through a contemporary lens. Artifact NYC will be showing a wide range of art, including abstract neon by Los Angeles artist Linda Sue Price; at ALOV Gallery, work will include that of LA’s Gay Summer Rick.
And of course, this year’s fair has a must-see in the debut of an invitation-only Latin American Pavilion, curated by Marisa Caichiolo, long-time and continued curator of the LA Art Show’s signature non-commerical platform DIVERSEartLA. Recently selected to co-curate Chile’s pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Caichiolo brings her usual nuanced perspective here, focusing on themes of memory, migration, identity, and provenance. The the pavilion includes work by both emerging and established artists from across Latin America, exemplifying this extremely charged moment in time internationally and nationally. The pavilion focuses on the geography and resilience of the Latin American culture and art grounded within the discource of contemporary art.
“At a moment when immigration issues continue to disproportionately impact Latin American communities, it is especially important to provide a platform for these artists,” Caichiolo asserts.
The 2026 edition of the curator’s DIVERSEartLA is equally timely, titled The Biennials, Art Institutions and Museums in the Contemporary Art Ecosystem. Offering a living examination of how contemporary art circulates and evolves through global biennials and institutional frameworks, on exhibit will be work by the Gwangju Biennial (Korea), Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador), NYLAAT Triennial (New York), SACO Biennial (Chile), and NoMade Biennial, among others, all exploring the productive tensions of these events and institutions.
Biennials, with their experimental and time-sensitive nature, often act as laboratories for new ideas and social critique, while museums and institutions provide a focus on more long-term stewardship. Both help to sustain both public engagement with art, and artistic innovation – which are also both served well by the LA Art Show itself.
This year there is a special focus on the ways in which geography, local communities, and site-specific conditions shape artistic production and curatorial strategies. Along with exciting new art and the opportunity to view works by art masters such as Chagall and Picasso, visitors will experience unique projects that emphasize care and sustainable, collective action, and are tied directly to contemporary social and political realities.
In short, this is an important and vital exhibition, promising new visions and fresh, exciting art, as well as a great venue for art buying and browsing.
LA Art Show 2026 takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Tickets start at $40.
- Genie Davis; photos provided by LA Art Show 2026