Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Shutters Los Angeles Outpost
231Aug. 23, 2025
Tanya Bonakdar Galleryhas announced the closure of its Los Angeles branch. Inaugurated in 2018, the space will shut after its last exhibition, a solo show of work by Bek Hyunjin, which closes on August 29. The gallery, which currently represents artists including Phil Collins, Mark Dion, Meschac Gaba, Mark Manders, Haim Steinbach, Sarah Sze, and Gillian Wearing, will retain its New York space, in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood.
“Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has made the considered decision not to renew the lease on its Los Angeles space, which concludes this September,” the gallery said in a statement, which was first reprinted in part byArtnet News. “After seven meaningful years on Highland Avenue, the lease’s end offered a natural pause to assess, and celebrate, all we have accomplished with the Los Angeles gallery exhibition program.” Noting that it had opened the branch “in response to interest from our artists, many of whom were eager to connect more deeply with the West Coast,” the gallery affirmed that “with that foundation now firmly in place, and with a full slate of exhibitions continuing in New York and internationally,” it would “continue to support its artists’ work in Los Angeles, throughout the West Coast, and beyond.”
Founded in 1994 on Prince Street in New York, Tanya Bonakdar has elevated the careers of artists including Martin Boyce, Sandra Cinto, Mat Collishaw, Olafur Eliasson, Ernesto Neto, Rivane Neuenschwander, Susan Philipsz, and Tomas Saraceno, awarding all their first solo exhibitions in New York and some their US debuts. It inaugurated its LA branch just as the city’s art scene was heating up; its closure comes hard on the heels of the news that two other heavy hitters—Blum and fellow New York–based gallery Clearing—would be closing in the area.