Frieze Los Angeles 2026

The presentation reflects a pivotal moment for the gallery as it prepares to open a permanent space in Tribeca, New York in spring 2026, while acknowledging Los Angeles as a formative site for its U.S. program.

Founded on principles of collaboration and long-term engagement with artists, Southern Guild has established a transcontinental presence through its spaces in Cape Town, Los Angeles, and soon, New York.

Following the gallery's acclaimed booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Frieze Los Angeles represents the next expression of the gallery’s evolving program.

Bringing together artists working across generations and geographies, the booth highlights practices rooted in material experimentation, figuration, and sculptural form. Across distinct formal and material languages, the works engage inquiries into identity, visibility, inheritance, spirituality, and the body.

Frieze Los Angeles 2026 arrives at a moment of transition. As Southern Guild shifts its U.S. base to New York, the presentation reflects on the dynamic energy cultivated in Los Angeles, particularly its community and critical exchange, while signaling the direction of the gallery’s next chapter.

“Los Angeles has been a dynamic catalyst for evolution for Southern Guild, and this presentation carries that spirit,” said Trevyn McGowan, who co-founded Southern Guild with her spouse, Julian. “Frieze Los Angeles offers us the opportunity to engage with a community that we have found to be curious, engaged, and forward-looking. We celebrate being able to present the strength of the program today, while opening a dialogue about what comes next.”

Southern Guild’s presentation at Frieze Los Angeles 2026 affirms the gallery’s ongoing commitment to advancing contemporary practices across geographies, closing a significant chapter in Los Angeles while positioning the program within its next phase of international growth.

Artistic Practices and Perspectives

The presentation includes debuts with the gallery by Gus Monday and Shane Keisuke Berkery, underscoring Southern Guild’s continued investment in long-term development with new artists.

Zanele Muholi presents photographic works that extend their sustained engagement with portraiture and the politics of representation, addressing race, gender, and visibility through formally rigorous images.

Chloe Chiasson’s relief works merge painting, collage, and assemblageto construct layered scenes of intimacy, memory, and self-representation. In dialogue, Marcus Leslie Singleton presents narrative compositions exploring the intersections of spirituality, Queer identity, and lived experience.

Kamyar Bineshtarigh contributes work that draws from extracted architectural surfaces and accumulated studio materials, reframing the wall as both record and medium while examining authorship, collaboration, and creative labor. Alongside these surfaces, his paintings incorporate layered, calligraphic mark-making in ink on canvas, where indecipherable scrawls are embedded beneath processes of erasure and accumulation.

Manyaku Mashilo’s paintings are informed by matrilineal knowledge systems and cultural inheritance, situating figuration within speculative temporal frameworks. Zizipho Poswa’s ceramic and bronze sculptures translate forms drawn from Xhosa adornment into works that collapse distinctions between the intimate and the monumental.

Textile and sculptural works by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan and Gus Monday engage ritual, movement, and material process. Painting, photography and figuration by Shane Keisuke Berkery, Jozua Gerrard, Roméo Mivekannin, Mmangaliso Nzuza, Sandra Brewster, Anique Jordan, Lebohang Kganye and Chidy Wayne further extend these conversations across abstraction, portraiture, and narrative.