Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will shut its Los Angeles house simply seven years after opening it. The final exhibition there will likely be its present one for Ben Hyunjin, whose solo present closes on August 29.
“Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has made the thought-about determination to not renew the lease on its Los Angeles house, which concludes this September,” the gallery stated in an announcement. “After seven significant years on Highland Avenue, the lease’s finish supplied a pure pause to evaluate, and have a good time, all we now have completed with the Los Angeles gallery exhibition program.”
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, which is predicated in New York, opened in Los Angeles in 2018. Its namesake seller said at the time that she had made the choice to launch the gallery as a result of many artists on her roster “expressed curiosity in having a presence on the West Coast.”
Since then, the gallery has mounted reveals there for artists comparable to Amalia Pica, Laura Lima, Susan Philipsz, and extra. Within the intervening interval, many different galleries have expanded their operations to LA, together with David Zwirner, Michael Werner, and Lisson. (In 2023, Tanya Bonakdar misplaced a significant LA-based artist, Kelly Akashi, to Lisson.)
Prior to now two months alone, two galleries with notable LA presences have shuttered. Blum, which first opened in Santa Monica in 1994, introduced plans to wind down operations in July. Then, earlier this month, New York–based mostly gallery Clearing, which additionally had an area in LA, additionally announced it would close, with its founder he saying he noticed “no viable path ahead.”
Artnet Information’s Eileen Kinsella first reported the information.
