The TamesisTanya Bonakdar Gallery will close its Los Angeles space just seven years after opening. The last exhibition will offer Ben Hyunjin the current exhibition, which will be closed on August 29.
“Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has made the decision to consider not to renew the lease on its Los Angeles space, which will end in September this year,” the gallery said in a statement. “After a seven-year meaningful year on Highland Avenue, the end of the lease provides a natural pause to evaluate and celebrate, and that’s everything we’ve achieved in the Los Angeles Gallery exhibition program.”
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The New York-based Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opened in Los Angeles in 2018. At the time, her dealer of the same name said she decided to launch the gallery because many of the artists on the roster “expressed interest in being interested in the West Coast.”
Since then, the gallery has held performances for artists such as Amalia Pica, Laura Lima, Susan Philipsz. During this time, many other galleries expanded their operations to Los Angeles, including David Zwener, Michael Warner and Lesson. (In 2023, Tanya Bonakdar lost a major Los Angeles artist, Kelly Akashi.
In the past two months alone, two galleries with famous Los Angeles have been closed. Blum first opened in Santa Monica in 1994 and announced plans to end operations in July. Then, earlier this month, the New York-based gallery cleanup (also has a space in Los Angeles) also announced it would be closed, with its founder who said he saw “no viable paths.”
Artnet NewsEileen Kinsella first reported the news.
