Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will shut its Los Angeles area simply seven years after opening it. The final exhibition there can be its present one for Ben Hyunjin, whose solo present closes on August 29.
“Tanya Bonakdar Gallery has made the thought-about resolution to not renew the lease on its Los Angeles area, which concludes this September,” the gallery stated in an announcement. “After seven significant years on Highland Avenue, the lease’s finish provided a pure pause to evaluate, and have fun, all now we have completed with the Los Angeles gallery exhibition program.”
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, which is predicated in New York, opened in Los Angeles in 2018. Its namesake vendor stated on 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 corresponding 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.
Previously 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 introduced it could shut, with its founder he saying he noticed “no viable path ahead.”
Artnet Information’s Eileen Kinsella first reported the information.
