This February, Frieze Los Angeles will return with a dynamic edition of Frieze Projects, featuring a specially curated program by Art Production Fund. Titled ‘Inside Out’, the program will present site-specific works by Lita Albuquerque, Jackie Amézquita, Claire Chambless, Joel Gaitan, Madeline Hollander, Greg Ito, Ozzie Juarez and Dominique Moody, each exploring the theme of perspective—how personal histories and experiences shape our understanding of Los Angeles and its layered cultural landscape.
Frieze Los Angeles takes place from February 20th to 23rd, 2025 at Santa Monica Airport. With global lead partner, Deutsche Bank, the fair continues its legacy of celebrating artistic excellence at an international level.
Frieze’s Director of Americas, Christine Messineo, said,
“We are thrilled to present ‘Inside Out’ at Frieze Los Angeles 2025, a program that deeply engages with the themes of identity, migration, and community. Our collaboration with Art Production Fund has been instrumental to Frieze Los Angeles over the past three years, with each edition introducing playful and engaging works by artists who have become part of the cultural lexicon. We are particularly proud that this initiative has provided many artists the opportunity to create their first large-scale public artworks. This year, a cohort of exceptional artists will invite visitors to reflect on the personal histories that shape our collective landscape, transforming Los Angeles into an open stage for exploration. We extend our thanks to the city of Santa Monica for their invaluable support and continued commitment to making art accessible to all.”
Casey Fremont, Executive Director, Art Production Fund added:
“Art Production Fund is honored to once again partner with Frieze Los Angeles to present ‘Inside Out’. Building on the momentum of the 2023 and 2024 programs, the public will have the opportunity to interact with art like never before. This year, the program’s artists reflect on how personal histories shape who we are. These projects focus on individual stories and point of view, while inviting visitors to participate in a collective experience, enhancing their understanding and relationship to contemporary art.”
This year’s projects will take visitors on a reflective journey through the city’s neighborhoods and histories, showcasing works by a diverse group of leading intergenerational artists. Among them is Lita Albuquerque, a pioneer of the Land Art and Light & Space movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Albuquerque will unveil a new commission that revisits themes she has explored throughout her 50-year career, prominently featuring her signature ultramarine blue pigment. Albuquerque’s commission underscores the fleeting nature of our connection to the environment while anchoring viewers in the present. The use of blue bridges earth and cosmos, transforming light into matter through poetic, transient gestures.
The themes of migration and adaptation will take center stage in Jackie Amézquita’s large-scale interactive painting, set to occupy the community soccer fields at the Santa Monica Airport campus. Using traditional petates (woven mats) and an assortment of natural materials, Amézquita reinterprets migration data graphs as a dynamic social gathering map. Visitors will be invited to walk the pathways and immerse themselves in the work. Amézquita’s work, featured in the 2023 Made in L.A. Biennale, explores intersections, movement, and the connections that shape community. Amézquita’s commission for Frieze Los Angeles is supported by Maestro Dobel Tequila, the official tequila of Frieze’s North American fairs.
Meanwhile, Claire Chambless will add a sense of anticipation to this year’s program with her interactive
sculpture hunt. Golden eggs containing miniature sculptures will be hidden across the fair and its
surroundings, inviting visitors to encounter and collect art in unexpected ways. Playful yet thoughtprovoking, Chambless’ work challenges traditional modes of art acquisition, fostering communal exploration and using play to spark conversations about feminist, communal, and environmental themes, rather than reinforcing competition or scarcity.
Joel Gaitan will continue the exploration of home and identity with an installation transforming a central
pathway into a welcoming façade, inspired by his Nicaraguan and Miami heritage. A hybrid of domestic
architecture and personal memory, the work will feature terracotta-style roofing, ceramic-filled windows and a plant-laden balcony, creating a space for gathering and reflection while encouraging visitors to consider their own connections to place.
For those seeking new vantages, the artist and choreographer, Madeline Hollander invites visitors to move through the skies of Los Angeles. In collaboration with Santa Monica Flyers, a renowned local flight school located at Santa Monica Airport, she offers a limited number of choreographed flights each day for individual fairgoers. Inspired by her childhood flight lessons, which influenced her approach to dance, and her understanding of the body’s symbiotic relationship to machines, Hollander has worked closely with a select group of flight instructors to share this embodied experience. Day Flight features a fleet of Velis Electro planes, the first ever type-certified, electric-powered aircrafts, as well as Sportcruisers, and Cessnas. The piece will be accompanied by an on-ground audio-visual installation that will allow visitors to listen and watch the live feeds of the flights overhead. Blending the personal with the celestial, Day Flight invites a physical exploration of moving through three-dimensional space and an intimate perspective on the city’s airspace.
Greg Ito will add a dynamic, playful element to the program with Burn and Blossom, a large-scale inflatable sculpture, positioned by the fair’s entrance, which transforms Ito’s iconic burning candle into a monumental symbol of life, time, and transformation. Adorned with vibrant orange California poppies—an homage to the region’s superbloom—the piece weaves themes of renewal, resilience, and growth. The flickering candlelight serves as a poignant reminder of life’s precious impermanence, while the blooming flowers embody hope, prosperity, and the enduring spirit of new beginnings.
Ozzie Juarez, a first-generation Mexican American multidisciplinary artist and founder of TLALOC Studios, will draw from his roots in South Central Los Angeles to recreate murals, architectural fragments and live performances from his neighborhood. His project constructs a portal into his personal experience and explores how cultural identity is often overlooked amid rapid urban change. Juarez’s work is a vibrant celebration of communal life, infused with the spirit of swap meets and tianguis (open-air markets).
Los Angeles-based artist Dominique Moody will restage her celebrated installation, THE NOMAD, a mobile dwelling crafted from found objects and salvaged materials. Recently shown at the Hammer Museum, this functional live-in artist residency on wheels serves as both a personal portrait and a nomadic vessel addressing themes of housing insecurity, displacement, and the global Diaspora, while challenging our perceptions of home. THE NOMAD Frieze Los Angeles installation will be presented in partnership with Destination Crenshaw.
‘Inside Out’ affirms Frieze Los Angeles’ role as a vital platform for dialogue between art, community, and the unique fabric of the city. Each project will invite audiences to see the world—and themselves—from a
different vantage point, offering a richly layered experience that is both personal and collective.
Frieze Los Angeles 2025, 20th – 23rd February 2025, Santa Monica Airport
The Frieze Projects program, curated by Art Production Fund, is free and open to the public during the fair’s opening hours.
