Dover Street Market Los Angeles presents Andy WarhoLA, a new exhibition devoted to Andy Warhol’s enduring fascination with the city, timed to coincide with Frieze Los Angeles 2026. Curated by Michael Dayton Hermann of The Andy Warhol Foundation, the show channels the particular mix of glamour, surface and everyday strangeness that made LA irresistible to Warhol — and that continues to animate the creative ecosystem around DSMLA.
Rather than a conventional retrospective, Andy WarhoLA reframes Los Angeles through Warhol’s own roaming eye. Original vintage photographsmany rarely seen, capture the people, streets and architectures that fed the city’s mythology. Installed within a sculptural environment referencing Warhol’s iconic Brillo Box, the exhibition collapses art, commerce and celebrity into a single spatial experience, blurring the line between gallery display and consumer spectacle.
At the centre is a cinematic projection of more than 100 photographs of the Los Angeles landscape, many previously unpublished. Sun-bleached boulevards, roadside signage, palm-lined horizons and fleeting encounters accumulate into a hypnotic visual diary. Here, LA is not a backdrop but a system — a network of images, desires and performances that Warhol instinctively understood long before “content” became currency.
Drawing on holdings from The Andy Warhol Foundation, including photographs, publications and ephemera such as T-shirts, the exhibition offers unusually intimate access to the artist’s personal archive. Established in 1987 according to Warhol’s will, the Foundation has since distributed over $300 million in grants supporting experimental and under-recognised visual art worldwide.
“Through exhibitions like Andy WarhoLA, the Foundation celebrates Warhol’s creative legacy while ensuring his inventive spirit continues to shape visual culture,”
says curator Michael Dayton Hermann.
Proceeds from sales will contribute to the Foundation’s endowment, which currently distributes around $18 million annually in arts funding.
Running during Frieze Los Angeles, the exhibition situates Warhol’s vision of the city alongside the contemporary art world’s annual migration west, a reminder that LA’s mythology has always been part performance, part marketplace, part dream.
Andy WarhoLA, 26th February to 12th March 2026 Dover Street Market Los Angeles
with a cocktail opening on 27th February, 6PM–8PM
