Mohamed Bourouissa: Brutal Family Roots | ar/ge kunst, Bolzano, Italy
September 18 – November 14, 2020
Mohamed Bourouissa's Brutal Family Roots pays homage to the psychiatrist, political philosopher, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon and to his complex relationship with the city of Blida, Algeria, where the artist was born...
Mohamed Bourouissa Wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020
September 14, 2020
Mohamed Bourouissa has been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2020, for his phenomenal exhibition Free Trade...
New York Times: Fabrics With Powerful Stories to Tell
August 28, 2020
The Afro-Brazilian sculptor Sonia Gomes, in a debut U.S. show, gives materials new life — as they have given her life new balance...
LALA Magazine: Mimi Lauter
August 1, 2020
In late Fall of 2019, I began a body of work about landscapes. Every morning I took my usual walk around my garden and observed the season changing...
LALA Magazine: Theodora Allen
August 1, 2020
In the evenings we walk along the lower Arroyo in Pasadena, where it's always 10 degrees cooler. It's summer now, and the Datura punctuate the hills...
T Magazine: Yoshitomo Nara Paints What He Hears
July 24, 2020
Growing up in the far northern reached of Honshu, Japan's largest island, Yoshitomo Nara discovered the outside world through his ears...
Sonia Gomes Represented by Blum & Poe
June 18, 2020
Blum & Poe, in collaboration with Mendes Wood DM and in conjunction with Pace Gallery, is pleased to announce the representation of São Paolo-based Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes...
Donation Match: The Underground Museum & Black Lives Matter
June 12, 2020
We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the current uprising against systemic racism, police brutality and social and economic injustice. We demand the protection of Black lives and justice for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade and many others...
Zhu Jinshi: Wood · Character | Fusion Art Center, Beijing China
June 6 – August 6, 2020
The first quarter of 2020 will definitely be unforgettable. We have experienced an abundance of panic, anxiety, loneliness, and solitude. As spring marches on, Fusion Art Center can finally open its doors widely, release any inhibited emotions, and embrace some long-lost happiness with Zhu Jinshi's Wood · Character...
Luxe: Glimmering With Graphite, A Chicago Artist’s Works Aim To Challenge How You See Drawings
June 4, 2020
Think of the act of drawing and you’ll likely envisage a pencil. Chicago artist Tony Lewis indeed favors a Caran d’Ache Grafwood 9B graphite pencil for many of his abstract works...
Hammer Museum: Lunchtime Art Talk on Robert Colescott
May 27, 2020
The Hammer's curatorial department leads free, insightful, short discussions about works of art from the Hammer's collection. This talk on Robert Colescott's Knowledge of the Past is the Key to the Future: Waiting for Moses (1986) is led by Erin Christovale, associate curator...
Linder | Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture | Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
May 18, 2020
The Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture takes sensuality as a theme, as well as an effect of the performance. Specifically, it concerns the gendered association of feeling with femininity and rationality or thought with masculinity...
GQ: Creativity in the Time of Quarantine
May 14, 2020
The L.A. gallery veterans have an air of indie swagger that’s rare in the big-money art world. Now they’re reconsidering the role of the gallery and imagining a new kind of art-viewing experience...
Artsy: Tony Lewis on Creating New Work during Quarantine
May 5, 2020
Artists are sheltering at home, and despite the disruptions to their lives and limited access to materials and space, many still feel an urge to create...
Dior Talks: Penny Slinger
April 17, 2020
In this episode of Dior Talks, series host Katy Hessel, a London-based curator, writer and art historian, speaks to Penny Slinger, the British-born, California-based artist, about her long career and her recent Dior collaborations with Maria Grazia Chiuri...
Are We On Air?: Julian Schnabel
April 17, 2020
Julian Schnabel speaks with Arman Naféei about the soundtrack to his life for the podcast Are We On Air ?...
Agnès Varda | The Little Story of Gwen From French Brittany
April 17, 2020
The biographical short The Little Story of Gwen From French Brittany is a film about friendship and Gwen Deglise and the Director's first meeting in France many years prior...
Pia Camil | Here Comes the Sun | Guggenheim Museum, New York
April 17, 2020
Pia Camil's Here Comes the Sun was activated during this special one-night event before entering the Guggenheim Museum’s permanent collection...
Flaunt Magazine: Asuka Anastacia Ogawa
April 4, 2020
A pool of white diffused light beams across the entrance of Los Angeles' Blum and Poe as Asuka Anastacia Ogawa enters...
Introducing Blum & Poe Broadcasts
March 27, 2020
In solidarity with those social distancing and connecting remotely in this challenging moment, Blum & Poe has implemented new digital strategies to cultivate community and share new projects by artists...
Temporary Gallery Closures
March 17, 2020
In keeping with the evolving guidance from public health officials aimed at inhibiting the spread of COVID-19, Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo will temporarily close to the public beginning from Tuesday, March 17 until further notice. Our staff will be working remotely and available by phone and email...
Message To Our Community
March 11, 2020
In light of the recent global developments regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we would like to note that Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo remain open in good faith that in trying times, art offers a place of refuge and sanctuary...
Artnet News: Blum & Poe
February 24, 2020
“It was a hard run, we were $#@%ing broke forever," says Tim Blum. Here's how they pulled it off...
Shio Kusaka | Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles
February 15 – March 7, 2020
The VDL House in Silverlake was the home and studio of modernist architect Richard Neutra. Intervening in the structure's domestic and outdoor spaces, Shio Kusaka's installations engage with the architecture and environment of the historic house...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Portland Art Museum, OR
February 15 – May 17, 2020
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (CAC) on September 20, 2019, and now comes to the Portland Art Museum...
Linder: Linderism | Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK
February 15 – April 26, 2020
Kettle's Yard is pleased to present an exhibition exploring Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder...
Mohamed Bourouissa: LINK | Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
January 18 – March 15, 2020
Mohamed Bourouissa's multidisciplinary practice is based on intensive collaborations and exchanges with groups and individuals who become both the source and the subject of his work...
Isha Welsh joins Blum & Poe as Director
December 12, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce that Isha Welsh is joining the gallery as a Director. Based in the gallery’s Los Angeles headquarters, Welsh will work closely with the Blum & Poe international team...
Hyperallergic – Best of 2019: Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s
December 11, 2019
Parergon cast light on a period of Japanese art history that bridges the austere formalism of mid-century Mono-ha artists with today’s unselfconsciously commercial postmodernists...
On Harvey Quaytman | Apsara DiQuinzio and Suzanne Hudson moderated by Lindsay Preston Zappas
December 7, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to host a discussion with Apsara DiQuinzio and Suzanne Hudson, moderated by Lindsay Preston Zappas, on the life and work of the artist Harvey Quaytman...
Friedrich Kunath: Songs Build Little Rooms in Time | Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL
December 7, 2019 – February 7, 2020
In partnership with Drag City, Blum & Poe is pleased to present Friedrich Kunath's Songs Build Little Rooms in Time – an exhibition born of an ongoing collaboration between the artist and the late David Berman.
Aaron Garber-Maikovska Represented by Blum & Poe
December 6, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Garber-Maikovska. A solo exhibition of the artist’s work will be presented in 2020...
Paul Mogensen Represented by Blum & Poe
November 22, 2019
In collaboration with Karma, Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of artist Paul Mogensen...
Solange Pessoa: Longilonge | Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
November 15, 2019 – May 24, 2020
Ballroom Marfa is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of noted Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. Pessoa has built a significant and internationally recognized body of work over three decades, which spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, and video...
Penny Slinger in Conversation at NeueHouse Hollywood, Los Angeles
November 11, 2019
Penny Slinger is an artist, a radical, and a survivor. Her extraordinary body of work reaches back to 1960s counter-cultural London, and in the years that followed, brought the feminine psyche to surrealism, discovered the tool kit of Tantra, and was sex positive before "sex positivity" was invented...
Artillery Magazine: An Art Ramble with Top LA Dealer Jeffrey Poe
November 5, 2019
When I first arrived in town, more years ago than I care to remember, Jeffrey was one of my first friends. At the time, he was one-third of a band of incorrigible young exhibitionists called the Blue Daisies, who gave wildly abrasive performances in varying states of undress...
Pia Camil | Queens Museum, Queens, NY
October 6, 2019 – February 16, 2020
Pia Camil's work uses textile, sculpture, and performance to create environments which confront the politics of global consumerism through the language of theater and retail...
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott | Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
September 20, 2019 – January 12, 2020
The Contemporary Arts Center is proud to open our 2019-2020 exhibition season with Art and Race Matters, the first comprehensive retrospective of one of America's most compelling and controversial artists, Robert Colescott (1925-2009)...
Remembering Wendell Dayton
July 30, 2019
With gratitude and appreciation, Blum & Poe pays homage to Wendell Dayton (b. 1938; d. 2019).
Mohamed Bourouissa Joins Blum & Poe
June 24, 2019
Blum & Poe, in collaboration with Galerie Kamel Mennour, is pleased to announce the representation of Paris-based Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa...
>BTWN< Summer 2019
June 21, 2019
Public programming that happens between regularly scheduled shows.
Yukinori Yanagi Represented by Blum & Poe
May 23, 2019
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the worldwide representation of Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi. Trained in both Japan and the U.S., Yanagi's large-scale and site-specific installations interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of signs and symbolic imagery...
Artnews: Yukinori Yanagi Heads to Blum & Poe
May 23, 2019
Big news from the Blum & Poe team: the international enterprise has added the seminal, freethinking mid-career Japanese artist Yukinori Yanagi to its roster...
Remembering Nobuo Sekine
May 14, 2019
It is with deep reverence that Blum & Poe honors the passing of Nobuo Sekine (b. 1942; d. 2019). We celebrate his legacy of resolutely pushing the conceptual boundaries of ephemeral, site-specific, installation, and sculptural art within the historical lineage of Japan and beyond...
This Week in Venice
May 11 – November 24, 2019
This Week in Venice: Henry Taylor, Darren Bader, Ryoji Ikeda, Enrico David, and Yun Hyong-keun
Yun Hyong-keun: A Retrospective | Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
May 11 – November 24, 2019
Born in 1928 in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, Yun Hyong-keun lived through one of the most traumatic periods of Korean history, suffering great misfortune related to Japanese colonial rule, the Korean War, and the postwar dictatorship...
Lee Ufan | Dia Beacon, NY
May 5, 2019 – May 5, 2020
A pioneer of the Mono-ha movement in Japan, Lee Ufan developed a sculptural practice in the 1960s that explored the tension between natural and man-made materials and the dialogue between object and space....
The Harvey Quaytman Trust Joins Blum & Poe
May 3, 2019
In collaboration with Van Doren Waxter, New York, Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the worldwide representation of the Harvey Quaytman Trust...
Pia Camil: Bara, Bara, Bara | Tramway, Scotland
April 13 – June 23, 2019
Tramway presents the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil. This immersive installation hosts new and existing textile sculptures which visitors are invited to inhabit and activate...
Public Programming Series | Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s
April 6 – May 4, 2019
This April & May ~ Please join us for a performance and public programming series on the occasion of PART II of PARERGON: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s, curated by Mika Yoshitake...
Remembering Agnès Varda
March 29, 2019
The Blum & Poe team celebrates the life of Agnès Varda, the self-described "old filmmaker and young visual artist," the grandmother of the French New Wave with a prolific career spanning over six decades...
CalArts REDCAT Gala Honors Henry Taylor
March 16, 2019
The REDCAT Award will be presented to Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor. Taylor is one of the leading figurative painters working today, celebrated for narrative works that often capture African American urban life with a deep honesty...
Zhu Jinshi: Wave of Materials | Los Angeles County Museum of Art
March 16 – September 15, 2019
Zhu Jinshi's monumental Wave of Materials installation will be exhibited as part of The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China, an exhibition curated by art historian and critic Wu Hung that examines contemporary Chinese art through the lens of materiality...
Darren Bader & Henry Taylor Selected for the 58th Venice Biennale, Italy
March 7, 2019
In a speech given in the late 1930s, British MP Sir Austen Chamberlain invoked an ancient Chinese curse that he had learned of from a British diplomat who had served in Asia, and which took the curious form of saying, "May you live in interesting times"...
Friedrich Kunath Book Launch Party with Performance by Destroyer | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
January 26, 2019
Book Launch Party with A Special Performance by Destroyer. The first major monograph devoted to the sentimentally introspective and humorously existential work of Los Angeles-based artist Friedrich Kunath is now in bookstores and available online...
Destroyer | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
January 26, 2019
Performance By Destroyer For Friedrich Kunath's Book Launch I Don't Worry Anymore
Out of the Shadows: Experimental Feminist Films by Jane Arden, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Penny Slinger | Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
January 25 – 31, 2019
Out of the Shadows showcases the exceptional motion pictures created by Jane Arden, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Penny Slinger during the 1960s and '70s. These artists share overlapping concerns in their experimental narratives, focusing on female sexuality, the occult, and societal taboos...
Chung Sang-hwa: Art Lecture with Jung-Ah Woo | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
January 7, 2019
Please join us for a public lecture on the life and work of artist Chung Sang-hwa, on the occasion of the closing of the first major exhibition in Los Angeles to focus on the artist's work...
Friedrich Kunath: I Don't Worry Anymore
December 4, 2018
The first major monograph devoted to the sentimentally introspective and humorously existential work of Los Angeles-based artist Friedrich Kunath is now in bookstores and available online...
Bread + Puppet Theater: The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
November 4, 2018
Blum & Poe, in collaboration with Three Day Weekend, is pleased to announce Bread and Puppet Theater's The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus...
Henry Taylor: The Only Portrait I Ever Painted Of My Momma Was Stolen
October 9, 2018
Henry Taylor's first comprehensive monograph, The Only Portrait I Ever Painted of My Momma Was Stolen, features over 200 works from 1992 onward. For three decades the iconic artist has worked his way through New York, Los Angeles, Europe, and Africa, documenting what he sees.
California Coalition For Women Prisoners 2018 Benefit Auction | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
August 18, 2018
California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), online auction house Paddle8, and Blum & Poe will partner to raise funds for the CCWP's mission to combat mass incarceration...
Tomoo Gokita Joins Blum & Poe
August 13, 2018
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Tokyo-based artist Tomoo Gokita. His work will be the subject of an exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in spring 2018, and a solo exhibition at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles is scheduled for fall 2018...
Henry Taylor Awarded 2018 Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize
July 17, 2018
The Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. is delighted to announce that Henry Taylor is the 2018 recipient of the esteemed Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize. Established in 2011 by Robert DeNiro, in honor of his late father, the accomplished painter Robert De Niro, Sr., the prize recognizes a mid-career American artist for significant and innovative contributions to the field of painting...
Mimi Lauter Joins Blum & Poe
June 13, 2018
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery is on view in Los Angeles until June 23, 2018...
Tony Lewis Joins Blum & Poe
June 12, 2018
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce its representation of Chicago-based artist Tony Lewis...
ICA LA Honors Henry Taylor
May 12, 2018
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) announced today that it will honor Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor at the second annual Benefit Brunch on Saturday, May 12...
Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows | Us Film Premiere
May 2, 2018
Penny Slinger: Out Of The Shadows is the incredible, untold story of the British artist Penny Slinger and the traumatic events that led to the creation of her masterpiece, the 1977 photo-romance, An Exorcism...
Solange Pessoa Joins Blum & Poe
April 5, 2018
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa. Pessoa is known for her sculptures, installations, videos, and paintings that present forms mined from primal realms of the psyche...
The Estate Of Robert Colescott Joins Blum & Poe
December 1, 2017
Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the worldwide representation of the Estate of Robert Colescott...
In Conversation: Lynda Benglis & Helen Molesworth | Blum & Poe Los Angeles
October 28, 2017
Blum & Poe is pleased to present an exhibition by acclaimed artist Lynda Benglis. This marks her first solo presentation on the West Coast since the 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and offers a broad overview of her output and ethos across the last three decades...
Sam Durant’s Statement Regarding Scaffold At The Walker Art Center
June 1, 2017
Artist Statement, Sam Durant, 5/29/2017
Let me begin by describing the sculpture that has become the focus of protest in recent days as I envisioned it when it was first exhibited in 2012 in Europe at The Hague, Netherlands; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland; and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany...
Blum & Poe Goes Green
April 20, 2015
Blum & Poe announces its participation in the Arts:Earth Partnership (AEP), an environmentally sustainable certification and materials resource exchange program specifically developed for the creative sector in Los Angeles. By completing AEP's certification process, Blum & Poe's Los Angeles gallery location has become one of the first green-certified contemporary art galleries in the United States...
@a4d_artistsfordemocracy and @swingleft
for a virtual talk with Mimi Lauter, who will discuss her work as an activist...
Blum & Poe Broadcasts presents a preview of a forthcoming exhibition "Sympathetic Magic" organized by Bill Powers...
“Real art doesn’t age, because it’s about connecting with an idea. Art is logical..."
“With an undulating grace and imaginitive approach to narrative identity, Ogawa offers a world that is more than her memory..."
@chinatowntaylor & @beau_band play @owlbureau for Henry’s book signing...
Today is the final day to see Anya Gallaccio's "Stroke"—a chocolate covered room which was originally installed at Blum & Poe for its inaugural exhibition in 1994...
A solo exhibition of new work opening Tuesday, September 24, 5-7pm, Blum & Poe NYC 🔥
Mohamed Bourouissa: "Pour une poignée de Dollars" is the artist's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, and his first with the gallery.
Blum & Poe is pleased to present Paris-based Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles...
