Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA) is delighted to announce DTLArts Day on Saturday, October 25 from 4-8:30PM. The event will celebrate downtown’s Arts District & neighbouring contemporary arts scenes.
A Free Arts District shuttle will transport participants between select venues, starting at Night Gallery / Cirrus Gallery, with stops in between at 1700 Santa Fe’s compound of galleries, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and more. Hop on the bus at any of the 3 stops, no tickets or reservations required.
Many galleries will stay open through 8PM, and some will hold special events. Below, please find a list of participants—all GALA members—who will also be featured on a special map.
DTLA ARTS DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD SHUTTLE
Stop 1: 2276 E 16th Street Los Angeles California 90021
Stop 2: 2050 Imperial Street Los Angeles California 90021
Stop 3: 2276 E 16th Street Los Angeles California 90021
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery
Baert Gallery
Band of Vices
The Box
The Broad
Corita Art Center
Charlie James Gallery
de boer Los Angeles
François Ghebaly
Gallery Luisotti
The ICALA
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
MoCA
Nicodim
Night Gallery
Patricia Sweetow
REDCAT
Royale Projects
Sidecar
Vielmetter
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Los Angeles. We exhibit contemporary art with a heavy emphasis on concept-driven artwork by emerging to mid-career artists located across the country and internationally. Owner Abigail Ogilvy Ryan founded the gallery in Boston in 2015, where the program ran for nine years. In the Fall of 2023 the gallery expanded to Los Angeles under Director Kaylee Hennessey.
Abigail Ogilvy Gallery LA provides a platform for new perspectives and education through independent curation and artist partnerships. The collaborative approach upends the traditional gallery model and aims to enhance the careers of artists, curators, collectors, and other art world professionals, both emerging and established. The gallery program features guest curators in order to share diverse perspectives and voices with the Los Angeles area, while also showing solo and group exhibitions from the gallery roster.
Baert Gallery, founded in 2016 by Christian Baert, maintains a distinct focus on bridging the legacies and artistic sensibilities of Europe and Los Angeles. Working with a roster of emerging artists, the gallery aims to provide a platform for complex, intellectually rigorous, and formally challenging practices at its space in Downtown Los Angeles. The gallery is committed to providing studio and production support to its artists in order to foster their innovative ideas and creativity. In order to reach a wider audience, Baert Gallery also supports artist publications and regular live-performances by multidisciplinary artists in the gallery space. In 2020, the gallery moved to its current location in the lower Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. The 1,500 sq-ft (140 sq-m) exhibition space, located in a historic warehouse, provides an ideal backdrop to present artworks across media, including installation, sculpture, painting, video, and performance.
Founded in 2015, Band of Vices is an art and culture company committed to providing a platform to often overlooked creative communities and a narrative through ever-evolving initiatives, including a highly curated exhibition program, culturally relevant strategic partnerships, mission-driven community programming, and more.
Headquartered in the burgeoning West Adams Arts District of Los Angeles, Band of Vices believes in disrupting the limited business model for artists and creatives. Band of Vices’ Sacred House is committed to providing a platform for those historically undervalued, overlooked or cast aside. Band of Vices embraces uniqueness, diversity, and inclusion.
The Broad makes its collection of contemporary art from the 1950s to the present accessible to the widest possible audience by presenting exhibitions and operating a lending program to art museums and galleries worldwide.
By actively building a dynamic collection that features in-depth representations of influential contemporary artists and by advancing education and engagement through exhibitions and diverse public programming, the museum enriches, provokes, inspires, and fosters appreciation of art of our time.
The Broad was founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler, the museum offers free general admission and presents an active program of rotating temporary exhibitions and innovative audience engagement. The Broad is home to nearly 2,000 works of art in the Broad collection, which is one of the world’s leading collections of postwar and contemporary art.
The 120,000-square-foot building features two floors of gallery space and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library, which has been loaning collection works to museums around the world since 1984. The Broad welcomes more than 900,000 visitors from around the world per year.
Vielmetter Los Angeles was established in 2000 with a focus on presenting work by artists from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, many of whom are engaged in a rigorously conceptual practice. The gallery's program is international in scope and aims to reflect gender parity. In 2019, the gallery relocated from Culver City to a 34,000-square-foot space in downtown Los Angeles.
Established in 2024, Sidecar is a new kunsthalle-inspired space located next to Night Gallery’s North campus in Downtown Los Angeles. Over the next two years, Sidecar will exist as a dynamic curatorial project that will expand on Night Gallery’s legacy as an ever-evolving art platform. Led by Night Gallery founder Davida Nemeroff, Sidecar will provide opportunities for collaborative exhibitions with partner galleries, curators, and artists from near and far, serving as a nexus of exchange between the creative communities with which Night Gallery is engaged.
Royale Projects, established in 2008, focuses on the history and continuing advancement of abstraction in painting and sculpture, as well as on leading edge artists who find their roots in Conceptualism. Royale Projects maintains a rigorous schedule of solo and group exhibitions as well as site-responsive projects.
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY announces our new location at 1700 So. Santa Fe Avenue, 3rd Floor, Downtown Los Angeles.
PSG opened in San Francisco in 1997, with a recent relocation to Los Angeles in 2022. Focused exhibitions present ideas and use materials that challenge institutional culture, embracing work that expands art historical lineages, while dissolving boundaries between High and Low art. Artists mine the rich, multifaceted traditions of craft, upending expectations, decolonizing structures, breaching personal boundaries.
Night Gallery is Los Angeles' leading platform for emerging artists. Founded in 2010 by Davida Nemeroff, the gallery was first housed within a strip mall storefront in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, where openings were held between 10pm and 2am. In 2013, Night Gallery moved to its current location near LA’s Downtown Arts District. In January 2022 Night Gallery North was launched to expand its gallery space. It is located in a neighboring building at the corner of Imperial and 16th Street. At nearly 14,000 square feet, this space enables Night Gallery to double its footprint and expand its installation and sculpture programming.
Over the course of the past 15 years, Night Gallery has become the locus of the city's flourishing visual arts community, maintaining its commitment to artists of diverse backgrounds and points of view while raising its international profile. In 2016, Night Gallery was described by The New York Times as “arguably the epicenter of the underground art world in Los Angeles,” and roster artists have received accolades from publications including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Vogue, Artforum, Cultured, and GQ. The gallery’s current programming echoes the joyfully experimental approach of its early years while continuing to support its thriving artists and their practices.
Mihai Nicodim opened his first gallery in 2006 with a focus on emerging and overlooked American, African, Asian, and European artists. The artists of the gallery share a common interest in reassessing art history from an outsider's perspective and challenging its established framework.
The gallery places strong emphasis on aggressive curated group shows that interrogate the cultural, sociopolitical, and spiritual undercurrents that shape society, mixing established, radical, and esoteric artists together to explore new narratives and spotlight talent.
Welcome to The Museum of Contemporary Art. With two distinct venues—MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA—and Michael Heizer’s seminal artwork Double Negative (1969-70) in the Nevada desert, we engage audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, educational programs, and publishing.
Architect Arata Isozaki designed MOCA Grand Avenue in 1986 with classical architecture and Los Angeles popular culture in mind. Today this location hosts the museum's main galleries, Lemonade Café, the flagship location of the MOCA Store, and staff offices.
A former police car warehouse in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Historic District, renovated by the noted California architect Frank Gehry, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (formerly The Temporary Contemporary) opened in 1983. This location offers 40,000 square feet of exhibition space.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is a contemporary art gallery representing emerging and mid-career artists who are engaged in regional and global art discourse with a particular focus on intersectional diversity. These artists use conceptual and formal strategies as a critical lens to address a myriad of concerns including the social constructs of gender, racial, and subjective identity, the power of aesthetic frameworks to shape political and economic reality, and the historical role of the artist within society.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles opened in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station in 2010 and relocated in 2011 to the Culver City Arts District, where the gallery operated for ten years. In 2021, the gallery opened an expansive space in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and an incubator of new ideas.
Founded in 1988 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) and reestablished in 2017 with a new identity and home in Downtown Los Angeles, ICA LA builds upon a distinguished history of bold curatorial vision and innovative programming to illuminate the important untold stories and emerging voices in contemporary art and culture. The museum’s 12,700 square-foot renovated industrial building—designed by WHY Architects under the leadership of Kulapat Yantrasast—features ample space for exhibitions, public programs, retail pop-ups, integrated offices, and special projects.
ICA LA’s mission is to support art that sparks the pleasure of discovery and challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. ICA LA is committed to upending hierarchies of race, class, gender, and culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships, ICA LA fosters critique of the familiar and empathy with the different.
ICA LA is committed to making contemporary art relevant and accessible for all. Admission is free.
Gallery Luisotti concentrates on the aesthetic developments that emerged during the 1970s, with an emphasis on landscape and non-narrative photography.
de boer is a contemporary art gallery that presents focused and conceptually rigorous solo exhibitions and group projects that highlight a diverse and subversive roster of multi-generational artists.
In 2020 David De Boer founded de boer with a space at 3311 E. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles. The location, a known studio complex, has housed studios of notable LA artists since its inauguration in the late 90s. In 2021, the gallery expanded to add an additional gallery at 3311 E. Pico Blvd and brought on Jacob Vasa as gallery director.
Works by the gallery’s artists are featured in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, and many more.
de boer acknowledges that it is on the traditional land of the Chumash Peoples past and present, and honors with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations.
Charlie James Gallery was formed and opened in 2008 in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and is owned and directed by Charlie James, a collector turned gallerist who had a background in CRM application consulting at Microsoft and other companies before opening the business. The gallery’s ethos asserts that art should engage with the time of its making, and is known for platforming work of significant political and cultural engagement. It has built a strong reputation for platforming and historicizing numerous young artists from Los Angeles and beyond.
Works by our artists appear in esteemed museum collections ranging from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the LA County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, MoCA LA, the MFA Boston, the Walker Art Center, and many others. The gallery operates out of two spaces on Chung King Road in Los Angeles, California.