Exhibitions

The Miraculous Arms

Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum July 27 - August 24, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Karimah Ashadu Mohamed Bourouissa Salim Green Senga Nengudi Christelle Oyiri Pol Taburet Minh Lan Tran I watch the smoke rushes like a mustang to the front of the stage briefly hems its lava with its fragile peacock tail then tearing its shirt suddenly opens its chest and I watch it... Read more

Roksana Pirouzmand

a land to fall asleep June 29 - August 3, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly New York is proud to present a land to fall asleep, Los Angeles-based artist Roksana Pirouzmand’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Between creases and folds, a mountain, a desert A land to fall asleep, to be told stories, to grieve on a fault line, in a volcano, under... Read more

Gabriel Mills

Udaya June 20 - July 20, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Udaya, New Haven-based artist Gabriel Mills’s first exhibition with the gallery at the downtown Los Angeles space. Gabriel Mills is a painter whose oeuvre, though varied, holds close to the artist’s meditated thoughts on time, love, and place. Classically trained, he steers his art-making... Read more

Maia Ruth Lee

hold shimmer wind May 18 - June 15, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles In periods of trouble, we move, as if blinded, through populated fields of unknowns. At the seeing-borders of being human, we witness, red, blue, blue, blue, blue, green, yellow, blue arrival as if these signifiers of real physical embodiments: the sun, ocean, sky, the ever witnessing trees, are the trail... Read more

Ian Miyamura

Chaos Spawn May 18 - June 15, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works by New York-based painter Ian Miyamura, opening at the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles location on Saturday, May 18, 2024. Ian Miyamura’s painting practice is defined by its chameleonic transformations across widely varying artistic languages. Through disparate series, Miyamura... Read more

Anderson Borba & Gokula Stoffel

Thinking Hands May 2 - June 6, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly New York is proud to present Thinking Hands, a two-person exhibition of new work by Anderson Borba and Gokula Stoffel. From carved hardwoods and salvaged textiles to newsprint, gifted objects, and oil painting, Brazilian artists Anderson Borba and Gokula Stoffel employ a diverse array of materials in their... Read more

Elizabeth Glaessner

Now you're a lake April 6 - May 11, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Now you’re a lake, Elizabeth Glaessner’s first exhibition with the gallery at its downtown Los Angeles space. New York-based artist Elizabeth Glaessner creates vibrant, multi-layered pictorial universes in her paintings. Cast in chromatic swathes of hot and cool, Glaessner’s amorphous figures, evocative poses, and... Read more

Jeane Cohen

Wing in the Shadow April 6 - 27, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly New York is proud to present Wing in the Shadow, a solo exhibition by Jeane Cohen at the gallery’s Lower East Side location. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Easy Does It. Moving between New York City and the sweeping Maine coastline, Jeane Cohen shares in her... Read more

Ross Simonini

Scrolls March 7 - April 2, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly New York is proud to present Scrolls, Ross Simonini’s first exhibition with the gallery at its Lower East Side location. Ross Simonini’s artistic project hinges on a kind of generosity—open, plural considerations of connection, meaning, and form. Simonini is a painter, musician, author and multi-hyphenate wordsmith. Over the... Read more

Ann Leda Shapiro

Light Within Darkness February 22 - March 30, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Ann Leda Shapiro: Light Within Darkness introduces Los Angeles to an artist who has spent decades exploring the ways that life, death, the body, and the landscape intertwine. The exhibition gathers eighteen paintings ranging from 1976 through 2023, tracking the evolutions and continuities of Shapiro’s work. By taking the body... Read more

Trulee Hall

She Shells February 22 - March 30, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Los Angeles legend Trulee Hall’s latest exhibition, She Shells, at the gallery’s downtown location. Hall’s first presentation with the gallery critically examines the friction between our glorified fantasies and unchangeable realities. Through her immersive multimedia installations Hall invites viewers into an overtly artificial world... Read more

Em Kettner

Homebound January 20 - February 24, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Homebound, American multimedia artist Em Kettner’s first exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. In Homebound, Kettner offers the latest iteration in her practice’s core consideration of life and disability. Across fifteen drawn miniatures in intricately crafted artist’s frames, Kettner reflects on kinship, autonomy,... Read more

Ivy Haldeman

The Agreement, The Fool, and The Storm January 13 - February 17, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present The Agreement, The Fool, and The Storm at the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles location, the newest exhibition by the American visual artist Ivy Haldeman. Bikini Atoll is a coral reef made up of a ring of islands that sits some 2600 miles southwest of... Read more

John Rivas

Que Haces Vos? Yo Pinto January 13 - February 17, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present John Rivas’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Que Haces Vos? Yo Pinto. The exhibition opens with a public reception on January 13 and remains on view at the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles location through February 17. John Rivas creates images deeply woven with... Read more

Ragini Bhow

Conduits December 14, 2023 - January 13, 2024 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Conduits, Ragini Bhow’s first exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. “There’s something about fear,” observes Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Ragini Bhow of her own process. “Or maybe awe. Like navigating through the dark with only a single light. Trusting, sometimes blindly, that you’ll find... Read more

Sascha Braunig

Poseuses November 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Poseuses, a solo exhibition by Maine-based artist Sascha Braunig, opening in downtown Los Angeles on November 18th, 2023. Sascha Braunig’s paintings aim to warp, deform, deconstruct, and reconfigure hierarchical modes of representation to the point of disorientation. Undulating forms elbow their way to the... Read more

Joeun Kim Aatchim

Sheer Painer November 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Sheer Painer, the newest exhibition by South Korean, Brooklyn-based artist Joeun Kim Aatchim and her first time exhibiting at our Downtown Los Angeles space. The interruption that illness is, and the further interruptions that it brings, are disruptions of memory. The disruption is not... Read more

Willa Wasserman

Mirror xx,xxx,x October 28 - December 2, 2023 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is pleased to announce the opening of Mirror xx,xxx,x, Willa Wasserman’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, and first time presenting in our New York space. In Mirror xx,xxx,x, American painter Willa Wasserman presents her newest body of work comprising six paintings in oil and silver nitrate on... Read more

Ludovic Nkoth

The Is of It October 7 - November 11, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present The Is of It, New York-based artist Ludovic Nkoth’s newest exhibition at the downtown Los Angeles gallery. “It’s with such a profound happiness. Such a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I shout, hallelujah merging with the darkest human howl of the pain of separation but a shout... Read more

Noel McKenna

Thoughts Covered in Moss September 6 - October 14, 2023 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Thoughts Covered in Moss, Australian artist Noel McKenna’s first New York solo exhibition. Sydney-based, Brisbane-born painter and visual artist Noel McKenna has a knack for observation. Entwining nuanced themes of memory, personal history, and daily life, McKenna creates images – often animal-centric, always tenderly... Read more

Strong Winds Ahead

Curated by Lekha Jandhyala July 29 - September 9, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Strong Winds Ahead is a group exhibition that extends a slow and outward escape. The escape begins in an exhausted city—the destination unclear. Encapsulating the middle space between life and death, past and future, and the distinct and imperceptible, the exhibition brings forth the occult, the bestial, and the arcane.... Read more

darling, your head's not right

Curated by Danica Lundy July 19 - August 19, 2023 391 Grand St., New York Can anyone prove reliable in this environment? Maybe there is no such thing as an eyewitness. Who sees the lone mosquito in the dark? I was there but I didn’t see anything. I heard your eyelids fluttering. I listened to the sweat rolling off a table. A beast’s fur stiffened... Read more

Farah Atassi

Mechanical Cabaret June 23 - July 22, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Farah Atassi’s Mechanical Cabaret, the Paris-based artist’s latest exhibition at the gallery’s Downtown Los Angeles location. French-Syrian artist Farah Atassi’s intricately composed paintings are in direct and open conversation with the world of the modernists. In gridded planes and vivid, staccato geometries, her works... Read more

This Must Be the Place

Curated by Farah Al Qasimi June 23 - September 9, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Part I: June 23 – July 22, 2023 Davion Alston, Arielle Gray, Xi Li, Miraj Patel, Shaun Pierson Part II: July 29 – September 9, 2023 Hobbes Ginsberg, Natalie Ivis, Adrian Martinez Chavez, Sydney Mieko King, Sophie Schwartz François Ghebaly is pleased to present This Must... Read more

François Ghebaly x Rhinoceros Roma

Group exhibition June 9 - November 18, 2023 Rhinoceros Roma, Via del Velabro, 9, Rome François Ghebaly and Rhinoceros Roma are pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Neïl Beloufa, Max Hooper Schneider, Em Rooney and Ludovic Nkoth opening at Rhinoceros Gallery’s space in Rome. This marks François Ghebaly’s first presentation in Italy. Read more

Mike Kuchar

Big, Bad Boys June 9 - July 8, 2023 1109 N Poinsettia Place, West Hollywood François Ghebaly is honored to present Big, Bad Boys, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with legendary artist and filmmaker Mike Kuchar. Mike Kuchar has been a majorly influential figure in the underground film and comics scenes since the 1960s, first in his hometown of the Bronx and, from... Read more

Jaime Muñoz

Machina June 3 - July 8, 2023 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Machina, Jaime Muñoz’s first solo exhibition with the gallery at its New York location. In April of 2023, to the disquietude of many city-dwellers, the NYPD announced its reintroduction of American robotics manufacturer Boston Dynamics’ “canine” robot to the fleet. The four-legged robot, with... Read more

Max Hooper Schneider

Falling Angels May 6 - June 10, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Angels of immanence are not the pink-hued and bewinged putti of the Italian Renaissance. They are Breughel’s rebel angels, fallen angels who wear no halos, know no gods, and consider transcendence and the supernatural dangerous inventions. They are terrifying and demonic as well as sublime. They can be summoned but... Read more

Matt Bollinger

Station April 22 - May 27, 2023 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Station by Matt Bollinger. Ithaca-based artist Matt Bollinger works from a complex interdisciplinary base: as painter, draftsman, animator, and elegist, he creates work that straddles the projects of both visual art and narrative fiction. His stories, by and large, are of America’s rural working... Read more

Pleasure Principle

Group Exhibition March 9 - April 15, 2023 391 Grand St., New York “The ideal which I strive to realize in my life is the serene sensuousness of the Greeks–pleasure without pain. I do not believe in the kind of love which is preached by Christianity, by the moderns, by the knights of the spirit. Yes, look at me, I am worse than... Read more

Kathleen Ryan

Beachcomber February 18 - March 25, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Beachcomber by Kathleen Ryan in the Downtown Los Angeles gallery. Kathleen Ryan re-envisions the detritus of American life. Spoiled fruits become monuments in glistening stone; industrial parts and domestic ephemera are transformed into plants and animals. Reclaimed automobilia, mottled gemstone façades, and armatures of... Read more

Danielle De Jesus

Street Kind February 18 - March 25, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Street Kind , Danielle De Jesus’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. Dually artist and activist, Danielle De Jesus has cultivated a practice dedicated to issues of cultural identity, urban space, and economic inequality. Focusing intimately on the distinct experiences of Puerto Rican and... Read more

Patrick Jackson

Liquid Clay February 4 - March 4, 2023 1109 N Poinsettia Place, West Hollywood François Ghebaly presents Liquid Clay , a sculptural installation by Patrick Jackson. The exhibition is made up of two visually opposing bodies of work: a series of custom-designed crystal-clear shelving units stocked with commercial products, and a series of hand sculpted wall reliefs. The shelves, cold and processed, differ starkly... Read more

Jessie Makinson

Hoof on Bone January 7 - February 4, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Hoof on Bone , London-based artist Jessie Makinson’s newest exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery. From careful expressions and tight, jewel-like patterning to daunting tableaux of fantastical social portraiture, Jessie Makinson’s approach to scenography can perhaps best be described as a synthesis. Oscillating between... Read more

Bony Ramirez

CAYMAN TEARS January 7 - February 4, 2023 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce CAYMAN TEARS , the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Bony Ramirez. The show will open on January 7, 2023, and remain on view through February 4, 2023. Born in the northern region of the Dominican Republic, Bony Ramirez makes mixed media paintings and... Read more

Ivana Bašić

Form of Flight December 10, 2022 - January 21, 2023 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Form of Flight , New York-based artist Ivana Bašić’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The wall-based sculptures and drawings on display offer an introduction to the formal strategies and unique material language that the artist has developed over the course of her practice—what... Read more

Paulo Nimer Pjota

Every Empire Breaks Like a Vase November 4 - December 17, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Every Empire Breaks Like a Vase , Brazilian artist Paulo Nimer Pjota’s first exhibition in Los Angeles and with the gallery. Every Empire Breaks Like a Vase features layered, mixed media paintings with bronze and resin sculptural elements and ashtrays crafted in resin, bronze... Read more

Patricia Iglesias Peco

Naturaleza Viva November 4 - December 17, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles “At least at first glance, and in general: in fact, most flowers are badly developed and are barely distinguishable from foliage; some of them are even unpleasant, if not hideous… Other flowers, it is true, present very well-developed and undeniably elegant stamens, but appealing again to common sense, it becomes... Read more

Nikita Kadan

Victory Over the Sun October 26 - November 30, 2022 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly New York is proud to present Victory over the Sun by Nikita Kadan, the Ukrainian artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Nikita Kadan has developed over the last twenty years a singular oeuvre in the form of drawings, photographs, posters, and monumental installations. Emerging from an... Read more

Durian on the Skin

Curated by Gan Uyeda September 17 - October 22, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Ann Greene Kelly Brach Tiller Candice Lin Danica Lundy David Douard Gabriel Mills Isaac Soh Fujita Howell Joeun Kim Aatchim Kelly Akashi Liao Wen Maren Karlson Mire Lee Rebecca Manson Rindon Johnson Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya... Read more

Rindon Johnson

Cuvier September 7 - October 15, 2022 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Cuvier by Rindon Johnson, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. Following his presentation at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Johnson’s latest body of work offers homage to Ziphius cavirostris , or the Cuvier’s Beaked Whale and features new sculptures in... Read more

Maia Ruth Lee

Migrant Reader July 9 - August 20, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Migrant Reader by Maia Ruth Lee, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Maia Ruth Lee’s multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Busan-born, Kathmandu-raised, and now Colorado-based, her work often addresses the complexities of self and cultural preservation in times of... Read more

Tammy Nguyen

Four Ways Through a Cave July 9 - August 20, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Tammy Nguyen ’s storytelling expertise shines across her multidisciplinary practice which encompasses painting, drawing, artist books, prints and zines. Seamlessly fusing together a diverse set of sources ranging from geopolitics, to philosophy, to religion, to her own subjective experience, Nguyen’s layered compositions defy traditional narrative structures. Four Ways Through a... Read more

Magali Reus

And Orchard July 7 - August 20, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Magali Reus ’s And Orchard , the first exhibition by the Dutch sculptor in Los Angeles. The exhibition opens with a public reception on July 9 and remains on view through August 20. And Orchard consists of two new series of works, “Candlesticks” and... Read more

Joeun Kim Aatchim

Homed June 17 - July 16, 2022 391 Grand St., New York Homed accommodates the drafts, those who have returned, and those who seek solace or are in willful solitudes. It is a psychological state of yearning to be settled; a state of relief in which one gasps and exhales, “Mom/Lord/Honey/My baby, I’m homed .” The experience of language–its flexions and failures–is... Read more

Farah Al Qasimi

Surge May 14 - June 18, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles “Far away I hear the call of the heart that sings a song like mine Its melody draws near and suddenly we’re in perfect harmony I know it beckons to me from the land that’s not from the sea Yet I know I must follow wherever it... Read more

Willa Wasserman

Quickening May 14 - June 18, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Abortion was not always a crime. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries…[abortions] were illegal only after “quickening”… Leslie Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women Medicine and Law in the United States: 1867–1973 I will start with baby steps / goo goo ga ga / you don’t mean that... Read more

Marius Bercea

Blue Silk April 23 - May 28, 2022 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Blue Silk , Romanian artist Marius Bercea’s first solo exhibition in New York City. When asked about his attitudes toward the future, painter and portraitist Marius Bercea describes a faith in, among other things, the “test of time.” The paintings that comprise Bercea’s newest... Read more

Em Kettner

The Understudies April 2 - May 7, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Francois Ghebaly is proud to present Em Kettner’s The Understudies , the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition showcases a selection of glazed porcelain tiles that together, in thin, wiry line-work, compose a world of stage lights, insects, bedrooms, and a sprinkle of gymnastics. Alluding to the... Read more

Victoria Gitman

Everything is Surface April 2 - May 7, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Victoria Gitman, Everything is Surface: Twenty Years of Painting , opening in Los Angeles on April 2 and remaining on view through May 7, 2022. The exhibition represents the most comprehensive survey of Victoria Gitman’s work to date, including 27 paintings and drawings spanning... Read more

Sascha Braunig

Lay Figure March 16 - April 16, 2022 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly and Magenta Plains are proud to present Lay Figure , a joint gallery exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Sascha Braunig. This is Braunig’s first New York exhibition in five years, spanning both gallery spaces on the Lower East Side. There will be a shared... Read more

Sayre Gomez

Halloween City February 19 - March 27, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Over the past few years, Sayre Gomez has developed a body of work that amounts to a cognitive mapping of late America as seen through the cultural and topographic specificity of Southern California’s urban sprawl. As seems fitting, this inquiry has recently taken a ghoulish turn. Halloween City follows in... Read more

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork

Solutions to Common Noise Problems January 29 - March 5, 2022 391 Grand St., New York Francois Ghebaly is proud to present Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition, Solutions to Common Noise Problems , will open in New York on January 29, 2022 and remain on view through March 5, 2022. Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork explores the crossroads of sound, installation, performance... Read more

Cassi Namoda

Forgotten Limbs December 11, 2021 - January 15, 2022 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Cassi Namoda’s third solo-exhibition with the gallery titled Forgotten Limbs . The exhibition addresses questions that are central to Namoda’s practice, primarily the question of how to render war and colonization through visual metaphor, in a particularly Luso-African context. Forgotten Limbs speaks to the... Read more

Neïl Beloufa

Global Agreement November 20 - December 22, 2021 391 Grand St., New York In an interview for the 2018 exhibition of Global Agreement , Neïl Beloufa remarks, “the idea of the show is that the world has never been this globalized. People have never been this connected .” And yet, as the artist counters, war, militarization, and identitarian divide are omnipresent in societies... Read more

Kelly Akashi

Faultline November 5 - December 4, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Kelly Akashi’s third solo exhibition with the gallery: Faultline . The exhibition tracks the continual evolution of Akashi’s practice as she incorporates new photographic and craft traditions into her expansive practice. Originally trained in photography, Akashi’s approach to sculpture consistently shows how materials can... Read more

Emmanuel Louisnord Desir

Prisoners of Hope September 18 - October 23, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Emmanuel Louisnord Desir’s Prisoners of Hope , the Los Angeles-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. At heart of Emmanuel Louisnord Desir’s practice is an exploration of relationships—familial, communal, and above all, spiritual. Often composing his works around seeds of lyrical wisdom, Desir... Read more

Neïl Beloufa

Remotely Speaking: Talking Works September 18 - October 23, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles There’s an autumnal worry that deepens this newest series by French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa. The rich, creamy leather that skins these works undulates over shaped wood. The swathes of leather tell one story wrapping the surface, the wood beneath hints at another. Their colors puzzle into scenes of quiet anxiety.... Read more

Sayre Gomez

Apocalypse Porn September 10 - October 16, 2021 391 Grand St., New York François Ghebaly is proud to present Sayre Gomez’s Apocalypse Porn , the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery and the first solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. Over the past decade, Sayre Gomez has honed a unique perspective on the state of contemporary visuality, taking Los Angeles as... Read more

Channa Horwitz

The Language Series July 31 - September 4, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles The Language Series was created one year after I left school in 1964. I was in the process of reducing my choices, because I wanted my work to be simpler and I was searching for an essence. I started by reducing my subject to a square. I thought of... Read more

Tom Anholt

Moonlight July 31 - September 4, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles All light is moonlight, it seems, in Tom Anholt’s anthology of poetic ruminations across eleven interwoven paintings. Muted fallow hues are starred with glimmers of brightness—yellow, cobalt, and verdant green—that catch and cradle the lone moonrays in each shimmering landscape. In works like Choices (2021) and The Hunt (2021), this... Read more

City Fever

Group Exhibition July 17 - August 7, 2021 391 Grand St., New York A summer group show in New York featuring works by: Farah Atassi, Coady Brown, Sharif Farrag, Mike Kuchar, Joel Kyack and Eamon Monaghan The Fist The fist clenched round my heart loosens a little, and I gasp brightness; but it tightens again. When have I ever not loved... Read more

Em Kettner

Slow Poke June 26 - July 24, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Francois Ghebaly is proud to present Em Kettner’s Slow Poke , the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Em Kettner’s sculptures joyously reimagine the disabled body. She works at the scale of an outstretched hand, fashioning figures in glazed porcelain whose forms act as support structures for tiny tapestries... Read more

Cindy Ji Hye Kim

Soliloquy for Two June 26 - July 24, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles What is a spring dusk? Have we now reached the crux of the matter, and is this the end of the road? We are beginning to be at a loss for words: they become confused, meandering, and raving. And yet it is beyond these words that the description of that... Read more

Patrizio di Massimo

Close at Hand May 22 - June 19, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Patrizio di Massimo’s Close at Hand , the Italian-born, London-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. A bespectacled and bathrobed mother is twisted up on the couch, wincing in agony as her daughter grips her robe collar with one hand, the other raised and... Read more

Rindon Johnson

The Valley of the Moon May 15 - June 19, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles In the Valley of the Moon the water rolls off the ocean and rushes up the slopes as a dense vapor. It idles in thick white masses at the crest. Looking up at the ridge these clouds feel grown from the earth. Night by night the moon approaches this huddled... Read more

The Future in Present Tense

Group Exhibition May 7 - June 5, 2021 391 Grand St., New York Kelly Akashi Neïl Beloufa Candice Lin Candice Lin & P. Staff Patrick Jackson Christine Sun Kim Cassi Namoda Em Rooney François Ghebaly is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibition space in New York City, the gallery’s first expansion outside of Los Angeles since its founding in 2009.... Read more

Kelly Akashi

Cultivator April 3 - July 31, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce the outdoor presentation of Kelly Akashi’s Cultivator , a new large scale sculpture in bronze, stainless steel, and hand-blown glass by the Los Angeles-based artist. The work is now on view at the entrance to the gallery. Delicately attuned to how materials carry and... Read more

Meriem Bennani

Guided Tour of a Spill March 6 - May 1, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Meriem Bennani’s Guided Tour of a Spill , the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Before we get to the spill, you should know a bit about the island called the CAPS, this place in the middle of the Atlantic. The CAPS began... Read more

Ludovic Nkoth

Don't Take This Too January 28 - February 27, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Ludovic Nkoth’s Don’t Take This Too , the Cameroonian-born, New York-based painter’s first major solo exhibition. Don’t Take This Too introduces viewers to Nkoth’s distinctively swirling brush, his layered, vivid palette, and his iconography of figures drawn from both fantasy and memory. Each canvas... Read more

Jessie Makinson

Something Vexes Thee? January 28 - February 27, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Jessie Makinson. Take a royal portrait and gum up the seating arrangements until no one knows who is supposed to go where. Rearrange the furniture. Remove the men. Dress the remaining characters in scarlet fishnets... Read more

Christine Sun Kim

Trauma, LOL December 12, 2020 - January 23, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Trauma, LOL , an exhibition by the acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim. Rooted in visual communication systems like musical notation, infographics and internet memes, Kim’s work explores broad conceptual terrain, from celebrating the complexity and elegance of American Sign Language (ASL) to considering... Read more

Em Rooney

Women in Fiction December 12, 2020 - January 23, 2021 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles ‘I see a ring,’ said Bernard, ‘hanging above me. It quivers and hangs in a loop of light.’ ‘I see a slab of pale yellow,’ said Susan, ‘spreading away until it meets a purple stripe.’ ‘I hear a sound […]’ ‘I see a globe […]’ ‘I... Read more

Kay Hofmann

Senses October 31 - November 28, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Senses , Kay Hofmann’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition draws together sculptures from four decades of the stone carver’s quietly powerful practice. Kay Hofmann locates movement in stone, carving into blocks of chromatic alabaster to reveal female figures plunging in aquatic... Read more

Patrick Jackson

My Dark Architect October 20 - November 21, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly gallery presents My Dark Architect , an exhibition of photographs, sculptures, and silkscreens by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Jackson. The first room of the gallery is occupied by black and white photographs in aluminum frames. Some of the images are taken outdoors, capturing public sculptures in Los Angeles:... Read more

Shaina McCoy

Father, Father September 29 - October 24, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Shaina McCoy is a self-described “family person”. It’s an orientation that structures her life, and spurs on the creation of her enigmatic, thickly impastoed oil paintings, which she bases off of family pictures that she fishes out of old photo albums and, we might poetically imagine, a dusty shoebox or... Read more

Ivy Haldeman

Hello, the Future Is Certain September 12 - October 10, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Ivy Haldeman’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles invites viewers into a world of stiletto clad hot dogs, strolling hands, slithering banana peels and jockeying power suits. Rendered in clean graphic forms, these bodies converge within Haldeman’s ongoing investigation into how images convey notions of power while simultaneously evoking more... Read more

Cassi Namoda

You'll be old too one day. Life isn't always young and sweet. August 20 - September 20, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Cassi Namoda’s You’ll be old too one day. Life isn’t always young and sweet. , an exhibition of new paintings presented online with June Art Fair, in partnership with Hauser & Wirth and ArtReview, from August 20-31,2020. The exhibition will also be presented at... Read more

Materia Medica

Curated by Kelly Akashi July 22 - September 4, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Ann Craven Becca Mann Candice Lin Catalina Ouyang Diane Severin Nguyen Evelyn Statsinger Hugh Hayden Janis Miltenberger Jessie Homer French Kay Hofmann Max Hooper Schneider Nancy Youdelman Rindon Johnson To work from one’s own history. To create it from the earth. Their evolution was spurred by conflict with... Read more

Sharif Farrag

Drawings and Vessels June 25 - July 25, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles In Sharif Farrag’s ceramic universe, the garden represents a space of both quietude and conflict. Amongst the bugs, soil, vines and flowers the garden embodies attraction and fertilization, growth and productivity, death and decay. In his new exhibition Drawings and Vessels , Farrag returns to this garden, expanding his elaborate... Read more

Farah Atassi

New Paintings April 24 - May 15, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles The references and allusions in my paintings are not hints for the educated observer: they are formal propositions that need to be understood in their claim to universality. François Ghebaly is proud to present New Paintings , Farah Atassi’s second solo exhibition, originally scheduled to open at the gallery and... Read more

Kathleen Ryan

Bad Fruit February 15 - March 29, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Bad Fruit , Kathleen Ryan’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition, a suite of new sculptures, opens with a public reception on Saturday, February 15, 2020 from 6-9pm, and remains on view through March 29, 2020. Kathleen Ryan’s practice thrives in pairing... Read more

Victoria Gitman

Five Paintings February 15 - March 29, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Miami-based painter Victoria Gitman. The exhibition opens with a public reception on Saturday, February 15, 2020 from 6-9pm, and remains on view through March 29, 2020. Victoria Gitman’s paintings—small, seductive oil compositions on board—intertwine the experiences of... Read more

Mike Kuchar

Broken Gods January 4 - February 2, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles As an illustrator, my aim is to amuse the eyes and spark imagination. To soothe with sensual lines and excite with color. To create titillating scenes that refresh the soul…and put a bit more ‘fun’ to viewing pictures. — Mike ¹ François Ghebaly is proud to present Mike Kuchar:... Read more

Marius Bercea

Thieves of Time January 4 - February 2, 2020 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Thieves of Time , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Romanian artist Marius Bercea. In the title painting of the exhibition, a group of youths gather, slung across a living room. Their social relationships are unclear and despite physical togetherness, they appear more... Read more

Sharif Farrag

Laugh in the Dark November 9 - December 15, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Laugh in the Dark , Sharif Farrag’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition delves into Farrag’s fantastical, autobiographical ceramic universe, which is populated with wildly overgrown ceramic forms teeming with dripping flowers, shadowy insects, gasping maws, and a riot of colors, textures... Read more

Philip Hanson

Gridded Ether November 9 - December 15, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Gridded Ether, Chicago-based painter Philip Hanson’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Across fifteen shaped canvases, the exhibition delves into Hanson’s unique combination of poetry and painting. Each canvas contains the entirety of a poem, committed in luminous, layered verses across the surface and... Read more

Sayre Gomez

X-Scapes September 20 - November 3, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce X-Scapes , Sayre Gomez’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. X-Scapes finds Sayre Gomez at the crossroads of image culture and urban reality in Los Angeles. Employing a multitude of trompe l’oeil painting techniques drawn from Hollywood set painting, commercial sign painting, automotive airbrushing,... Read more

Bad Peach

Group Exhibition August 10 - September 7, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Kelly Akashi Sayre Gomez Haroon Mirza Davide Balula Channa Horwitz Cassi Namoda Dan Bayles Patrick Jackson Eli Ping Neïl Beloufa Christine Sun Kim Umar Rashid Meriem Bennani Mike Kuchar Kathleen Ryan Marius Bercea Joel Kyack Mitchell Syrop Sharif Farrag Candice Lin Charlie White Wish Please one more kiss in... Read more

Cindy Ji Hye Kim

The Sword Without, The Famine Within June 29 - August 3, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles This story could be called ‘The Statues.’ Another possible name is ‘The Murder.’ And also ‘How to Kill Cockroaches.’ So I will tell at least three stories, all true because they don’t contradict each other. Clarice Lispector, The Statues There are no cockroaches or statues in Cindy Ji... Read more

Dorian Gaudin

Climax Change June 28 - August 3, 2019 François Ghebaly is proud to announce Dorian Gaudin’s Climax Change , the Paris-born, Brooklyn-based sculptor’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Gaudin’s sculptural worlds are populated by machines with less than their fair share of loving grace. They tend to dismantle themselves, run in circles, and evince inner conflict through... Read more

Lila de Magalhaes

Cupid of Chaos June 28 - August 3, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Wrapped up in the horse is a lot of human history: war, peace, hunting, domination, transport. In the modern consciousness, horses are entangled with the fantasies of unfolding femininity—the pre-pubescent girl feeling for the first time power and speed and communion between her legs. We’ve poured a lot of ourselves... Read more

Candice Lin

Meaningless Squiggles May 11 - June 16, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Meaningless Squiggles , Candice Lin’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition takes a panoramic view of Lin’s recent projects, drawing on her expanded research into subjects ranging from Chinese “coolie” labor in the Caribbean, James Baldwin’s travels outside the U.S., plants that... Read more

Genesis Belanger

Coins for the Ferryman May 11 - June 15, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to announce Coins for the Ferryman , a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Genesis Belanger . The liminal space—an anthropological term that refers to the time between the what was and the next —is a central theme in Belanger’s work. It is a place of... Read more

Peel

Curated by DM Office March 23 - April 28, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Farah Al Qasimi Meriem Bennani Dora Budor Oto Gillen Win McCarthy Troy Michie Elle Pérez Em Rooney Heji Shin All the odd things people pick up for food. Out of shells, periwinkles with a pin, off trees, snails out of the ground... Read more

Cassi Namoda

The Day a Monkey is Destined to Die All Trees Become Slippery March 23 - April 28, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Cassi Namoda’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, The Day a Monkey is Destined to Die All Trees Become Slippery . Like the exhibition’s title, a folk saying in Namoda’s birth country of Mozambique, the works in the show explore the mythologies and proverbs... Read more

Zhang Ruyi

Bonsai February 2 - March 10, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Bonsai , Shanghai-based artist Zhang Ruyi’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition consists of an architectural space in which mundane building materials like cement, steel, and ceramic tiles are reconfigured into a built environment made strange. Doorways are compressed, rubble grows... Read more

Kelly Akashi

Figure Shifter February 2 - March 10, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles I lived a life once. It was my life and it was what I knew. Then things began to look strange. They grew wider and deeper. I didn’t know them. They were no longer mine. What is mine anyways: my nails, my skin, my teeth my hair, gathered up and... Read more

Christine Sun Kim

Finish Forever December 15, 2018 - January 20, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Finish Forever , an exhibition by the acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim . Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles brings together recent videos and drawings that use American Sign Language (ASL), musical notation, and closed captioning in films and television as vehicles... Read more

Koak

Breaking the Prairie December 15, 2018 - January 20, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles I first saw the sketch in New York, a study for a mural to be completed later. It was a triptych, a wide central image bookended by two narrow panels. In each side panel, a man chopped down a tree. The axe swung up, the axe swung down, and in... Read more

Ingrid Luche

They can't live without it. We can. December 15, 2018 - January 20, 2019 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Ingrid Luche’s Ghost Dresses are part of a series of sculptures begun in 2011. Made to be printed and hung, the garments are soft, bodiless sculptural forms. No body-substitute fills out their volumes. The (Californian) Ghost Dresses series shown at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles in 2018 is a group... Read more

Aaron Fowler

Exceedingly and Abundantly Blessed November 2 - December 7, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly and M+B are pleased to jointly present Exceedingly and Abundantly Blessed , a two-part exhibition of new work by Aaron Fowler . Unfolding across the two spaces, the exhibition features a new body of sculptures and spatial interventions in the artist’s signature language of memoiristic, maximalist bricolage. In... Read more

Channa Horwitz

Structures September 15 - October 20, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles I feel that through chance comes structure, or that if chance plays out long enough it will become structure. That if we cannot see the structure in chance we are too close to see it. The theory behind my work is that through structure comes an apparent chance. If structure... Read more

Liquid Dreams

Group Exhibition July 13 - August 10, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Kelly Akashi Farah Atassi Davide Balula Genesis Belanger Neïl Beloufa Lila de Magalhaes Dorian Gaudin Sayre Gomez Patrick Jackson Koak Joel Kyack Mike Kuchar Candice Lin Gina Osterloh Philip Pearlstein Kathleen Ryan Heat Here in the electric dusk your naked lover tips the glass high and the ice cubes fall... Read more

Twist the Spine

Group Exhibition June 1 - 30, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Philip Hanson Liz McCarthy Kameelah Janan Rasheed Organized by Third Object François Ghebaly is pleased to present Twist the Spine , an exhibition of new works by Philip Hanson, Liz McCarthy, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed . The exhibition will run June 1 through June 30... Read more

Becca Mann

Protea June 1 - 30, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Becca Mann’s first exhibition with the gallery. Imbued with a powerful sense of place, the paintings that make up Protea weave together memory and fiction in an exploration of the solarized heat and darkness of Los Angeles. Together they create an... Read more

Patrick Jackson

DUM MUD May 19 - July 28, 2018 François Ghebaly presents DUM MUD , an exhibition of new sculptures by artist Patrick Jackson installed in his one-bedroom apartment. With dark wood paneling and red carpeting (details original to the space), Jackson’s apartment looks like a film set of a 1970’s home. He has covered the windows with frosted... Read more

iiu Susiraja

what am i? May 12 - June 16, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Organized by Mike Egan iiu Susiraja (b. 1975) lives and works in Turku, Finland. This is her second exhibition with Ramiken, and her first exhibition in Los Angeles. Her work is now on view at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami in the group exhibition Still Human . She... Read more

Yoshua Okón

April 28 - May 26, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Yoshua Okón , the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the Mexican artist and cultural organizer. Across two recent video installations and a suite of storyboard drawings, the exhibition examines several of Okón’s essential strategies, drawing out reenactments and collaborations from his subjects in partially... Read more

Florian Meisenberg

The Taste of Metal in Water March 17 - April 14, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Florian Meisenberg , The Taste of Metal in Water , the New York-based artist’s first exhibition with the gallery. The show, a body of new paintings in a sculptural sound installation, unspools like a vivid session of lucid dreaming. Metal pipes slice the space... Read more

The Pain of Others

Curated by Myriam Ben Salah January 26 - March 3, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Julien Ceccaldi Aria Dean Dan Finsel Dan Herschlein Elizabeth Jaeger Arthur Jafa Dala Nasser Lydia Ourahmane Diamond Stingily Andra Ursuta But then I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life, not just in this building but everywhere,... Read more

William Anastasi

December 2, 2017 - January 6, 2018 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present a solo exhibition by the pioneering Conceptual artist William Anastasi, his first in Los Angeles in a decade. The exhibition brings together several key series from the past thirty years, illustrating several important modes of the artist’s thinking and making. Increasingly recognized for his... Read more

Sayre Gomez

Déjà Vu October 14 - November 18, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to announce Déjà Vu, the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the Los Angeles-based artist Sayre Gomez. The show is accompanied by an exhibition publication with an essay by writer and curator Olivian Cha. Across several new bodies of work, Gomez masterfully deploys trompe l’oeil painting techniques... Read more

Upstream

Group Exhibition September 9 - October 7, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Marius Bercea Marcello Dolce Patrick Jackson Marina Pinksy Laure Prouvost Louise Sartor Seeking a little peace of mind, I took up fishing one year ago. I needed to renew my connection with the natural world, to find a place away on the water. For... Read more

Farah Atassi

July 7 - August 12, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present French-Syrian painter Farah Atassi’s first exhibition in the United States, debuting a series of eight new paintings. Atassi’s canvases contain deeply considered anachronistic montages, allowing for a range of art-historical references—from designers such as the Memphis School to older movements within painting such as... Read more

Kathleen Ryan

Weightless Again January 21 - February 25, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles The old palm tree, circling itself, the triple-knotted neck of an ancient beast, survived somehow for decades in the shadow of a freeway bridge along the riverbed. With serpentine grace, here her smooth body turns with the rough and fast fragility of the stucco that skins a city of houses.... Read more

Hans Bellmer

January 21 - February 25, 2017 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles I have a weakness for men who play with dolls. It was Peter who took me into his closet, where, barricaded with pillows, he showed me his collection. There were blondes with skinny rubber legs, barbies in ruffled shirts with real buttons and lace, and a few antiques pale porcelain... Read more

Kelly Akashi

Being as a Thing November 12 - December 23, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly presents Being as a Thing, an exhibition of new work by Kelly Akashi. Working between sculpture, installation, and photography, Akashi cultivates relationships among a variety of ‘things’ to investigate their ability to transmit consciousness and how they can actively communicate their histories and potential for change. For this... Read more

Zoe Barcza

DR AWKWARD November 12 - December 23, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles A room that you simply cannot see, like the afterlife or the sublime or so; can you imagine anything more pointless to talk or write about? Although... What’s going on? How long will I live? Am I a baby? And in that case is it right to have a baby?... Read more

Davide Balula

Broken Things Float Faster September 16 - October 29, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Broken Things Float Faster, New York-based artist Davide Balula’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Balula has created new works on-site that prioritize shade, wind, and water, with formal sculptures serving as vehicles for abstruse effects. A wood plank suspends from rafted ceilings by... Read more

Willa Nasatir

September 16 - October 29, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Willa Nasatir. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Nasatir’s intricate sculptural landscapes, which she constructs, photographs, re-works, re-prints, and re-photographs, question and complicate the properties inherently accepted in her medium:... Read more

Neïl Beloufa

Democracy June 11 - July 30, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Democracy, Algerian-French artist Neil Beloufa’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past decade, Beloufa has worked in video, sculpture, and installation, composing digital and physical spaces reinforced by mechanical and emotional vulnerability, complicating the viewer’s trust in the screen as a medium... Read more

Patrick Jackson

Drawings and Reliefs June 11 - July 30, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly presents Drawings & Reliefs, featuring old and new work by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Jackson. The drawings in this show date from 2003-2015 and are selected from Jackson’s sketchbooks. He never took more than a few minutes on these, didn’t think much about them before marker hit paper,... Read more

Marius Bercea

(On) Relatively Calm Disputes April 9 - May 21, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present (On) Relatively Calm Disputes, an exhibition of new paintings by Marius Bercea, the artist’s third solo show with the gallery. For this new body of work, the artist expands his subject matter well beyond the depictions of Romanian landscapes and nostalgic scenes that he... Read more

Joel Kyack

On the Floor in the Cave of Skulls April 9 - May 21, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present On the Floor in the Cave of Skulls, an exhibition by Joel Kyack featuring new sculptural fountain works and recent paintings. This show marks the artist’s third solo presentation with the gallery. Beginning with one of his earliest performative works, The Dam (2006), Kyack’s... Read more

Channa Horwitz

To the Top February 13 - March 26, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to announce the opening of To the Top, an exhibition by Channa Horwitz (1932 – 2013). This is Horwitz’ second solo exhibition with the gallery; a project by Haroon Mirza, titled A Chamber for Horwitz; Sonakinatography Transcriptions in Surround Sound is presented concurrently with the exhibition.... Read more

Haroon Mirza

A Chamber for Horwitz; Sonakinatography Transcriptions in Surround Sound January 27 - March 26, 2016 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present a project with Haroon Mirza titled, A Chamber for Horwitz: Sonakinatography Transcriptions in Surround Sound. Originally shown at Museum Tinguely, in Basel, Switzerland, this is the first time this piece will be exhibited in the United States. A Chamber for Horwitz: Sonakinatography Transcriptions in... Read more

Mitchell Syrop

Niza Guy November 14 - January 30, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Niza Guy, Mitchell Syrop’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition takes its title from the artist’s series of the same name. Niza Guy is meant to read like the colloquial pronunciation of the phrase “Nice Guy”. This phonetic recasting establishes the importance... Read more

Candice Lin

You are a spacious fluid sac September 12 - October 24, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles And so it begins... Bacteria (the male-killing variety) co-evolving, controlling in new ways Denaturalized, disrupted, dissimilar Enter eukaryotic cells Fluid: Sacs Fluid: Senses of Self Generation (the spontaneous kind) Genetic (variation) Hierarchies [obsolete] Imagine: interspecies, intertwined, just as scientist Lynn Margulis suggested Kinky living organisms marginal, mitochondrial, magical nascent... Read more

Dan Bayles

The Apotheosis of Washington September 12 - October 24, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Dan Bayles titled, The Apotheosis of Washington. Growing up in the D.C. area, Bayles was introduced early to the aesthetics of power found within the architecture of the government buildings and the Smithsonian. The disparity between... Read more

Stopping The Sun In Its Course

Curated by Jesse McKee July 18 - August 18, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles This is new art, but it stretches deep into time. New skin for an old ceremony. In conversation, it’s possible I might say this art is grotesque. Other introductions might include: repugnant, incongruous, bizarre irrational, unnatural, brutal intoxicated and confrontational as well as erotic, fantastic, and fetishistic It is not... Read more

Cammie Staros

Man Shall Know Nothing Of It April 25 - June 6, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles “A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.” - Georges Bataille François Ghebaly is pleased to present Man Shall Know Nothing of It, an exhibition of new sculpture by Cammie Staros. Staros continues her investigation into the abstract, mutant possibilities of antiquated forms. Body-scale works in wood, brass, and ceramic both... Read more

SOGTFO

Curated by Charlie White February 28 - April 11, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles SOGTFO (Sculpture Or Get The Fuck Out) is a critical play on the misogynistic acronym TOGTFO (Tits Or Get The Fuck Out), a prompt directed at anyone claiming to be female within online boards, chats, and forums. This prompt, which bridges 'accepted' adolescent immaturity and the most menacing forms of... Read more

Mike Kuchar

Saints and Sinners January 17 - February 14, 2015 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to host a New Year's banquet of beefcake celebrating Satyrs, Stone Age He-Men, Sugar Daddies, and Bawdy Buccaneers, drawn, painted, digitized, and hosted by underground cartoonist and movie maker, Mike Kuchar. The menu spans 50 years of a prolific career, and begins with a projection of... Read more

Sayre Gomez

I’m Different October 10 - November 29, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present I’m Different, Sayre Gomez’ first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The exhibition will consist of 4 distinct yet related bodies of work that are all centered around the ideas of ___________ , ______________ , ________ , ________________ , ______________ . Each body of work... Read more

Gina Osterloh

July 19 - August 23, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is proud to present Gina Osterloh’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. For this new exhibition, Osterloh presents a series of works for the camera and the photographic frame applying a set of instructions: Press Erase Outline Slice Strike Make an X Prick! In all of Gina Osterloh’s... Read more

Square(s)

Group Exhibition June 14 - July 12, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles With works and contributions by: Lisa Anne Auerbach (USA), Davide Balula (France), Dan Bayles (USA), Neïl Beloufa (Algeria & France), Edwin Chan (Hong Kong), Tom Dane (Denmark), Cem Dinlenmi  (Turkey), Nilbar Güre  (Turkey), Hatice Güleryüz (Turkey), Ivan Grubanov (Serbia), Michael Hardt (USA), Thomas Hirschhorn (Switzerland), Nikita Kadan (Ukraine), Joel Kyack... Read more

Depression

Organized by Ramiken Crucible March 22 - May 24, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Catharine Ahearn Bjorn Amre Lucas Blalock Borden Capalino Dan Finsel Charlotte Hammer Matt Heckert Nolan Hendrickson Gavin Kenyon Andra Ursuta Margaret Weber organized by Ramiken Crucible A scale model of a new building design will be exhibited simultaneously with Depression. Commissioned by Ramiken Crucible and funded with capital leveraged against... Read more

Joel Kyack

Old Sailors Never Die January 18 - March 8, 2014 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles 10 Questions w / Joel Kyack 1. If you were to be eaten, how would you like it to be? (a) chewed up (b) swallowed whole (c) from the inside out 2. As water seeks to level itself, how do you respond to its effort? (a) adapt to its rules... Read more

Patrick Jackson

The Third Floor November 9, 2013 - January 11, 2014 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly presents The Third Floor, an exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Patrick Jackson. For this exhibition Jackson has installed scaffolding that divides the gallery into three levels. Each floor is installed to different effect, creating an ominous and psychologically loaded space. The basement level is... Read more

Neïl Beloufa

Speaking About Best September 7 - November 8, 2013 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles Looking everywhere for low-cost, robust quality artwork? Go someplace else. François Ghebaly isn’t proud to present some of the worst merchandise by Neïl Beloufa. All artwork comes with an 'originality' dilemma and so we understand that the lack of originality brings minimal meaning to otherwise invigorating cultural experiences. Keeping that... Read more

Robert Russell

Men Who are Named Robert Russell July 13 - August 17, 2013 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present Robert Russell’s second exhibition with the gallery, Men Who are Named Robert Russell. For the past few years, the artist has obsessively begun the project of painting all images of other Robert Russells that one can find on a Google search. The only criterion... Read more

Channa Horwitz

Orange Grid April 13 - June 8, 2013 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly is pleased to present a site-specific installation by Channa Horwitz. In 1964, Channa Horwitz chose to limit her choices to the orange grid from graph paper. Larger squares, each composed of eight by eight smaller squares brought the beginning of Horwitz’ “Language Series”. The grid offered a springboard... Read more

Davide Balula

1. Turn West / 2. Form a Circle with your Mouth / 3. Let the Sun Set In January 25 - March 23, 2013 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Davide Balula sought permission to enter the Guggenheim museum in New York City during hours that are typically reserved for non-viewing. His intention was to measure the slope and curve of Frank Lloyd Wright’s arcing wall. Visitors to the museum will recall that this architectural element is usually not a... Read more

Andra Ursata

Mothers, Let Your Daughters Out Into the Street November 17, 2012 - January 12, 2013 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles We are pleased to present Andra Ursuta’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Ursuta will present in the main gallery space one of her largest sculptures to date, a swing, which combines the functionality of playground equipment with crudely fashioned modernist forms. Coming out of colossal pillars of handmade crumbling... Read more

Candice Lin

It Makes the Patient See Pictures September 8 - October 27, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles François Ghebaly Gallery is pleased to announce Candice Lin’s third solo exhibition, It Makes the Patient See Pictures. For this exhibition, Lin explores the movement of power through material objects. The sculptural works in It Makes the Patient See Pictures address power through the subjects of food and sexuality. Sculptural... Read more

Deep Space

Group Exhibition July 21 - August 18, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Dan Bayles Neil Beloufa Darren Banks Sayre Gomez Shawn Greenlee Joel Kyack Anthony Lepore Candice Lin Jory Rabinovitz - Look! - Did you see that?! Narrator: Like a bolt of lightning, if fell from the sky. - It’s crashed. And it’s alive. - It’s still dormant. But it’s approaching an... Read more

Anna Betbeze

Wormholes June 2 - July 7, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Wormholes, Anna Betbeze's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, explores scale, color and material in four new works that engage the gallery's architectural features. Oscillating between icon and stain, the pieces simultaneously depict real and phenomenological space. Betbeze uses huge wool slabs as the ground to accumulate a saturation of... Read more

Marius Bercea

Concrete Gardens April 14 - May 26, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles The city square is deserted. There's no one strolling past the columns of the former municipal building, no one on the bandstand. The heat that pulsates on the canvas is keeping everybody at home in this languid summer evening. The modernist pyramid, vaguely redolent of Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer,... Read more

Material Underground

Group Exhibition January 21 - March 9, 2012 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Anna Betbeze, Patrick Jackson, Mike Kuchar, Andra Ursuta François Ghebaly presents Material Underground, a group exhibition with works by Mike Kuchar, Andra Ursuta, Patrick Jackson and Anna Betbeze. Working since the early 1960’s, Mike Kuchar has created prolific bodies of work in both drawing and film/video. When speaking of... Read more

Joel Kyack

Escape to Shit Mountain September 10 - October 22, 2011 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles So this drunk walks into a bar. It's rather small in square footage but very tall in proportion. The drunk stops for a second, disoriented by the dimensions of the space, and gathers himself up. He makes his way to a stool at the bar and slides up to order... Read more

The New Verisimilitude

Group Exhibition July 15 - August 20, 2011 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles 'Art is the lie that tells the truth' - Pablo Picasso M+B and François Ghebaly are pleased to announce The New Verisimilitude, a two-part group exhibition across both gallery spaces, curated by François Ghebaly. This exhibition explores new approaches to realism in the contemporary practices of ten artists working in... Read more

Robert Russell

Masters April 9 - May 14, 2011 2600 S La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles Preface Everything I Know I Know From Books By Andrew Berardini Trawling the long rows of books, each marked and placed, I would pace the libraries of my youth, fingers dragging, dancing over the spines, catching ever so slightly on the taped-on numbers and letters giving each their place in... Read more

Marcus Civin

American Rifle August 4 - 21, 2010 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA François Ghebaly presents American Rifle, a new, one-hour solo performance by Marcus Civin as a part of Perform! Now!, a festival of performance art in Los Angelesʼs Chinatown. Civin: “A rifle is a gun; rifle, a noun, but also I am thinking ʻrifleʼ as in: to rifle through, verb, to... Read more

Bourgeois Problems

Curated by Catherine Taft June 19 - July 24, 2010 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA Nancy Buchanan, Nikhil Murthy, Jeff Ostergren, Margie Schnibbe François Ghebaly is pleased to present Bourgeois Problems, a group show curated by critic and curator Catherine Taft, with work by Los Angeles-based artists Nancy Buchanan, Nikhil Murthy, and Margie Schnibbe, and New Haven-based Jeff Ostergren. Bourgeois Problems responds to the... Read more

Philip Loersch

Everything Aligned May 1 - June 16, 2010 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA François Ghebaly is pleased to present Everything Aligned, the first exhibition in the United-States by German artist Philip Loersch (born in 1980). “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Archimedes “Most sets of values would give rise... Read more

David Levine

Hopeful March 20 - April 25, 2010 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA François Ghebaly is pleased to announce the exhibition “Hopeful”, a project by New York-born and Berlin-based artist David Levine. “Hopeful” is the result of several years of collecting and cataloguing discarded unsolicited portfolios. Levine has assembled this material to analyze cultural waste in a tangible way, while also displaying human-scaled... Read more

Group Show

Channa Horwitz, Euan Macdonald, Michael Müller, Marcus Civin January 27 - March 14, 2010 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA Channa Horwitz, Euan Macdonald, Michael Müller, and Marcus Civin François Ghebaly is pleased to announce a group exhibition of works by Euan Macdonald, Michael Müller, Channa Horwitz, and Marcus Civin. The exhibition will present new works that explore oniric dimensions of literature and language. The video, performance, and drawing in... Read more

Neïl Beloufa

Tectonic Plates or the Jurisdiction of Shapes September 9 - October 24, 2009 932 Chung King Road., Los Angeles, CA Read more

Candice Lin

The Sexual Life of Savages April 4 - May 16, 2009 932 Chung King Road., Los Angeles, CA Read more