‘Body & Soul’: Public Art at Frieze Los Angeles
The curated programme, presented in collaboration with Art Production Fund, includes installations by Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall
The curated programme, presented in collaboration with Art Production Fund, includes installations by Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall
Frieze Projects returns to Frieze Los Angeles, 26 February – 1 March 2026, continuing the fair’s commitment to artist-led, public-facing commissions and long-term engagement with the city’s creative communities. Titled Body & Soul, the programme invites audiences to reflect on the boundaries of the human form across physical, temporal and spatial dimensions and features newly commissioned site-specific works by Los Angeles-based artists Dan John Anderson, Polly Borland, Cosmas & Damian Brown, Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall. Presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, the programme is free and open to the public, taking place across the Frieze campus and beyond.
Highlights from Frieze Projects
For her durational performance Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE) (2026), Amanda Ross-Ho will roll a 16-foot inflatable Earth counterclockwise around the perimeter of the Airport Park Soccer Field throughout the fair’s opening hours. Ross-Ho’s performance – her longest to date – offers viewers a meditation on cycles, scale and our planetary existence.
Cosmas & Damian Brown shows his first major public art installation Fountain: Sources of Light (2026). Incense smoke rises from a ring of six ceramic heads, while water flows from an central fountain into a basin filled with metal vessels, which visitors are invited to rearrange to alter the acoustics and rhythm of the falling water.
As part of Art Production Fund’s Art Sundae program, Brown will lead a special youth workshop at Frieze Los Angeles. Brown will lead children in painting metal plates and bowls to be incorporated into Brown’s fountain sculpture.
Shana Hoehn presents Deadfall (2026), her first large-scale public sculpture. Reflecting on embodiment, agency and transformation in everyday spaces, Hoehn sculpts cheerleader legs from the branches of a tree sourced through the Santa Monica Urban Forest program.
An original commission for Frieze Los Angeles, Kohshin Finley’s ...and someone was playing the piano, right? (2026) is a series of large-scale stoneware vessels that are set within shadow box shelving and quietly hold memory and personal histories.
Threshold (2025) and Terra Seer (2025) by Dan John Anderson are large-scale sculptures on view for the first time in an outdoor setting. In Threshold, light filters through warm-toned stained glass and the dark palms of the blackened wooden sculpture, creating a haunting interplay of shadow and illumination. Terra Seer suggests the emergence or disappearance of a figure, whose blank stare comes from cast bronze eyes. This project was made possible with support from Night Gallery.
Polly Borland presents BOD (2023), a seven-foot cast aluminium figure derived from her signature soft sculptures. The work transforms Borland’s distinctive practice of wrapping models in stuffed pantyhose into a monumental, life-sized form. Finished in matte automotive paint, the abstracted, flesh-like figure expands Borland’s photographic and textile experiments into sculpture. This presentation of BOD is made possible with support from UAP.
Frieze Projects extends off campus to a by-gone Westwood Village newsstand with Kelly Wall’s installation Everything Must Go (2026). Where magazines and newspapers once existed, glass stand-ins with skyline covers take their place, illuminated on lightbox shelves. The installation will evolve as the glass magazines are removed, a glowing ghost silhouette marking their absence. On campus, at Santa Monica Airport, Wall transforms found newspaper boxes into lightbox displays for her glass publication.
Frieze Los Angeles is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank, reflecting a shared commitment to artistic excellence.
Further Information
Frieze Los Angeles 2026, 26 February – 1 March 2026, Santa Monica Airport.
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Main Image: Amanda Ross-Ho, Sketch for Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE), 2026. Courtesy: the artist
