Southern Guild at Frieze Los Angeles 2026 with A Defining Presentation at a Moment of Transition
Installation view of Southern Guild at Frieze Los Angeles, Santa Monica Airport, February 26–March 1, 2026 Photography courtesy Southern Guild
NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES — February 10, 2026 — Southern Guild presented at Frieze Los Angeles 2026 for the second consecutive year. The presentation reflected on a pivotal moment for the gallery as it prepares to open a permanent space in Tribeca, New York in spring 2026, while acknowledging Los Angeles as a formative site for its U.S. program.
Founded on principles of collaboration and long-term engagement with artists, Southern Guild has established a transcontinental presence through its spaces in Cape Town, Los Angeles, and soon, New York.
Installation view of Southern Guild at Frieze Los Angeles, Santa Monica Airport, February 26–March 1, 2026 Photography courtesy Southern Guild
Following Southern Guild’s acclaimed booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Frieze Los Angeles represents the next expression of the gallery’s evolving program. Bringing together artists working across generations and geographies, the booth highlights practices rooted in material experimentation, figuration, and sculptural form. Across distinct formal and material languages, the works engage inquiries into identity, visibility, inheritance, spirituality, and the body.
Frieze Los Angeles 2026 arrives at a moment of transition. As Southern Guild shifts its U.S. base to New York, the presentation reflects on the dynamic energy cultivated in Los Angeles, particularly its community and critical exchange, while signaling the direction of the gallery’s next chapter.
“Los Angeles has been a dynamic catalyst for evolution for Southern Guild, and this presentation carries that spirit,” said Trevyn McGowan, who co-founded Southern Guild with her spouse, Julian. “Frieze Los Angeles offers us the opportunity to engage with a community that we have found to be curious, engaged, and forward-looking. We celebrate being able to present the strength of the program today, while opening a dialogue about what comes next.” Southern Guild’s presentation at Frieze Los Angeles 2026 affirms the gallery’s ongoing commitment to advancing contemporary practices across geographies, closing a significant chapter in Los Angeles while positioning the program within its next phase of international growth.
Artistic Practices and Perspectives The presentation includes debuts with the gallery by Gus Monday and Shane Keisuke Berkery, underscoring Southern Guild’s continued investment in long-term development with new artists.
Zanele Muholi Amandla (Power) 2023 Bronze 46.46 x 20.87 x 33.07 in. | 118 x 53 x 84 cm Edition 1 of 3, 2AP Image courtesy of Hayden Phipps/Southern Guild.
Zanele Muholi presents photographic works that extend their sustained engagement with portraiture and the politics of representation, addressing race, gender, and visibility through formally rigorous images.
Chloe Chiasson Lonesome Lonestar 2024 Oil, acrylic, canvas on shaped panel 36.5 x 26 in. | 92.7 x 66 cm Image courtesy of the artist & albertz benda NY/ LA.
Chloe Chiasson’s relief works merge painting, collage, and assemblage to construct layered scenes of intimacy, memory, and self-representation. In dialogue, Marcus Leslie Singleton presents narrative compositions exploring the intersections of spirituality, Queer identity, and lived experience.
Kamyar Bineshtarigh Khat-Khati XV 2025 Ink on canvas 79 x 59.3 in. | 200.5 x 150.5 cm Image courtesy of Lea Crafford/Southern Guild
Kamyar Bineshtarigh contributes work that draws from extracted architectural surfaces and accumulated studio materials, reframing the wall as both record and medium while examining authorship, collaboration, and creative labor. Alongside these surfaces, his paintings incorporate layered, calligraphic mark-making in ink on canvas, where indecipherable scrawls are embedded beneath processes of erasure and accumulation.
Manyaku Mashilo, All the ways we get to be when we go home, 2025, Acrylic, oil on canvas, 55.1 x 51.1 in.| 140 x 130 cm. Image courtesy of Lea Crafford/ Southern Guild.
Manyaku Mashilo’s paintings are informed by matrilineal knowledge systems and cultural inheritance, situating figuration within speculative temporal frameworks. Zizipho Poswa’s ceramic and bronze sculptures translate forms drawn from Xhosa adornment into works that collapse distinctions between the intimate and the monumental.
Textile and sculptural works by Bonolo Kavula and Jasmine Thomas-Girvan engage ritual, movement, and material process. Painting and figuration by Jozua Gerrard, Roméo Mivekannin, Mmangaliso Nzuza, Sandra Brewster, and Chidy Wayne further extend these conversations across abstraction, portraiture, and narrative.
About Southern Guild
Southern Guild platforms artists whose work is ambitious, emotionally resonant, and rooted in personal and collective experience. Founded in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan and based in Cape Town and New York (opening Spring 2026), the gallery is vested in artmaking as a means to claim agency, materialise cultural memory, and envision progressive futures. Working in the spirit of a guild, Southern Guild fosters collaborative, artist-led practices through rigorous engagement with material and process, comprehensive programming, and the GUILD Residency in Cape Town. Recognised for its bold curatorial vision and commitment to material integrity, the gallery presents at leading international fairs and partners with curators, institutions, and museums to deepen the impact and visibility of its artists.
For more information about Southern Guild during this year’s Frieze Los Angeles, For more information about this exhibition and others, please visit the Southern Guild Website here; the gallery can also be found on Artsy, Instagram, and Facebook. To keep up to date on all the latest news from Frieze, sign up for the newsletter here and follow on Instagram, X, and Frieze Official on Facebook. Tickets to the fair are available here, along with more information about the fair.
