"Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures | A Panel Discussion

September 9, 2023

Please join us for a conversation between exhibition curator Alison M. Gingeras and artists Clarity Haynes, Andrew LaMar Hopkins, and Chris Oh in celebration of the opening of "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures

Blum & Poe Announces Next Chapter

August 14, 2023

Blum & Poe today announced the next chapter of the gallery’s trajectory with Jeff Poe stepping back from his role and Tim Blum spearheading the gallery’s global team in building on its history of championing international artists...

Jack Smith’s "Normal Love," Introduced by Matt Saunders

July 29, 2023

On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Los Angeles and Matt Saunders's exhibition The Distances, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a rare screening of Jack Smith’s underground cult classic Normal Love...

Artist Talk and Reception with Lauren Quin

July 11, 2023

On the occasion of Lauren Quin: Salon Real at Blum & Poe Tokyo, join us for an artist talk with Quin and curator Kensho Tanbara...

Artnet News: Meet the Power Players Driving Tokyo Gendai, from the Dealer Who Discovered Yoshitomo Nara to a Psychiatrist Art Collector

July 4, 2023

The orchestrators of Asia’s latest bluechip fair hope to elevate Tokyo on the world stage...

Coffee and Tea Ceremony with Acaye Kerunen

July 1, 2023

In celebration of the opening of A NI EE (I AM HERE), Acaye Kerunen’s first solo presentation in the United States, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a series of coffee and tea ceremonies led by the artist...

New York Times: Want to Be an Artist? You’re in Luck. This One Is Selling His Practice.

May 26, 2023

Darren Bader is looking to cap a two-decade artistic career by selling something valuable. Not the witty and poetic sculpture he’s known for, but his own name...

On Thornton Dial: Richard Dial, Essence Harden, and Umar Rashid

May 20, 2023

On the occasion of Thornton Dial's first major presentation in Los Angeles, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a conversation with the artist's son, sculptor Richard Dial; curator Essence Harden; and artist Umar Rashid on the life and work of the late artist...

Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew | Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL

May 10 – October 1, 2023

The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is pleased to announce If You Really Knew, an intimate and focused look at the career of Birmingham, Alabama-born artist and musician Lonnie Holley...

Sound Bath Meditation

April 15, 2023

To celebrate the final day of Asuka Anastacia Ogawa’s exhibition pedra, Blum & Poe is pleased to present a sound bath meditation in the exhibition space, led by Jackson Englund of Mystic Harmonies...

Matt Johnson | Desert X, Coachella Valley, CA

March 4 – May 7, 2023

Sleeping Figure might be a cubist rendition of a classical odalisque, except here the cubes are shipping containers belonging to the globalized movement of goods and trade...

On Alma Allen: A Walkthrough with Douglas Fogle

February 18, 2023

On the occasion of the 2023 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, Blum & Poe presents a walkthrough of Alma Allen's recent exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery, led by writer and curator Douglas Fogle...

Alma Allen: Nunca Solo | Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

February 9 – June 26, 2023

Anahuacalli Museum is pleased to present Nunca Solo (Never Alone), a solo presentation by the sculptor Alma Allen. Rather than a retrospective of existing works, the Tepoztlán, México-based artist has elected to create an entirely new series of large-scale bronze sculptures for the museum and grounds...

Umar Rashid | Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

February 7 – June 11, 2023

Umar Rashid's presentation for Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present has roots in the artist’s first solo museum exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO in 2012...

Justsmile: Enter History Class with Umar Rashid

December 9, 2022

Umar Rashid aka Frohawk Two Feathers carries his history everywhere he goes. The Los Angeles-based artist seen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and MoMA PS1, reinterprets Colonial art to converse with younger generations about the histories of Black American life...

Artnet News: Pia Camil’s Art about Global Commerce Made Her a Star. Now, She’s Turning Her Focus to Another Kind of Exchange—between Humans and Other Species

December 6, 2022

Camil, who recently moved from Mexico City to a farm in Acatitlán, will have her first monograph published next fall...

Collin Sekajugo Joins Blum & Poe

November 28, 2022

Blum & Poe is pleased to announce the representation of Ugandan artist Collin Sekajugo. Sekajugo’s first presentation with the gallery will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach later this week, followed by a forthcoming solo exhibition at the gallery...

Linder: Sex-Pol | Live Film Score 

November 19, 2022

On the occasion of Linder's exhibition Sex-Pol at Blum & Poe Los Angeles, join us for a live film score of two films—Linder's A dream between waking and sleeping (2022) and Rabit's Angelica / Safe (2022)—performed by Rabit and Maxwell Sterling...

Lampoon: Linder: The Ultimate Recycler of Pornographic Imagery Can Date 20th Century Magazines by Smell

November 12, 2022

Armed with a surgeon’s scalpel, Linder Sterling cuts away at imagery from Playboy and other magazines to create visual narratives exploring the body and mind of feminism...

Juxtapoz: Anna Park’s Bold New Direction in “Mirror Shy”

November 7, 2022

There was something telling that Anna Park disclosed this week as she opened her solo show, Mirror Shy, at Blum and Poe. "When I moved to NYC, there was just so much going on, and I was taking it all in and painting that feeling. I think my new work is absorbing something different now...

Henry Taylor: B Side | The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA

November 6, 2022 – April 30, 2023

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Henry Taylor: B Side, the first exhibition to survey the remarkable career of this Los Angeles artist in his hometown, and the most extensive museum presentation of Henry Taylor’s work to date...

Crafts: Blemished Beauties

October 27, 2022

Farmer, fisherman and ceramicist Kazunori Hamana has a passion for patina. Kenji Hall drops by his coastal atelier in Japan...

New York Times: The ‘Slow Burn’ That Is Henry Taylor

October 26, 2022

The artist’s survey at MOCA, with its empathetic portraits and quirky sculptures, speaks to the larger struggle of Black artists to achieve a level of recognition that is long overdue...

T Magazine: The Greats: Lynda Benglis

October 15, 2022

One of the most influential sculptors since World War II, Benglis changed the trajectory of various artistic movements without ever quite belonging to any of them. At age 80, she’s only beginning to give us a more complete understanding of her work...

Artforum: Three Landscapes: JB Blunk, Anna and Lawrence Halprin

October 1, 2022

Three Landscapes brought together a trio of artists who lived and worked, both individually and collaboratively, in Marin County, California, during the 1960s and ’70s: dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin (1920–2021); her husband, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009); and sculptor JB Blunk (1926–2002)...

During this Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re thinking a lot about Pia Camil’s @piacamil 2021 exhibition at Blum & Poe...
@lonnieholleysuniverse and @vp! Lonnie Holley—along with some of the most prominent figures in art today—was invited...
More @soniagomesarte on view in São Paulo 📅 The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announces the opening of the 35th...
On view in São Paulo 👀 Sonia Gomes’s “sinfonia das cores” is an installation of thirty-four elements suspended at different...
Happy Sunday! Please enjoy these archival photos of JB Blunk @jbblunkestate⁠⁠ Image: JB Blunk working on “Santa Cruz...
Tony Lewis’s solo exhibition “CASUAL T” is on view at the @ocmamuseum through March 10, 2024. “CASUAL T” is a new site...
Work by Robert Colescott is currently on view at @moca as part of the group exhibition “Long Story Short” through May 5...
Opening soon 🌟 Don’t miss Pia Camil’s (@piacamil) work in “How We Gather” at @ucsd.mandevilleartgallery October 7...
Please join us today, Saturday, Sept. 9, 5–7pm at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles for the opening of the group exhibition “’Pictures...
Please join us at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles this Saturday, September 9 at 2pm for a panel discussion on the occasion of...
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