Upcoming
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Looking for a Friend
Austin Hayman 27 June - 1 August 2026 Looking for a Friend is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based painter Austin Hayman, on view at Make Room from June 27 through August 1, 2026. Known for his intimate figurative canvases that render domestic life with psychological depth and warm chromatic range, Hayman presents new work that continues his exploration of friendship, longing, and everyday tenderness. The exhibition marks a significant moment in the artist's ongoing investigation of connection and quiet vulnerability in contemporary life. Read more -
Orders of Emergence
Gus Monday and Julian Lombardi 27 June - 1 August 2026 Read more
Past
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Sarah Rosalena 16 May - 20 June 2026 layer by layer is a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Sarah Rosalena, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 16 through June 20, 2026. Working across weaving, painting, and digital practice, Rosalena investigates the intersection of Indigenous craft traditions and computational systems, producing works of extraordinary material intelligence and conceptual rigor. Read more -
Bliss Maintenance
Bix Archer 16 May - 20 June 2026 Bliss Maintenance is a solo exhibition by painter Bix Archer, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 16 through June 20, 2026. Archer's quietly observational paintings render figures, landscapes, and interiors with acute sensitivity to light and atmosphere, locating emotional resonance in ordinary moments. This exhibition presents new work continuing his sustained investigation of everyday life and the textures of close attention. Read more -
Kahlil Robert Irving, Maddie Butler, Jedediah Caesar
Kahlil Robert Irving, Maddie Butler, Jedediah Caesar 4 April - 9 May 2026 This three-person exhibition featuring Khalil Robert Irving, Maddie Butler, and Jedediah Caesar is on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 4 through May 9, 2026. Three artists working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media converge around shared concerns with materiality, cultural memory, and the physical residue of lived experience, presenting new work in dialogue. Read more -
Ode to Slowness
Tuan Vu 27 February - 26 March 2026 Ode to Slowness is a solo exhibition by painter Tuan Vu, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through March 26, 2026. Drawing on the visual conventions of 18th-century European painting, Vu constructs intimate figurative works that explore desire, power, and psychological drama through richly glazed surfaces and theatrical compositions. Read more -
As If
Aleza Zheng 27 February - 26 March 2026 As If is a solo exhibition by artist Aleza Zheng, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through March 26, 2026. Zheng's practice navigates the space between painting and performance, building works that are formally rigorous and psychologically charged, attentive to the body, gesture, and the construction of identity in contemporary life. Read more -
Kyoko's Room
Kaz Oshiro 27 February - 26 March 2026 Kyoko's Room is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Kaz Oshiro, on view at Make Room from February 27 through March 26, 2026. Oshiro is known for his signature practice of rendering everyday commercial objects — speaker cabinets, road cases, amplifiers — in stretched canvas and acrylic, collapsing distinctions between painting, sculpture, and found object to interrogate how consumer culture shapes perception. Read more -
Cult: The American Dream
Group Show 27 February - 26 March 2026 Cult: The American Dream is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through March 26, 2026. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices examine the myths, desires, and anxieties that animate American cultural life, presenting new and recent work in dialogue around themes of belief, spectacle, and collective identity. Read more -
Almost There
Paul Robas 10 January - 14 February 2026 Almost There is a solo exhibition by artist Paul Robas, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from January 10 through February 14, 2026. Robas's paintings engage process and materiality with quiet intensity, building layered surfaces that register time, touch, and sustained attention in works of concentrated formal energy. Read more -
Strange Tales
Yongqi Tang 10 January - 14 February 2026 Strange Tales is a solo exhibition by artist Yongqi Tang, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from January 10 through February 14, 2026. Tang's bold, text-driven paintings channel the energy of street culture, digital communication, and global youth culture into densely layered, graphically forceful compositions that treat language as image and image as declaration. Read more -
Waters of Pure Reason
Katya Labowe-Stoll, Marley White 25 October - 6 December 2025 Waters of Pure Reason is a two-person exhibition featuring Katya Labowe-Stoll and Marley White, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from October 25 through December 6, 2025. Both artists place landscape and poetic language in close dialogue, investing images of the natural world with literary feeling and careful formal intelligence. Read more -
Everlapsing Interlude
Leo Frontini 25 October - 6 December 2025 Everlapsing Interlude is a solo exhibition by artist Leo Frontini, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from October 25 through December 6, 2025. Frontini's practice engages abstraction and material process with sustained rigor, producing paintings and works on paper that foreground the physical and temporal dimensions of making. Read more -
Ceremonias
Pia Ortuño 13 September - 18 October 2025 Ceremonias is a solo exhibition by artist Pia Ortuño, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from September 13 through October 18, 2025. Ortuño's expansive figurative paintings draw on ritual, mythology, and the body, building works of real physical presence that are at once exuberant and deeply felt, steeped in color and cultural memory. Read more -
Into the Woods
Azadeh Elmizadeh, Bai Yiyi, Camilla Engström, Johanna Bath, Pia Ortuño, Qian Qian, Tuan Vu, Yayoi Kusama, Zhi Ding, Zoe Koke 19 July - 30 August 2025 Into the Woods is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from July 19 through August 30, 2025. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage landscape, nature, and the relationship between the human and the natural world, presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
Spectral Arrangement
Hammzat Tahabsim 30 May - 12 July 2025 Spectral Arrangement is a solo exhibition by artist Hammzat Tahabsim, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 30 through July 12, 2025. Tahabsim's practice investigates texture, light, and form with a painterly intelligence that transforms its subjects into fields of concentrated visual energy and quiet perceptual intensity. Read more -
Shape of Life
Alex Anderson 30 May - 12 July 2025 Shape of Life is a solo exhibition by artist Alex Anderson, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 30 through July 12, 2025. Anderson's visionary paintings draw on mysticism, sacred geometry, and psychedelic visual culture to construct luminous, portal-like images — intricate symbolic systems in vivid, jewel-toned color that invite an altered state of perception. Read more -
The Mind's Eye
Bix Archer, Sophia Anthony, Aryana Minai 19 April - 23 May 2025 The Mind's Eye is a three-person exhibition featuring Bix Archer, Sophia Anthony, and Aryana Minai, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 19 through May 23, 2025. Three painters whose practices converge around the body, interiority, and the psychological charge of closely observed life present new work in productive dialogue. Read more -
Camilla Engström
27 February - 26 April 2025 This solo exhibition by Swedish artist Camilla Engström is on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through April 26, 2025. Engström's darkly playful figurative paintings blend humor, dread, and acute psychological sensitivity, creating images that are simultaneously seductive and unsettling in their engagement with contemporary femininity and social performance. Read more -
Sleepless
Shana Hoehn 21 February - 5 April 2025 Sleepless is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Shana Hoehn, on view at Make Room from February 21 through April 5, 2025. Hoehn's large-scale figurative paintings locate the body in states of transformation, vulnerability, and physical extremity, combining masterly draftsmanship with a theatrical sense of gesture and immersive, visceral scale. Read more -
Polite Infidelity
Astra Huimeng Wang 21 January - 18 February 2025 Polite Infidelity is a solo exhibition by artist Astra Huimeng Wang, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from January 21 through February 18, 2025. Wang's paintings inhabit the space between irony and sincerity, engaging contemporary life with wry intelligence through figuration, text, and cultural reference to explore how we perform, relate, and understand ourselves. Read more -
Office Illusions
Jacopo Pagin 2 November - 17 December 2024 Office Illusions is a solo exhibition by Italian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jacopo Pagin, on view at Make Room from November 2 through December 17, 2024. Pagin's work draws on conceptual and painterly traditions, engaging with materiality, systems, and the tactile possibilities of surface in paintings of rigorous formal intelligence and deadpan wit. Read more -
Jiahao Peng: Hollywoood Aquarium Store
Jiahao Peng 2 November - 17 December 2024 Jiahao Peng: Hollywood Aquarium Store is a solo exhibition by artist Jiahao Peng, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from November 2 through December 17, 2024. Peng's playful and conceptually inventive practice builds immersive environments and images that engage popular culture, spectacle, and the slippages between fiction and everyday life. Read more -
Salome & Solvej, Apollo & Farne
Andrew Sendor 14 September - 19 October 2024 Salome & Solvej, Apollo & Farne is a solo exhibition by artist Andrew Sendor, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from September 14 through October 19, 2024. Sendor's meticulous hyperrealist paintings stage elaborate fictional scenes with heightened precision, constructing pictorial worlds that hover between the plausible and the strange. Read more -
Infinity Loop
Linn Meyers 14 September - 19 October 2024 Infinity Loop is a solo exhibition by Washington D.C.-based artist Linn Meyers, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from September 14 through October 19, 2024. Meyers's line-based drawings and paintings create immersive optical experiences from elemental means — precise, flowing mark-making that builds surfaces of extraordinary visual energy and perceptual complexity. Read more -
I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps
Alice Ningci Jiang, Analia Saban, Christian Quin Newell, Dabin Ahn, Daniel Um, Franz Kline, Joaquin Stacey-Calle, Kate Casanova, Naomi Nakazato, Shana Hoehn, Soumya Netrabile, Taylor Prendergast, Terence Koh, Yassi Mazandi, Yoab Vera, Yongqi Tang, Yves 27 July - 31 August 2024 I Go to Seek a Great Perhaps is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from July 27 through August 31, 2024. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share a spirit of inquiry and imaginative risk-taking, presenting new and recent work in dialogue around themes of desire, possibility, and the search for meaning. Read more -
What Dreams May Come
Erica Mahinay, Yeonsu Ju, and Saba Farhoudnia 1 June - 13 July 2024 What Dreams May Come is a group exhibition featuring Erica Mahinay, Yeonsu Ju, and Saba Farhoudnia, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from June 1 through July 13, 2024. Three artists share an expansive approach to form, embodiment, and material process, building works that register touch, decision, and emotional experience as visible traces. Read more -
Kira Maria Shewfelt
The Yearlings 20 April - 24 May 2024 The Yearlings is a solo exhibition by artist Kira Maria Shewfelt, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 20 through May 24, 2024. Shewfelt's figurative paintings draw on portraiture, sport, and cultural history to construct images of women in motion, in power, and in community — direct, emotionally resonant, and boldly composed. Read more -
Youngmin Park
Allegory of Fragility 27 February - 29 March 2024 Allegory of Fragility is a solo exhibition by Korean-born artist Youngmin Park, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through March 29, 2024. Park's meditative paintings are the product of sustained physical engagement with pigment, ground, and gesture, registering time and attention as visible traces on surfaces of quiet intensity. Read more -
Unseen Orchestra
Gabriel Cohen Shana Hoehn Kang Seung Lee Fei Liao Dashiell Manley Linn Meyers Jacopo Pagin Noah Schneiderman Kira Maria Shewfelt Sam Shoemaker Yi Wang Nancy Youdelman 27 February - 29 March 2024 Gabriel Cohen
Shana Hoehn
Kang Seung Lee
Fei Liao
Dashiell Manley
Linn Meyers
Jacopo Pagin
Noah Schneiderman
Kira Maria Shewfelt
Sam Shoemaker
Yi Wang
Nancy Youdelman
Make Room Gallery Presents: Group exhibition “Unseen Orchestra” brings together artists from diverse generations to delve into the ephemeral nature of interaction—those impermanent moments when entities, be they human, terrestrial, or celestial, connect through invisible threads. This exhibition explores the delicate space between the minute, transient interactions that shape our world and their broader implications. Showcasing works investigating small-scale structures, impermanent moments of contact, and the subtleties of ecological systems, 'Unseen Orchestra' illuminates the unseen forces that mold the dynamics around us. It invites reflection on how these brief, microcosmic interactions echo the foundational yet often ignored elements that fuel community, creativity, and collective expression. In embracing these transient connections, the exhibition encourages viewers to reevaluate the role of the invisible in shaping not just the ecological system but also the intricate web of our social fabric." Read more -
Koffee
Terence Koh 27 February - 29 March 2024 Koffee is a solo exhibition by artist Terence Koh, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 27 through March 29, 2024. Koh's wide-ranging practice spans sculpture, performance, painting, and installation in an ongoing inquiry into spirituality, intimacy, and transformation — at once conceptually charged and materially seductive. Read more -
Yuri Yuan
A Thousand Ships 16 December 2023 - 2 February 2024 A Thousand Ships is a solo exhibition by artist Yuri Yuan, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from December 16, 2023 through February 2, 2024. Yuan's sensitive and searching paintings use color and form to register emotional states that resist easy articulation, building a visual language rooted in personal experience and quiet, sustained observation. Read more -
Guimi You
Winter Blossom 28 October - 2 December 2023 Winter Blossom is a solo exhibition by artist Guimi You, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from October 28 through December 2, 2023. You's delicate, luminous paintings navigate the space between figuration and abstraction, rendering intimate scenes of domestic life and the natural world with a refined sense of color, light, and emotional stillness. Read more -
Sun Woo
Swamps and Ashes 23 September - 21 October 2023 Swamps and Ashes is a solo exhibition by artist Sun Woo, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from September 23 through October 21, 2023. Woo's psychologically charged paintings filter domestic and natural imagery through a dreamlike sensibility, producing images that hover between memory, fantasy, and close observation. Read more -
Heat Advisory
Christina Ballantyne Frankie Carino Joachim Castañeda Jordan Christian Paige Emery Jake Fagundo Brett Flanigan Paige Greco Tyler Kensek Ish Lipman Karl Ljungquist Richard Nam Corrie Siegel Chris Warr Patrick Zapien 28 July - 9 September 2023 Heat Advisory is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from July 28 through September 9, 2023. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with heat, labor, landscape, and the textures of life in Southern California, presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
Xin Liu
Self Devourer 25 May - 1 July 2023 Self Devourer is a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Xin Liu, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 25 through July 1, 2023. Liu's practice spans sculpture, performance, and new media in an inquiry into embodiment, technology, and biological life, producing formally inventive and conceptually urgent works rooted in scientific research and personal experience. Read more -
Yassi Mazandi
Born-Porcelain 25 May - 1 July 2023 Born-Porcelain is a solo exhibition by artist Yassi Mazandi, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from May 25 through July 1, 2023. Mazandi's finely wrought paintings balance formal precision with gestural freedom, exploring the emotional weight of color, texture, and form. Her practice is distinguished by layered intimacy of surface and careful material attention. Read more -
Evening Shadow
Ye Cheng, Cathleen Clarke, Jeane Cohen, MC Escher, Dan Herschlein, Ho Jae Kim, Yayoi Kusama, Scott Laufer, Yeni Mao, Catalina Ouyang, Justin Ortiz, Jacopo Pagin, Astra Huimeng Wang, Guimi You 22 April - 20 May 2023 Evening Shadow is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 22 through May 20, 2023. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share an attentiveness to light, atmosphere, and the quiet drama of observed life, presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
Julia Maiuri
Approach of Another 1 April - 6 May 2023 Approach of Another is a solo exhibition by artist Julia Maiuri, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 1 through May 6, 2023. Maiuri's paintings isolate and transform their subjects — everyday objects, architectural fragments, familiar forms — creating works that are spare in composition but rich in symbolic implication and quiet psychological resonance. Read more -
Yesiyu Zhao
In Search of Gold Mountain (Gum San) 17 February - 15 April 2023 In Search of Gold Mountain (Gum San) is a solo exhibition by artist Yesiyu Zhao, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 17 through April 15, 2023. Zhao's monumental canvases engage with Chinese cultural history, mythology, and the visual spectacle of traditional performance, combining the energy of folk art with the ambition of contemporary painting. Read more -
Yoab Vera
Circadian Memories: Amar Pacifico 17 February - 15 April 2023 Circadian Memories: Amar Pacifico is a solo exhibition by artist Yoab Vera, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 17 through April 15, 2023. Vera's ongoing Recuerditos Cotidianos series transforms everyday objects and cultural touchstones through paint into tender acts of memory and cultural affirmation, drawing on Latinx visual culture and personal narrative. Read more -
Things Seen
David Abbott, Taylor Ervin, Will Gabaldón, Rema Ghuloum, Errol Sawyer, Peter Shear, Yoab Vera 4 February - 18 March 2023 Things Seen is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from February 4 through March 18, 2023. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share an attentiveness to the visible world — to objects, places, and the charged details of everyday experience — presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
In the Vast Toothpick Cities of the Future
Winter Group Exhibition 17 December 2022 - 28 January 2023 In the Vast Toothpick Cities of the Future is a winter group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from December 17, 2022 through January 28, 2023. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with imagination, futurity, and the strange geometries of contemporary life, presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
Astra Huimeng Wang
in my experience the spider is the smallest creature whose gaze can be felt 22 October - 10 December 2022 in my experience the spider is the smallest creature whose gaze can be felt is a solo exhibition by artist Astra Huimeng Wang, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from October 22 through December 10, 2022. Wang's paintings inhabit the space between irony and sincerity, engaging contemporary life with wry intelligence through figuration, text, and cultural reference. Read more -
Shana Hoehn
A Tangle of Limbs and Long Hair 17 September - 15 October 2022 A Tangle of Limbs and Long Hair is a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Shana Hoehn, on view at Make Room from September 17 through October 15, 2022. Hoehn's large-scale figurative paintings locate the body in states of transformation, vulnerability, and physical extremity, combining draftsmanship with a theatrical sense of gesture and immersive scale. Read more -
Taxonomies of Imagination
Ali Banisadr, Ross Bleckner, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Julie Curtiss, Francesca Facciola, Elizabeth Glaessner, Jenna Gribbon, Sally J. Han, Haley Josephs, Ajay Kurian, Kwong Wing Kwan, René Magritte, Julia Maiuri, Tony Matelli, Jenny Morgan, Lama 30 July - 27 August 2022 Taxonomies of Imagination is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from July 30 through August 27, 2022. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with fantasy, classification, and the imaginative possibilities of painting and sculpture. Read more -
Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days Of Summer
Astra Huimeng Wang, Carrie Cook, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Luz Carabaño, Roksana Pirouzmand, and Yoab Vera 28 June - 23 July 2022 Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer is a group exhibition on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from June 28 through July 23, 2022. The exhibition brings together artists whose practices share a sense of ease, pleasure, and the charged atmosphere of summer, presenting new and recent work in dialogue. Read more -
Joeun Kim Aatchim
사자굴 [Sajagul] — Then, out of the Den 16 April - 4 June 2022 사자굴 [Sajagul] — Then, out of the Den is a solo exhibition by Korean-American artist Joeun Kim Aatchim, on view at Make Room, Los Angeles from April 16 through June 4, 2022. Aatchim's richly narrative paintings weave together personal and cultural memory, language, and domestic symbolism into works of extraordinary emotional and material complexity. Read more -
Jacopo Pagin
Fata Morgana 15 February - 12 March 2022 Fata Morgana is a solo exhibition by Italian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jacopo Pagin, on view at Make Room from February 15 through March 12, 2022. Pagin's work draws on conceptual and painterly traditions, engaging with materiality, systems, and the tactile possibilities of surface in paintings of rigorous formal intelligence and measured wit. Read more -
Yuri Yuan
The Great Swimmer 15 January - 12 February 2022 Read more -
Urban Whispers
Bix Archer, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Michelle Blade, Miranda Byk, Dan Herschlein, Shana Hoehn, Antonia Kuo, Xin Liu, Chad Murray, Lee Pivnik, Weston Uram, Guimi You 18 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 Read more -
Miguel Angel Payano Jr.
Elusive Nature 23 October - 4 December 2021 Read more -
Lior Modan
The One-Two-Three Stones 4 September - 16 October 2021 Read more -
Guimi You
Color Me 4 September - 16 October 2021 Read more -
Desire Encapsulated
Andrew Sendor, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Lior Modan, Bambou Gili, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Lita Albuquerque, Yuri Yuan, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Yanyan Huang, Yifan Jiang, Yesiyu Zhao, Ruby Leyi Yang, Chris Oh, Hiba Schahbaz and Clai 19 June - 31 July 2021 Andrew Sendor, Catalina Ouyang, Guimi You, Lior Modan, Bambou Gili, Miguel Angel Payano Jr., Joeun Kim Aatchim, Lita Albuquerque, Yuri Yuan, Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Yanyan Huang, Yifan Jiang, Yesiyu Zhao, Ruby Leyi Yang, Chris Oh, Hiba Schahbaz and Claire Colette. Read more -
We Introduce Ourselves To Planets and To Flowers
ASMA, Kat Lyons, Iris Yirei Hu, Slow Immediate 3 October - 14 November 2020 Read more -
Becky Kolsrud
As Above, So Below 11 February - 28 March 2020 Read more -
Xin Liu
Living/Distance 14 December 2019 - 1 February 2020 Read more -
Catalina Ouyang
marrow 27 September - 30 November 2019 Read more -
ASMA
Blossoming Carcass 17 August - 21 September 2019 Read more -
They Rise When Vernal Breezes Blow
Group Exhibition 27 June - 3 August 2019 Read more -
Ilona Szwarc
Unsex me here 27 April - 1 June 2019 Read more -
Li Shun
Chinglish 9 January - 28 February 2019 Read more -
Adrian Abela
FOREWOR(L)D 15 December 2018 - 12 January 2019 Read more -
William Lamson
Badwater 1 September - 28 October 2018 Read more -
Catalina Ouyang
DEATH DRIVE JOY RIDE 9 June - 8 August 2018 Read more -
Reed van Brunschot
THE NEW FAMILIAR 1 - 11 June 2018 Read more -
John Yuyi
MY(TEMPORARY)SELF 24 March - 22 April 2018 Read more -
A Body of Her Own
Mitsuko Brooks, Brook Hsu, Iris Yirei Hu, Catalina Ouyang, Ilona Szwarc, Hiejin Yoo 27 January - 4 March 2018 Read more -
Magdalen Wong
Dreaming of Dying Robots and Artificial Flowers 16 September - 10 November 2017 Read more
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