Art Production Fund Presents “Body & Soul” at Frieze Los Angeles 2026
Frieze Projects ‘Body & Soul’ public art program, presented in partnership with Art Production Fund explores the human form in its physical and metaphysical dimensions, featuring Los Angeles-based artists Dan John Anderson, Polly Borland, Cosmas & Damian Brown, Kohshin Finley, Shana Hoehn, Amanda Ross-Ho and Kelly Wall.
Frieze Los Angeles returns to Santa Monica Airport from February 26 – March 1, 2026, continuing its commitment to artist-led, public-facing commissions and long-term engagement with the city’s creative communities. This year, Frieze Projects takes the form of ‘Body & Soul’, the fourth consecutive edition presented in partnership with Art Production Fund, bringing together newly commissioned works by Los Angeles–based artists, free and open to the public across the Frieze campus and beyond.
Christine Messineo, Frieze’s Director of Americas, said: ‘Frieze Los Angeles’ public program reflects our belief in the power of artist-led work to engage directly with the conditions, questions, and communities that shape the life of our city. Our collaboration with Art Production Fund, enables us to commission ambitious public works that invite reflection, participation, and shared experience, while the wider fair extends this commitment through sustained support for artists and institutions across Los Angeles. Together, these elements position Frieze Los Angeles as a platform for artistic production that is rooted in the city and responsive to its cultural moment, made possible with the ongoing support of the City of Santa Monica and all our partners.'
Casey Fremont, Executive Director, Art Production Fund, added: ‘For the fourth consecutive year we are excited to partner with Frieze Los Angeles to bring this dynamic public art program to the city. This year we proudly feature a group of Los Angeles-based artists presenting work at Santa Monica Airport, and for the first time will include a site-specific project off campus. Through programs free and open to the public, including our youth workshop, Art Sundae, we will offer visitors the opportunity to experience and interact with vibrant contemporary art like never before. These projects are an incredible gift to the city and we are so grateful for our ongoing partnership with Frieze and the City of Santa Monica and their commitment to supporting public art.’
‘Body & Soul’ brings together Los Angeles–based artists exploring the boundaries of the human form across physical, temporal, and spatial dimensions. Through a series of site-specific works, the program invites audiences to reflect on the body, existence, and perception in both physical and metaphysical terms. The works are presented across the public areas of the Frieze campus and beyond, and are free and open to the public for the duration of the fair.
Amanda Ross-Ho will debut the durational performance Untitled Orbit (MANUAL MODE) (2026), which will see the artist rolling a 16-foot inflatable Earth counterclockwise around the perimeter of the Airport Park Soccer Field continuously throughout the fair’s opening hours. Echoing the rotation of the Earth on its axis and around the sun, Ross-Ho’s performance is her longest to date, testing physical limitations of the human body and offering viewers a meditation on cycles, scale, and our planetary existence.
Cosmas & Damian Brown will show his first major public art installation, Fountain: Sources of Light (2026), comprising a ring of six ceramic heads encircling a central fountain. Incense smoke will rise from each head, while flowing water gathers in a basin filled with metal vessels. Visitors are invited to rearrange these vessels, subtly altering 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. Art Sundae is a program that partners artists with children for a hands-on artmaking workshop, culminating in a collaborative public art installation. Inspired by his practice and sculpture at Frieze Los Angeles, Brown will lead children in painting metal plates and bowls. These works will be incorporated into Brown’s fountain sculpture, which will remain on view for the duration of the fair offering participants the opportunity to see their contributions become part of a major public artwork.
Shana Hoehn will present a new commission Deadfall (2026) - her first large-scale public sculpture - fabricated from a tree sourced through the Santa Monica Urban Forest program. Sculpted wooden cheerleader legs will emerge from the branches. The sculpture will invite audiences to reflect on embodiment, agency, and transformation in everyday spaces.
An original commission for Frieze Los Angeles 2026, ...and someone was playing the piano, right? (2026) by Kohshin Finley will showcase a series of large scale stoneware vessels set within shadow box shelving. Finley, who grew up in Los Angeles and often visited the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, sees the stoneware vessels as quietly holding 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. Made possible with support from Night Gallery, warm-toned stained glass at the center of Threshold allows light to filter through the dark palms of the blackened wooden sculpture, creating a haunting interplay of shadow and illumination. While Terra Seer suggests a figure sinking into, or emerging from below, a blank stare coming from cast bronze eyes. The works reflect Anderson’s spiritual reverence for wood and his exploration of forms that exist between sculpture, furniture, and totemic presence.
Polly Borland will present BOD (2023), her largest sculpture to date, a seven-foot-tall 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 translates her photographic and textile experiments into sculpture, pushing the boundaries of her exploration of the human body. This presentation of BOD is made possible with support from UAP.
Frieze Projects will extend 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. As a collection these glass recreations, illuminated on lightbox shelves, come together to create an installation as fleeting as the sunset they represent. The installation will evolve over the week it is on view, and as the glass magazines are removed, what remains is a glowing ghost silhouette marking their absence. On campus, at Santa Monica Airport, Wall will transform found newspaper boxes into lightbox displays for her glass publication.
Frieze Los Angeles takes place from February 26 – March 1, 2026.
Thursday, February 26: 10am – 7pm (invitation only)
Friday, February 27: 11am – 7pm (invitation only 11am – 1pm, open to the public from 1pm) Saturday, February 28: 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 1: 11am – 6pm
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Art Production Fund is a New York and Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projects, reaching new audiences and expanding awareness through contemporary art. Art Sundae is an ongoing public program presented by Art Production Fund that provides children a hands-on art-making experience led by a contemporary artist. Designed to be accessible and highlight art’s positive impact across all communities, this free program gives children the opportunity to experiment with various media inspired by an artist's practice. The work that is created in a collaboration between the artist and children then becomes a public art installation that remains on view. (www.artproductionfund.org / @artproductionfund)
