Jessie Homer French
Frieze Los Angeles
February 26 - March 1, 2026
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires presents Jessie Homer French at Frieze Los Angeles 2026.... Read more
Sarah Zapata
Blue in the hands of prospect
October 11 - December 13, 2025
OC
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 11, 2025 4–6PM Artist talk 5PM with Catherin Taft, Deputy Director & Curator of The Brick Various Small Fires (VSF) proudly announces Blue in the hands of p... Read more
Billy Al Bengston
TIME AND BEAUTY
May 22 - June 28, 2025
& Milk
I STEAL EVERYTHING I POSSIBLY CAN. THERE’S NOTHING SO SACRED YOU CAN’T STEAL AND MAKE AN IMAGE OUT OF IT. UNFORTUNATELY MOST THINGS AREN’T WORTH STEALING. AS MUCH AS I LIKE EATING HOT DOGS, I DON’T PA... Read more
Wendy Park
Of Our Own
June 21 - August 16, 2025
OC
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 2025 4–6PM Various Small Fires (VSF) is proud to present Of Our Own, Wendy Park’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and the first at VSF OC. Featuring... Read more
Jill Magid
Heart of a Citizen
May 22 - June 28, 2025
Los Angeles
VSF proudly announces Heart of a Citizen, Jill Magid's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will open on Thursday, May 22nd from 6-8PM during which time Esther Kim Varet will inaugurat... Read more
Jessie Homer French & Minga Opazo
Solastalgia
April 12 - May 10, 2025
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Solastalgia, a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Jessie Homer French (b. 1940, New York, NY) and Minga Opazo (b. 1992, Santiago, Chile), both of whom live and work... Read more
The Orange Curtain
Edwin Arzeta, Jackie Castillo, & Marcel Alcalá
April 26 - May 31, 2025
OC
Various Small Fires (VSF) is thrilled to announce the opening of our newest gallery space, VSF OC, situated in the commercial center of Tustin, a fast-growing city within central Orange County, Califo... Read more
Alex Foxton & Sarah Zapata
Alex Foxton & Sarah Zapata
February 18 - 22, 2025
Los Angeles
Alex Foxton (b. 1980, lives and works in Paris, France) graduated with a Masters Degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK. Foxton has held solo exhibitions at Various Sm... Read more
Mark Yang
Cryptic Aperture
February 18 - March 29, 2025
Los Angeles
VSF announces Mark Yang’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and his second in our Los Angeles Space, Cryptic Aperture. In 2024 Yang began making paintings in pairs, not opposites or twins, but s... Read more
Kyungmi Shin
On Still Life
February 8 - March 22, 2025
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present a solo show of new work by gallery artist Kyungmi Shin. This is the Los Angeles-based artist’s third exhibition with VSF and first in the Texas gallery. Combini... Read more
John Miller
Total Presence
January 4 - February 8, 2025
Los Angeles
VSF proudly announces Total Presence, John Miller’s (b. 1954, Cleveland, OH) first solo at our Los Angeles space. Total Presence centers on a new series of trompe l’oeil paintings with squares of Mill... Read more
Dianna Molzan
Seasonal Charts
November 2 - December 14, 2024
& Milk
VSF is proud to announce Seasonal Charts, a solo presentation of new works by Los Angeles-based artist, Dianna Molzan. Molzan joined VSF’s program earlier this year. Molzan’s paintings draw attent... Read more
Lezley Saar
Saudade
November 9, 2024 - February 1, 2025
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Lezley Saar, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery and first in its Texas space. In Saudade, Saar offers a serie... Read more
THE UNBOXING PROJECT
Sla Cha, Jaiyoung Cho, Goen Choi, Haneyl Choi, Soyoung Chung, Sunpil Don, Gimhongsok, Gwon Osang, Kyungwoo Han, Sang A Han, Jungyoon Hyen, Jiieh G Hur, Byoungho Kim, Hansaem Kim, Inbai Kim, Kim Yun Shin, Ahnnlee Lee, Hyunsoo Lee, Eunu Lee, Eun Yeoung Lee
November 2 - December 14, 2024
Los Angeles
“The most important sculptures of all civilizations are rather small. Almost all of them.” - Alberto Giacometti (1942–1945) Various Small Fires (VSF) proudly presents the fourth edition of THE UN... Read more
diedrick brackens
tenderfeet
September 21 - October 26, 2024
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents tenderfeet, a solo exhibition of new work by diedrick brackens that marks a homecoming for the Texan-born artist. Four new weavings are on display alongside wearab... Read more
The Harrison Studio
Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix
September 14 - October 19, 2024
Los Angeles
This September VSF is excited to present The Harrisons’ Survival Piece #1: Air, Earth, Water, Interface: Annual Hog Pasture Mix, 1970-1971 in alignment with PST: Art & Science Collide. The first in th... Read more
Sarah Ippolito
Liquid Realm
September 14 - October 19, 2024
& Milk, Los Angeles
The ocean is what makes the earth habitable, without the ocean life is not possible, “in a way we’re all sea creatures” - Sylvia Earle VSF LA announces Liquid Realm, new sculptures by Sarah Ippol... Read more
Alex Foxton
Sebastian
August 31 - October 19, 2024
Seoul
VSF Seoul is pleased to announce Sebastian, Alex Foxton’s (b. 1980, England) first solo exhibition in Asia. Foxton’s elegant and boldly colored paintings have captured the attention of an internationa... Read more
Color Fields
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Huh Myoungwook
July 13 - August 24, 2024
Seoul
Night Gallery and Various Small Fires (VSF), Seoul are delighted to present Color Fields, a two-person exhibition by New York-based Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola and Seoul-based Huh Myoungwook. This will... Read more
Antonio Lechuga
Street Views
July 27 - August 31, 2024
Dallas
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Street Views, a solo presentation by Dallas-based artist Antonio Lechuga. In this recent body of work, Lechuga extends his use of cobijas, or Mexican fleece b... Read more
Ben Thorp Brown
Cura
June 29 - August 17, 2024
& Milk
In &Milk, recent Guggenheim Fellow, Ben Thorp Brown presents new work in sculpture, photography, and his 2019 video, Cura, filmed in the Neutra VDL House II on the Silver Lake Reservoir. Produced with... Read more
Linnéa Gabriella Spransy
Againing
June 29 - August 17, 2024
Los Angeles
In our smaller gallery, Los Angeles-based artist Linnéa Gabriella Spransy presents recent paintings and drawings that articulate the interrelation of destruction, transformation and discovery. Spransy... Read more
Kelly Wall
Time After Time
June 29 - August 17, 2024
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a city of fantasy and illusion - a place where nostalgia is currency and product. Kelly Wall’s cheeky sculptural practice engages both earnestly and ironically with this manufactured em... Read more
Sublunary
Jackie Castillo, Mercedes Dorame, Lizette Hernández, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Lily Ramírez
June 29 - August 17, 2024
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is elated to announce the opening of Sublunary, a group presentation in the main gallery of our Los Angeles location examining Southern California’s transcendent natural terrain an... Read more
Antonius-Tín Bui
How we envy the river, its boneless I
June 1 - July 13, 2024
Dallas
VSF Texas is pleased to present How we envy the river, its boneless I, a solo exhibition of new works by Vietnamese-American artist, Antonius-Tín Bui. Inspired by poetry, Bui’s intricate hand-c... Read more
Lumin Wakoa
The Unnaming
June 8 - July 6, 2024
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lumin Wakoa’s first Asia solo presentation, The Unnaming. This the artist’s second collaborative project with the gallery after her solo exhibition at VSF Los... Read more
Wendy Park
Cerritos, California
May 4 - June 1, 2024
Seoul
Various Small Fires is delighted to announce the solo presentation of Wendy Park’s second solo exhibition with the gallery in Cerritos, California. This will be Park’s first solo exhibition in Asia. T... Read more
Elisa Jensen
Heart Off Guard
April 27 - June 15, 2024
& Milk
VSF is pleased to announce a solo project by Elisa Jensen (b. 1965) in & Milk opening on April 27, 2024. Heart Off Guard brings together a selection of Jensen’s paintings made between 2008 and the pre... Read more
Brandon Ballengée
Call of the Void
April 27 - June 15, 2024
Los Angeles
VSF presents Call of the Void, our first solo exhibition with Louisiana-based visual artist, biologist, and environmental educator, Brandon Ballengée. Following group exhibitions with his mentors, He... Read more
Joshua Nathanson
Yeah, I Know What You Mean
April 3 - May 25, 2024
Dallas
It is the gallery’s distinct pleasure to present Yeah, I Know What You Mean, a solo presentation of new work by Joshua Nathanson. In the Los Angeles artist’s fourth exhibition with VSF, Nathanson port... Read more
Glen Wilson
Meridian Dub
March 23 - April 27, 2024
Seoul
With pleasure, VSF Seoul presents Glen Wilson’s first solo exhibition in Asia, Meridian Dub. Wilson is a Los Angeles-based artist, whose practice is rooted in a pocket of Venice Beach, California know... Read more
Reclamation
Ari Brielle, Zoë Buckman, Cynthia Mulcahy
February 24 - March 30, 2024
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present Reclamation, a group exhibition featuring Ari Brielle (Dallas), Zoë Buckman (London/New York), and Cynthia Mulcahy (Dallas). Presented at VSF Texas, the ex... Read more
A'Driane Nieves
self-evident truths
February 27 - April 13, 2024
Los Angeles
We are pleased to announce A’Driane Nieves’ debut exhibition at VSF, self-evident truths. Combining paintings on canvas and paper with new explorations in neon and audio installation, this ambitious e... Read more
Samantha Bittman
On Pattern
January 13 - March 2, 2024
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Samantha Bittman: On Pattern, the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Seoul. Following Shaping Color, an exhibition curated by Diedrick Brackens... Read more
Will Gabaldón
Winter will crave what is gone
January 13 - February 17, 2024
Dallas
Various Small Fires is elated to present Will Gabaldón’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Winter will crave what is gone follows exhibitions in Los Angeles and Seoul and marks the artist... Read more
Jessie Homer French
Normal Landscapes
January 13 - February 17, 2024
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is thrilled to announce the opening of Jessie Homer French’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Following her inclusion in the 49th Venice Biennale and the Hammer Museum’s acc... Read more
Dyani White Hawk
Reflection
November 18, 2023 - January 6, 2024
Los Angeles
VSF is proud to announce Reflection, our first solo exhibition with Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota, b. 1976, Madison, Wisconsin, works in Minneapolis, Minnesota) in Los Angeles. The exhibitio... Read more
Alina Perez
The Turquoise Room
November 4 - December 23, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents The Turquoise Room, an exhibition of new drawings by Alina Perez. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery and first time to exhibit in Texas. In t... Read more
Alvin Ong
In My Head
October 28 - December 23, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires proudly presents In My Head, a solo exhibition by Alvin Ong, marking the artist's Seoul debut and first exhibition with the gallery. One of the most exciting young figurative paint... Read more
Nikki S. Lee
Parts: Revisited
September 5 - October 14, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present an intimate historical survey of Nikki S. Lee’s iconic Parts series. This exhibition marks the artist’s second with the gallery and Lee’s first presentation o... Read more
Sara Anstis
The Petal and the Wrist
September 23 - November 4, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is excited to announce the gallery’s second solo exhibition with Sara Anstis, and her first exhibition in Los Angeles: The Petal and the Wrist. Anstis is a world builder and storyt... Read more
Che Lovelace
Nightscapes with Palms and Egrets
September 9 - October 28, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents the Texas debut solo exhibition by Trinidad-based artist Che Lovelace. Nightscapes with Palms and Egrets poetically advances Lovelace’s practice that celebrates th... Read more
Zalika Azim, Oliver Strand, Sarah Crowner, & others
Shaping Color (Curated by Diedrick Brackens)
August 12 - September 16, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires Los Angeles is pleased to announce the opening of a group show curated by Los Angeles-based textile artist Diedrick Brackens on August 12, 2023. The exhibition Shaping Color brings... Read more
Mark Yang
Spectral Echoes
July 15 - September 2, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Mark Yang’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and the artist’s first presentation in Texas. In Spectral Echoes, the Seoul-born, New York-based artist ex... Read more
Billy Al Bengston
Sorta Memorial
July 1 - 29, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires Los Angeles will host a “sorta” memorial and exhibition of works by Billy Al Bengston (b. 1934 – d. 2022) opening July 1, 2023. Featuring an abundant feast of Bengston’s circa 1980... Read more
Jose Bonell
Some Stories
July 1 - 29, 2023
& Milk
Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to introduce Some Stories, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Barcelona-based, Catalonian artist Jose Bonell in the Los Angeles gallery’s And Milk project space... Read more
Alex Becerra
Prelude to Understanding
June 17 - August 19, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Alex Becerra’s debut presentation in Asia titled Prelude to Understanding. This is the second solo exhibition with the gallery.... Read more
Madeline Donahue
ART HOUSE
June 3 - July 8, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires presents a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Madeline Donahue. ART HOUSE expands on the artist’s practice that centers on her experiences... Read more
Lumin Wakoa
Greenhouse
May 13 - June 24, 2023
Los Angeles
Opening Reception Saturday May 13, 6-8pm Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce Brooklyn-based artist Lumin Wakoa in her first solo presentation with the gallery. Greenhouse unveils a collect... Read more
Alex Foxton
Trade
May 13 - June 24, 2023
Los Angeles
Opening Reception Saturday May 13, 6-8pm Various Small Fires is honored to present the debut West Coast solo exhibition of Paris-based artist Alex Foxton. Trade features new paintings and works on... Read more
Caitlin Lonegan
O Nobile Viridity
April 21 - May 27, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present O Nobile Viridity by Los Angeles-based artist Caitlin Lonegan. Her first show with the gallery and on view in Dallas, the exhibition features all new paintings... Read more
Dew Kim
I Surrender
April 29 - June 10, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Seoul-based artist Dew Kim’s solo exhibition, I Surrender in its Seoul location. Featuring seven all-new works, the artist addresses issues of sexuality, quee... Read more
Michael Hilsman
Man In Water
March 25 - April 29, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a solo show of new works by Los Angeles-based artist Michael Hilsman. Comprising large and small scale oil paintings, Man In Water is Hilsman's first solo s... Read more
Kyungmi Shin
Monster's appetite
March 4 - April 15, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Kyungmi Shin’s solo exhibition in Seoul, featuring all new photographic collage paintings. This will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and her... Read more
Mie Olise Kjærgaard
Toward Infinity and Beyond
February 25 - April 8, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present Copenhagen-based artist Mie Olise Kjærgaard in her first solo presentation with the gallery. Toward Infinity and Beyond, on view in Dallas, features all n... Read more
Jammie Holmes
Somewhereinamerica
February 14 - March 11, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a solo show of new works by Dallas-based artist Jammie Holmes. Somewhereinamerica includes paintings, sculptures, and watercolors and is Holmes' first show... Read more
John Riepenhoff
Scene Painters' Almanac
January 14 - February 18, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires is pleased to introduce a new collection of paintings by Milwaukee-based artist John Riepenhoff. Scene Painters’ Almanac is Riepenhoff’s first solo exhibition in Texas and presents... Read more
Mark Yang
Lucid Dream
November 11 - 26, 2022
London
Various Small Fires presents an exhibition of new paintings by American painter, Mark Yang, at No. 9 Cork Street, London, on view from Saturday, November 12th until November 26th, with an opening rece... Read more
John Miller
Imaginary Interventions
January 7 - February 25, 2023
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Imaginary Interventions by American artist John Miller (b. 1954, Cleveland, Ohio). This exhibition of nine new works on canvas plus a vinyl wall graphic will... Read more
VSF Sound Program by Szu-Han Ho
The suffering pond
November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Los Angeles
Opens Saturday November 12, 2022 in conjunction with Lily Wong, I Will Wade Out and Donghoon Rhee, Woman The suffering pond is constructed from found frequencies inspired by stories of anti-coloni... Read more
Sean Landers
Animal Portraits
November 19, 2022 - January 7, 2023
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by New York artist Sean Landers. On view in Dallas, Animal Portraits is the artist’s first solo presentation in Texas. Over... Read more
Donghoon Rhee
Woman
November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023
& Milk
Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Korean artist Donghoon Rhee at its "and Milk" project space. The presentation of new wooden sculptures and paintings marks the artist’s i... Read more
Lily Wong
I Will Wade Out
November 12, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present I Will Wade Out, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Lily Wong. The exhibition of new works on paper is the artist’s first solo show on the West Coast.... Read more
Will Gabaldón
All out beyond horizon
October 29 - December 23, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Chicago-based artist Will Gabaldón’s debut presentation in Asia. All out beyond horizon, the artist’s second solo exhibition with VSF, will showcase tw... Read more
Kohshin Finley
Eight Artworks
October 8 - November 12, 2022
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents Eight Artworks by Los Angeles-based artist Kohshin Finley at its Texas gallery. The exhibition of recent paintings is the artist’s first solo presentation with the... Read more
Alex Becerra
Descarga Heavy
September 24 - October 29, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Descarga Heavy, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Alex Becerra at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. This is Becerra’s first solo presentation as a... Read more
Glen Wilson
Shelter in Place
August 26 - October 1, 2022
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents Shelter In Place, a solo exhibition of new sculptural objects by Glen Wilson at the gallery’s Texas location. The exhibition expands on the themes, methods, and vi... Read more
Diedrick Brackens
together our shadows make a single belly
September 1 - October 15, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Texas-native Diedrick Brackens’ debut solo exhibition in Asia, together our shadows make a single belly. In a series of four new works, Brackens offers woven... Read more
Wendy Park
OFF THE CLOCK
August 6 - September 10, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present OFF THE CLOCK, a solo exhibition of new work by Wendy Park at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. The exhibition brings together ten paintings and deb... Read more
Jessie Homer French
Roots
June 30 - August 13, 2022
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present Roots by Jessie Homer French. The exhibition of new paintings is the regional narrative painter’s fourth solo exhibition with VSF and first at the gallery’s Tex... Read more
Eco-art Work: 11 Artists from 8 Countries, Curated by Newton Harrison
Salma Arastu, Brandon Ballengée, Barbara Benish, Nathalie Blanc, Tim Collins & Reiko Goto, Edgar Cruz, The Harrison Studio, Jorgge Menna Baretto, Aviva Rahmani, Åsa Sonjasdotter, Ruth Wallen, Yangkura
June 25 - July 30, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires proudly presents Eco-art Work: 11 Artists from 8 Countries, a group show curated by the legendary founders of the Ecological Art Movement and gallery artist Newton Harrison (b.1940... Read more
The Harrison Studio
DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation
July 9 - August 20, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires Seoul proudly presents DMZ: A Bioregional Transformation, a solo exhibition that revisits The Harrison Studio's 2021 research on the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), which is located on t... Read more
Amelia Lockwood
Eighth Lane
May 14 - August 27, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Amelia Lockwood's Eighth Lane, the artist's first time presenting with the gallery. Where is home again? The unknown home is the one you're always moving... Read more
Christian Quin Newell
Siena
May 21 - June 18, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Christian Quin Newell’s debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles, and in the United States. Newell’s new works invite us to explore his mysterious, internal w... Read more
Jungyoon Hyen & Mark Yang
Inanimatefy
April 16 - June 11, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Jungyoon Hyen and Mark Yang in its Seoul space. Like the exhibition title Inanimatefy, a unique term coined by combining ‘inanimate... Read more
Texan: Part II
Diedrick Brackens, Xavier Cha, Hayden Dunham, Baseera Khan, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), Sarah Zapata
May 28 - June 25, 2022
Dallas
Various Small Fires proudly presents Part II of its inaugural exhibition at VSF Texas. Texan celebrates the rich contributions Texas-born artists offer to the contemporary art landscape and provides a... Read more
Texan: Part I
Will Boone, Rosson Crow, Aaron Curry, Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Ryan Trecartin, Jeff Zilm
April 22 - May 21, 2022
Dallas
Various Small Fires is proud to present its inaugural exhibition at VSF Texas, the gallery’s newest location situated in Downtown Dallas. Presented in two parts, Texan celebrates the rich contribution... Read more
Billy Al Bengston
Safer at Home
March 19 - April 30, 2022
Los Angeles
BEING SAFE AT HOME MAKES LIFE SIMPLE. BILLY IS EXACTLY RIGHT. IT’S VERY HARD TO BE SIMPLE. BUT HE SUCCEEDED AND FOUND A TREASURE ONCE AGAIN. SIMPLE BUT MASTERFUL. FULL BENGSTONS! _ Billy Al B... Read more
Sara Anstis
Bundle
February 25 - April 9, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Sara Anstis, the artist’s first with the gallery and in Asia. Bundle offers a glimpse inside the artist’s world through recent works on p... Read more
Will Gabaldón
This must be the place
February 15 - March 19, 2022
& Milk
VSF is pleased to present This must be the place, an exhibition of ten oil paintings by Chicago- based artist Will Gabaldón, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This group of s... Read more
Fiona Connor
Murals and Print
January 7 - February 12, 2012
Los Angeles
For its inaugural exhibition, Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Fiona Connor. In response to VSF’s newly completed gallery space, Connor has built six freestanding white walls mounted on... Read more
Debo Eilers, Kerstin Brätsch
Kaya 2
March 24 - April 28, 2012
Los Angeles
Painting Performance and Live Auction, Saturday, March 24, 6-9PM You have a beautiful childhood in Mexico City. You meet the girl. Life is perfect. She moves to Manhattan and you follow her. E... Read more
Liz Magic Laser
The Digital Face
May 12 - June 23, 2012
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the west coast debut of Liz Magic Laser (b. 1981, New York, NY). Laser will exhibit video works from three recent performances: I Feel Your Pain (a Performa C... Read more
Samara Golden, Davida Nemeroff
Modern Painters
September 9 - 30, 2012
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to announce a special collaboration between Davida Nemeroff (b. 1981, Montréal, Canada) and Samara Golden (b. 1973, Ann Arbor, Michigan). The original title of the show,... Read more
Diego Singh
unimodern gondolieri
October 7 - 27, 2012
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present, unimodern gondolieri, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Argentinean artist Diego Singh (b. Salta, Argentina, lives and works in Miami and New York).... Read more
Andrea Longacre-White
The existing term has become inadequate
November 4 - December 1, 2012
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Andrea Longacre-White (b. 1980, lives and works in Los Angeles). The title, The existing term has become inadequa... Read more
Lucie Fontaine
I <3 Lucie
February 14 - March 23, 2013
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present “I Love Lucie.” Anat Ebgi and Esther Kim Varet of Various Small Fires have invited Lucie Fontaine to present a solo show to be split between their two Los... Read more
Anna Sew Hoy
Home Office
April 6 - May 18, 2013
Los Angeles
Deciding to live/work is like jumping headfirst into the void. Will you get anything done at all, or ever go out again? Long mornings are spent alone. You eat lunch at 10:30, or 2:45, have two lunches... Read more
Robert Barry, Helen Mirra, Matt Sheridan Smith
Tehachapi
May 25 - June 29, 2013
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present new work by Robert Barry, Helen Mirra, and Matt Sheridan Smith. A quiet conversation among measured gestures, this exhibition considers the unsteady condition... Read more
Roy Dowell
Roy Dowell
September 8 - October 19, 2013
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by Roy Dowell, opening on Sunday, September 8, 2013 with a reception from 4pm to 6pm, and closing on October 19, 2013. D... Read more
Christopher Badger, Trevor Paglen, Katie Paterson, Robert Smithson, Tavares Strachan, Michelle Stuart
Life: On The Moon
November 2 - December 7, 2013
Los Angeles
“The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an in... Read more
VSF Sound Program curated by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and John Tain
Artificial Complexion Sound Corridor Program
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Los Angeles
The Artificial Complexion Sound Corridor Program, curated by Sarah Rara, Luke Fischbeck, and John Tain, will curate a rotating selection of rarely heard historical Dada and Fluxus pieces and complemen... Read more
Artificial Complexion, Co-curated with Amy Yao
Liz Craft, Matt Damhave, Gruppo UFO, K8 Hardy, Marie Karlberg, Alison Knowles, Jason Loebs, The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Sean Raspet, Carissa Rodriguez, Kathleen Ryan, Amy Yao
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Los Angeles
Opening: November 15, 6 – 8pm with a performance by Marie Karlberg at 7pm You–country lout–trying to step into tights. Juggle words–as balls–about feelings–impressions– such you have–no art! No r... Read more
Scott Benzel
Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5 & Inversion V
October 9 - November 8, 2014
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to inaugurate its outdoor gallery and sound corridor with the new site-specific installation Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5 and the five-channel sound-... Read more
Amir Nikravan
Merge Visible
October 9 - November 8, 2014
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of the Los Angeles-based painter Amir Nikravan. Despite their impasto appearance, Nikravan’s work fuses the logic of painting, photography... Read more
A Concept is a Brick
Ravi Jackson, Lizette Hernandez, Thalia Rodgers, Curated by Joshua Nathanson
January 15 - February 5, 2022
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present A Concept is a Brick, a group exhibition curated by Joshua Nathanson and Anthony Salvador that brings together new work by Lizette Hernandez, Ravi Jackson, and Thalia Rodgers... Read more
Liz Magic Laser
The Thought Leader
January 10 - February 21, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present the premiere of two new video works by Liz Magic Laser: The Thought Leader (2015) and My Mind is My Own (2015). Each video will be installed alongside related props and sculp... Read more
Anna Sew Hoy
FACE NO FACE
January 10 - June 6, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present FACE NO FACE, Anna Sew Hoy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. FACE NO FACE explores the beauty and horror of veils lifted. Each sculpture contains its own empty spac... Read more
Mernet Larsen
Chainsawer, Bicyclist, and Reading in Bed
February 28 - April 18, 2015
Los Angeles
“As if I were leaving this life and had to take with me only a very few concrete images: this is what it was, not good, not bad, just what stood out. Not ephemeral, not photo or film-like, but memory... Read more
VSF Sound Program by Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York
VSF Sound Program by Audio Visual Arts (AVA), New York
May 2 - June 6, 2015
Los Angeles
Audio Visual Arts and Various Small Fires are pleased to present E. Jane & chukwumaa, the third and final round in AVA’s sound program in VSF’s corridor. My purpose is to create new language, new... Read more
Jim Drain
Seems/Seams
May 2 - June 6, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Jim Drain’s solo exhibition, Seems/Seams. After spending the past decade in Miami, Drain recently moved back to Providence, Rhode Island, where he had attended RISD and was a... Read more
The Slick & The Sticky, Co-curated with Vanessa Place
Dora Budor, Antoine Catala, Alex Fleming, Andrea Fraser, Lisa Jarrett, Jacob Kassay, Mary Kelly, Sean Kennedy, Andrea Longacre-White, Park McArthur, Vanessa Place, Stephanie Taylor, Jeff Zilm
June 25 - August 15, 2015
Los Angeles
In conjunction with The Slick and The Sticky, a VSF panel discussion is being held on Thursday, August 6th, at 7:30pm. Andrea Fraser Amelia Jones Vanessa Place Hamza Walker Moderated by Esther Kim... Read more
Bjorn Copeland
Over Easy
September 11 - October 24, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Over Easy by Bjorn Copeland, a presentation of new sound, sculpture, and collage works for the gallery’s Sound Corridor and Viewing Room. Amplified through VSF’s Sound Co... Read more
Josh Kline
You're Fired!
September 11 - October 24, 2015
Los Angeles
In the warm breeze of Southern California’s endless summer, the 20th Century dream of life in the early evening after work: a large backyard covered in concrete and grass, a hammock or a lawn chair, c... Read more
Joshua Nathanson
Labor Day
September 11 - October 24, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Labor Day, a solo presentation of new painting by Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Nathanson, his first at VSF. Inspired by the frenetic crowds of James Ensor, the vibrant... Read more
April Street
Lay Down Your Arms
October 30 - December 12, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Lay Down Your Arms, Los Angeles-based artist April Street’s first solo exhibition at Various Small Fires. Street uses three spaces of the gallery to weave a dialog between a... Read more
Jesper Just
Jesper Just
October 30 - December 12, 2015
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Jesper Just’s first solo exhibition at Various Small Fires. In the Main Gallery is a single-channel video projection of Llano (2012), filmed on location among the dusty Antel... Read more
Amy Yao
Bay of Smokes
January 23 - March 19, 2016
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Amy Yao’s first solo show at Various Small Fires. Titled Bay of Smokes, the exhibition plays with different forms of contamination. It is a continuation of Yao’s interest in... Read more
Sean Shim-Boyle
THIEF
April 16 - May 21, 2016
Los Angeles
THIEF (fairytale) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack is a young boy living with his widowed mother and a dairy cow as their only source of income. When the cow stops giving milk, Jac... Read more
VSF Sound Program by Claire Tolan, Presented by Paloma Powers
Maybe it wants what it wanted inside out
June 4 - July 9, 2016
Los Angeles
Paloma Powers, the futurist art agitator and dark materialist, is fascinated by the body as an interface for aesthetic intervention, inside and out. As the line between art object and lifestyle access... Read more
No! I am No Singular Instrument, Curated by Samuel Kenswil
Hannah Black, Brian Khek, Ian Markell, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Ellen Schafer, Hans Jacob Schmidt, Jala Wahid
June 4 - July 9, 2016
Los Angeles
Built environments sculpt and erode us, permeable and penetrable. Architecture and signage move us through structures erected to suit flows of capital first, and people perhaps somewhere down the line... Read more
GRIND, Curated by Joshua Nathanson
Ellen Berkenblit, Body by Body, Vanessa Conte, Robert Gober, Lothar Hempel, Natalie Labriola, Paulina Olowska, Asha Schechter, B. Thom Stevenson, Mateo Tannatt, Nathan Zeidman
July 23 - August 27, 2016
Los Angeles
I grew up with the feeling that our cities would evolve toward some kind of extreme state; utopian commune, technological wonder, total apocalypse etc. I think I absorbed these notions from our cultur... Read more
Jeff Zilm
Relics of the Epoch
September 17 - October 22, 2016
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Jeff Zilm’s Relics of the Epoch, the artist’s Los Angeles debut and first solo exhibition with the gallery. In his latest series of “emulated painti... Read more
Lena Daly
Night Bell
November 5 - December 17, 2016
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Lena Daly’s Night Bell, the artist’s debut solo exhibition. — An image of a sound on the other side of night. I’d always heard sound was a w... Read more
The Harrisons
The Harrisons
January 24 - March 25, 2017
Los Angeles
“Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environment that is the result of opposing beliefs or contradictory metaphors. Moments when reality no longer appears seamless and the cost of belie... Read more
Jessie Homer French
Food Chain
April 15 - May 27, 2017
Los Angeles
Jessie Homer French (b. 1940, New York City) is a self-proclaimed “regional narrative painter” who routinely, perhaps even obsessively, paints archetypes of death and nature. In addition to painting,... Read more
Andrea Longacre-White
New Sculptures 2016-17
April 15 - May 27, 2017
Los Angeles
A state of release cannot amount to much without the hardship that precedes it, a logic that underpins Andrea Longacre-White’s New Sculptures 2016-17. The fringe benefit of this logic was a rare chanc... Read more
Sascha Braunig, David Gilbert, Jay Heikes, D'Ette Nogle, Carol Rama, Lee Relvas, Claude Wampler
Hurts To Laugh
July 8 - August 19, 2017
Los Angeles
According to contemporaneously scribbled memos of the gripe-filled meeting, at points animatedly ranting and at others dragging: She said, it hurts to read the headlines. It hurts to open my lapto... Read more
Billy Al Bengston
It is the Moon Doggie
September 16 - November 4, 2017
Los Angeles
Billy Al truly doesn’t give a shit what you think about these paintings. He’s only ever given a shit as to what his close circle of friends and mentors – Kenny Price, Ed Ruscha… the other Ed (Moses),... Read more
Hecate, Curated by Sara Hantman
Katherine Bradford, Julie Curtiss, Jessie Homer French, Cy Gavin, Anna Glantz, Sanam Khatibi, Rainen Knecht, Lazaros, Nicky Lesser, Ana Mendieta, Walter Price, Anna Sew Hoy, Marianne Vitale
November 11 - December 16, 2017
Los Angeles
“W.I.T.C.H. is an all-women Everything. It’s theater, revolution, magic, terror, joy, garlic flowers, spells. It’s an awareness that witches and gypsies were the original guerrillas and resistance fig... Read more
Judith Linhares
The Way She Goes to Town
January 12 - February 24, 2018
Los Angeles
“In the high desert, where I was raised by Amazons, the days were long and the nights were longer, alas, Cinderella had left twenty years before my arrival. I was borne to a red headed body builder: w... Read more
Kathryn Garcia
A Tanit
March 3 - June 23, 2018
Los Angeles
A Tanit is an offering, a sanctuary, a portal. It is a space for communion. The intention of this installation, informed by matriarchal cultures, is very simple – construct a temple. The temple pr... Read more
Amir Nikravan
World of Interiors
March 3 - April 28, 2018
Los Angeles
My name performs a paradox of representation: admonishment and celebration, exoticism and familiarity, a positive record of an inclusive America or a negative report on immigration. As a US citizen an... Read more
VSF Sound Program by Clinton King
FATHOMS
May 19 - June 23, 2018
Los Angeles
FATHOMS emulates a deep-sea descent, a pressurized vacuum where tensions dissolve between the reality outside and one’s inner world. A fathom is a unit of length used in reference to the depth of wate... Read more
Julie Curtiss
Altered States
May 19 - June 23, 2018
Los Angeles
Opening May 19, 6 – 8pm Various Small Fires (VSF) is pleased to present Julie Curtiss’ West Coast debut and first solo exhibition with VSF, Altered States. Curtiss, whose painting and sculpture pr... Read more
David Leggett, Ryan Richey
Mixed Emotions
July 14 - August 25, 2018
Los Angeles
“I can’t tell if you’re serious or not,” said the driver. “I won’t know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not,” said Trout. “It’s dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That do... Read more
Lauren Bon & The Metabolic Studio
Portable Wetland for Southern California
September 15, 2018 - February 2, 2019
Los Angeles
Closing performance, February 2, 2019, 3–5pm Lauren Bon, an Ecological artist, holds Los Angeles’ first and only private water right—Permit #21342—which allows her to annually divert 106 acre feet o... Read more
Joshua Nathanson
An Idea Because They Ate It
September 15 - October 20, 2018
Los Angeles
A woodland princess, a Pumpkin-headed spirit guide, a gargantuan creature drafted only in its contours, licking unseen wounds, a pale pink perspex shoe, possibly one lost by the princess, a chlorophyl... Read more
Che Lovelace
Presented as Natural
January 12 - February 16, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to announce Presented as Natural, Che Lovelace’s second exhibition with the gallery, and his first exhibition in Asia. This presentation of paintings draws from a pool o... Read more
Snake whisky still life and other stories, Curated by Todd Bockley
Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Jonathan Herrera Soto, Pao Houa Her, Tom Jones, Brad Kahlhamer, Postcommodity, Eric-Paul Riege, Lauren Roche, Cara Romero
January 15 - February 19, 2022
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present Snake whisky still life and other stories, a group exhibition curated by Todd Bockley featuring new works by Julie Buffalohead, Andrea Carlson, Jim Denomie, Jonathan Herrera... Read more
Betty Brown
Betty Brown
April 2 - May 7, 2022
& Milk
I really didn’t know Betty Brown’s work or anything about her. I had driven almost an hour from my lake house to meet Tubby Brown. I had seen the pieces in a few galleries and at Folk Fest over the ye... Read more
DIS, Katja Novitskova, Christopher Kulendran Thomas
up the river down the tide
November 8, 2018 - January 12, 2019
Los Angeles
The Aymara, an indigenous people native to the Andes mountains, maintain in their language a spatial conception of time distinct from the global mainstream. Whereas in most cultures the future is conc... Read more
Nikki S. Lee
Parts and Scenes
January 26 - March 2, 2019
Los Angeles
Parts and Scenes is Nikki S. Lee’s first exhibition of the Parts (2002-2004) series in the United States in nearly a decade. The show also presents Scenes (2014), a series of short videos that VSF is... Read more
Korakrit Arunanondchai
Courtyard Screenings:
February 12 - 17, 2019
Los Angeles
Shown for the first time in Los Angeles, Korakrit Arunanondchai’s newest video works, With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, 2017 and No History in a room filled with people wit... Read more
VSF Sound Program by Dawn Kasper
Everybody is Somebody’s Family
March 16 - May 11, 2019
Los Angeles
Everybody is Somebody’s Family is an audio recording of an improvisational performance with Zeena Parkins at David Lewis Gallery on December 21, 2018. It was inspired by Claudia La Rocco’s Poem (2018)... Read more
Diedrick Brackens
unholy ghosts
March 16 - May 11, 2019
Los Angeles
I stand waist deep in the decadence of forgetting. The vain act of looking the other way. Insisting there can be peace and fecundity without confrontation. The nagging question of blood hounds me. How... Read more
Anna Sew Hoy
The Wettest Letter
March 16 - May 11, 2019
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present The Wettest Letter, Anna Sew Hoy’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Working with clay for over twenty years, Sew Hoy’s sculptures express a multitude of textures, exch... Read more
Billy Al Bengston & Ed Ruscha
Reunited
April 1 - June 22, 2019
Seoul
VSF is pleased to announce the opening of its second gallery location in Seoul, South Korea, with an inaugural exhibition of new and historical works by legendary California artists Billy Al Bengston... Read more
The Harrisons
Counter Extinction Work
June 7 - August 24, 2019
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present its second solo exhibition by The Harrisons. Newton Harrison worked from 1969 to 2012 with his wife Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018), and has continued to... Read more
Joshua Nathanson
Symbiotic
July 27 - October 12, 2019
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut presentation in South Korea of Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Nathanson (b. 1976, Washington D.C.). Featuring his latest works, Joshua Nathanson: S... Read more
Dashiell Manley, Hayal Pozanti, Davina Semo
Tangerine Dreams
November 13, 2021 - January 8, 2022
Seoul
Various Small Fires and Jessica Silverman are pleased to present Tangerine Dreams, a group exhibition bringing together new work by Dashiell Manley, Hayal Pozanti, and Davina Semo. Drawing inspiration... Read more
Kyungmi Shin
citizen, not barbarian
November 20, 2021 - January 8, 2022
Los Angeles
VSF is pleased to present citizen, not barbarian, Kyungmi Shin’s first exhibition with the gallery. Shin’s exhibition explores her family’s histories, identities and migrations by interrogating global... Read more
James Herman
Yardwork
August 10 - October 26, 2019
Los Angeles
“I worked on the hill – or property, compound, whatever you want to call it – for 5 years building a home and systems for off-grid living while still being only 10 minutes from beautiful downtown LA.... Read more
Robin F. Williams
With Pleasure
September 7 - October 26, 2019
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the West Coast debut of Robin F. Williams and her first solo exhibition with VSF. In a series of new paintings that reimagine the coded narratives of American... Read more
Math Bass
Fill It Up Silver
November 2, 2019 - January 18, 2020
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Math Bass in South Korea, the artist’s first solo exhibition with VSF. A continued investigation into semioti... Read more
Liz Magic Laser
People Per Hour
November 22, 2019 - January 25, 2020
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Liz Magic Laser’s third solo show with the gallery, People Per Hour. The exhibition marks the U.S. debut of Laser’s most recent institutional works, Handle /... Read more
Calida Rawles
A Dream for My Lilith
February 12 - March 18, 2020
Los Angeles
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.” -Toni Morrison VSF is pleased to present A Dream for My Lilith, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Calida Raw... Read more
Liz Magic Laser
Liz Magic Laser
February 1 - March 28, 2020
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Liz Magic Laser’s first solo exhibition in Asia. As a traveling presentation from Laser’s most recent exhibition at VSF Los Angeles, this debut presentation i... Read more
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Variations in Mass, #1-3
February 12 - March 18, 2020
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Variations in Mass, #1-3, in the gallery courtyard and sound corridor. Gork, whose multi-media practice... Read more
Jessie Homer French
Chernobyl
April 21 - July 2, 2020
Los Angeles
Two years in the making, Jessie Homer French’s much anticipated solo exhibition at VSF Los Angeles, which includes paintings of untamed wild fires, recently visited cemeteries, and French’s most curre... Read more
Josh Kline
Alternative Facts
April 11 - May 23, 2020
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia of the American artist Josh Kline, an extension of the artist’s project Civil War, which explores the catastrophic implicati... Read more
Juan Capistran
Play Dead
May 7 - July 2, 2020
Los Angeles
Play Dead is LA-based artist Juan Capistrán’s first exhibition at Various Small Fires. Originally made in 2014 for the Hammer Museum, the sculpture I wanna be your dog takes on new meaning as i... Read more
Gina Beavers, Diedrick Brackens, Jessie Homer French, Chase Hall, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Calida Rawles
Next of Kin
May 30 - August 8, 2020
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present, Next of Kin, the exhibition debut of six American artists in Seoul, South Korea. In the unsettling ups and downs of the current COVID-19 crisis, VSF has take... Read more
Gwynn Murrill & Billy Al Bengston
GWYNN + BILLY
August 22 - September 16, 2020
Los Angeles
Gwynn Murrill and Billy Al Bengston go far back enough that they can’t seem to remember the exact moment that they met. Billy says it was during his last year of teaching at UCLA and “Gwynn was the be... Read more
Elizabeth Neel
In the Belly of the Whale
September 22 - October 24, 2020
Seoul
In Vermont daily life is experienced intensely, as every moment not in the studio – nature’s logic stands in front of me with crossed arms. — Elizabeth Neel, August 2020 American painter Elizabet... Read more
Diedrick Brackens
the pondkeepers
September 26 - October 17, 2020
Los Angeles
Lake Mexia is a thousand-acre span of abundance, celebration, nostalgia, and grief. From above, it appears as a bat flying out of a cave, two wings beating against a star-studded night. At only 20 fee... Read more
Sojourner Truth Parsons
Milk river
October 27 - November 21, 2020
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the debut solo exhibition in Asia of New York based artist Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984, Vancouver, CA) and the artist’s first solo exhibition at VSF.... Read more
Glen Wilson
Slim Margins
October 30 - December 19, 2020
Los Angeles
Glen Wilson is determined to excavate the margins, to investigate and focus his attention toward what resonates there. His discovery, evidence as a reflection of cellular memory comprising the sometim... Read more
Henni Alftan & Dike Blair
KARMA x VSF
November 28, 2020 - January 6, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present a two-person exhibition with Henni Alftan and Dike Blair in collaboration with Karma, NY in its Seoul location. Featuring six new paintings by each artist... Read more
Gina Beavers
Passionaries
January 16 - March 20, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Passionaries, American artist Gina Beavers’ first solo exhibition in Asia and her first exhibition with VSF. In Seoul, the artist will present eight new paint... Read more
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American Surrealist
January 23 - February 27, 2021
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present the first West Coast solo exhibition in five decades of works by the late American artist Clarence Holbrook Carter (b. Portsmouth, OH, 1904-2000) as part of a... Read more
Neha Choksi
The Weight of the Cave
March 6 - May 29, 2021
Los Angeles
Neha Choksi (b. 1973, New Jersey, raised in India, lives between Los Angeles and Bombay) works across a range of mediums, including performance, sculpture, painting, video, and installation. The Weigh... Read more
Che Lovelace
From the Edge of the Rock
March 6 - April 17, 2021
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Che Lovelace: From the Edge of the Rock, the artist’s (b. 1969, San Fernando, Trinidad) second solo exhibition in the United States and his first exhibition a... Read more
Harold Ancart, Sebastian Black, Loïc Raguénès
Arms of the Sea
April 3 - May 22, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Arms Of The Sea in collaboration with C L E A R I N G New York / Brussels / Beverly Hills in its Seoul location. The exhibition by Harold Ancart, Sebastian Bl... Read more
Alexander Harrison
Midnight Everywhere
April 24 - May 29, 2021
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Midnight Everywhere, Alexander Harrison’s (b. 1993, Greenville, South Carolina) West Coast debut and first solo exhibition at the gallery. Rendered in painst... Read more
Jessie Homer French
Skunk Cabbage
May 29 - June 24, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Skunk Cabbage, an exhibition of paintings by American artist Jessie Homer French in Seoul, Korea. This is the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia and thi... Read more
Julien Creuzet, Hun Kyu Kim, Aaron Garber Maikovska, Pentti Monkkonen
High Art x VSF
June 26 - July 28, 2021
Seoul
Never! Time can never be stopped, yo! Why do you hesitate? When there’s only one choice Now is your only chance Here is your only Your only place to stay You are in a fantasy When everything is crumbl... Read more
Andrea Marie Breiling, Mira Dancy, Samara Golden, Robert Nava
Sunburst
July 31 - September 11, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Sunburst, a group exhibition presented in collaboration with Night Gallery at our Seoul location. Bringing together new work by Night Gallery artists Andrea M... Read more
Erin Bagley, Olivia Erlanger, Trulee Hall, & others
Psychosomatic
June 4 - July 16, 2021
Los Angeles
Isabel put together another sculpture show. It’s going to be an ongoing thing, folding in new artists and works along the way but with a throughline of those who have been with it from the beginning.... Read more
Sean Raspet
Sean Raspet
July 28 - September 11, 2021
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Sean Raspet’s first show at Various Small Fires, and debut solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Raspet’s exhibition features three interrelated projects create... Read more
Lezley Saar
Black Garden
September 18 - November 6, 2021
Seoul
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lezley Saar’s first exhibition with the gallery, and her debut presentation in Asia. Through surrealist celestial paintings, collages, and tapestries, Saa... Read more
Lucia Hierro
Gates: LA
September 25, 2021 - January 8, 2022
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present Lucia Hierro's first exhibition at VSF, a site-specific outdoor installation that coincides with Hierro's concurrent exhibition at Charlie James Gallery in Lo... Read more
Mark Yang
Mark Yang
September 4 - November 20, 2021
& Milk
VSF is pleased to present a focused exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Mark Yang (b. 1994, Seoul, South Korea), the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Yang’s recent dynamic... Read more
Ashley Bickerton
Landscapes, Seascapes, and Interiors
September 25 - November 6, 2021
Los Angeles
Various Small Fires is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Ashley Bickerton (b. Barbados, 1959, lives in Bali, Indonesia) and the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. Bickerton,... Read more