Los Angeles' longest-established art fair is coming back to the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center January 6-10, 2027, and this time around, 15% of ticket proceeds will benefit GLAAD, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing LGBTQ acceptance and inclusive representation across media. It marks the 32nd edition of the LA Art Show, a fixture on Southern California's cultural calendar for more than three decades.
The GLAAD partnership was announced via a release distributed by PR Newswire, which also confirmed that Tixr, a global ticketing and live event commerce company, will serve as the fair's official ticketing partner for 2027, with tickets now on sale through that platform. Fine Art Shows executive director Kassandra Voyagis said the LA Art Show creates a place where cultures, ideas, collectors and audiences intersect, adding that the fair is welcoming GLAAD and Tixr as new partners this year, per the same release.
The charity rotation is nothing new for the fair: it designated the American Heart Association as its beneficiary for both the 2024 and 2025 editions, donating 15% of ticket proceeds to that organization's “Life Is Why” cardiovascular health campaign, according to the American Heart Association. Further back, a special 2021 summer edition marking the fair's pandemic-era return named St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as its charity partner for an opening night event hosted by singer Rita Ora, as reported by INDIE Entertainment Media, with that show operating under a reduced 30,000-person capacity limit.
A New Nonprofit in the Mix
GLAAD, founded in New York City in 1985 to protest defamatory media coverage during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, now operates an Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker, known as the ALERT Desk, which documented more than 1,000 anti-LGBTQ incidents across the country in 2025, according to GLAAD's organizational history. The group's role as the fair's 2027 beneficiary ties a major national advocacy organization to the show's long-running model of funneling a share of ticket revenue to nonprofit causes.
Opening night premiere parties have historically been a draw for the fair's fundraising, with celebrity hosts including actress Jenna Dewan for the 2025 edition and actress Lucy Hale for the 2024 edition, per Diversions LA. Those galas have helped drive opening-night ticket sales benefiting whichever charity holds the partnership that year.
A New Entry Point for First-Time Buyers
Alongside the main fair, Fine Art Shows will introduce Art Under 10, a new fair dedicated to emerging galleries and contemporary works created within the past five years and priced under $10,000. It runs January 8-10 in Petree Hall, with admission included in LA Art Show tickets, according to the PR Newswire release.
Voyagis said Art Under 10 makes contemporary art more approachable for first-time buyers and a new generation of collectors, per the same release. The initiative is designed to offer an accessible entry point into the art market while giving emerging galleries a platform to reach broader audiences.
Exhibitors From Greece to Taipei
More than 90 exhibitors are set to fill the West Hall for the 2027 edition. Returning galleries include JS Gallery of Greece, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery of the U.K., Pigment Gallery of Spain, Arcadia Contemporary of New York, and Markowicz Fine Art of California, according to the release.
New exhibitors debuting this year include Avant Gallery of Miami, Bluerider Art of Taipei, CRIA of Mexico, Contessa Gallery of Ohio, and Nisticovich Gallery of Tel Aviv. The international lineup reflects the scale the show has built since its founding in 1994, when it originally focused on traditional and historical art before incorporating contemporary and modern works to broaden its international reach, according to Singulart. In peak pre-pandemic and recent years, the fair has drawn up to 70,000 visitors and generated roughly $30 million in art sales across its five-day run, according to TERAVARNA.
DIVERSEartLA's Non-Commercial Platform
The fair's non-commercial curatorial arm, DIVERSEartLA, will explore the theme of the future as a collaborative human experience this year, bringing together cultural institutions, architects, artists, designers and lawyers to transform exhibitions into immersive, non-linear environments, per the release. DIVERSEartLA launched in 2015 specifically to engage public institutions, non-profits, and international museums in dialogues around social issues through art, with past iterations tackling climate change, water scarcity, and artificial intelligence, according to Beverly Press & Park Labrea News.
Marisa Caichiolo will curate the 2027 edition of DIVERSEartLA. She previously served as co-curator for the Official Pavilion of Chile at the 61st Venice Art Biennale and has overseen DIVERSEartLA's programming for more than eight editions, according to a release carried by Morningstar.
Linking Two Coasts
The LA Art Show's reach now extends beyond Southern California through Art Palm Beach, its East Coast counterpart, which returns January 27-31, 2027 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Together, the two fairs form a platform connecting galleries, collectors and cultural communities across two U.S. art markets, according to the release.
Fine Art Shows expanded its cross-country footprint in 2023 when Voyagis took over production and leadership of Art Palm Beach, demonstrating the commercial growth linking the two shows under one management structure, according to a GlobeNewswire release. For Los Angeles visitors, the West and South lobbies of the convention center also offer a permanent art backdrop to the show: 63,000 square feet of terrazzo floor artwork created in 1993 by artist Alexis Smith, depicting the night sky and a Pacific Rim map, according to the Los Angeles Convention Center.
