BLUM at ART BASEL MIAMI
Installation views © Courtesy of the artists and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: Dawn Blackman
Los Angeles, CA—On the occasion of Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, BLUM is pleased to present a booth that represents a cross section of the gallery’s dynamic program. This grouping of work by artists such as March Avery, Thornton Dial, Roberto Matta, and Kwon Young-woo emphasizes BLUM’s commitment to art historical scholarship—contextualizing and illuminating the past to provide new foundations for art’s future. This sampling also incorporates more contemporary perspectives from artists that have recently presented solo exhibitions with the gallery, including Mark Grotjahn, Oliver Lee Jackson, Eddie Martinez, Sam Moyer, Agata Słowak, Kaifan Wang, and Hiroka Yamashita.
Eddie Martinez Bufly No. 40, 2024 Oil, acrylic, enamel paint, and baby wipe on linen 72 x 60 x 1 1/4 inches (182.9 x 152.4 x 3.2 centimeters) © Eddie Martinez; Courtesy of the artist and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: JSP Art Photography
Participating artists are Alma Allen, Yukie Ishikawa Asuka, Anastacia Ogawa, Theodora Allen, Oliver Lee Jackson, Kenjiro Okazaki, Tom Anholt, Friedrich Kunath, Anna Park, March Avery, Kwon Young-woo, Solange Pessoa, Robert Colescott, Sebastian Silva, Thornton Dial, Tony Lewis, Ryan Sullivan, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Florian Maier-Aichen, Agata Słowak, Tomoo Gokita, Eddie Martinez, Alexander Tovborg, Mark Grotjahn, Roberto Matta, Kaifan Wang, Ha Chong-hyun ,Sam Moyer, Hiroka Yamashita, Christopher Hartmann, Kazumi Nakamura, Zhu Jinshi, Lonnie Holley, Yoshitomo Nara
Installation views © Courtesy of the artists and BLUM Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York Photo: Dawn Blackman
About BLUM
BLUM represents more than sixty artists and estates from seventeen countries worldwide, nurturing a diverse roster of artists at all stages of their practices with a range of global perspectives. Originally opened as Blum & Poe in Santa Monica in 1994, the gallery has been a pioneer in its early commitment to Los Angeles as an international arts capital.
The gallery has been acclaimed for its groundbreaking work in championing international artists of postwar and contemporary movements, such as CoBrA, Dansaekhwa, Mono-ha, and Superflat, and for organizing museum-caliber solo presentations and historical survey exhibitions across its spaces in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York. Often partnering with celebrated curators and scholars such as Cecilia Alemani, Alison M. Gingeras, Sofia Gotti, Joan Kee, and Mika Yoshitake, the gallery has produced large- scale exhibitions focusing on the Japanese Mono-ha school (2012); the Korean Dansaekhwa monochrome painters (2014); the European postwar movement CoBrA (2015); Japanese art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019); a rereading of Brazilian Modernism (2019); a revisionist take on the 1959 MoMA exhibition, New Images of Man (2020); and a survey of portraiture through a democratic and humanist lens (2023); among others.
BLUM’s wide-reaching program includes exhibitions, lectures, performance series, screenings, video series, and an annual art book fair at its base in Los Angeles. BLUM Books, the gallery’s publishing division, democratically circulates its program through original scholarship and accessible media ranging from academic monographs, audio series, magazines, to artists’ books.
Across the three global locations, BLUM prioritizes environmental and community stewardship in all operations. In 2015, it was certified as an Arts: Earth Partnership (AEP) green art gallery in Los Angeles and consequently became one of the first green certified galleries in the United States. The gallery is also a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition, which works to facilitate a more sustainable commercial art world and reduce the industry’s collective carbon footprint. BLUM is committed to fostering inclusive and equitable communities both in its physical and online spaces and believes that everybody should have equal access to creating and engaging with contemporary art.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
VIP Days: December 4–5, 2024
Public Days: December 6–8, 2024
For more information about exhibitions and fairs featuring artists from BLUM, please visit their website here. The gallery can also be found on Instagram. For more information about Art Basel, please visit their website and Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.
