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Established in 2017, Make Room is an exhibition and performance space aimed to introduce perspective

Established in 2017, Make Room is an exhibition and performance space aims to introduce perspectives of migrating artists with experimental practices.

10/15/2026

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟔-𝟖𝐏𝐌 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐨𝐦! 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐞: 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐍

Make Room is proud to present Stolen, a new body of work from Raina Lee, exhibiting with the gallery for the first time. Working in sculpture and the distinct visual language of ceramic glaze painting, Lee brings together a series based on works that have been stolen and looted from internationally renown incidents of theft. From Crown Jewels stolen from the Louvre to the heist of the Rembrandts and Vermeer from the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, the exhibition draws from stolen physical artworks and also the concept of stealing ideas as a practice of art and artists. We learn, we reference, we steal from the past and present, which is a fundamental part of artistic practice. The sculptures are made from stoneware and painted entirely in ceramic glaze. Lee is known for borrowing from the language of painting but reinventing the medium with surface and texture that is unique to ceramic glaze. One work, the Sapphire Crown, is cast from pewter and glass, which is the first time the artist has worked in metal and glass.

10/12/2026

COMING NEXT🌟Make Room is pleased to present Intervals of Presence: pentimento y esperanza, Yoab Vera’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, following Circadian Memories: Amar Pacífico (2023). Bringing together new suite of paintings, the exhibition gathers the motifs Vera has long returned to: the horizon, the sun, the seascape, the flower, and introduces a new one, an olive tree on the Turkish coast. Central to the exhibition are four ideas that have become interconnected in the artist‘s practice: the interval, presence, pentimento, and hope.

Join us for the opening reception on October 17, 6 to 8 pm in the presence of the artist.

Yoab Vera (b. 1985, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. He received an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of California, Los Angeles (2021) and a BA in art and art history from Hunter College, New York (2013), after studying architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2006-2007). Recent solo exhibitions include Spirit of Hope: Sueños Diurnos, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2026); Horizontes de Sentido, Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City (2026); Reminiscence: Contigo Aprendí, Alexander Berggruen, New York (2024); Scent of Time: Horizontes Temporales, Saenger Galería, Casa Gilardi, Mexico City (2024); and Circadian Memories: Amar Pacífico, Make Room, Los Angeles (2023). Group exhibitions include Plus One (+1), Saenger Galería, Mexico City (2026); Under Forty, Saenger Galería, Mexico City (2025); Terms of Belonging, GAVLAK, Los Angeles (2022); and LA Dreams 3: Light Touch, CFHill, Stockholm (2022). He has been an artist in residence at Duplex AIR, Lisbon (2024); El Castillete, Madrid (2023); and Roman Road, Berlin (2023), and received the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Painting Prize in 2019. His work is in the permanent collection of JP Morgan Art Collection, The Artistic Museum of Contemporary Artx #, Wales, and X Museum, Beijing.

10/09/2026

In IMPULSE Magazine, Lisa Kwon reviews Xingzi Gu’s Periphery Dreaming at Make Room, reading the nine paintings made over the past year as studies of the time and space their subjects occupy rather than the relationships they hold. She looks closely at Soft hours or Heart print diary, Warm light temporal, Bedsheets and Nocturne, noting how sharp refractions cut into Gu’s soft palette so that the space around the figures seems to come apart.

Gu tells the magazine they are interested in how romantic and familial relationships shape coming-of-age identities, and in how time manifests “in a more metaphysical way.” Kwon describes the exhibition as Gu’s exercise in capturing these spaces faithfully: hazy, uneasy and evasive. Periphery Dreaming is on view through 10 October 2026.

Lisa Kwon IMPULSE Magazine

10/08/2026

Make Room is thrilled to announce Sun Woo’s participation in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, the sixth New Museum Triennial (New Museum), on view in New York from February 4 through May 16, 2027.

Founded in 2009, the New Museum Triennial has highlighted emerging artists from around the world whose practices are shaping contemporary art discourse. The sixth edition, and the first to take place in the New Museum’s newly opened OMA-designed expansion, brings together 36 artists whose works destabilize fixed notions of territory, identity, gender, and sexuality while exploring alternative ways of forging relationships, kinships, and collaborations.

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 is co-curated by Vivian Crockett, Allen and Lola Goldring Curator at the New Museum, and Isabella Rjeille, Curator at MASP–Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, with Thalia Stefaniuk, Curatorial Assistant, and Taeyi Kim, Curatorial Fellow.

Sun Woo presented her first Los Angeles solo exhibition, Swamps and Ashes, at Make Room in 2023, during which her painting Dawn in the Grove entered the permanent collection of LACMA. We look forward to this next chapter of her practice at the New Museum this spring and extend our congratulations on this important achievement.

한선우 작가의 제6회 뉴뮤지엄(New Museum) 트리엔날레 《The Outside Expands》 참여 소식을 전합니다.

2009년 시작된 뉴뮤지엄 트리엔날레는 동시대 미술 담론을 새롭게 형성해 나가는 세계 각지의 작가들을 조명해 왔습니다. 이번 트리엔날레는 OMA의 설계로 새롭게 확장한 공간에서 개최되는 첫 트리엔날레로, 36명의 작가의 작업을 통해 영토와 정체성, 젠더와 섹슈얼리티에 대한 고정된 관념을 흔들며, 관계와 유대, 협업을 위한 대안적인 방식과 새로운 가능성을 모색합니다.

《The Outside Expands》는 뉴뮤지엄 큐레이터 비비안 크로켓과 상파울루 미술관 (MASP) 큐레이터 이사벨라 르제일리가 공동 기획하고, 큐레토리얼 어시스턴트 탈리아 스테파니우크와 큐레토리얼 펠로우 김태이가 참여했습니다.

한선우는 2023년 Make Room에서 로스앤젤레스 첫 개인전 Swamps and Ashes를 선보였으며, 당시 출품작 Dawn in the Grove는 LA카운티미술관의 영구 소장품으로 선정되었습니다. 이번 뉴뮤지엄 트리엔날레에서 선보이는 신작은 2027년 2월 4일부터 5월 16일까지 만나보실 수 있습니다.

Photo:
Jinhyeok Oh, New Museum, OMA

10/02/2026

Congratulations to our artist Xin Liu on “nom nom,” her new commission from in collaboration with , developed during their online artist residency.

“nom nom” is an interactive simulation built on Google’s research into Neural Cellular Automata and a weather system powered by Gemini. It looks at how collective intelligence emerges when millions of tiny interactions add up to something larger. It’s a natural next step for an artist who has always worked between the studio and the lab.

Congratulations as well to Eunjo Lee, whose “In Your Eyes, Before My Own” is the residency’s second commission.

The full story on both artists’ processes is up on (link in their bio).

09/27/2026

Join us for Steep and Spin, an afternoon of tea and sound at Make Room to celebrate LA Design Weekend and the city’s creative community.

Hanna Li, founder of Hanna Li Interiors and a fourth-generation woodworker, leads a Gongfu tea service, a Chinese tradition of preparing tea through a series of small, concentrated infusions. Approaching tea as an extension of her design practice, she is interested in the quiet choreography between objects, space, and people.

Throughout the afternoon, artist, producer and DJ JiJi spins vinyl found across Asia, from Mongolian musicians to records discovered in Japan’s jazz kissas.

RSVP: https://theartinvite.rsvp/steep or link in bio.

09/18/2026

We love seeing Austin Heyman and Sarah Rosalena’s work at home with Lucy Hale Lucy Hale in ’s Open Door!

Placing work into collections where it gets lived with and seen every day is the best part of what we do.

Image courtesy of Architecture Digest. Works were previously exhibited at Make Room.

Austin Aaron Hayman Sarah Rosalena Lucy Hale

09/17/2026

Join us on Saturday, September 19 at 12:45 pm for an Artists in Dialogue at Make Room, bringing together painter Xingzi Gu, architect Paul Chan and interior designer Hanna Li. The conversation takes place during Gu’s solo exhibition Periphery Dreaming and the group exhibition Tête-bêche, both on view through October 10.

All three grew up in mainland China or Hong Kong and built their practices in the United States. The discussion will explore what remains of the golden era of Hong Kong cinema and Japanese film in the work they make now: a remembered room, a film still, a gesture carried from one place to another. Gu’s paintings hold figures in a state of waiting, with memories that shift each time they are recalled. Chan’s Domestic Ritual furniture, on view in Tête-bêche, is built for a life that moves between rooms. Li’s interiors draw on a family lineage of woodworkers and a childhood rhythm she still designs toward. Together they will talk about what these inherited images become once they arrive somewhere new, and what each of their disciplines can do with them.

Xingzi Gu (b. 1995, Jiangsu) lives and works in New York. Their layered paintings stage coming-of-age experiences shaped by desire, disassembly and displacement.

Paul Chan is the founder of Studio Paul Chan, a Los Angeles architecture and design practice. Born in Hong Kong, he creates spaces and objects that balance the rational and the poetic.

Hanna Li is the founder and creative director of Hanna Li Interiors, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Vogue and Elle Decor.

RSVP link in bio: https://www.makeroom.la/events/artists-in-dialogue-xingzi-gu-paul-chan-hanna-li

09/16/2026

Throwback to last Saturday’s opening reception with our artists and community. Thank you all for coming out!

09/12/2026

Opening tonight! Join us for an ice cream opening reception at the gallery 6-8PM to celebrate three shows at the gallery.

🫧Xingzi Gu’s debut solo exhibition, Periphery Dreaming
🫧Katya Labowe-Stoll’s debut solo exhibition, Where Willows Rise
🫧group exhibition: Tête-Bêche

Katya Labowe-Stoll 𝒙𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒛𝒊 alezazheng Studio Paul Chan Liu TianLian John Wu/吳子強 Daniel Wang Jeremy Kim Yuri Yuan Ye

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