2026 Frieze Los Angeles: Liang Hao, Lu Yang, Patty Chang, Ching Ho Cheng, Michael Lin, Bony Ramirez
BANK at Frieze Los Angeles 2026
Intimacy in the Gloaming
2026.2.25-2026.3.1
Santa Monica Airport
Featuring
Ching Ho Cheng
Patty Chang
Liang Hao
Michael Lin
Lu Yang
Bony Ramirez
Sun Yitian
BANK is pleased to present a group exhibition at Frieze Los Angeles 2026, exploring the intimacy of consciousness and body in their “gloaming moments.”
The presentation opens with contemplative gouache works by Ching Ho Cheng, an artist whose legacy is intertwined with New York's historic Chelsea Hotel. Two pieces—depicting halos and shadows—set a meditative tone for the booth, reflecting an artist recently celebrated in the Whitney Museum’s Sixties Surrealism. Alongside, Michael Lin offers a moment of rest and reflection with his large-scale paintings, which borrow from traditional textile patterns. Known globally for his immersive public installations, Lin's latest commissions have just been unveiled at the Taichung Art Museum and the National Gallery of Singapore. Liang Hao’s paintings zoom in on private, elusive scenes: a hand turning a page, residual smoke hovering in an absent figure’s space. These intimate vignettes play with the viewer’s sense of proximity and distance. The artist, whose work continues to gain institutional and collector recognition, will embark on new solo projects in New York and Europe this year.
On one side of the booth, a photographic series documents Patty Chang’s radical performance works from the 1990s. In Melon (at a loss), she murmurs about a relative lost to breast disease while cutting into and consuming a melon strapped to her chest—a potent fusion of bodily desire, personal memory, and feminine expression. Recently supported by LACMA’s Art+Tech grant, Chang’s latest project with David Kelley, Our Abyssal Kin, just concluded its run at ArtCenter College of Design with a special performance at LACMA.
On the other side of the booth, Sun Yitian’s painting Ken depicts the head of a doll. The artist, who has collaborated with Louis Vuitton, once again employs exquisite brushwork to achieve a kind of commodified, flawless gloss. This neutral, manipulable doll serves as a screen for external projections, subtly evoking the performative nature of social gender roles. Meanwhile, Lu Yang presents the latest work from the DOKU series—DOKU, meaning “born alone, die alone,” is the artist’s digitally reincarnated avatar. Through cutting-edge technology and a uniquely developed visual language, the work traces the avatar’s journey across cycles of rebirth. Dominican Republic–born artist Bony Ramirez with his bold compositions and visceral imagery, offers a profound reimagining of postcolonial Caribbean culture and tourism. The visual lexicon of these artists departs from consumer society, mystical experience, religion, and tradition, offering further gloaming meditations on intimacy.
