Gagosian’s Beverly Hills gallery on North Camden Drive has hosted a Frank Gehry exhibition before — most recently Spinning Tales in 2021. The show that opened on May 14 and runs through June 27 is something different. It is the first Frank Gehry exhibition at any Gagosian space since the architect’s death in 2025, and it is built almost entirely from the animal-form sculptures and works on paper that lived in his Playa Vista studio for decades but rarely traveled. For collectors in town for the Beverly Hills Art Show weekend or planning a Father’s Day visit ahead of the Rodeo Drive Concours, the gallery’s hours through the end of June are the window.
What Is on View
The show is curated by Deborah McLeod, the gallery’s senior director, and was produced in collaboration with the Gehry family and Gehry Studio. The centerpiece is Bear with Us (2014) — a life-size stainless steel bear, on loan from the family, rendered in 316L marine-grade steel whose polished surface is faceted to read like crumpled foil from across the room and like an architectural model from arm’s length. The piece has not been shown publicly in Los Angeles since its initial fabrication.
Around the bear, the gallery has placed two of Gehry’s late-career experiments: Untitled (Black Crocodile New York) (2023), produced in ColorCore Formica and silicone, and Fish on Fire (2023), the last copper fish sculpture Gehry completed before his death. The fish form is the through-line of Gehry’s sculptural output going back to his 1981 collaboration with the Formica Corporation — the lamps and the early fish drawings on view in the back gallery date to that period, and the entire arc of the practice reads in a single room.
The show also includes the first public screening of Gehry’s contribution to Gagosian Premieres, the gallery’s video series. The film was produced to accompany Spinning Tales in 2021 and documents performances by Esperanza Spalding and Gustavo Dudamel with the YOLA (Youth Orchestra Los Angeles), interspersed with a long-form conversation between Gehry and Julian Rose in the Playa Vista studio. It plays on a loop in the gallery’s screening room.
Why Collectors Care
Gehry’s market has done something unusual in the year since his death. The architecture has, of course, become canonical — the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bilbao, the Marqués de Riscal hotel, the LUMA Tower in Arles. The sculpture has not. Auction comparables for Gehry sculpture are thin: a small bronze fish at Phillips in 2018, a few works on paper at Christie’s, the occasional Formica lamp at design auctions. The current Gagosian show is the first concentrated curatorial argument for the sculpture as a discrete body of work, and the family’s willingness to lend Bear with Us — a piece that has not traded — is the strongest signal yet that the studio is prepared to support a sculpture market on the same footing as the architectural archive.
For a Beverly Hills collector evaluating Gehry exposure in 2026, the implications are practical. The Knight Frank Luxury Investment Index logged contemporary art at the soft end of 2025 performance, but the same report noted “strength returned to segments focused on rarity, cultural significance and exceptional provenance.” A Gehry sculpture is all three. A posthumous Gagosian show with family participation is the curatorial provenance event that markets price in years later.
Visiting
The gallery is at 456 North Camden Drive, a four-minute walk from the Beverly Hills Hotel and a block from Wally’s on Canon. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. The exhibition runs through Saturday, June 27, 2026. The full catalog and selected installation photography are available at gagosian.com.
For collectors traveling in for the show, Gagosian’s Camden Drive location is within the same eight-block radius as the Petersen Automotive Museum’s current “100 Years of Mercedes-Benz” exhibition, the Beverly Hills Art Show grounds at Beverly Gardens Park, and the Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance grid set for Father’s Day on June 21. A weekend itinerary that pairs the Gehry show with the Concours is a clean plan for a long Beverly Hills visit between now and the end of June.
What to Ask the Gallery
Camden Drive’s posture on availability has tightened since the show opened. A handful of the works on paper and at least one of the smaller Formica lamps from the 1981 series are available for sale through Gagosian; Bear with Us is not — it is on loan from the family — and Fish on Fire and the black crocodile are listed as POA (price on application). Serious inquiries are handled by the Beverly Hills senior team, and the gallery is taking private viewings outside public hours for collectors with documented interest. Phone the gallery in advance.
Asset Relevance
For Beverly Loan clients who already hold Gehry works on paper or are considering acquiring through this show, the bench takes appointments to discuss collateral value and short-term borrow scenarios against the existing market. The pricing benchmark for any future Gehry sculpture trade will be set in the rooms adjacent to this exhibition over the next year — buyers who acquire now are buying ahead of that benchmark, and that is a position the loan desk understands how to underwrite.
Frequently Asked Questions
When does the Frank Gehry exhibition at Gagosian Beverly Hills end?
Saturday, June 27, 2026. The show opened May 14 and runs Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 456 North Camden Drive, Beverly Hills.
Is this the first Frank Gehry exhibition since his death?
Yes. This is the first Gehry exhibition at any Gagosian space since the architect’s death in 2025, and the first concentrated curatorial presentation of his sculpture in collaboration with the Gehry family and Gehry Studio.
What sculptures are on view?
The centerpiece is Bear with Us (2014), a life-size stainless steel sculpture on loan from the family. Also on view: Untitled (Black Crocodile New York) (2023) in ColorCore Formica and silicone; Fish on Fire (2023), Gehry’s last copper fish sculpture; and the 1981 Formica lamps and fish drawings from the Formica Corporation collaboration.
Are any of the works available for sale?
A handful of works on paper and at least one of the 1981 Formica lamps are available through Gagosian. Bear with Us is on loan from the family and not for sale. Fish on Fire and the black crocodile are listed POA. Inquiries go to the gallery’s Beverly Hills senior team.