LA Art Book Fair and NY Art Book Fair Dates
The LA Art Book Fair opens this week on May 15 at a new location across two buildings on ArtCenter College of Design's South Campus.
Established in 2013, the LA Art Book Fair is a celebration and international gathering for artists’ books publishers to distribute their work and connect with broad audiences.
The 950 Building will host a wide range of publishers and various programs while the 870 Building will host zine and small press publishers, the Reading Room (showcasing how publishers navigate borders and transnational solidarity), and printmaking workshops all weekend.
The Classroom program will offer space for artists, writers, designers, and publishers to highlight new releases at LAABF and encourage dialogue around important themes in artists’ book publishing. This year's participants include Kanthy Peng, Ibi Ibrahim, Jasmine Benjamin, Alex 2tone, and Devin Troy Strother.
Meanwhile The Stage on the rooftop of the Fair will feature a lineup of music, poetry, and performance organized in collaboration with Living Earth. This year programming is produced in conversation with local organizations dedicated to trans liberation and ecological justice, TRAИƧA and Red Hot, No Canyon Hills, The Altadena Seed Library, and Zorthian Ranch.
Special publication-focused projects presented by select Fair exhibitors include an installation of furniture and publications in the courtyard by Dent-de-Leone, and a fictional archive and auction by Werkplaats Typografie.
Office Hours is a new program with tutorials led by artists, publishers, and Fair partners to offer professional advice on law, library acquisitions, and photobook publishing. Elsewhere, there will be risograph and printmaking workshops.
Details of this year's NY Art Book Fair have also just been released, to run September 11–14, returning to MoMA PS1 where it was held 2009–2019. NYABF 2025 will feature a wide range of interdisciplinary artistic practices, including self-publishing artists, collectives, small presses, institutions, rare book dealers, and distributors.
