Spotlight: Global Perspectives on 20th-Century Art at Frieze Masters
Frieze
September 2026
Spotlight, a core feature of Frieze Masters since its inception in 2012, returns this year in its largest edition to date. Curated by Devika Singh and Sofia Gotti, both academics at the Courtauld Institute of Art, the section takes a global perspective and brings together solo presentations of 20th-century artists from Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.
[…] Alison Jacques presents Pacita Abad in the gallery’s first presentation of the artist’s work since announcing representation in October 2025. The presentation focuses on Abad’s social realism paintings of the late 1970s and early 1980s, revealing her sustained attentiveness to people, place, communities, histories and the conditions that shape them […]