Track 16 is a contemporary art gallery with locations in East Hollywood and in the fashion district neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
History Track 16 was founded in 1994 by Tom Patchett and was located at the gallery hub Bergamot Station which launched that same year. They remained at Bergamot for 17 years until their building was demolished to make way for Metro's Expo Line train station. In 2012 they relocated to the Hayden Tract in Culver City where they focused on performance and theater work. In 2017 Sean Meredith, who had helped founded the gallery in 1994, became partner and director and relocated them to the Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles. In 2025 they opened a second exhibition space in East Hollywood, debuting with a solo exhibit of Eve Wood's work on paper. In the early years of the gallery, they staged exhibits with the artworks of Man Ray, Manuel Ocampo, the early Punk scene in L.A. ("Forming"), and contemporary Latin American art ("Amnesia", "While Cuba Waits").
Artists Estate of Pedro Álvarez Castelló Sandow Birk Debra Broz Nao Bustamante Robbie Conal Simone Gad Don Ed Hardy Kathleen Henderson Galia Linn Mondongo Burt Payne 3 Elyse Pignolet Alicia Piller Molly Segal Laurie Steelink Camilla Taylor Chris Ulivo Eve Wood
Selected exhibitions
1994: Burt Payne 3: Access 1995: EATS 1995: Martin Kippenberger: LA International 1995: Jack Pierson: Paradise 1995: Chain Reaction, An Abbreviated Survey of Idea-Based Art, Curated By Steven Leiber 1996: Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam, and Cuba 1965-1975 1996: William S. Burroughs: Concrete and Buckshot 1996-1997: Man Ray: Paris~L.A. 1997: Manuel Ocampo: Heridas de la Lengua 1998-1999: Ruben Ortiz Torres: Alien Toyz 1998-1999: Viggo Mortensen: Recent Forgeries 1999: Karen Finley: Pooh Unplugged 1999: Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk 1999-2000: Don Ed Hardy: Tattooing the Invisible Man 2000: Pedro Alvarez: On the Pan-American Highway 2000: Eduardo Abaroa: Soon After Before 2000: Ruben Ortiz Torres: Power Tools 2000: Surf Trip, Curated by Bob Carrillo and René de Guzman 2000-2001: Don Ed Hardy: 2000 Dragons 2002: The Godfrey Daniels School of Charm, Curated by Georganne Deen 2002: David Byrne: Elective Affinities 2003: Le Dernier Cri: Legendary Publishers of the International Underground 2003: Table Turners 2004: Show Your Wound: The Death and Times of Joseph Beuys 2007: Mondongo: Thread/Bare 2007: Johanna Went: Ablutions of a Nefarious Nature 2008: Mondongo: Gaslighting 2008: Don Ed Hardy, When East Meets West 2008: Robbie Conal, No Spitting No Kidding 2018: Robbie Conal, Cabinet of Horrors 2019: Marsian De Lellis, Simone Gad, Debra Broz, Stuck Together 2019: Elyse Pignolet, You Should Calm Down 2020: Rakeem Cunningham and Clifford Prince King, INSTALLATION #000000 2021: Galia Linn, Beauty Queen, Heartbreaker, High Maintenance 2021: John Collins, Moonlight Graham 2021: I Like LA and LA Likes Me: Joseph Beuys at 100 2022: Elyse Pignolet: I'm Not Like the Other Girls 2022: Alicia Piller: Atmospheric Pressures 2022: Sandow Birk: Los Angeles and Her Surroundings, and other works 2022: Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard and Other Poolings 2022: Confluence, curated by Debra Scacco 2023: Camilla Taylor: Dry Tree 2023: Molly Segal: What We Whispered and What We Screamed 2024: Mondongo: Calavera 8 2024: Nao Bustamante: Bloom 2025: Joseph Beuys: Potential Goods
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