Precious Okoyomon
Four works on paper in custom frames
Mendes Wood DM
Precious Okoyomon is ubiquitous at the moment, showing not only in Venice (in the Holy See Pavilion) but also at the 2026 Whitney Biennial and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York quinquennial. Their work at Frieze is comparatively subtle—a group of four works on paper displayed in custom wood frames. “The works on paper draw on a more daily and intimate aspect of the mind behind the sculpture, behind the installations,” says Matthew Wood, one of the gallery’s co-founders. “The frames add an element of menace and suspense—and evoke a sort of historicity.” The gallery declined to share prices.
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Alma Allen
Not Yet Titled (2024)
Perrotin
The artist representing the US at this year’s Venice Biennale has a subtle presence on Perrotin’s stand, with a bronze wall-mounted sculpture evocative of a cliff face, tree bark or the exterior of an ancient temple. The work is priced between $30,000 and $50,000. “It is both very natural-looking and very unnatural,” says a Perrotin spokesperson. “That’s a tension he likes to explore in all his work.”
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Nabil Nahas
Untitled (2025)
Lawrie Shabibi and P420
This wall sculpture (available for $45,000) is actually a painting—acrylic on canvas. The Lebanese American artist calls the naturalistic elements in this work “fractals”, gesturing towards natural forms like cells, leaves and coral. A dendrophile, he collects ancient olive trees and replants them in his garden in Lebanon. Two other pieces of his that push the limits of painting are also available on the stand.
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Dayanita Singh
Blue Measures (2025)
Frith Street Gallery
Singh, an artist deeply devoted to documenting archives, was invited to photograph and show her work at the Archivio di Stato di Venezia this year. Frith Street Gallery’s stand includes a version of a piece from her Venice show—a column of 20 photographs she took of bundled documents in an Indian archive. The gallery also has an individual photograph by Singh and a panel featuring 12 photographs; the three works are priced between $25,000 and $150,000. “Dayanita’s work is so thoughtful and generous, the antithesis of the bombastic type of work one often sees in Venice,” says Jane Hamlyn, the gallery’s founder.
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Alvaro Barrington
On de Road TEF series (2026)
Emalin
These three paintings on burlap ($100,000-$200,000 each) previously appeared on the side of the London-based artist’s carnival truck, which he takes to the Notting Hill Carnival every year. They depict Jab Jab devils, traditional characters from Caribbean Carnival culture that symbolise resistance and emancipation. Just in front of the paintings is a sculpture of a crate of fruit by the artist Sung Tieu, who is representing Germany at the Venice Biennale this year.
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Paulo Nazareth
Ginga (2026)
Stevenson
The Brazilian artist calls this multilayered work a “resin-gamela”. A gamela is a traditional bowl made from the wood of the sacred gameleira tree, and natural resin from ancient trees forms into the amber historically used in protective amulets. Inside the resin, Nazareth has encased contemporary food items—like a bag of coffee adorned with the face of a 17th-century Angolan queen. It is priced at $20,000.
Photo: Steven Molina Contreras
Carolina Caycedo
Cosmoatarraya sabanera (2025)
Instituto de Visión
Over the past decade, the Colombian artist has been making works drawing attention to those affected by dam-building—particularly fishers whose livelihoods have been greatly disrupted. These two “cosmo-nets” ($30,000 each) use nets made by fishers and dyed by the artist, who decorated them with hand-stitched talismans depicting local species of crabs and frogs.
