G Gallery and Sargent’s Daughters

Frieze London 2026 | October 14–18, 2026

Cross-pollination: Choi Yoonhee, Yaron Michael Hakim, and Rachel Youn

G Gallery and Sargent’s Daughters will present Cross-pollination at Frieze London 2026, a curatorially rigorous joint booth which marks both galleries’ debut at the fair and their first international collaboration.

Featuring new works made specifically for Frieze by Yaron Michael Hakim, Choi Yoonhee, and shared gallery artist Rachel Youn, the booth explores fertile interchanges between seemingly alien forms through the botanical process of cross-pollination. Each artist’s work transgresses received boundaries – painting and installation, abstraction and figuration, human and nonhuman, body and environment – to generate states of fecundity, branching, and reconfiguration.

Yoonhee’s abstract oil paintings create a visual rhythm through densely layered flows and accumulated intensity, exploring the invisible forms of sound waves, emotions, time, and memories.

Hakim’s paintings on recycled sailcloth draw on the Martiniquais writer Édouard Glissant’s concept of creolization, imaging the interrelation of human biographies and their landscapes.

Youn animates these concepts in three-dimensional space, with kinetic sculptures that combine artificial plants with personal massage devices, sourced secondhand. These cyborgs are replicas that earnestly desire to be real, failed objects that simulate care and intimacy.

Choi Yoonhee (b. 1986) graduated from Gachon University with a degree in Painting and obtained a Master's in Visual Art from the Korea National University of Arts. She has held solo exhibitions at various institutions, including Tuning In at TINC in 2024, the OCI Museum of Art, PS Sarubia, and Gallery175. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at the Daejeon Museum of Art, Amado Art, P21, and Common Center. She has been selected as a supported artist for PS Sarubia and as an OCI Young Creative by the OCI Museum of Art.

Yaron Michael Hakim (b. 1980, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received an MFA from the University of California (Irvine, CA) in 2013 and a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), California State University (Sacramento, CA), Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana, CA), Herrnando’s Hideaway (Miami, FL), and LAXART (Los Angeles, CA). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Tanya Bonakdar (Los Angeles, CA), Praise Shadows (Boston, MA), California State University (San Francisco, CA), The Pit (Los Angeles, CA), among others. Hakim’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Magazine, Hyperallergic, Georgia Review, and the Miami New Times, among other publications. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), and the Peréz Art Museum Miami (Miami, FL). He is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.

Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA) is an artist living and working across sculpture and installation in Albuquerque, MN. Youn has recently exhibited at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, Italy), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Laumeier Sculpture Park (St. Louis, MO), Soy Capitán (Berlin, Germany), Rochester Art Museum (Rochester, MN), Alice Amati (London, UK), Truman State University Art Gallery (Kirksville, MO), Linseed Gallery (London, UK), McClain Gallery (Houston, TX), Contemporary Arts Center (Columbus, OH), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin, Italy), The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s (Belfast, UK), Brutus (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), La Clinica (Oaxaca, México), HAIR + NAILS (Minneapolis, MN), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), and the Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), amongst others. Youn is a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship and the 2020 Great Rivers Biennial Award. They received their BFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Youn recently completed their MFA in Sculpture at Yale School of Art in New Haven, CT. Youn’s work has been reviewed in Art Asia Pacific, FAD Magazine, Hyperallergic, LA Review of Books, Artillery Magazine, Elephant, amongst others. They are represented by Sargent’s Daughters.