Rick Royale is a pioneering gallerist who has advanced abstraction and conceptual art through landmark exhibitions and groundbreaking projects.

He first gained art world recognition in the late 1990s as founder of Popomatic, a downtown Los Angeles gallery that quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Twice featured in NYLON Magazine, hailed as “the toast of the LA underground” and praised by Flavorpill LA for being the “perfect fusion of art, music, and fashion,” Popomatic helped shape the DTLA art scene years before its international rise. After a period of time spent in New York City, Rick Royale returned to California to direct a blue chip gallery in the Coachella Valley where he curated exhibitions of Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Sorel Etrog, and Jules Olitski.

In 2008, he established Royale Projects, dedicated to advancing the dialogue between the history of West Coast abstraction and contemporary practice. Notable highlights include exhibiting Dennis Oppenheim’s final works, producing Phillip K. Smith III’s career-defining installation Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree, exploring the legacy of Karl Benjamin and Tony DeLap as well as presenting seminal projects by Light and Space pioneer Helen Pashgian.

In 2015, Royale Projects opened a 6,500-square-foot space in the Los Angeles Arts District, described by the Los Angeles Times as expertly championing “contemporary, midcareer artists whose work is rooted in either abstract or conceptual art.” Its inaugural exhibition, a thirty-year survey of work by post conceptual luminary, Ken Lum, underscored the gallery’s influence in the city’s thriving art scene. As a participating gallery in The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA and as an exhibitor at Frieze Art Fair in New York, Royale Projects also helped reframe artist Ruben Ortiz Torres as a vital voice in North American contemporary cultural history.

Today, Rick Royale operates between Los Angeles, Southern California, Canada, and beyond, continuing to connect private collectors and institutions with the leading edge of contemporary art.

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