Join us for the North American Gallery Premiere of Charlotte Zhang's feature film Tycoon. The screening will be preceded with a talk by artist Carlos Agredano about how discriminatory housing policies shape the social and spatial landscape.

Zhang's solo exhibition Tireslashers is on view now in the ground floor gallery until March 8.

Read about Tycoon in the Globe and Mail

5:30pm: Doors
6:00pm: Sutured City, a talk by Carlos Agredano
6:45pm: Intermission
7:00pm: Screening of Tycoon

Your RSVP will guarantee you a seat at the event

Tycoon
Dir: Charlotte Zhang
1 hour 29 minutes
2026

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.

Tycoon had its international premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam on February 2, 2026.

About Sutured City
Agredano studies how the Los Angeles freeway has separated communities from vital resources, access to clean air, and from one another. Drawing on Marina Vishmidt’s concept of “infrastructural critique” and Vicky Osterweil’s writing on looting, he considers how contemporary artists produce evidence as a form of resistance against such discriminatory infrastructures. The talk will center Charlotte Zhang’s methods and consider Tycoon as a film that weaves together scenes of LA’s enduring dysfunction.

About Carlos Agredano
Carlos Agredano (b. 1998) is an artist from Southeast Los Angeles. He uses readymade and process-based artworks to record and reveal the material afterlife of environmental racism. Such works include paintings that document the cumulative buildup of pollutants and smog on surfaces or found objects such as dust-caked window air conditioners and parasols. In his research practice, Agredano interrogates how policies like redlining and private racially restrictive covenants enabled freeway construction and manufactured air pollution disparities in racially diverse, low-income neighborhoods. Agredano has exhibited at David Kordansky Gallery, Human Resources, François Ghebaly, and SculptureCenter. He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is currently the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

About Charlotte Zhang
Born in 1999 and based in British Columbia until moving to Los Angeles to pursue studies at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Charlotte Zhang was the 2021 winner of the Phillip B. Lind Prize for Emerging Artists at The Polygon Gallery. Her videos, collages, and sculptural work have since been shown internationally, including festival screenings in New York, Chicago, and Berlin. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Paradise Holds Itself Shut at Goes to Ocean and Ordinary Disasters, Critical Mass (with Tania Collette B.) at Melrose Botanical Garden, both in Los Angeles in 2023. Group exhibitions include Cassandra Press: On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action at Bergen Kunsthal in Bergen, Norway in 2022; and Scupper, guest curated by Carlos Agredano, at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, CA, USA in 2024.