Discover 4 Standout Works at Dallas Art Fair 2026
In the heart of the arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries.
As an internationally recognized and highly regarded art fair, the Dallas Art Fair continues its aim to bring together emerging and established contemporary artists with new and seasoned collectors. Now celebrating 18 years, the fair has become an important fixture on the global art calendar each spring, cementing Dallas’ reputation as a major destination for contemporary art.
The Dallas Art Fair takes place at Fashion Industry Gallery in the Dallas Arts District on Thursday, April 16, through Sunday, April 19. Featuring galleries from more than a dozen countries and with several returning galleries expanding their presence with larger booths for more robust presentations, the 2026 roster underscores the Dallas Art Fair’s continued international scope.
ArtDependence selected 4 standout works:
1. Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, Foal (First Snowfall) 2025, Sapar Contemporary, Booth F8
Executed in oil on hand-primed embroidered silk, Foal (First Snowfall) depicts a young foal standing beside its fallen mother as a light blanket of snow drifts softly around them. The work reflects on the passing cycles inherent to nature—moving from the vitality of spring, associated with birth and new life, toward the quiet descent into winter, when things perish, beings mature, and the world turns inward.
The image embodies both tenderness and grief. The young animal, newly confronted with loss, becomes a symbol of universal vulnerability. As in much of Ferrer’s work, the animal functions as a mirror through which human emotions—mourning, resilience, and the inevitability of change—can be contemplated at a distance that feels both poetic and deeply empathetic.
2. Manabu Hasegawa, Uzi,Tezukayama Gallery, Booth E4
Manabu Hasegawa, Uzi, pencil and color pencil on paper, acrylic case
Born in Tokyo in 1973, Manabu Hasegawa continues to live and work there. Graduated from Tama Art University(department of printmaking). His works involve a technique called “frottage,” in which paper is placed on uneven objects and rubbed with a pencil to trace their contours, creating a duality between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms.
It evolved from the nostalgia inherent in the materials of paper and pencil, the comforting feeling of being able to erase what is written, and the gentle connection to memories that arises from the pleasant vibrations and feel of writing transmitted by the pencil. For Hasegawa, these reasons have made paper and pencil a vital material and technique.
3. Michele Fletcher, Nightshade, 2025, Ronchini Gallery, Booth F19
Michele Fletcher, Nightshade, 2025 oil on linen
Following the success of her 2025 exhibition at Ronchini titled Flourish, and the acclaim of her White Cube Hong Kong solo exhibition the same year, Canadian-born London-based Michele Fletcher reaches her most emphatic painterliness in this diptych. Brushstrokes are vivid, lush, and tactile, turning the canvas into a site of flux and motion. These petals begin to unfurl into a cyclical shape, in turn challenged by the format of the diptych itself, lending viewers a visual pause between the rhythm of the composition.
4. Hugo McCloud, February 27, 2026, Luce Gallery, Booth F24
Hugo McCloud, February 27, 2026, Single Use Plastic and oil on panel
The painting is made in the classic medium Hugo McCloud has used in recent years for his works. It is a very particular medium the artist invented himself, consisting of recycled plastic bags laid down on panel with the addition of some small oil touches. The painting reflects the elegance and tenderness of the artist’s personality, which is a mix of power and delicate representation—in some ways, the two opposite sides of the artist.