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\n\tMor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n\u00a0cofounder Mills Mor\u00e1n is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles gallery he started with his brother, Al Mor\u00e1n.<\/p>\n
\n\tMills Mor\u00e1n said he will instead focus his attention on\u00a0Felix Art Fair, the fair he cofounded with Al and collector Dean Valentine in 2018, running alongside Frieze Los Angeles and one of the main stops during the city\u2019s fair week each February. Located at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel since its launch, the fair has now staged eight editions.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAfter almost 20 years of building Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n alongside my brother, I\u2019ve made the emotional and difficult decision to step away from the gallery\u2019s day-to-day operations,\u201d Mills Mor\u00e1n wrote in a statement that was shared with artists and colleagues on Monday. \u201cThe gallery has been a central and defining part of my life, but I feel confident that this is the right moment to step back from daily responsibilities and make space for new perspectives and continued growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFounded in 2008 as OHWOW and ultimately renamed to Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n in 2018, the gallery has built a reputation for mixing emerging and mid-career artists with historical material while cultivating a loose, experimental program that featured performances, happenings, and curator-led projects. Over the years, the gallery has worked with artists like Ryan Trecartin,\u00a0SoiL Thornton,\u00a0Keltie Ferris, Eve Fowler, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cauleen Smith,\u00a0Michael Genovese, and the estates of Dash Snow\u00a0and Robert Mapplethorpe.<\/p>\n
\n\tSpeaking to\u00a0ARTnews<\/em>, Mor\u00e1n framed the decision less as a business maneuver than a personal recalibration after nearly two decades in the art world\u2019s nonstop travel and social circuit.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWithout getting into too much detail, the process of building this gallery and in turn my career in the art world required significant personal sacrifices that I am unwilling to make anymore,\u201d he said, adding that after rebalancing his priorities \u201cit has become of paramount importance for me to be present for people that care for me and those that need me in their life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMor\u00e1n added that he sees Felix as a way to support a wider swath of the art ecosystem at a moment when many smaller and midsize galleries are under increasing financial pressure.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI put almost 20 years into championing the careers of artists, being present at every museum and gallery show, traveling around the world on this circus, providing emotional and financial support and significant opportunities to my roster of artists,\u201d he said. With Felix, whose focus is the exhibitors who show at the fair, \u201cI can pivot my energy to championing galleries and their survival and indirectly affecting and assisting a broader range of international artists.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe added: \u201cIt is also exciting for me to think about other opportunities developing over time as well.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tMor\u00e1n said he will remain connected to the gallery and \u201cinvested in its future,\u201d while Al Mor\u00e1n continues leading the business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/market\/mills-moran-leaves-moran-moran-felix-art-fair-1234785933\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HRH-pool.jpg?w=1024″] Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n\u00a0cofounder Mills Mor\u00e1n is stepping away from the day-to-day operations of the Los Angeles gallery he started with his brother, Al Mor\u00e1n. Mills Mor\u00e1n said he will instead focus his attention on\u00a0Felix Art Fair, the fair he cofounded with Al and collector Dean Valentine in 2018, running alongside Frieze Los Angeles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1942352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}