We sat down with Founder & Director Tyler Santangelo to discuss ALLGORITHIM’s history and its current exhibition, Pictured, a group show of photography on view through April 17 at ALLGORITHIM House.
Founded in Los Angeles in September 2021, ALLGORITHIM has built a program around distinctive visual voices and forward-looking exhibition formats, launching 11 shows in its first year and expanding steadily since. Central to that model is ALLGORITHIM House, the gallery’s residential-style exhibition platform in Los Angeles. Conceived as an alternative to the white cube, the House allows work to be encountered within lived, domestic space, slowly, intimately, and without hierarchy.
Pictured brings together eleven photographers — Barto, Tui Caro-Lister, Armando Franco, Ty Joseph, Vincent Lantzy, Willow Belle, Andrew Russell, Marcus Soriano, Ethan Schlessinger, Austin Santangelo, and Kenna Wertheimer, whose practices move across documentary, portraiture, and image-making that lives between observation and intervention. The exhibition explores intimacy, memory, presence, and emotional residue through moments frozen in time. These are not images that seek spectacle. They dwell in quiet gestures, charged stillness, and the kind of fleeting human interactions that feel at once deeply personal and universally familiar.
Installed throughout ALLGORITHIM House, Pictured reflects the gallery’s ongoing commitment to work that values sincerity, vulnerability, and the subtle power of human presence.
As we close out 2025, I’ve been reflecting on how far ALLGORITHIM has come. When I started the gallery in 2021, I had no formal experience in the art world, just curiosity and a belief in artists of my generation. Over the past few years, the gallery has carried many faces, continuously morphing into a program that responds to the current moment and the ongoing evolution of the art market itself.
2025 was a year defined by contradiction. We saw widespread closures alongside a renewed boost from the bottom end of the market, and a clear sense of resilience from dealers and artists navigating genuinely testing times. In response, I leaned further into adaptability, shaping ALLGORITHIM into a hybrid system that places equal importance on digital exhibitions and in-person shows. This balance reflects the reality of the world we live in now, where the digital space is not secondary but essential to how art is experienced, shared, and collected.
At the core, our agenda has never changed: championing artists of our generation and encouraging the collecting of artists of our generation. The works pictured here represent some of my favorite moments from this year and artists I had the true pleasure of working with in 2025: Austin Hayman, Rebeca Rubalcava, Connor Meagher, Alex Breaux, Jordan Sears, Charlie Haydn Taylor, Luke Haeger, Katarina Holbrough, Eli Decker, Nicolina Morra, Samuel Elliot Phillips, Zoë Renait, Trevor Zank, Anthony Padilla, Amy Renee Webb, and Marko Ristic.
I want to extend a sincere thank you to every artist who trusted our program, and an equally heartfelt thank you to the collectors and admirers who keep the art world afloat in tandem. Cheers to a wonderful 2025, and to what’s ahead.
