Torrance Art Museum is currently closed for Installation. Please join us Saturday, March 29th from 6-9pm to celebrate the opening of our upcoming spring exhibitions: Body Counts, Envirotechnology, and Aire Libre.

A live performance featuring CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Company and vocalist Carmina Escobar, performers featured in Erin Cooney’s Aire Libre will take place in TAM’s entrance courtyard at 7 PM.


March 29 - May 24, 2025


Alison Blickle, Blue Room, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 65 x 95 inches

David DiMichele, Envirotechnology

MAIN GALLERY: Body Counts

Highlighting how figurative art, in many forms, can reflect on issues of representation, trust, group dynamics, alienation and social capital, Body Counts explores diverse artistic potentials that reflect on what can help maintain, or interrogate, society’s structures, democracy and civil rights.

Participating artists: Alison Blickle, Danie Cansino, Amir H. Fallah, Lanise Howard, Justine Otto, Duane Paul, Jose Sanchez III, Meghan Smythe, Haena Yoo

GALLERY TWO: David DiMichele - Envirotechnology

An immersive light art installation exploring the relationship between environmental issues and technology. The installation will be composed of a linear network of twisted oak branches intertwined with LED light strips that will form a kind of three-dimensional drawing in the interior space of the gallery creating a metaphor for the way technology can exist in harmony with nature rather than obliterating it.

DARK ROOM: Erin Cooney - Aire Libre

Aire Libre is a single-channel video installation about environmental injustice in South Los Angeles made in collaboration with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community advocacy group based in Commerce and Long Beach.


June 14 - July 26, 2025


 

MAIN GALLERY: Special Relationships

Painting and sculpture from London and Los Angeles that explore shared concerns and outcomes.

GALLERY TWO: Zavier Ellis

UK based artist exhibiting paintings related to political histories and social space


July 11 - July 13, 2025


OFFSITE:

TRYST The international alternative art fair will return for the 3rd edition, alongside the 4th edition of NOMAD, a giant 3 day pop-up of SoCal artists.


August 23 - September 27, 2025


MAIN GALLERY: SUR - Curator’s/Staff Picks

Founded in 2011, SUR: biennial features independently-curated exhibitions that showcase recent and newly-commissioned works by local and international artists who have been influenced by the cultures and artistic traditions of Mexico, Central & South America, and the Caribbean.

GALLERY TWO: Affective Territories, Alternate Belongings

Video and multi-media artworks from contemporary national and international artists whose current video production practice highlights technology as an extension of humankind and its desire to transcend corporeal identity. The works presented urge us to explore the increasingly entangled, unbodied, and physical worlds we take turns inhabiting so we can create new territories of belonging and develop alternate affections.

Participating Artists: Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher / United States, Camille Dumont/ Switzerland, Chrystele Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini / France, Holly Veselka / United States, Joe Harjo / United States, Laine Rettmer / United States, Margaret Noble / United States, Paul Moore / Northern Ireland (UK), Scott Massey / Canada, Sophie Dia Pegrum / British/American, Spencer Chang / United States, Woohee Cho / South Korea/ United States

This exhibition is curated and organized by Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley of Prospect Art. The project is co-created by Prospect Art’s 2023/24 Curatorial Fellow, Prima Jalichandra Sakuntabhai, and Prospect Art’s 4th-WALL program manager, Pedro Inock.


October 18 - November 29, 2025


 

MAIN GALLERY, GALLERY TWO, & DARK ROOM: London Calling!

Curated by Steve Douglas / Bod Boyle
A photography based history of the influential but largely under-represented British skateboard scene of the 1970s and the impact of skate magazines worldwide.

This exhibition will be accompanied by a continuous screening of London Calling: A Whole Era Showed Up an 80 minute documentary which chronicles the inception, creation, preparation and recollections of the ‘London Calling!’ exhibition launch, as well as accompanying events, held across London in 2023 (filmed and directed by Winstan Whitter) .


December 13, 2025


MAIN GALLERY: MAS Attack

The return of the Mutual Appreciation Society event—MAS Attack! a one-night-only pop-up exhibition that invites all artists to share work that reflects upon our times and come together as a community.