Torrance Art Museum
Upcoming Events (21)
FAFF 2026 - Fine Arts Film Festival
Torrance Art Museum
The 13th Annual Fine Arts Film Festival (FAFF) presented by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA), featuring 16 films from 12 countries with in-person screenings. Recognized as the world's largest art film festival, with 90 Official Selections available to stream worldwide from September 6–30.
Fall 2026 Exhibition Opening: Baker's Dozen 2026 & B-LA-M
Torrance Art Museum
Opening reception for the Fall 2026 exhibitions featuring Baker's Dozen 2026 in the Main Gallery and B-LA-M in Gallery Two & Dark Room, showcasing contemporary artists from Southern California and an international exchange between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City.
Baker's Dozen 2026
Torrance Art Museum
A survey exhibition featuring thirteen artists whose work made a positive impression on the curators over the past year, reflecting current directions in Southern California's contemporary art practices. Participating artists include Fritz Chesnut, Chelsea Culprit, Charles Hickey, and others.
B-LA-M
Torrance Art Museum
A three-year exchange between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City artist-run initiatives, featuring artists from UOOORS, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA), and Die Möglichkeit einer Insel. The exhibition culminates in a special event on October 31 and extends to various gallery spaces across Los Angeles from October 28–November 4.
Liminal Level - Site-Specific Installation by Darel Carey
Torrance Art Museum
An immersive hallway experience featuring a new site-specific Op Art tape installation by artist Darel Carey, focusing on optical perception and transforming the TAM hallway.
Baker's Dozen 2026 - Opening Night
Torrance Art Museum
Opening reception for Baker's Dozen 2026, a survey exhibition featuring thirteen artists whose work made a positive impression on the curators over the past year, reflecting current directions in Southern California's contemporary art practices.
BLAM (B-LA-M) - Opening Night
Torrance Art Museum
Opening reception for B-LA-M, a three-year exchange between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City artist-run initiatives featuring artists from UOOORS, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, and Die Möglichkeit einer Insel.
BLAM (B-LA-M)
Torrance Art Museum
A three-year international exchange exhibition between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City artist-run initiatives, now coming to Los Angeles and presented in Gallery Two & Dark Room at TAM.
B-LA-M (Berlin, Los Angeles, Mexico City)
Torrance Art Museum
A three-year exchange between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City artist-run initiatives featuring artists from UOOORS, Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA), and Die Möglichkeit einer Insel. The exhibition is part of an international cooperation project that began in Berlin in 2024.
B-LA-M Special Event
Torrance Art Museum
A special event tied to the B-LA-M exhibition featuring artist-run initiatives from Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. Takes place at Torrance Art Museum as part of the broader Los Angeles presentation.
MAS (Mutual Appreciation Society) Attack 2026
Torrance Art Museum
A one-night exhibition inviting Southern California artists to share work that reflects, resists, heals, or sheds light on the times we're living in, framed as a way to reclaim hope, connection, and strength through art.
EXILE
Torrance Art Museum
An exhibition examining California's cultural legacy through the lens of diasporic artists with roots in Islamic countries, focusing on communities displaced by geopolitical tensions from the late 70s to today. Curated by Joshua Hashemzadeh and TAM.
On the Move – Federico Uribe
Torrance Art Museum
An installation by Miami-based Colombian artist Federico Uribe featuring human and animal figures made from used luggage, clothing, and travel gear, offering a poetic reflection on displacement, memory, and the search for belonging.
Eat the Stars
Torrance Art Museum
Curated by Peter Everett, John O'Connor, and Colin Bradford, this exhibition brings together works where astronomy meets magic and field notes guide spells, exploring how artists grapple with complexity, chaos, and the unknowable. Participating artists include Fred Tomaselli, Mindy Shapero, Steve Roden, and others.
Change/Exchange – 2027 International Video Art Biennial
Torrance Art Museum
Presented by Prospect Art's 4th-WALL programming and organized by curatorial fellow Maximilian Lehner, this video art biennial invites a reimagining of change without economic exchange, amplifying practices that foster non-transactional change.
The Cabin LA Presents
Torrance Art Museum
An exhibition bringing together paintings by 50 graduates of The Cabin LA Residency, spanning the program's history from its founding in 2015 to the present, celebrating the diverse directions artists' practices have taken. Curated by Danny First and TAM.
Personal Relations
Torrance Art Museum
A touring show of miniature portraits presented in Gallery 2 alongside The Cabin LA Presents exhibition.
SUR – Slanguage 25th Anniversary Retrospective
Torrance Art Museum
Selections from the past 25 years of Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz's artist-run space and defacto art school/mentorship program headquartered in Wilmington, California.
Secret Keepers
Torrance Art Museum
An exhibition exploring the relationship between communication and secret-keeping in art, examining how artists embed personal secrets into their works—sometimes to be decoded and sometimes to remain hidden. Curated by Hallie McNeill.
Contours of Being II
Torrance Art Museum
Part two of a Norwegian/US exchange show, a collaborative project between the Møre and Romsdal Art Center in Molde, Norway, and the Torrance Art Museum, gathering artists from opposite sides of the world in an exploration of experience, form, and human presence. Curated by TAM and Jet Pascua.
A New Sincerity
Torrance Art Museum
An exhibition of contemporary Swedish artists curated by Martin Lundberg, presented in Gallery 2 alongside Contours of Being II.