MAIN GALLERY: CHAMPIONS! - Sports in Contemporary Art

CHAMPIONS!: Sports in Contemporary Art explores the cultural power of sports through the lens of contemporary art. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture, and video, the exhibition examines athletics as a space where identity, competition, spectacle, and community converge. The artists in CHAMPIONS! engage themes of nationalism, celebrity, politics, gender, media, and personal ambition, using sport as a metaphor for broader social and cultural dynamics. Bringing together artists from around the world, the exhibition invites viewers to consider what it means to compete, to belong, and to be a champion.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Bhakti Baxter, Chris Beas,  Cato, Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp, Generic Art Solutions, Tabitha Jussa, Mie Olise Kjærgaard, Christine Sun Kim, David Leapman, Haim Levac, Nica Moura, Joshua Nazario Lugo, Julian Pace, Atilio Pernisco, Cheryl Pope, Robin Rhode, Gary Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas, Mike Vegas, Wendy White

GALLERY TWO: We Are Minnesota: Art as Resistance

This exhibition brings together artworks and protest ephemera responding to the wave of ICE operations and political unrest that unfolded in Minnesota earlier this year. Including a large selection of posters and artworks from the ArtYouHeart and Rebel Loon Archives, as well as screen-printed t-shirts, hats, video, and general ephemera that are continually distributed to the public, are on view functioning as both historical record and as tools of resistance. Created by artists from Minnesota and beyond, these works reflect urgent acts of solidarity, mutual aid, and collective dissent in support of immigrant communities and neighbors under threat. Curated by Mark Fisher.

Liminal Level: an immersive hallway experience featuring a new site-specific installation by artist Darel Carey.

Darel Carey is a visual artist focusing on optical perception. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016. His Optical Art (Op Art) includes immersive tape installations, painted murals, and digital art.  The demand for his crowd-pleasing work has been in demand in recent years, with installations at art institutions around the world and featured in major commercial ad campaigns.

Darel’s previous hallway installations for TAM include DIMENSIONALIZATION (2018-2019) and COALESCENCE (2019-2024).