TORRANCE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS ITS summer EXHIBITIONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Studio System
From a Greek Isle
Culturide

Venue: Torrance Art Museum
Location: 3320 Civic Center Dr., Torrance, CA 90503
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 29, 2026, 6:00–9:00 p.m. (there will be no opening reception)
Exhibition Dates: August 1-19, 2026
Museum Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Torrance, CA — The Torrance Art Museum presents three exhibitions that examine artistic production, cultural exchange, and creative communities through live residency, international collaboration, and documentary film. On view from August 1 through August 29, 2026, the exhibitions invite visitors to engage with contemporary art not only as finished objects, but as an ongoing process of dialogue, experimentation, and shared experience.

MAIN GALLERY: Studio System

Now in its latest iteration, STUDIO SYSTEM continues the museum's long-running experimental residency program, first launched in 2015. Transforming the Main Gallery into a series of working studios, the exhibition dissolves the boundary between the artist's private workspace and the public museum, inviting visitors to witness the evolution of artworks as they are created.

Over the course of one month, artists will develop new work on-site while engaging directly with museum visitors. Rather than presenting completed exhibitions, STUDIO SYSTEM foregrounds experimentation, conversation, and process, offering audiences the rare opportunity to observe artistic decision-making in real time and to discuss ideas, influences, materials, and methods with the participating artists.

Featured artists include Abby Zhang, Asari Aibangbee, Bettina Weiss, Galen Cheney, Hollis Hammonds, Kevin Brophy, k0j0 (Koi Ren & Joey Verbeke), Robin Jack Sarner, and Zoè Gruni.

GALLERY TWO: From a Greek Isle

A Partnership Between Torrance Art Museum and Cycladic Arts

From a Greek Isle celebrates the continuing partnership between Torrance Art Museum and Cycladic Arts in Alyki, Paros, Greece. Established to encourage international artistic exchange, the residency provides Southern California artists with the opportunity to live and work for twenty-five days within the distinctive cultural landscape of the Cycladic Islands.

Hosted by Cycladic Arts—an artist-run space housed in a renovated traditional Cycladic home in the fishing village of Alyki—the residency emphasizes dialogue, experimentation, and cross-cultural collaboration among artists from around the world.

The exhibition presents work created through the Cycladic Arts Residency Program between 2023 and 2025 by Tom Dunn, Kim Manfredi, and Steven Wolkoff, highlighting the influence of place, cultural immersion, and international exchange on contemporary artistic practice.

DARK ROOM: CULTURIDE

CULTURIDE follows a motorcycle journey from Los Angeles to New York City and back, documenting conversations with artists, curators, and arts professionals about creativity, community, and the role of art in sustaining democracy in America.

Traversing diverse landscapes and cultural communities, the film examines how artists build connections across geographic and social boundaries while reflecting on the evolving cultural identity of the United States. The journey culminates in Brooklyn with the presentation of an exhibition before the riders begin their return trip, capturing an expansive portrait of the contemporary American art landscape through movement, dialogue, and shared experience.

About the Torrance Art Museum: 

Founded in 2005, Torrance Art Museum is the premier visual art space for contemporary art in the South Bay. The museum encourages broad public engagement through exhibitions, artist talks, lectures, and symposia. With an emphasis on contemporary artistic expression in Southern California and globally, TAM brings together artists and community members, fosters creative and critical thinking, and builds bridges between the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

Torrance Art Museum is a program of the City of Torrance Cultural Services Division of the Community Services Department.

TAM is always free and accessible to the public.

No reservations required. All programs, schedules, and locations are subject to change.
For the latest information and other museum programming, please visit TorranceArtMuseum.com.

For press info on past shows:

Winter 2024 (WESTERN VALUES | Everything You Say Can and Will be Used Against You)
Fall 2023 (SUR: Mala Muerte/Bad Death | Tony Baker)
Late Summer 2023 (BODY POLITICS | Art + Med)
Early Summer 2023 ( Bakers Dozen | Laurie-Lipton ) Spring 2023 ( Co/LAB | AnUnBurntWitch )
Early Spring 2023 ( Bridging the Pacific | FreeFall )
Winter 2022 ( Un-Civil War | Ken Friedman:92 Events )
Summer 2021 Public-Art Project ( Ultra! )
Summer 2021 Pop-Up ( Nomad )
Fall 2020 ( Baker’s Dozen, Rewilding Structures )
Summer 2020 ( Semblance Sunshine | Music to my Eyes | NewMediaFest2020 )
Winter 2020 ( DEATH CULT | Alptraum )