TORRANCE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS ITS summer EXHIBITIONS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHAMPIONS!: Sports in Contemporary Art
We Are Minnesota: Art as Resistance

Venue: Torrance Art Museum
Location: 3320 Civic Center Dr., Torrance, CA 90503
Dates: June 6 – July 18
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 6, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Torrance, CA — Torrance Art Museum presents two major summer exhibitions: CHAMPIONS!: Sports in Contemporary Art and We Are Minnesota: Art as Resistance. Together, the exhibitions examine the ways communities form through collective identity, public expression, and acts of solidarity.

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.

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, Phillip Okonma, Julian Pace, Atilio Pernisco, Cheryl Pope, Robin Rhode, 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 Operation Metro Surge, the wave of ICE actions 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, 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.

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 )