Sports in Contemporary Art & We Are Minnesota: Art as Resistance

The Torrance Art Museum has opened of their summer exhibitions: CHAMPIONS!: Sports in Contemporary Art and We Are Minnesota: Art as Resistance.

Museum Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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, 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 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, 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.