Torrance Art Museum curatorial projects:
July 2012 - curated Bakers Dozen IV – 12 Curators and Max Presneill select one artist each:Max Presneill (TAM) – William KaminskiGrace Kook Anderson (Laguna Art Museum) – Madison WebbCarl Berg (Irvine Fine Arts Center) - Neha ChoksiScott Canty (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) – Jorge OswaldoMiki Garcia (Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum) – Ry RocklenJulie Joyce (Santa Barbara Museum of Art) – April StreetLisa Melandri (Santa Monica Museum of Art) - Max JansonsAram Moshayedi (Redcat) - Fiona ConnorPilar Tompkins Rivas (18th Street Arts Center) - Sandra de la LozaJohn Spiak (Grand Central Arts Center) - Sean C. FlahertyTyler Stallings (UCR Culver Center for the Arts & Sweeney Art Gallery) - Brandon LattuAandrea Stang (MOCA) - Robert FontenotIrene Tsatsos (Armory Pasadena) -
April 2012 - curated Between The KnowingBrian Bosworth, Rick Cluchey, Zoe Crosher, Steve DeGroodt, Julian Faulhaber, Beth Lipman, Renata Lucas, Chuck Moffit, Daniel Nevers, Sara Ramo, Al Taylor, Richard Tuttle
January 2012 - To Live And Paint In LA, curated by Max Presneill and Jason RamosJonathan Apgar, Rebecca Campbell, Daniela Campins, Alika Cooper, Noah Davies, Tomory Dodge, Asad Faulwell, Jon Flack, Yvette Gellis, Iva Gueorguieva, Mary Addison Hackett, Carlson Hatton, Thomas Whittaker Kidd, Andy Kolar, Constance Mallison, Allison Miller, John Mills, Aaron Noble, Antonio Puleo, Alison Rash, Nano Rubio, Conrad Ruiz, John Seal, Ryan Sluggett, Comora Tolliver, Chris Trueman, Miller Updegraff, Grant Vetter, Ben White
July 2011 - curated Baker’s Dozen with artists; Chor Boogie, Joshua Callaghan, Erin Cosgrove, Martin Durazo, Amir H Fallah, Alexandra Grant, Annie Lapin, Tom Lawson, Nathan Mabry, John Millei, Robert Olsen, Britton Tolliver, Peter Wu.
May 2011 - curated TELEPHONE
Eric Yahnker, Ginny Cook, Chris Peters, Julie Orser, Vincent Ramos, Elana Mann, Adam Overton, Margaret Wappler, Andrew Choate, Jeanne Hoel, Madison Brookshire, Alexandra Cuesta, Ben Rodkin, Vera Brunner-Sung, Victor Hu, Tanya Rubbak, William Ransom, Oona Gardner, Christian Tedeschi, Julie Schustack, Thomas Muller, Margaret Griffith, Jamison Carter, Phung Huynh, David Yamamoto, Julia Paull, Shelby Roberts, Betsy Seder, Daniel Ingroff, Christine Frerichs, Asher Hartman, Haruko Tanaka, Patrick Strand, Marisa Sayler, James E Anderson, Ariane Vielmetter, Mike Hernandez, Melissa Manfull, Alexander Kroll, Renee Petropoulos
The Future Can Wait presents: Polemically SmallCurated by Zavier Ellis, Edward Lucie-Smith, Max Presneill & Simon Rumley:Henny Acloque, Alexander Adams, Dale Adcock, Dominic Allan, Jonathan Baldock, Angela Bartram, Paul Becker, Kiera Bennett, Emma Bennett, Shane Bradford, Billy Childish, Claire de Jong, Tom Doran, Zavier Ellis, Nadine Feinson, Nick Fox, Rose Gibbs, Stewart Gough, Steve Green, Andrea Gregson, David Hancock, Christopher Hanlon, Andy Harper, James Howard, Luke Jackson, Sam Jackson, Monica Ursina Jäger, James Jessop, Jasper Joffe, Annie Kevans, Rebecca Kressley, Ansel Krut, Peter Lamb, Cathy Lomax, Robert Luzar, Alastair Mackie, Alan McQuillan, Hugh Mendes, Jock Mooney, Kieran Moore, Jost Muenster, Nika Neelova, Gavin Nolan, Margaret O'Brien, Tim Parr, Claire Pestaille, Harry Pye, Ged Quinn, Danny Rolph, Miho Sato, Stuart Semple, Benjamin Senior, Dominic Shepherd, Jamie Shovlin, John Stark, Nessie Stonebridge, Kate Street, Charles Thomson, Erik Tidemann, Gavin Tremlett, James Unsworth, Covadonga Valdes, Alex Virji, Stephen Walter, Christian Ward, Miranda Whall, Hannah Wooll
March 2011 - Gateway Japan, curated with Yuko Waukaume
Artists: Masaru Aikawa, Taku Anekawa, Shusuke Ao, Jocelyn Foye, Shingo Francis, Gajin Fujita, Tomoo Gokita, Yuki Hashimoto, Mitsuko Ikeno, Ichiro Irie, Minako Kumagai, Gil Kuno, Nobuhito Nishigawara, Satoshi Saegusa, Keiko Sakamoto, Akira Shikiya, Macha Suzuki, Devon Tsuno, Akihiro Yasugi, Kenichi Yokono, Yuki Yoshida
*January 2011 - Curated What's New Pussycat? (with Tim Nye) at Torrance Art Museum with Peter Alexander, Lisa Bartleson, Edith Baumann, Larry Bell, Walead Beshty, Juan Capistran, Mary Corse, Laddie John Dill, Spencer Finch, David French, Brian Getnick, Steve Hough, Kristin Klosterman, Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, Andy Moses, Bruce Nauman, Claudia Parducci, Ed Ruscha and Brian Wills.
* September 2010 - Curated Baker's Dozen II with Yorgo Alexopoulos, Juan Capistran, Walpa D'Mark, Daniel Dove, Brian Getnick, Gustavo Godoy, Hannah Greely, Elizabeth Higgins O'Connor, Kori Newkirk, Joshua Podoll, Ry Rocklen, Analia Saban, Jill Spectre.
* July 2010 - Curated The Rise of RAD with Juan Azipitarte, Steven Bankhead, Sandow Birk, Olafur Eliason, Shaun Gladwell, Johnston Foster, Katharina Grosse, Lia Halloran, Andrew Lewicki, Albert Oehlen, Paul Rusconi, Matthew Schenning, Josh Smith, Thaddeus Strode,
* May 2010 - Curated Set Theory with Roland Reiss, Dion Johnson, Brad Eberhard, Dawn Arrowsmith, Lisa Adams, Terri Friedman, Jacci Den Hartog, Aitor Lajarin, Enid Baxter Blader, Dean DeCocker, Kristi Lippire, Margaret Adachi, Wendell Gladstone, Jason Eoff, Michael Salerno.
* March 2010 - Curated Looking out fearfully upon the confined deep, with Ryan Taber
* January 2010 - Curated The Reflected Gaze with Justin Bower, Chuck Close, Emily Counts, Ariel Erestingcol, Mark Greenwold, Julie Heffernan, Damien Hirst, Per Huttner, KAWS, Tom LaDuke, Hung Liu, Jennifer Nehrbass, Gavin Nolan, Fahamu Pecou, Dane Picard, Frank Ryan, Peter Sudar, Terri Thomas, Holly Topping, Alexandra Wiensenfeld, Cindy Wright, Liat Yossifer.
* November 2009 - Curated ZOOM with David Adey, Kelly Barrie, York Chang, Allison Cortson, Roni Feldman, Tony Maher, Daniel Nevers, Nobu Nishigawara, Andrew Schoultz, Christina Shurts, Ali Smith, Cheryl Sorg
*September 2009 - Curated Baker's Dozen with Ann Diener, Mark Dutcher, McLean Fahnestock, Aragna Ker, Chuck Moffit, Jared Pankin, Matthew Picton, Tia Pulitzer, Nathan Redwood, Allison Schulnik, , Keith Walsh, Augusta Wood, Eric Yahnker