Exhibitions

2025

Inklings Suite

“Irish Contemporaries III”

Center for Irish Culture, Los Angeles Bergamot Station, Santa Monica CA

“Sea Nua”

Skibbereen Arts Festival, Skibbereen, Ireland

“California Cool”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Salt Fine Art

Exhibiting at various locations throughout the year. Laguna Beach, CA

PRJCT LA

Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA

Annual Auction Long Beach Museum of Art

Long Beach, CA

2024

Ataraxia 1

“California Cool”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“Spring Exhibition”

Uillinn Art Center, Skibbereen, Ireland

“Pacific Daylight Time”

Coastline College Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

“Irish Contemporaries IV”

18 th St. Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

2023

Interlude Q

“California Dream”

Verstappen Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

“Untitled: Inanna Modern”

West Cork, Ireland

2022

TableTopTower5

“Abstract, Not Abstract”

PRJCT LA, Los Angeles, CA

“Duets with Tony Pinto”

Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
Catalogue available

“Introducing: Tom Dowling at Inanna Modern”

Uillinn, West Cork Arts Center, Skibbereen, Ireland

2021

Grid, Line, Square: Jay McCafferty, Ron Linden, Tom Dowling

“California Cool”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“An Orderly Line”

Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
Catalogue available

2019

Installation Madonna Inn

“Kitsch-in-Sync”

Curated by Bradford J. Salamon
Coastline College Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

“Couples” Tom & Lisa Dowling

Curated by Trevor Norris
Long Beach City College Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2018

Freefall

“Color Vision”

Curated by Susanne Walsh
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

2017

Chapter III

“Bookworks Artworks”

Marymount California University
Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts, San Pedro, CA

2016

Left Bank

“In the Details”

Jamie Brooks Fine Arts, Costa Mesa, CA

“Interchange”

Paul Williams Gallery, Ontario, CA

2015

Pride : The MIsunderstood Devil

“Surface to Edge”

Curated by Carl Berg
Cypress College, CA

“Orange Coast Review”

Publication Exhibition, Orange Coast College, Coast Mesa, CA

2014

Baroque Minimal

“OC Academy”

Curated by Matt May
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA

“Decay”

Curated by Sean Williams
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA

“Collage Now”

Orange County Fine Arts Storage/ Display, Anaheim, CA

“Foot High”

Project Gallery, Pomona, CA

“The Living Room”

Curated by Susanne Walsh
Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA

“Over There (And Back)”

Doyle Arts Pavilion, Orange Coast College

“Me, You, and Someone Else”

Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA

“Logan Creative”

Santa Ana, CA

“Ribba/500”

Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA

2013

Double Shuffle

“Insider Information”

Solo Exhibition, Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

“Next to Nothing”

Curated by Dave Lee
Coastline Gallery, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA

“Summer Group Show”

Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

2012

Roma II

“Summer of Abstraction”

Curated by Dave Lee
Coastline Gallery, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA

2011

Prisoner of History

“Speak for the Trees”

Curated by Andrea Harris McGee
Orange Coast College and other national locations

“La Cosa Nostra”

Rheeway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Group Show”

Nicole Villeneuve Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Group Show”

Chicago Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010

Graffiti Culture, Roma

“L’Arte Grafica, dalla Tradizione all’ Innovazione”

Terrazze di Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy

“New, Used, Borrowed”

Curated by Dave Lee
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA

“Best, A Group Show”

Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA

2009

Positano

“Ritorno a Roma”

Photographs by Tom and Lisa Dowling
Stampria del Tevere, Roma, Italy

“A Paper Show”

The Spurgeon Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

“The Bank Job”

Community Art Project, Laguna Beach, CA

“Tom Dowling – Selections from the Studio”

Chapman University, Orange, CA

“Information Age”

Lewis Math and Science Center
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

“Inner States, John Paul Jones & His Circle”

Coastline Gallery, Huntington Beach CA

“Here and Now”

@Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

“Auction 100”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2008

Madonna Inn, Installation 1

“Streets of Rome”

Photographs by Tom & Lisa Dowling
Orange Coast College Library

“Drawing Extended”

Coastline Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA

“Remembrance”

Coastline Gallery, Huntington Beach CA

“Flatland”

@Space Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

“Faculty Exhibition”

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

“Portals, Passages, & Thresholds”

In collaboration with Lisa Dowling
Memphis Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

2007

Canto V Paradiso

“Voyage”

@space gallery, Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

“Interpretations of the Heart”

In collaboration with Lisa Dowling
Amorviejo Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

“Streets”

In collaboration with Lisa Dowling
Coastline Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA

“The Madonna Inn and Other Destinations with Wall Paper”

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

“Vessel/Home”

In collaboration with Don Jennings
The Shed, Newport Beach, CA

“Dialogue with a Mentor”

In collaboration with Bradford Salamon
Community Art project, Laguna Beach, CA

“The Bird Show”

Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA

2006

On Sabbatical in Rome, Italy

2005

Tanka, for JPJ

“Reconcilable Differences”

A Collaborative Exhibition of Words & Images with the Poet Lisa Dowling
The Shed, Newport Beach, CA

“Problems With Authority”

Mentor & Mentees, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
With former students, David Michael Lee and Eric Beltz

“OCC at CSUF”

Faculty Exhibition at Cal State Fullerton, West Gallery

“Art & Architecture Tour”

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

“re:books” Artist’s Books, Manipulated and Handmade”

Ontario International Airport, Ontario, CA

2004

Still Life with Elvis 2003

“Collaborative”

Showcase Gallery, Group Show, Costa Mesa, CA

“Object of Desire”

Benefit Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“Square Blue Show”

Benefit Art Auction, Square Blue Art, Costa Mesa, CA

“OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“Red Pen: Drawings and Paintings by California Teachers and Students”

Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA

2003

American Still Life

Faculty Exhibition

Coast Community College District, Coastline College

Faculty Exhibition

Art Institute of Orange County

“Structure” A 3 Dimensional Group Show

Showcase Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

“AA21”

Benefit Art Auction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

6th Annual Valentine Auction

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

The Artists Show

BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA

2002

Easel

“Ireland Portfolio”

Photos by Tom Dowling, Coast Community College District

“Art From the Heart”

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

“Can You Take It?”

Square Blue at Bradford Gallery, Newport Beach

“Mixed Emotions”

Orange Coast College

“Abstract Ideas”

Square Blue at Bradford Gallery, Newport Beach

“AA XX”

Laguna Art Museum

“Is it Art Yet?: Altered Books and Texts”

Group Show, John Wayne Airport

“10/10”

A Benefit Art Auction, Orange County Museum of Art

2001

Information Age

“Different Strokes, A Painter’s Group Exhibition”

Orange Coast College Fine Arts Gallery

“2001 Art Odyssey”

Laguna Art Museum

2000

gallerydante

“The Spurgeon Experience”

Santa Ana Arts Complex

“All or Nothing”

Cerro Coso Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Ridgecrest, CA

1999

feather (large)

“Why 2 K Art”

Group Show, Laguna Art Museum

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College

1998

InstallGC

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College

Group Show

Laguna Art Museum

1997

Swallowtail

“Sphere of Influence”

Group Exhibition, John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA

1995

Dragonfly

Faculty Exhibition

Fullerton College

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College

Group Show

Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice and Costa Mesa, CA

1994

Information Age

“Black and White and Read All Over”

Solo Exhibition, Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA

“Inaugural Exhibition”

Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA

“Foto”

Contemporary Photography, Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA

“Art House”

Curated by Jeannie Denholm
Newport Beach, CA

1993

Alteredbook

“The Elegant, The Irreverent and the Obsessive”

A Survey of Drawing in Southern California
California State University, Fullerton College (Catalogue)

Faculty Exhibition

Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

1992

ShapedComp

Group Show

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

Faculty Exhibition

Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA

1991

Fortune Teller 1991

Group Show

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

Faculty Exhibition

Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA

1990

Witness

Solo Exhibition

Orange Coast College (Catalogue)

Faculty Exhibition

Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA

“Heal the Bay”

James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

“Novel Ideas”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

1989

ConstComp

Group Show

Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1988

Detail: Lost Magic

“Similar Means by Divergent Concerns”

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1987

Like Dying

“Art of the Matter”

B.C. Space, Laguna Beach, CA

Tom Dowling/Jan Taylor

Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

“Circa 1980”

Art Store, Newport Beach, CA

“Metamorphosis”

Pirets, Costa Mesa, CA

1986

Ashes

“In the Pink”

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Faculty Exhibition

University of California, Irvine, CA
Fine Arts Gallery (Catalogue), Irvine, CA

John Cedarquist/Tom Dowling

Southern California Institute of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

1985

Blindheart

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

1984

UCI Installation

Faculty Exhibition

Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

“The California Promise”

University of California, Irvine, CA

“Objects as Illusion”

Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, in conjunction with “Art Connection ’84” Orange, CA

1983

Untitled with Sheba 1985

“Innovative Photography”

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1982

Copper Film

“Artists Who Teach”

Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Solo Exhibition

Saddleback College North Campus, Humanities Center, Irvine, CA

1980

Lovelorn 1979

“Printmaking: Processes/Innovations”

Museum of North Orange County, Orange, CA
Claremont Graduate School, Libra Gallery, Claremont, CA
University of California, Fine Arts Gallery: Installation, Irvine, CA
L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1979

Truck Etching

University of California Irvine, Fine Arts Gallery
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Irvine, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
California Print and Drawing Exhibition, Chapman College, Orange, CA

“First Annual Masters of Fine Arts Printmaking Competition”

Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties, CA

Purchase Award

Claremont Graduate School, Libra Gallery, Claremont, Colleges

1978

Portal of Grandeur

Second Annual “Small Images Exhibition”

Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Two Person Exhibition Center Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1977

Interior Rain

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Juried Exhibition, Main Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1975

The Passenger

Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA

“23rd All City Juried Exhibition”

Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA