2023

“California Dream”
Verstappen Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

“Untitled: Inanna Modern”
West Cork, Ireland

“Irish Contemporaries II”
Contemporary Irish Art Center, Los Angeles (CIACLA)
Santa Monica, CA

“Art Reclaimed”
Huntington Beach Art Center
Huntington Beach, CA

“Verve”
A Summer Group Show
Scape Gallery (So. Calif. Artist’s Projects and Exhibitions)
Newport Beach, CA

2022

“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

“California Cool”
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

“An Orderly Line”
Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA
Catalogue available

2019

“Kitsch-in-Sync”
Curated by Bradford J. Salamon
Coastline College Gallery, Newport Beach, California

“Couples” Tom & Lisa Dowling
Curated by Trevor Norris
Long Beach City College Gallery, Long Beach, California

2018

“Color Vision”
Curated by Susanne Walsh
Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California

2017

“Bookworks Artworks”
Marymount California University
Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts
San Pedro, CA

2016

“In the Details”
Jamie Brooks Fine Arts, Costa Mesa, CA

“Interchange”
Paul Williams Gallery, Ontario, CA

2015

“Surface to Edge”
Curated By, Carl Berg, Cypress College, CA

“Orange Coast Review”
Publication Exhibition, Orange Coast College, Coast Mesa, CA

2014

“OC Academy”
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA. Curated by Matt May

“Decay”
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA. Curated by Sean Williams

“Collage Now”
Orange County Fine Arts Storage/ Display, Anaheim, CA

“Foot High”
Project Gallery, Pomona, CA. Curated by Bob Pece

“The Living Room”
Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA. Curated by Susanne Walsh

“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

“Insider Information”
Solo Exhibition, Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

“Next to Nothing”
Coastline Gallery, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Dave Lee

“Summer Group Show”
Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

2012

“Summer of Abstraction”
Coastline Gallery, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Dave Lee

2011

“Speak for the Trees”
Orange Coast College and other national locations. Curated by Andrea Harris McGee

“La Cosa Nostra”
Rheeway Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Group Show”
Nicole Villeneuve Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Group Show”
Chicago Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

2010

“L’Arte Grafica, dalla Tradizione all’ Innovazione”
Terrazze di Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy

“New, Used, Borrowed”
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Curated by Dave Lee

“Best, a Group Show”
Crussell Fine Arts, Orange, CA

2009

“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

“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

“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

“Reconcilibile Differences”
The Shed, Newport Beach, CA.
A Collaborative Exhibition of Words & Images with the Poet Lisa Dowling

“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

“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

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

“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

“Different Strokes, A Painter’s Group Exhibition”
Orange Coast College Fine Arts Gallery

“2001 Art Odyssey”
Laguna Art Museum

2000

“The Spurgeon Experience”
Santa Ana Arts Complex

“All or Nothing”
Cerro Coso Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Ridgecrest, California

1999

“Why 2 K Art”
Group Show, Laguna Art Museum

Faculty Exhibition
Orange Coast College

1998

Faculty Exhibition
Orange Coast College

Group Show
Laguna Art Museum

1997

“Sphere of Influence”
Group Exhibition, John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA

1995

Faculty Exhibition
Fullerton College

Faculty Exhibition
Orange Coast College

Group Show
Griffin Linton Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice and Costa Mesa, CA

1994

“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

“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

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

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

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

Group Show
Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1988

“Similar Means by Divergent Concerns”
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1987

“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

“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

Faculty Exhibition
Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

1984

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

“Innovative Photography”
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1982

“Artists Who Teach”
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Solo Exhibition
Saddleback College North Campus, Humanities Center, Irvine, CA

1980

“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

University of California Irvine, Fine Arts Gallery
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, Irvine, CA
California Institute of the Arts, Valenica, 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

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

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Juried Exhibition, Main Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1975

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

“23rd All City Juried Exhibition”
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA