Founded in 2014, TMR works with artists, thinkers, and makers from around the globe to commission new works and projects; develop and present research-driven exhibitions; facilitate the creation of ideas through discursive initiatives; and organize moments and events that enrich what we know about art and culture.

Our program happens in a renovated industrial warehouse space at the southernmost edge of Downtown LA as well as in other venues around the city and the world. This allows us to connect Los Angeles to peoples, places, and histories well beyond its confines.

To advance our work we devise innovative support structures that respond to the inequities that too often determine who gets to make culture and for who. In challenging and expanding the function of the non-profit model we hope to boldly redefine what an independent art space can be.

Named after a performance that proposed mistakes as generative moments, we believe mistakes are ruptures of the status quo and that the discomforts we feel when we make them are but new ways of being and knowing. That is why we embrace what others deem unconventional and champion those who inspire us to think about art and culture in radical ways.