Not Shockbox art gallery - Hermosa Beach
opening soon
The Collective Breakfast Club
Gallery Open: Saturday Sept 12 and Sunday Sept 13, 10am - 7pm
The South Bay Artist Collective is kicking off its next chapter the best way we know how: with art, community, coffee, and donuts.
Join us at Not Shockboxx for a weekend-long pop-up exhibition featuring work by artists from across the SBAC community. This first gathering under the Collective’s new leadership is less about formality and more about reconnecting, meeting new artists, celebrating the community that brought us here, and setting the tone for everything ahead.
Stop by Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon for our “brunch-ish” Breakfast Club gathering, then stay for the art and conversation. The exhibition will remain open throughout the weekend.
Come for the SBAC art and community. Stay for the donuts and coffee. Everyone is welcome.
Featured artists: (coming soon)
opening in october
The Forgotten Circus
An Haunted Art Experience
Fridays: Oct 2, Oct 9, Oct 16, Oct 23, Oct 30
This October, the lights flicker back on as Not Shockboxx transforms into The Forgotten Circus, a highly produced haunted art experience filled with immersive installations, sinister performers, and a twisted gallery maze built to pull you deeper into a big top that should have stayed buried.
Beyond the entrance, the remnants of an old circus wait in the dark. Faded music drifts through the air. Shadows move behind threadbare curtains. Forgotten performers linger where the spotlight once found them, still desperate for one last audience. As you wander deeper into the decaying big top, the line between spectacle and nightmare begins to disappear, and the circus seems less abandoned with every step. If you find your way out of the maze, the evening continues next door inside The Studio, where games, strange diversions, and other sideshow fun await.
Presented by Not Shockboxx and The Studio
Creative Direction by Mark “Debo” DiBenedetto
Produced in collaboration with Boomz Pharm and Geist Monster Media Experience
Curators Joel Geist and Claudia Berman
opening in november
Resonance
Nov 14-15, 2026
(more information coming soon)
opening in december
Hot Mess
Dec 3-19, 2026
(more information coming soon)
new on Artsy
Art is Keeping us Alive
Featured Now
Independent art spaces don’t survive on their own. They survive because artists, collectors, and community decide they matter.
This exhibition is exactly that.
“Art Is Keeping Us Alive” brings together artists who have donated work to help sustain Not Shockboxx — a queer-owned, artist-forward gallery built for bold, strange, thoughtful work that doesn’t always fit neatly inside traditional systems.
Every piece in this exhibition was contributed in support of keeping this weird little art space alive.
Featured artists: Adele French, Amanda Santos, D R E W S, Anjalé, Annabelle Anderson, Charise Mirabal, Claudia Berman, D Farse, Devon Sharon, e . y . reilly, Emily Tanaka, Fei Alexander, Francziska Steagall, James Frost, James Thatcher, Jennifer R. Myhre, Jessica Accamando, John Teague, Kate Pickle, Kevin Perrault, Leigh Witherell, Oana Gamlowski, Sam Homan, Vince Quevedo.
Exhibitions
About
Not Shockboxx Gallery is a small but mighty contemporary art gallery in Hermosa Beach built for fearless work, creative risk and artists who don’t always fit neatly inside traditional systems.
We grew out of the legendary Shockboxx gallery and remain grateful for the unconventional spirit and community it created. But Not Shockboxx is its own beautiful mess, with new voices, new ideas and an expanding mission centered on supporting artists.
Through our exhibitions, Gallery Artist program, Backboxx Artist Society and South Bay Artist Collective, we create opportunities for artists to show and sell their work, build meaningful relationships, collaborate and become part of a stronger creative community.
We’re here to make space for bold, strange and thoughtful art—and to see where it takes us.
Gallery owner Jessica Accamando with Gallery Manager Carin Ohara.