LnS Gallery Launches 2025 Season with “TEASE The Season” and Solo Exhibition by T. Eliott Mansa
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5 | Coconut Grove
Event Details:
Opening Reception: TEASE The Season & Mementos of the Sun by T. Eliott Mansa
Date: Friday, September 5, 2025
Time: 6 – 9 PM
Venue: LnS Gallery
Address: 2610 SW 28th Lane, Miami, FL 33133
LnS Gallery warmly invites the public to its First Friday Reception on Friday, September 5, from 6 to 9 PM, celebrating the start of its 2025 exhibition calendar. The evening features “TEASE The Season,” a vibrant group presentation of represented artists, offering an energetic preview of the gallery’s upcoming program. The reception will take place at LnS Gallery, 2610 SW 28th Lane, Miami, FL 33133.
In tandem with the collective showcase, LnS Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition of the season: Mementos of the Sun by acclaimed Miami-based artist T. Eliott Mansa. The exhibition emerges from four years of personal transformation and creative introspection. Known for his evocative use of found materials and repurposed objects, Mansa constructs poetic assemblages that speak to memory, mourning, resilience, and collective healing.
With this powerful body of work, Mansa invites viewers into an emotional landscape shaped by lived experience, cultural legacy, and a search for spiritual grounding—offering artworks that resonate as both personal altars and shared symbols of remembrance.
Join us for an evening of dialogue, reflection, and discovery as we celebrate a new chapter in Miami’s contemporary art scene.
T. Eliott Mansa: Mementos of the Sun
Mementos of the Sun: A Prelude in Shared Purpose
by Sergio Cernuda
Mementos of the Sun by T. Eliott Mansa, emerges as a result of four years of deep reflection and personal exploration. Vis a vis works assembled from everyday materials and found objects—repurposed and transformed—Mansa offers a glimpse into his truth, accordingly conveying a profound narrative of memory, mourning, and resilience while inviting a shared experience of emotion, connection, and solace.
Mansa’s innovative approach to assemblage where unconventional elements are gathered with specific intention, echoes the layered aesthetics of roadside memorials, Southern vernacular sculpture, and West African ritual traditions. Drawing on cross-cultural iconography—navigation charts, ritual artifacts, and ancestral symbols—Mansa expands the language of materiality to honor the endurance and sacrifices of the African diaspora. A testament and visual poetry, Mementos of the Sun brings viewers into a sacred space where materials hold remembrance and history is embedded in every texture. In Mansa’s hands, these assemblages become both an homage to the past and an assertion of presence.
About the Artist
T. Eliott Mansa (b. 1977, Miami, FL) is a multidisciplinary artist creating assemblages, paintings, and sculptures. Mansa’s intention is to trigger the radical imagination of viewers, encouraging them to subvert the status quo and find socio-political agency in their own communities. The artist attended the Yale School of Art (2013) and received his MFA from CUNY Hunter College (2018). He received the Creator Award from Oolite Arts (2019, 2022) and the Miami Foundation (2019), and in 2020 had his debut solo presentation at LnS Gallery titled, For Those Gathered in the Wind, (December 2, 2020 – February 27, 2021) a sobering exhibition centered around themes Black mourning and grief in response to racism and extrajudicial violence. T. Eliott Mansa was awarded residencies include the five-week Home + Away residency through Oolite Arts at Artpace in San Antonio, Texas (March 2021), and a studio at Oolite Arts in Miami Beach, FL (2020 – 2022). Mansa’s work forms part of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Miami, FL, and The African American Museum of the Arts, Deland, FL. The artist lives and works in Miami, FL.
T.ELIOTT MANSA
Born in 1977 in Miami, FL
Lives/Works in Miami, FL
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Hunter College, New York – 2018
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT – 2013
B.F.A. University of Florida/New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL – 2000
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (3 semesters of coursework)
PROFESSORS
Hunter College
Nari Ward
Carrie Moyer
Juan Sanchez
Drew Beattie
Daniel Bozhkov
Lisa Corinne Davis
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Thomas Weaver
Yale School of Art
Robert Storr
Robert Reed
Sam Messer
Rochelle Feinstein
Byron Kim
Anoka Faruqee
William Villalongo
Sarah Oppenheimer
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Pérez Art Museum, Miami – Miami, FL
The African American Museum of the Arts – Deland, FL
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
The Collection of Jorge & Darlene Pérez
The Ricardo Pau-Llosa Collection
The Collection of Recording Artist KRS-ONE
The Collection of Carter Wiggins LCSW, SAP
The Collection of Linda Adler
The Collection of Rosario Martinez-Cañas
The Collection of Andrew and Penny Needle
AWARDS
Thalheimer Scholarship from the Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
2019 Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami Foundation
2022 Creator Award from Oolite Arts and the Miami Foundation
RESIDENCIES
Oolite Arts 2020 Studio Resident
Miami, FL
Bakehouse Art Complex
Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Room for the Living/Room for the Dead
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2021
T. Eliott Mansa: On Memory and the Radical Black Imagination
Arts and Culture Center / Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Ethnobotanical Negotiations of Cultural Space: On Samara’s Wing
Frank Art Gallery,Pembroke Pines, FL
2020
For Those Gathered in the Wind
LnS Gallery, Miami, FL
2017
WOTY 1.2, New Work by T. Eliott Mansa
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, East Harlem, NY
2013
BFI Presents T. Eliott Mansa
Bas Fisher Invitational, Miami, FL
2011
Looking Into the Fish Bowl
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Mary Don’t You Weep/Martha Don’t You Moan
African American Museum of the Arts, Deland, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
And the record of the time PT3
Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
At The Edge
Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
2019
Reconstructing Identity
Miami Museum of the African Diaspora, Miami, FL
Notices of a Mutable Terrain
Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL
Radio Silence
The Project Space, Fat Village, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Reconstructing Identity
Historic Ward Rooming House, Miami, FL
Ever Upward
Collar Works, Troy, NY
2017
Art on Paper
Amadlozi Gallery, Miami, FL
2016
Alumni Series: Painting
New World Gallery, Miami, FL
2015
My Big Black America
Rush Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Resurgence – Works from the Collection
Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL
Shades of Black II
Little Haiti Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2013
For Ed; Splendour in the Grass
Green Hall Gallery at Yale University, New Haven, CT
Water Rites
Audrey Love Gallery at Bakehouse, Miami, FL
44
Evolve the Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Black History Month Exhibition
Amodlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
2012
Annual Kuumba Kwanzaa Art Exhibition
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Puro
Coconut Grove Museum, Miami, FL
INK
Mandarin Oriental, Miami, FL
Smash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Midsummer’s Night Dream Part 2
Warehouse Alternative Space, Miami, FL
Young Blood: Homecoming
ArtSeen, Miami, FL
The 12th Annual Oscar Thomas Memorial People’s Art Exhibit
Amadlozi Gallery, African Heritage Cultural Center, Miami, FL
Art and Real Life: The Last Works of Master Artist Purvis Young
The Purvis Young Art Museum, Miami, FL
Legacy Magazine Black History Month Exhibit
Downtown Macy’s, Miami, FL
Artist Showcase from the African Diaspora
Majestical Lips, Miami, FL
Slavery to Self Determination
University of Miami CAS Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
2011
80 Inches of Art
The Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
Art Fallout
Girls’ Club Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Smash and Grab
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Young Blood: So Fresh
Flagler Art Space, Miami, FL
Secrets, Regrets, Joys & Truths
The Christopher Miro Gallery, Miami, FL
In Black and White
The Ladder Room Art Gallery, Miami, FL
Xerox as a Verb
Tomm El Saih Presents, Miami, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Continued)
2010
I’m from Miami *****!!!
Zona Verde, Miami, FL
Natural Selection
Hunter Gallery, Miami, FL
Crossing the Line
Buena Vista Building, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
Young Blood; New Wave
ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
2009
Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself
David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Rock(y) Bullwinkle
Studio 10o3, Miami, FL
1996
Dakar
Gallery 918, Baltimore, MD
ART FAIRS
2017
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2016
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2015
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2014
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2013
Prizm Art Fair
Miami, FL
2012
artAfrica
Miami, FL
The Historic Lyric Theater
Miami, FL
2011
artAfrica
Miami, FL
The Historic Lyric Theater
Miami, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
“Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora Hosts Pop-Up Exhibition this June” (with artist T.Elliot Mansa), featured in Hy-Lo News, June 8, 2019, Web
2013
Tshida, Anne “T Eliott Mansa Earns Street Cred for Miami’s Urban Artists”, WLRN, 2, May 2013, Web
Saati, Briana “Miami Artist T. Eliott Mansa’s Talent Propels him to Yale and Beyond”, The Miami New Times, 26, April 2013 web
2012
Mc Nair, D. Kevin, “Rising Artist to be Featured at Art Africa Exhibit: Native Son T. Eliott Mansa Uses Art to Showcase Scenes from the Hood” The Miami Times, November 28, 2012
Jenkins Fields, Dorothy, “Overtown Will Participate in Art Basel”, The Miami Herald, November 25, 2012
2011
Mc Nair, D. Kevin, “Art Africa Miami Debuts in Overtown”, The Miami Times, December 8, 2011
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, “The GUILD, eight Miami artists, pushes art ahead at the Ladder Room, Miami New Times, April 21, 2011
Batet, Janet, “Guild: renacimiento del gremio en el siglo XXI?” (Guild Renaissance XXI century?), El Nuevo Herald, April 17, 2011
Pau-Llosa, Ricardo, “The Emergence of GUILD”, The Ladder Room Art Gallery Series Catalogue, 2011
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