FAMA, Fiber Artists Miami Association

WE ARE AN ARTIST-INITIATED GROUP THAT EDUCATES, ADVANCES AND ELEVATES TEXTILE TRADITIONS, AND CONTEMPORARY FIBER TECHNIQUES.

WE PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE EXCELLENCE IN THE CREATION, EXPERIENCE, AND

SUPPORT OF THE ARTS FOR THE ENRICHMENT OF OUR TOTAL COMMUNITY.

OUR GOAL IS THE EDUCATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE FIBER ARTS MEDIUM.

The Red String of Japan is a myth that explains human relations and how people are all predestined to meet by a red string that the gods tie to the pinky fingers of those who find each other in life. The myth states that a string will lead them to other persons with whom they will make history. Fiber artists Aurora Molina, Evelyn Politzer, and Alina Rodriguez-Rojo are kin spirits in textiles whose paths have become entangled in this conductive red string.

The COVID-19 paradoxes at play brought the three artists together in organizing socially engaged virtual workshops that united people using the healing power of thread-based work. During the months of confinement, quarantine, and the time our city was closed, several artists gathered online to console each other and reconnect. The group formed a link through daily embroidery, weaving, and recyclable materials workshops. This daily communion was the impetus or the ultimate trigger for Molina, Politzer, and Rojo to mobilize and create FAMA. 

The idea for FAMA was an intuit conception when Rojo and Politzer simultaneously reached out to Molina with the same concept for an artist initiative. In three months, FAMA held its first exhibition at The CAMP in Miami with 40 artists, most of whom are women and ranging from eleven different nationalities. “40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse” was curated by The CAMP Gallery owner Melanie Prapopoulos and staff. Fama surpassed the 100 member mark by its first anniversary in July 2021.

FAMA is a recipient of the Art in Public Places Committee and Cultural Arts Council, to participate in Miami Beach Open House in 2021. FAMA members participated in the Warp and Weft exhibition in Pembroke Pines in the summer of 2021. FAMA is collaborating with the CAMP Gallery to host a retrospective of an outsider textile artist in September 2021. FAMA will host Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse- The Quilt during the month of October 2021 and Talking Threads: Dialogues with Weavers and Knotters of South Florida Exhibition, curated by Rebecca Dunham at the Esther B. O’Keeffe Gallery Building at The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FLorida. 

FAMA is currently presenting Threading the City, a citywide fiber arts event.

UNITED FOR THE FIBER ARTS

AURORA MOLINA

Aurora Molina Co-founder of FAMA received her Associate of Arts in Visual Arts from Miami-Dade College, a Bachelors in Fine Arts specializing in Fiber Arts from Florida International University, and a MFA in Contemporary Art at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. She currently resides in Miami, Florida, where she works as a full-time artist and is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery.

ALINA RODRIGUEZ-ROJO

Alina Rodriguez is a Miami-based artist/ museum educator/Curriculum Support Specialist and visual arts educator for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. She has intersected her 30 years teaching profession to embrace all her passions: textiles, visual arts, curatorial work, arts education, and now a co-founder of FAMA.

EVELYN POLITZER

Evelyn Politzer lives and works in Miami, Florida. Following her passion for fibers, she graduated from Parsons School of Design in NYC and has an MFA from MIU. Through her work, Politzer expands our appreciation of fiber arts and the techniques of knitting and crochet as artistic form and now is committed to advanced fiber as a co-founder of FAMA.

SUSAN FELICIANO

Susan Feliciano is an artist, educator, and poet. … A native of New York, Feliciano attended Florida International University where she received a BA (1992), BFA (2001) and MS (2005). Feliciano is an Adjunct Professor at Florida International University’s Art and Art History program and the Director of Inkimaru Studio.

SILVANA SORIANO

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Silvana Soriano is a visual artist currently based in Miami, Florida. Soriano has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Brazil, Spain, France, USA and Cuba since 1984, including having her work featured at Pinta Miami Art Fair

NANCY BILLINGS

Nancy Billings, a New York native is a Coconut Grove, Florida based artist andteacher. She received her  BFA in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute. Her movement from fashion design to fiber art was a natural transition using the same medium in new and innovative ways.

WINDY CHIEN

Artist Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child’s hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Windy’s book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.

KHADIJAH CYPRESS

lives on the Miccosukee reservation and has been doing patchwork for the last six years after learning the craft techniques from her grandmother. In July 2018 she founded the Miccosukee Creativity Center—a community center on the reservation to foster the traditions of patchwork in her tribe while helping community members learn patchwork, beadwork, baskets and other crafts. 

LAURA VILLAREAL

Born in Monterrey, Mexico (1971). Works and lives in Miami, USA.Laura initiated her art studies at the University of North Carolina, the New York School of Visual Arts  and the Art Students’ League in NYC. She holds a MFA in Analysis and Management of Contemporary Art from the University of Barcelona. 

LAETITIA ‘LAETI’ ADAM-RABEL

Laeti is a Haitian-American artist living in Miami, Florida.  She uses various art media to address social and personal issues such as global warming and rising sea levels, blackness,  feminism, and acceptance.  She uses painting, textile arts, photography, illustration, videography, sound art and other media to portray beauty, while conveying her sometimes painful emotions.

ALISSA ALFONSO

Alissa Alfonso creates work that honors the natural world by repurposing found materials to reflect both the abundance and waste characteristics of modern life. Her pieces celebrate the freedom inherent in nature, recognize lost and disappearing landscapes, and warn of a future in which nature can no longer heal itself.

ANNA BIONDO

Anna Biondo was born in São Paulo in 1975, where she lived and finished a Bachelor
degree in Art and Design from Fine Arts University, a degree in Visual Art from Santa
Marcelina University mentored by Leda Catunda. She also has collage classes at Parque Lage and is currently attending a Master Degree in Analytical Psychology at Freedom Institute.
Since 1998, Anna Biondo has applied layered swathes of colors to her malleable artworks.
The college; reliefs mixed with the cutouts, folds, lines, the ambiguous shape, and always in motion. Geometrically abstractions and figurative with a sense of mobility while also allowing interplay between ideas of subtraction and perception.
 

MARU ULIVI

Maru Ulivi is a mixed media artist with studies in textile art, photography, and collage, focusing on women issues and stories, thoughts, and soul.
Her vision for art is to open possibility and connect sensibilities through human experiences. Ulivi has published two books: “Cages” and “Silence hurts more,” where I have interviewed more than 300 women who have opened their hearts and told me their stories. 

JACKELINE ROCH

Born in Los Angeles, California and raised on Miami Beach, FL, Jacqueline Roch is an artist whose work is best described as “tropical realism.” Her work is highly distinctive with bold color choices and contrasts. Layering pastels to create complex colors, she’s able to achieve a quality that’s reminiscent of an oil painting. Influenced by her love of nature and the tropics, Jacqueline’s work is meant to inspire those who see it to “stop for a minute, slow down and see the good and beautiful in every day.”

SYLVIA YAPUR

Yapur is a Mixed Media artist who intuitively incorporates different materials needed for her textile work. She connects with the special environment created by threads, fabrics, scissors, chalk, measuring tapes and sewing machines that she had been exposed to throughout her childhood. She comes from a family of tailors and has been quite easy for her to fuse textile  with new technologies. Yapur’s aesthetic language is primarily centered on the creation of collages, using diverse techniques.

ANGELA BOLAÑOS

Angela Bolaños is a Honduran born artist living in Miami, FL. Her process-driven creative practice makes use of textiles, reflective surfaces, found objects, traditional media and experimental techniques. Inspired by organic shapes often juxtaposed with geometric shapes, patterns and paper collage, the physicality of her work seduces the viewer with its rich texture, ebullient colors and expressive movement. The creative journey of her work represents physical expressions of her continuous search into concepts of identity, perception, and the passing of time.

REGINA JESTROW

Regina Jestrow is a New York-born, Miami-based visual artist. Her mother taught her how to sew when she was a child, and she’s has utilized these skills throughout her practice. Jestrow’s artwork explores her ongoing interests in women’s history and American quilt pattern traditions. Jestrow’s research has led her to develop a body of work that includes painting, drawings, textiles, fibers, and sculptural installations.

AMY GELB

Amy Gelb was born in New York City and grew up in South Miami.  She studied at NYU where she earned a BFA at Tisch School of the Arts in Drama and a Masters in Clinical Social Work.  Amy is a multimedia artist and photographer whose work examines the fabric of the female story and the layers that weave us to our past, to each other, and to our potential futures. 

VALERIE LUSTGARTEN

Valerie Lustgarten began exploring gestural painting 13 years ago, actively researching different mediums through which to communicate important ideas. For the past few years, she has pursued the goal of delving into what she calls a variety of medium, mini-intensive “internships”. The pandemic has inspired Lustgarten to explore new mediums such as photography and fiber-art through which to express her ideas.

CASSANDRA BOZMAN

Cassandra is a fiber artist studying on full scholarship to pursue a career in the visual arts. Recipient of the Scholastic KCAI’ 23. Visual artist YoungArts, 2019. Scholastics, 2019. NWSA 19. YoungArts has hosted several exhibitions by YoungArts master teachers, winners and alumni, including Derrick Adams, Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Arsham and Hernan Bas. Cassandra was a grant recipient of an artist residency to Xela, Guatemala in 2019 to study backstrap weaving.

JEANNE JAFFE

A multidisciplinary artist who moved to Florida in 2017 from Philadelphia where she was Professor of Sculpture at the University of the Arts. Jeanne primarily creates interactive installations which reexamine cultural stories, myths, and histories as well as sculptural work often made from cast paper fibers.

DEBORA ROSENTAL

Debora is a weaver and lover of colors, textures, and the challenges each new project brings. Lives and works in Miami, Florida. Has been weaving for more than 30 years, but it was not until recent years that she took her hobby to a different level introducing different techniques and natural dyeing to her weaving.

ABBEY CHASE

A native Miamian, Abbey Chase is the principal of Chase Marketing Group, a multi-faceted event planning, and association management company. She prides herself on being the daughter of an artist and the mother of an artist! Abbey began her journey in fiber arts with a major commission for a Bargello needlepoint installation in her 20s, designing a line of felt puppets, embroidering children’s sweaters for decades, and now immersing herself in modern and abstract quilt design. 

KARLA KANTOROVICH

Karla Kantorovich is a mixed media artist from Mexico based in Miami, FL. She works with paintings, fibers, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality as a way of exploring renewal. She recently completed her MFA from FIU while actively showcasing her work on multiple international platforms.

MARLENE KOHN

My fascination with texture has led me to explore an endless range of surfaces from canvas and thread to wood and metal. I like to experiment with found materials such as twigs, nails, and roofing paper. I enjoy the challenge of using materials originally meant for something else. My artwork involves shapes, lines, patterns, flowers, and motifs that derive from influences such as textiles and nature. My goal is to take the viewer on a special journey every time they look at my art. If each person walks away with a distinct impression and experience from viewing my work, then my mission has been accomplished.

YOLANDA SANCHEZ

Yolanda is a visual artist, curator, and writer with an MFA in painting from Yale University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Florida State University.   Most recently, she served as the Director of Miami International Airport’s Fine Arts & Cultural Affairs, a post she held for 21 years. Yolanda’s textile work is inspired by a Korean art form, known as Bojagi.  In its traditional practice, the stitching and seams create linear elements that are employed as components of the design and are what distinguishes Bojagi from patchwork textiles found in other traditions.  In her 

LIENE BOSQUE

Liene Bosquê holds an MFA in Fiber and Materials Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the São Paulo State University, and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University both in Brazil. Bosquê’s installations, sculptures, site-specific projects, as well as socially engaged practice works have been exhibited in museums and galleries In the United States at MoMA PS1 in New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, MOCA North Miami, among other places. 

PIP BRANDT

Brant has degrees in painting from the University of Montana  (BFA) and the University of Wyoming. (MFA). She has lived and worked in Montana, Wyoming, London, England, and Missouri and in 1999 moved to Florida to take a studio teaching position at Florida International University.   

Her subversive works executed in a variety of media, including fibers, painting and performance have been exhibited nationally and internationally. This introduction to the subversive use of found cloth and the needle arts has affected her art-making as well as her teaching.  Brant offers a fibers course as well as teaching painting at FIU.

SHELLY MCCOY

Shelly McCoy always having a passion for art, she received her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1986, majoring in Painting. Later she received her MFA in Education from FIU. Her work in general is experimental in nature ranging from relief mixed media pieces to three dimensional objects comprised of a wide range of materials from the traditional color pencils to the non-traditional asphalt as in her most recent work.

VERO MURPHY

Born in Argentina, lives and works in Miami, USA. She has done Visual Arts undergraduate work at Miami-Dade College (MDC), and continuing education studies at the graduate level at the University of Miami (UM). She also holds a bachelor degree in Business Administration at UCA (Universidad Catolica Argentina).  She is a mix media artist, who uses different materials and mediums in her paintings, selected precisely to emphasize their inherent symbolic value. Through her art she hopes the viewers reflect on the fascinating world we live in and understand our place in it as human beings beyond geographical borders, race or gender

LAURA MARSH

Laura Marsh is a textile artist with a social practice. Her spheres, banners, and installations contain social mottos and humanitarian texts. From two generations of women who sew, Marsh practices a do-it-yourself approach that is accessible and hands-on. Marsh received her MFA from Yale University School of Art and a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. 

CAROLA BRAVO

Carola Bravo is a Venezuelan artist who lives and works in Miami. Bravo’s work ranges from immersive site-specific video and art installation to public art.  With a solid architecture background, her work addresses space and memory, changing territories, and their geometry. Bravo holds a Ph.D. in Architecture (2016), an MA. in Art History (2003) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and a BSc in Architecture from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA (1987).

SONIA BÁEZ-HERNÁNDEZ

Sonia Báez-Hernández holds an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of California Los Angeles, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico. She employs an interdisciplinary artistic practice to create community-based art interventions and experimentations. Báez-Hernández’s body of work includes abstract painting, drawing, printmaking, fiber. installation, performance.

COLETTE MELLOS

Colette Mello is a creative professional that works in curation, arts administration, and fiber arts. Her activist practice intersects feminism, racial equality, environmental justice, gun control, and criminal justice reform. The goal of her practice is to stimulate meaningful conversations on these important issues. Colette has an MFA from Florida International

University in Visual Arts – Curatorial Practice, is a docent at Perez Art Museum Miami and facilitates art programming at FIU – Miami Beach Urban Studios.

VALERIA MONTAG

Born in Brazil, I graduated in Visual Arts/Industrial Design from FAAP and in Fine Arts from Escola Panamericana, in São Paulo.

Passionate about design, fashion, architecture and art, I had my own company, Rouparia Montag, for over 35 years.

Now based in Miami, I am doing my Masters in Visual Arts at Miami International University of Arts and Design.

MARIA LINO

Maria Lino holds a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from New York University,and a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. She is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and a two-time recipient of the Oscar B. Cintas Fellowship. As a multidisciplinary visual artist, she employs drawing, printmaking, text, video, dance, and textiles, to create individual and group portraits of those who are often overlooked, such as women, children, people with disabilities, migrants, and immigrants. 

MIRIAM MACHADO

Experienced Curator of Education with a demonstrated history of working in the museums and institutions industry. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, ADA training, Accessibility and Inclusion, Museum Education, Innovative Arts Integration Programming with Miami Dade County Public Schools Curriculum, Event Management, and Art. Strong arts and design professional with a Master’s of Art focused in Museum Studies / Education/ Management from The Johns Hopkins University.

ROSIE GORDON-WALLACE

Rosie Gordon-Wallace’s professional background belies her current passion. Founder and senior curator of Diaspora Vibe Gallery and Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, one of the most talked about art incubator spaces in Miami. Gordon-Wallace, always a passionate lover of art, made up her mind in 1996 to devote herself full time to the gallery she created and developed. Diaspora Vibe Gallery, which specializes in Caribbean and Latin American Art with an emphasis on exhibiting emerging artists.

 KARLA MOGNA

I consider my work to be mixed media, in which I make collages of images, combining techniques. Some images are woven in fibers, others drawn by hand as well as with a needle, photo transfers with altered and double-exposed photos, and block prints with very graphic and textile designs. Fabric, textiles, threads contribute to these drawings, these emotions, giving them a tactile feeling and an additional dimension. I use fibers and textiles as materials, a medium.

MARINE FONTEYNE

Marine Fonteyne has been a successful international professional photographer for more than 20 years and recently felt the need to move beyond her bidimensional work. She started to build new tactile stories using embroidering over photography, and experimenting with fiber sculptures, textile installation, and printing her meaningful images on intricate fabrics to express in a more compelling way her visual narratives.

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ROSARIO SALAZAR

Rosario Salazar is a native of Bogota, Colombia. She moved to the US 30 years ago  and after working for several years for various prestigious architectural firms, she open  her own interior design (ID)studio. Following a desire to explore her artistic side working  with natural fibers and other materials, she now enjoys spending more time with others  who continue to inspire her tireless creativity.

ERICA POY

Erika Poy holds a B.A. degree in Architecture from UNAM, Mexico. Erika enjoys working with oils, acrylic, and watercolors but is currently obsessed with punch needles, embroidery, and sewing techniques as painting and sculpting material. 

MABELLIN CASTELLANOS (MABELA)

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I am a self-taught artist living in Miami. I was a scientist for more than 30 years. My career ended after

a neurological disorder and several hospitalizations. Art has played an enormous part in my healing

process, particularly working in textiles. I use fabrics that speak to me and inspire me to tell a story

using thread and cloths.

QUINZA NAJM

Qinza Najm is a Miami/NYC-based Pakistani-American inter-disciplinary artist. Najm pursued her fine arts studies at Bath University and The Art Students League of New York, where she studied under the mentorship of Larry Poons. She completed her Psychology PhD at Tennessee State University. Her upbringing in Lahore, Pakistan, adulthood in the United States, and intense training in Psychology inform her paintings, performance and installation work related to gender, politics, and (em)-powerment.

AMANDA MADRIGAL

Madrigal received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. She is a fiber artist who creates large-scale, mixed media installations and soft sculptures using repurposed materials. Her works exist between the

intersection of comfort and peculiarity, the familiar and the unknown.

MELANIE PRAPOPOULOS

Melanie is the founder of The Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery) focuses on bringing attention to who they consider the freshest and most interesting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. 

ADRIANA HERRERA

Adriana Herrera is an independent writer and curator. I received my Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary dissertation in art and literature formulating the concept of “extreme fictions.” Since 2011, I have been part of Aluna Curatorial Collective and cofounded Aluna Art Foundation. Herrera has curated multiple museum exhibitions and most recently is interested in Textiles and its historical traditions.

ALICIA RODRIGUEZ

Studied architecture at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and Fine Arts at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Cristóbal Rojas. Learned gilding and Glass mosaic restauration in Florence Italy as part of a restauration program with UNESCO. I have included mediums like fused glass, clay and resin into my Quilts.

DAMIAN ROJO

Rojo is a fabricator and designer of monumental installations and environments, independent artist, filmmaker and clothing designer, Most recently he re-imagined Star Hill Ranch – a ghost town in Houston, Texas as an arcade game where the guests became game components. For the 2020 elections he was commissioned by famed choreographer Andros Zins Browne to create traveling performance stages for “Vote Float” traveling through Miami Dade County.

ADRIANE PEREIRA

Adriane Pereira is a photographer, sewist, and faculty member in the Master of Art in Teaching program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She was born in sunny Miami, Florida. She earned her Ph.D. in Art Education from the Florida State University and taught high school art for nine years with Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Art criticism as a tool for analysing and evaluating art, instructional practice and social justice issues.

ISABEL INFANTE

Isabel Infante is a Miami-based textile artist and illustrator whose work

explores the connections between art, craft, nature, and design. She

researches traditional material diversity and craftmanship and incorporates

this heritage into contemporary pieces.

Isabel earned her MA in Textiles at University of the Arts London and her BA

at Universidad Católica de Chile School of Design. Her work has been

exhibited in Santiago de Chile, London, Madrid and Mexico City.

MILA HAJJAR

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Mila Hajjar is an architect, writer, and multimedia artist.

She loves everything that involves a creative process: designing a building, writing a novel,
performing, or creating an artwork using different media and materials.

She lives in Miami where she has her studio.

MIRELE VOLKART

The media mix artist, born and raised in southern Brazil. She learned, when a child, with her mother and grandmother, many techniques of manual work with fibers.  Graduated in Fashion Design, she currently lives in Miami where she attends the MFA program at Miami International Unervisity. The main characteristic of her work is the mixture of resources. She usually adds to her paintings a mix of techniques such as embroidery, macramé, knitting, crochet and fabric collage.

STAR TRAUTH

My current body of work explores limits. Digging into my past and working through experiences through art and likewise pushing my art medium to the limit. My art practice focuses on several passions; love of earth, repurposing waste, innovation, inspiring as a woman and a survivor. My art practice draws on the ideas of abstraction, minimalism, Dadaism, the concept of ikigai, anti-consumerism, and a dedication to legacy. While I enjoy being immersed in art I am often inspired by other things. 

MARIA PATINO

My work is an ongoing exploration that involves human relationships and human interaction with nature. I’m driven by my inner curiosity, experimentation, and the desire to know the material intimately, a journey into the unknown. Wet and dry media over paper and canvas, mark making, cutting, and ripping become a poetic process in my art practice. I raise concerns regarding the natural environment discarded ephemera and the use of multimedia become elements of my current work. 

BELLA CARDIM

   Born in Rio de Janeiro, Bella Cardim received her degree in Graphic Design while developing her passion and career in photography. Over the course of her 20-year career, Bella photographed an increasingly expansive set of subjects and then concentrated on food photography. Her work developed from commercial food photography to conceptual art, but the subject matter remained the same.

          Currently living in Miami and pursuing her MFA, Cardim uses her practice to investigate the psychological impact of food in terms of nourishment and indulgence. Her conceptual framework allows her to draw awareness to eating disorders and body image issues.

         The artist has recently participated in collective shows in New York, Miami, and São Paulo and was selected for the 2022 Florida Biennial.

TRICIA COOKE

Patricia L. Cooke was born and raised in Greensboro, NC. In 2011, she earned her BFA in Studio Art from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. After graduation, Cooke returned to her hometown to build upon her studio practice. Cooke relocated to the Miami area and fulfilled her graduate studies at UM, earning her MFA in Sculpture in 2018. Cooke teaches Sculpture and 3D Design at the University of Miami and New World School of the Arts.

JEANNETTE STARGALA

Jeannette Stargala is a visual artist, living and working in Miami. Originally from Germany, she grew up behind the Iron Curtain and studied architecture after the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Jeannette got a Master in Fine Arts from the University of Miami. While focusing on printmaking during the program, she found her love for book arts and teaches today at the University of Miami and New World School of the Arts. Fabrics have always been a part of her work, sewing her first artistic expressions as a child.

ENDAM NIHAN

Endam Nihan is a performance and video artist. She creates single-channel works as well as multi-channel installations, image essays, objects, and VR works. Her work critically and humorously discloses collaborations between contemporary images of daily life, female representation, emerging technologies and pop cultural forms of consumption and circulation. Born and raised in Turkey and currently based in the US, she holds an MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University

CLAUDIA MORRISON

Claudia Morrison was born in Medellín, Colombia, currently resides in Parkland, FL. Claudia graduated from FAU concentration on  sculpture, and just recently completed her MA in Languages, linguistics, and comparative literature, teaching of Spanish, from the same university. Her current interest lies in the exploration of fiber art geared towards the research and interpretation of current social problems.

ROCHI LLANEZA

Born in Cuba, Llaneza immigrates to the USA at an early age. In 1984 she moves permanently to Miami and graduates Suma Cum Laude from Florida International University with a Visual Art and Art History degree. For the past 30 years Llaneza has been involved in the Contemporary Art world. After ending her tenure of 8 years in mid 2013 as Executive Director of Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (in the Wynwood Arts District); curator of MAC Galleries in FTL for 3 years and recently manager of Spanierman Modern Miami, Rochi is independently acting as an art consultant, curator and art appraiser.

CAROLINA ROMEO

Born in San Salvador, El Salvador. Living and working in Miami, Florida. By joining a group of art seekers during the pandemic, I found myself captivated with textiles, thread, fibers, felt and the possibility to explore using these materials by applying different techniques. My hope is to continue to learn and discover creativity in the fiber world.

AIDA TEJEDA

A native of the Dominican Republic, Aida Tejada is an experimental mixed-media artist who works to stretch the frame of photography beyond the camera. She explores the absurdity of controlling time and space, an impulse that makes us both the victim and executioner of our actions.  While she is well versed in traditional photography, Tejada also uses various alternative photographic processes and hands-on photo-transfer techniques to create her work.

VERÓNICA BUITRÓN

Verónica Buitrón is an Ecuadorian textile designer and author that works with natural fibers, natural dyes and traditional Andean craftsmanship techniques. She moved to Miami in 2016 and is currently dedicated to the research and promotion of the use of natural dyes in Ecuador and South Florida. She holds a B.F.A  from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

MARTHA SARKOZY

Born and living in São Paulo, Brazil, Marta works as a graphic designer since 1988 and as an artist since 1995. She received a BA in design in1983 and MA in communication and semiotics in 2007. As an artist, she has been working with photography, painting, drawing, installation, and performance.

MELANI BREWER

Melani lives and has her studio in Cooper City, Florida. She has been a full time studio artist for twenty-eight years.

Melani’s art includes three series: Nature (many of endangered species), A black and white series with birds,  and most recently a Political series where crows are her messengers.

 She has a unique style using various techniques including 3-D work. 

She includes commercial and hand dyed fabric, paint, yarn, threads and hand and machine quilting in her work.

YELITZA BARRIOS

Yelitza Barrios, born in Caracas, Venezuela. I unconsciously turned to weaving as a refuge. It helped me think and organize my ideas; it was only me, the silence and the movement of knitting. Finding peace in the process and connecting to my deepest self in the knots.

SHARON BEREBICHEZ

Sharon Berebichez, born in México City, lives and works in Miami. She is noted for her highly-inventive techniques and use of materials. Using materials such as acrylic and oil paint, fabric, paper, and resin, she creates works that are realistic, colorful, and alive. She incorporates in her work old pieces of wood or frames to always remind the viewer to be mindful of

their roots.

DENISE BLANCHARD

Visual textile and docent chilean artist . Born in Viña del Mar and living in Santiago. She

got a degree in Fine Arts at the Pontificia Catholic University in Santiago.

Denise´s work has been exhibited in several art museums, fairs and galleries since she started her career, like SOFA Chicago, U.S. Iberoamerican Textile Network in Costa Rica and at WTA (World Textile Art) in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain.

NATALIA SCHONOWSKI

Natalia Schonowski is a fiber/textile artist currently based in the Boston area. Natalia has lived in numerous places around the world. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Mixed Media from FIU and her Masters of Fine Arts in Media Art and Design from

Bauhaus University Weimar and a Masters of Arts in Art Theory from Tongji University Shanghai.

BENEDICTE BLANC-FONTENILLE

Bénédicte Blanc-Fontenille is a multi-disciplinary french artist living and working in Miami, a 1985 graduate of l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts with a background in theater. She works in a variety of formats including paintings as well as sculptures, installations, and photography. Her appreciation for mixed media and experimentation has gotten her to use pigments, fibers, encaustic wax technique, ink, paper, plaster.

DENISE SHAPIRO

Denise Shapiro was born in October 1974 in Monterrey, México. While in Mexico she got her bachelor’s in education. In 2010 she moved to Miami, FL, where she currently resides, and got her master’s in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language. Although her fervor for knitting began as a mere hobby, it slowly turned into a passion. Now she crochets, sews, embroiders, and weaves, transcending her ideas into a textile work of art.

LISA ROCKFORD

Lisa Rockford was raised in South Florida, and earned her BFA in Painting and BS in Art Therapy from Bowling Green State University, OH in 1999, and in 2001, earned aMFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Since returning to South Florida in 2007, Lisa has established herself as an artist, curator, and educator. Her work has been shown in over 70 national and international exhibitions.

PATRICIA SAPORITI

Artista visual,dedicada al arte textil, en forma individual y como miembro de grupos de artistas. Realice diversos

talleres regulares e intensivos en Argentina, US, Brasil y Chile, US. En los últimos años participe en diversas muestras colectivas y actividades relacionadas con el arte Textil: I y II Bienal Latinoamericana de Joyería, Salones

SANDRA ONETTI

Sandra Onetti en su trabajo como artista textil he descubierto la otra cara de la moneda, la vida de quien está privado de su libertad, el achicamiento de su universo visual, el aislamiento de sus afectos. Sus trabajos textiles se han enfocado en manifestar ese aspecto de la vida del hombre en la que nadie quiere verse reflejado ni comprometido, sin saber que por cualquier traspié

podrían estar allí. 

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ELLEN PESTILI

Ellen Pestili is a Brazilian mixed media artist, Italian descendant, based in Orlando, Florida. She has a Bachelor in Art, with a Major in Art at Edgewood College. She also has been the author and illustrator of children’s books, and has written 15 and illustrated around 50 books, some of them illustrated with sewing and embroidery.

MARITZA CANECA

Maritza Caneca is a Miami-based visual artist whose work spans photography, film, and multimedia installations. After spending three decades as a cinematographer, her work continues to capture detailed narratives found in the angles of simple symmetries and geometries. She graduated from the Faculdade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro in 1982, and soon began working
in cinematography with films such as Cinema Falado by Caetano Veloso (1986). In 2006, Caneca received the Best Photography Award from the Brazilian Association of Cinematographic
Photography, and went on to participate in award winning films in 2007, 2014, and 2016. Since 2012, Caneca has worked with photography and installations and has developed a body of work
focused primarily on an exploration of swimming pools. 

ELYSA D. BATISTA

Batista received her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Miami (2009) and her MFA from Parsons the New School of Design. Batista is a mixed media artist who works with language, specifically the multiplicity of meaning according to different contexts. Her three-dimensional work explores personal experiences with dynamics in power structures and nationality and is interpreted through the use of semiotics.

TAYLOR JONES

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FERNANDA FRANGETTO

Fernanda Frangetto is a Brazilian-born mixed-media artist living in Florida. She studied at the University Center of Fine Arts and specialized in sculpture at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE). Her works have been featured in art institutions across the US and Brazil.

BETTY USDAN-ZWICKLER

I’m an award-winning, abstract artist who has worked in many disciplines during the course of a 35-year career. My focus has been mainly on mixed media painting, printmaking, collage and fiber arts. Creating with fiber is the most satisfying due to the tactility of the medium. “Painting with Fiber” affords endless creative possibilities as does using a myriad of textiles- fabric, yarn, roving, cord and paper.

JENNIFER PRINTZ

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MARCO CARIDAD

Art allows me to connect with my true inner self and let it come out in the form of love. My studio is an experimental space where I mix techniques and multiple disciplines to investigate Art as a means of expression. I have spoken about the social issues, sex, and identity through paintings, sculptures, videos, and performances relying on the representation of my culture and upbringing, using a multi-layered/deconfigured aesthetic of organic movements full of textures: candle wax, coffee, gold, silver, glass, wood, fabrics, and recycled materials is how I communicate my hopes, feelings, and values.

JAN NELSON

The advancement and education of our youth is very important to me. I believe that art, imagined through the lens of play, can move the creative experience from the personal to the community, instilling a sense of well being.

BOBBI MEIER

Bobbi Meier is a Chicago-based visual artist working in sculpture, drawing, photography, and installation.

Producing work that is sensuous, slightly frightening, and grotesquely humorous has become a means to engage discomfort and anger with situations that cannot be changed. Life’s frustrations and the human condition are embedded into her abstract sculptures, drawings, and installations through juxtaposition of delicate and aggressive material manipulation.

ALEXANDRA DE YAVORSKY

Alexandra De Yavorsky was born in Venezuela. She is head of branding and graphic design at the award-winning Atelier De Yavorsky studio in Miami. In this bodywork, she serves a single color in each vessel to elicit an emotional response from the viewer, reviving in us a sense of natural simplicity. Her work has recently appeared in exhibitions in Miami and abroad.

ALYSON VEGA

New York City-born Alyson Vega is a fiber artist who taught herself to sew and quilt at a young age. She received a B.A. in Japanese Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University. She sews fabric pieces incorporating themes of decay, transience, childhood, and dreams. Alyson employs various techniques in her pieces, including printing, painting, surface embellishment, and sewing.

MELISSA RUBIO

Melissa is Colombian-born and migrated to Miami 20 years ago. In 2010 she founded her brand K’MELL DESIGNS, a handbag, and clothing company. She’s a self didactic designer with ample knowledge of the industry including production. In 2020 during COVID 19, Melissa took the leap into visual arts and found a new way to express herself by sharing many of hers and some of her friends’ love stories collected over the years, through her paintings. Her art consists of mix media using different types of fabrics, guipure, and oil paint.

MAITE URRECHAGA

Visual artist Maite Urrechaga is a South Florida artist who works with comic books, music, and film. She is perhaps best known as the “better half” of Miami’s Pocket Of Lollipops husband and wife outfit where she plays bass and shares vocal duties with her husband drummer. In 2008 she received the Best Art Basel Headline for her Interactive Art Installation in the Miami New Times. Maite has been a part of the music and art scene since her teens. She is a punk kid at heart with a love for the avant-garde.  She is drawn to the rule breakers and textbook makers.

BOBBI BAUGH

Bobbi Baugh creates textile collage, art quilts and paper works from her studio in DeLand, Florida. She received her BA (Studio Art/Speech majors) and MAT (Education/Humanities) from Stetson University in DeLand. A career of 35+ years in commercial printing and stationery product design followed. Bobbi is now a full-time self-employed studio artist. Her artistic focus is storytelling and exploration of layered meanings through collaging and stitching hand-printed fabric and paper. Bobbi is active in the art quilt community and is a SAQA juried artist.

KARELLE LEVY

Levi uses light weight breathable plant-based bamboo, cotton, lyocell, viscose yarns and blend them with sparkle from time to time. The timeless collection is produced entirely in our shop based in Miami, FL, USA.

ADNA GARROTE

Adana Garrote is a Miami native who moved to the Midwest for her BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City,  Missouri. She is currently going to study at Missouri State University for her MFA. 

Her explorations in fibers has developed into a study on  traditional patterns found mainly in American quilting, using  handmade paper, fabric, bookbinding, and felts to convey these  recurring and almost compulsive patterns found in her pieces.  Through these patterns, a conversation occurs between historical/ cultural context and human connection through visual language.

MARILYN VALIENTE

Marilyn Valiente is a contemporary abstract multimedia artist. After her post graduate degrees, working as a psychotherapist and raising her two sons she focused her attention on her love for art and the creative process.  Her artworks are visual representation of her emotions and her studies in psychology and her many years of working as a psychotherapist. Bold colors, texture and lines dominates the visual field with what appears to be a very spontaneous and intuitive process as she deals with the human condition and its many struggles. 

DENISE TREIZMAN

Denise Treizman is an artist born and raised in Chile, currently based in Miami. In 2011, she moved to New York City to pursue her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts. Since then, her work has been exhibited in several cities of the world. In New York City, her work has been featured at venues that include the Bronx Museum, Cuchifritos Gallery, Proto Gomez Gallery and Wave Hill, among others. She has also been a resident at renowned places including Vermont Studio Center, NARS Foundation, Triangle Workshop, Ox-Bow, ACRE and Mass MoCa Assets for the Artists. 

BRIAN LARSON

Brian currently lives in Miami, Florida where he works for an anti-poverty nonprofit.  Prior to that he spent 20 years in Africa and Latin America working in international development and humanitarian assistance. Brian holds a juris doctorate degree and a degree in business from Drake University. He obtained a master of fine arts degree from Miami International University of Art & Design.

STELLA RESNICK

On the brink of becoming a centenarian, Stella Resnick has been honing her craft for nearly nine decades. The Brooklyn-born artist started sewing as a young child, inspired by the techniques of her housekeeper who hailed from Poland and her grandmother, who had a treadle sewing machine. In her late teens, she worked in the fashion world and later became a primary school teacher.

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SHARON SPAKER

Sharon Spaker, retired, now pursues her life long passions in the arts and fiber world traveling extensively to study the history and culture of fiber techniques. She combines knitting, joom-chi, silk painting, shibori, stitching and weaving with nuno and wet felting to push the creative boundaries of the ancient felting process. Sharon’s work is influenced by these travels and her roots in the Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence River Valley of northern New York.

JULIANA TORRES

Juliana Torres is a contemporary artist working with photography, collage, assemblage, and kinetic structures. The artist has always photographed since childhood and started writing poetry telling children’s stories in 2007. She completed the MFA and is currently developing a series of photographic works that aim to reinvent the role of pictures and how the viewers read them. 

ALETTE SIMMONS

Alette is an interdisciplinary producing work that focuses on the connections between nature, society, and self.  Her art weaves together the emotional and historical impact of society and politics, using a variety of techniques and media. She received a BFA from Newcomb College of Tulane University then relocated to the Dominican Republic to live and work for seventeen years.  

MARCIA MANCONI

Born in Pennsylvania, living and working in Miami. I developed a passion for fiber and textiles at a young age thanks to my grandmother, Sew-O-Matic sewing machine and my potholder loom. I received a Bachelor in Art with a main focus in textiles. This passion has grown in many directions over the years. I continue to explore different ways to incorporate fibers and textiles in my art and always try working out of my comfort zone.

KIM MOORE

My practice focuses on my domestic life, a life lived in, during, and around art. I work in series, usually on several pieces at a time, in different stages of completion. In many ways, my practice resembles the chaos and entropy of life in a house with children, roommates, animals – the sameness is different on a daily basis.

I work in multiple mediums, including silk painting, embroidery, oil painting, drawing, knitting, and ceramics. Working with fibers allows for portability and convenience – these works can easily be picked up during free moments, don’t require weeks of dry time, and have the added benefit of being useful as well as beautiful.  

GRACE COX

Grace Cox is a visual artist born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her BFA in Fashion Design and Knitwear from Fashion Institute of Technology, and her Masters in Art Education from Florida International University. She has explored fiber as a means for wearable expression, as well as oil to create a classical record of something that would not have the opportunity to be recorded otherwise. Her work has been featured at venues such as the Museum at FIT, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and Frank C. Otis Art Gallery and Exhibit Hall, among others. She creates to express the signs of life in the background noise and the beauty in what is often missed.

TOA CASTELLANOS

Toa Castellanos is a Cuban-Colombian-American artist who has lived in Florida since 2000. She received an BA from Marygrove College in Detroit, and an MA in Art Education from Notre Dame University. She paints, draws and prints but her most recent love is paper and fabric Collage. Toa Castellanos shows how the standards of beauty imposed by society have generated forms of behavior that induce women to continually pursue a false ideal of youth and perfection.

PAOLA MONDOLFI

Paola Mondolfi was born in Caracas on March 5, 1971, graduated as Graphic Designer at the Caracas Design Institute in 1993 also studied sculpture at the Federico Brand School.  Her professional career includes packaging design, advertising and marketing, corporate image and web development.

 In 2020, as a result of the pandemic, she began to investigate other areas,  like furniture and textile design, she created Paola Mondolfi Furniture Lab, where she works with pieces of recycled furniture, objects abandoned in time, which may have been damaged or mistreated due to their circumstances during the years of their live, and through the intervention they can be recovered, creating new stories.

ELSA ESTÉ

Elsa Esté is a Venezuelan clay artist whose extensive career began in 1979. Her training began at the Cristóbal Rojas School of Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. She has shown her work in collective exhibitions organized in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Zagreb ), as well as in individual exhibitions in Caracas and Miami, Florida. Elsa Esté has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Prize of the National Hall of Fire Arts in Venezuela; and the Honorable Mention at the Small Format Exhibition in Zagreb. For 10 years, she was the President of the Venezuelan Association of Fire Arts (AVAF), an organization that brings together artists dedicated to clay, goldsmiths, enamelists, and iron.

PATRICIA ASTUDIO

I live and work in Wellington, FL.

My interest and passion for handcrafts began from my childhood, using different materials to make my own dolls and toys.

I received my Civil Engineer degree in my natal country, Colombia.

In 2000 I moved to USA with my family and I’ve started taking painting classes at Armory Art Center, where I learned about shapes, color and balance.

Twelve years ago, I began making fabric handbags, using all my skills, like sewing, sculpting and painting.

I’ve participated in several craft shows and my pieces have been exhibited successfully in the gift shop at The Society of the Four Arts.

ANA MARIA PEREZ ARNOLD

I am Venezuelan born and live in Switzerland since 1989. I studied in the Cristobal Rojas school of art in Caracas. Because of family situations and change of country made my start in art slow and low profile. Sometime in the late 90s I picked up ink on Japanese paper and my life made a jump. Worked many years in the minimalistic black and white until I discovered digital art and my style made a second jump into digital pop art, explosions of colors were my daily reality.

SUZANNE CONNORS

FORMERLY AN INTERIOR DESIGNER, A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER AND THEN FINE ART GALLERY OWNER AND DIRECTOR, SUZANNE CONNORS HAS ALWAYS LOVED ART AND TEXTILES. SUZANNE HAS MAINTAINED AN ACTIVE FIBER ART STUDIO SINCE 2008. 

DONNA RUFF

Donna Ruff lives and works in Miami, Florida. She earned an MFA (2000) from Rutgers University, where she focused on printmaking and installation. She has been chosen to create site-specific installations at the Eldridge Street Project on the Lower East Side of New York (2004), PS 122, New York, NY (2003), and for ArtSPACE in New Haven, Connecticut (2005.). In 2021 she was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant and and an Ellie grant from Oolite Arts.

LUCIA NESI

A weaver since 1985, born in Rome, I have been producing furnishing and clothing fabrics from the textile tradition of Lucca and its province (Apuane Region in Toscana), where I live and work, for a long time. I am also a spinner, hand-making and dyeing with natural colors, herbs, bark, leaves, etc., the yarns that I use in my work. 

I hold courses and workshops in all these subjects at Tessiture Lucchesi APS, my textile Association, and I am preparing two handbooks to be published.

MARGARET ROLEKE

Margaret Roleke is a mixed media artist. She is known for her sculptures and installations, but
also creates works on paper and fabric. During the pandemic she explored cyanotypes which
are now a large part of her practice. Roleke’s work comments on social issues mainly gun
violence, women’s rights and racism.

ORLY ELKAYAM KADOSH

Orly Elkayam Kadosh has been inspired by her environment for as long as she can remember and she has communicated to the world through art all of her life. Her relationship with languages, colors, textures, materials, and sensory experiences shaped her journey as an artist. Her quest for knowledge through art led her to explore these themes academically through degrees in Fine Art, Judaic Art, and Jewish Studies. 

KARINA HOVAGHIMIAN 

I was born in Argentina of Armenian descent. I have always swum in multicultural waters. My mother grew up in Guadeloupe (French Antilles), and my father in Milan and Venice (Italy). I have family in Brazil, went to a French school, belonged to the Armenian Girls Scouts, and vacationed in the U.S. Even though I have a bachelor’s in International Relations, life drove me down the translation alley. From an early age, yarn and knots, weave and textures have been my allies for resilience. 

MARK RUNGE

Mark Runge is an artist, teacher, and collector of experiences. He has worked with yarn since his grandmother introduced him to it. Mark is not media-specific and uses a blend of materials, whether drawing on wood, fabric, paper, or whatever. He currently teaches a variety of media in Miami and lives with his two cats, Andre Flyrod and Allowicious.

LESLEI SHERYLL

Leslie Sheryll’s work focuses on female identity through photography, digital collage, and textile art. She became interested in photography while attending the High School of Art and Design in New York City and received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute where she studied photography, video, and fiber arts. Leslie grew up in New York City and currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

MONICA AVAYOU

Born and raised in México city with degrees in Communication and Art History.
Monica founded Alacrán Producciones Brand more than 10 years ago. Since then, she has gone on to work in various other creative endeavors including event planning and scene design in shopping centers. Today she is mixing two of her greatest passions; a combination of art and fashion, resulting in her emblematic yarn and recycled plastic bags pieces.

SHIRLEY CHONG

Shirley Chong was born in Peru and emigrated to Miami, Florida where her curiosity and wonder lives. Through various mediums, she is able to connect not only with material but with audience as well. Creating functional pieces allows the line between art and life to blur. The act of usage forms life around the object, and allows the participant to find themselves through an experience. Blending the lines of the artist, audience and art creates an opportunity for a communal space that brings people together. Beyond the space where it all took place, the experience lives on with each participant’s memory and will continue to exist and expand like a ripple effect.

ANNA GORACSKO

Anna Goraczko was born in Miami, Florida where she lives and works. Goraczko received a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Florida International University in 2020 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from Florida International University in 2008. She is a mixed media artist who employs cyanotypes on fabric, printmaking, and installations to document a visual association between physical objects and the visual memory that might distort or abstract them. She uses found objects and material from her family’s archive to expand upon themes of place, memory, and spirituality.

MARIA ANTONIETA BLOOM

She was born in Caracas; From the age of 3 she decided that she would be a painter, after leaving high school she studied graphic design,  later arrived at the Federico Brandt Arts Institute in Caracas, simultaneously she did courses in comics, architectural drawing, painting and art criticism with Pedro León Zapata at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas Sofía Imber and at the Ateneo de Caracas. Throughout her career she has explored different techniques of contemporary sculpture and painting incorporating embroidery as part of her work. SHe is currently a member of the Artists for Peace movement; which brings together several creators who contribute their artistic work in order to support charities.

TIARA SAINT

I was born and raised in Upstate New York and relocated to South Florida in the 1990’s.

At an early age I entered in to the arts through dance, music and theatre. I received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in 1992 and was fortunate to a have a  wonderful professional dance career and the ability to work next to some of the finest teachers, choreographers, and performers. I went on to own and manage a marketing company in Miami Beach which focused on services such as: music, film, and animation. 

I now sit in a position as Vice President to a Commercial Real Estate company in Miami. I enjoy weaving and knotting large scale art. It is relaxing, gives me a way to create, think, grow and stay connected. Knots rock!

DEBORAH JAFIF

Déborah Jafif was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. She studied Architecture at the University of Belgrano and attended to workshops with Raúl Marengo, Nora Correas, Enio Iommi and Enrique Aguirrezabala. Her first contact with the world of textiles was trough tapestries and looms and defined by her interest for textures. 
In 2002, she made a brief incursion in the execution of works with nylon thread, but it wasn’t until 2009 when she assumed the practice of working textile techniques with non-traditional materials with total assiduity. As of 2018, she ventured into textile research in relation to space and started developing site specific textile projects. The topics that interest her the most are deeply linked to existence, such as the passage of time, madness or the impossibility of an absolutely perfect communication.

MICHELLE BARDINO

Michelle Bardino Vela (b. 1995) is a Peruvian-American interdisciplinary artist and photographer currently based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her work explores themes about the cycles within the natural world and the changes that occur in memories over time. She explores these concepts through materials such as fibers, clay, photographic processes, and papermaking. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in photography and sculpture from Florida International University. She will be an artist in residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, OR during the spring of 2022.

KAREN SCHNELL-CHISHOLM

In my practice as a Fiber Artist my medium is primarily Off-Loom Weaving with Beading and Knotting.

FRANCINE BIRBRAGHER

Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is an art historian, independent curator, and art critic. She received a
Master’s in art history and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of Miami. She is a
founding and contributing editor of ArtNexus magazine. Since 1989, she has written about
contemporary art for specialized magazines and newspapers, as well as essays for artists’ monographs
and exhibition catalogs. From 2008 to 2015, she worked as an adjunct curator at The Patricia and Phillip
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University. As an independent curator, she has organized more
than one hundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America.

VANESSA LUSTIG

I am a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, textile art, and interactive textiles. My work explores changing psychological, cultural, and natural contexts and situations, investigating themes of human identity & culture not as separate from nature, but as part of nature. I focus on highlighting the smaller, subtle movements of natural, cultural, and human worlds, creating works that capture these delicate yet enduring fragilities by using both delicate & sturdy materials, technologically advanced techniques & craft techniques that result in minimal, delicate, quiet, yet immersive works.

RITA VALLEY

Rita Valley is an artist living and maintaining a studio in Connecticut; close enough to New York to dive frequently off the deep end into the vagaries of the art world, but distant enough to enable a life of bucolic scenery, complete with a Dog and Pony Show. She grew up as a self-professed (despite politically indifferent parents who eked out working class livings) and early on explored issues of inequality, the waging of war and financial disparity. These motifs continue in her work to this day, with the near collapse of our economy providing further fodder for her studio investigations. She trusts- perhaps in vain- that her art practice will help to correct the wrongs so manifestly present in the world today, but she is not holding her breath.

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ORIANA LASCAU

I️ am an interdisciplinary Venezuelan-American artist based in New York. I am interested in the relationship between the self, our subconscious, and nature. I specifically draw  inspiration from decomposition, insects and mold as symbols of decay and rebirth. Through the use of loose line work, vibrant colors  and overlapping compositions, I️ try to emulate the controlled chaos that I️ observe in nature and see mirrored in the human mind.  I enjoy mixing my focus, textile arts, with various other mediums to create art that is the boundaries between the mundane and mystical, the otherworldly and the Earthly.

JOAN WHELLER

Joan Wheeler is a fiber artist who uses sewn textiles and needle-felting to create her art. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York and New England.She has sewn since childhood, creating clothes for herself and others and teaching two brothers to sew and has a collection of vintage linens that she also uses in her work.

SOFIA PARADA JACOBS

My artistic work involves, contemporary jewelry, sculpture, mix media, installation, and performance art.
The self-portrait has been the way to express the visceral need to tell my own story.
Sometimes hard, rough, and even raw, but under that, it can be seen the fragility and sensibility of the pieces that I’ve created.

MARIA FERNANDA FROES

Fernanda Froes is a visual artist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work investigates scientific and historical events and brings attention to environmental and cultural preservation issues in the Americas.
Froes’ working process usually begins with drawing, which diversely evolves into a combination of media, including painting, fiber, printmaking, and digital illustration.
Fernanda Froes is currently pursuing an MFA – Visual Arts at MIUAD. 

TATIANA ZAYTSEVA

Tatiana Zaytseva is a Miami-based contemporary artist engaged in artistic search, self-improvement, and creation.  Two points distinguish my work: texture and color.  Zaytseva  multi-layered, textured, multi-colored works ‘play’ diverse media to balance between them, coming to unite all parts in a single holistic image. 

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FERNANDA FRANGETTO 

Fernanda Frangetto is a Brazilian-born mixed-media artist living in Florida. She studied at the University Center of Fine Arts and specialized in sculpture at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (MuBE). Her works have been featured in art institutions across the US and Brazil, such as NARS Foundation (New York); American Cancer Society, Miami-Dade Commissioners Office, Doral Government Center, Doral Contemporary Art Museum, Art Factory Project, Aluna Art Foundation (Florida); United Nations House (Brasília). Frangetto works are included in collections such as the Consulate General of Brazil’s in Miami, Marcos Amaro Foundation (FMA) and the Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture (São Paulo). 

ANDREA GOLDSCHMIDT

Andrea Goldschmidt (São Paulo, 1970) is a photographer and multimedia artist whose work is predominantly related to Brazilian Popular Festivals. Her interest in the subject arose from her enthusiasm for diversity, the power of the collective and the pride she feels in being Brazilian.
Granddaughter of Germans and raised within a community made up of many foreigners, Andrea understood, from an early age, the potential for construction and aggregation that result from the natural and cultural diversity of the country where she was born.

PANGEA KALI VIRGA 

Pangea Kali Virga is a fiber artist, arts educator, designer, stylist, and producer with high standards and a conceptual spirit. Her aim is to build collaborative networks and moving experiences through all of her projects. Social responsibility is pivotal to her art, as she attempts to communicate urgent, difficult messages in beautiful and fun ways through fine art, events, workshops, performances, and other collaborative projects. A New York native, Pangea now calls Miami, Florida home.

DEBBIE MORRIS

Deborah L. Morris is a mult-disciplinary artist with a focus on fiber and textile.  She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and has participated in residencies at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Mana Contemporary Miami and Guttenberg Arts, New Jersey.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is part of the collection of the Chojun Textile and Quilt Museum in Seoul, South Korea.  She is currently president of the Textile Study Group of New York.

MAYA SCHONENBERGER

Born and raised in Basel Switzerland, Maya Schonenberger holds a degree in textile work and teaching from Basel. She lives and works in Miami.
She has used her artwork as a language to express concerns and thoughts about our
environment and social issues. Rarely can the two be separated.
“My artwork is not about doom and gloom but about creating awareness. I see the pieces as messengers as well as peacemakers. I want my viewers to get excited and inspired. I want them
to think critically about important issues that confront them on a daily basis. I also hope to
nourish the viewer’s eyes and soul. “

JANET MULLER

Originally from Champaign, Illinois, Janet Mueller lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida. Mueller received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing, College of Commerce, from the University of Illinois (1975). She studied watercolor painting at Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois (1978), learned to paint with gouache and an airbrush from technical artists (1980s) and oil painting techniques in private sessions with Joachim Loeber in Key West, Florida (1998). Mueller learned to sew as a child and has incorporated fabric sculpture and textile painting into her work.

Janet Mueller has had 13 solo exhibitions, including shows in New York City and Rome, Italy.

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NATALIA KOCHACK

Natalya Kochak graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with her BFA and MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Natalya is currently an adjunct professor at Miami International University in the visual arts department and also owns a decorative painting studio, Natalya Kochak Design Studio. She was an artist-in-residence in 2018-2019 with ProjectArt, teaching displaced teenagers and students from underserved school districts twice a week at the Model City branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System.

FELISA PRIETO

Felisa Prieto was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1983; she moved to South Florida in 2001 with her family where she studied Fine Arts with emphasis on Photography at Broward College. In 2007 she transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA with emphasis on Environmental Art, Urban Sustainability and Textiles. She later moved to Houston and Brooklyn, where she worked as an art educator. Felisa currently resides in Fort Lauderdale where she continues her practice

MACARENA ZILVETI

Macarena Zilveti (b. Chile, 1961) was born in Santiago and moved to Long Island, NY
with her family in the 1970s. Always fond of drawing and painting, Zilveti found herself
immersed in a multilingual culture that would further enrichen her artistic sensibilities. A
graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts, Zilveti
pursued a career in Advertising. Zilveti now lives in Hollywood, FL where she works
with a variety of mediums. She has participated in shows nationally and regularly
exhibits in the South Florida gallery circuit.

MICHELLE DRUMMOND

Michelle Drummond was born in Kingston, Jamaica and lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida. Drummond received a Masters in Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management, DeVry University in 2001 and Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics with concentration in Computer Science and French from St. Lawrence University in 1999. Drummond is a self-taught contemporary mixed media fiber artist who creates 3-dimensional forms by manipulating multicolored, multi-weighted yarn, glue, and acrylic paint on and off canvas and wood panel. 

REMIJIN CAMPING

RemiJin Camping is a Filipina-American photographic artist based in South Florida. She received her MFA in Photography and Bachelor of Arts in Photography degrees from Barry University in Miami Shores, FL. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Barry University where she teaches analog, alternative processes, and digital photography.

ANDREA HUFFMAN

Andrea Huffman
After attending the High School of Art and Design in New York City, Andrea Huffman moved to Florida, and received a Master’s Degree in Art Education from Florida International University.
She taught art for thirty-one years in Broward County Public Schools and retired from full time teaching in 2011 to pursue her own art practice. Ms. Huffman has since exhibited locally and nationally in solo, juried and group shows, receiving numerous awards for her work, including
several Broward County Creative Investment Grants. 

YVONNE FERRER

Ivonne Ferrer (b. Cuba) Graduated from San Alejandro Academy, and René Portocarrero National Silk Screen Print Shop, Havana, Cuba.
Atribuciones in Fidelio Ponce Gallery (1990) was her first solo exhibition, which led her to leave the Cuban art scene for the Spanish circuit where she participated in: Expo Universal Sevilla 92, Arts Pavillion, La temperatura de Dios (1993), Fisiología decorativa (1994) and La isla
mágica in Copenhagen, together with two masters. Ivonne migrated to the United States in 1995. In 1997 produced Trinomio cubano at Botello Gallery, Puerto Rico and in 2001 the solo exhibition Durban Serguini Gallery. 

MONICA CZUKERBERG

I was born on August 31, 1983 in Mexico City.
I studied Architecture at the Anahuac University in Mexico City (2002-2006).
Took several courses and diplomas in Fashion, Art History, Drawing, Painting, among others,
in different Institutions such as The Instituto Di Moda Burgo in Milan, Italy, The
Iberoamericana University in Mexico City, the University Centro for Design, Cinema and TV
in Mexico City, among others.

BRANDI LONG

Based out of Miami, fiber artist Brandi Long looks to nature to inform her work. Best known for her fairytale like sculptures that incorporate all that she takes in from the natural world.  Her use of fibers, found objects, and organic material lends itself as the perfect vessel to create these metaphoric sculptures. Long’s body of work is a capsulized moment in time that looks to re-establish a relationship with nature and the self

MALE LEÓN 

MALE LEÓN is a painter and mixed media artist based in Miami since 2012. She studied Business Administration at Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds an MA in Design and Fashion Marketing from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. She took drawing classes at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, photography at Focus Photo in Miami, and studies Jungian Psychology on her own.

I approach my artwork as a way of visually representing my psyche and soul through the use of painting, photography and assemblages intertwined with emotions and thoughts around a specific theme as my media. I make specific, hand-made interventions of my paintings and photographs with the use of sewing thread, fabric and various other materials. The conceptual production of my current work is nurtured by my passion for Jungian psychology and the study of the feminine archetypes.

STERLING ROOK

Sterling Rook is a Miami native with a Masters in Fine Art from Florida International University. His practice is enriched by working within a family legacy of fiber-crafts, being a descendent of stringers, lace-makers, reweavers and tailors. Rook uses these markers as a compass, bridging gaps within disparate cultural heritages, connecting past to present.  These pasts unfold paths to explore art-making as a regenerative process. Forged and welded steel, painted and woven palm fronds, and handmade rope from used clothing, all factor in for Rook in as avenues expanding his visual vocabulary.

LAURA LUNA

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KIANGA JINAKI

Kianga Jinaki Short Bio

Kianga Jinaki is a fiberartist who creates quilts, dolls and mixed-media works that honor Black life and culture. Her works have been been exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1991. Ms Jinaki is a 2022 recipient of the Artist Innovation Fellowship presented by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Florida. A teaching artist, Kianga has has worked with local museums, cultural centers and both Palm Beach & Broward county library systems, providing artistic/cultural programs for the communities they serve.

JOCELYN FLORES

Jocelyn Flores is currently studying at Barry University for her bachelors in photography with specialization in forensics.She has been photographing and experimenting with sewing and mixed medias for years. Jocelyn’s work aims to get a reaction from her audience with attraction vs repulsion. Her work is also perceived to be tactile. Jocelyn was born and raised in South Florida and has roots from Montemorelos Mexico. 

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Carlos Betancourt (born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1966) is an American artist, generally described as a multi-disciplinary artist.  His artworks explore issues of memory,  and his own experiences, while also dwelling in issues of nature, the environment and matters of beauty, identity and communication. By means of re-examination, he recycles and reinterprets the past by delivering it in a fresh and new relevant context.  Influenced by personal memories, he believes that art can be informed by one’s own experiences, not necessarily the other way around. 
 
Mr. Betancourt’s artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian’ National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, Palm Springs Arts Museum, California, Bass Museum of Art, Florida, PAMM Perez Art Museum, Florida, Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico. His work is exhibited in various galleries as well as art fairs such as Art Basel and Arco. Mr. Betancourt’s artwork is part of public collections such as the Smithsonian’ National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, Palm Springs Arts Museum, California, Bass Museum of Art, Florida, PAMM Perez Art Museum, Florida, Museo de Arte Ponde, Puerto Rico. His work is exhibited in various galleries as well as art fairs such as Art Basel and Arco.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including the Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Bas-Fisher Invitational Grant, the Florida Prize on Contemporary Art People Choice Award,  and the Miami Beach Arts Council Grant. He has worked as a curator, furniture designer and has collaborated in architectural and  site-specific private and public commissions with architect Alberto Latorre.
 
Betancourt artwork is in part inspired by his relationship with nature as well as by the diverse cultures and history of the Caribbean basin, Florida and the Americas. Also by artist Ana Mendieta ‘s interventions, Robert Rauschenberg’s assemblages, Andy Warhol’s perceptions, Neo Rauch compositions, and a Federico Fellini-esque cast of characters for his photo assemblages. Additionally, he relates to some of theorist Jean Baudrillard views about art and his philosophy on objects; French artist Gustave Courbet’s idea that “the only possible source for living art is the artist’s own experiences”, as well as the Martinican writer and theoretician, Edouard Glissant’s belief that …”the past resides in material objects that only release their hidden meanings when encountered imaginatively and sensuously. Betancourt admires the works of diverse artists such as Fernando Oller, Cisco Jimenez, Bill Viola, Marilyn Minter, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Félix González-Torres, Jeff Koons and Arnaldo Roche
 
Betancourt’s oeuvre also explores the kaleidoscope (multi- racial, multi-lingual, trans-cultural) of Caribbean and American culture. His work is also known for his glitzy bravado, re-introducing glitter and other colored materials to contemporary art. His ways of bending the lines between art, photography and nature in his large format vinyls, photographs, installations and photo performances are considered highly innovative. Some of his artworks reflect influences of his contemporaries, although his work defies specific categorization.
 
Betancourt’s personal journey—physical, emotional, and intellectual—is the creative force behind his work. Born and raised in Puerto Rico to Cuban parents, he developed a love for nature and the rainforest and a passionate interest in the syncretic cultures and traditions of the Caribbean, including its Taíno culture heritage. Like Caribbean culture, some of Betancourt’s work is a syncretic layering of information against the intensity of the lush tropics.
 
After saving money for three years, he purchased by mail order catalog his first camera, a Canon AE-1.  He was twelve years old. He took pictures of landscapes and of his friends and used the photographs to create collages and as reference for oil and acrylic paintings.  During this time, he was also a young painting student of Puerto Rican cubist artist Jorge Rechany in his studio in San Juan.  He attended high school in Puerto Rico at Colegio La Piedad (also in San Juan).
 
As a young teen, Betancourt moved to Miami with his parents on December 31, 1980. The clashing of diverse cultures as well as the convergence of diverse architectural and design styles immediately influenced him. He studied at Miami Coral Park Senior High School and during this time he quickly became involved in art projects, volunteering in artists Christo and Jeanne Claude world-renowned Surrounded Islands monumental installation (1983) in Biscayne Bay and Miami Beach.  While in Miami, Christo and Jeanne Claude stayed in an Art Deco hotel in the now famous Ocean Drive, (Miami Beach). Hardly any tourist will visit Miami Beach in the 1980’s. Betancourt made his way to Ocean Drive to see where the artists were staying, as he had heard some interesting comments about the buildings in the area. While visiting Ocean Drive, Betancourt was instantly moved by the then unkempt Art Deco and Mid Century buildings of the area. He saw inspirations and potential in the history of the city and the elderly community, blending with the few surfers and interesting characters that lived amongst the many run down buildings.  It was a very dangerous and run down community, yet it had an edge that Betancourt considered inspiring and provocative and he saw the possibility of the shape of things to come. Once he finished art school, he made it his mission to return to Miami Beach.
 
In general, the brief experience of visiting Miami Beach back then, and volunteering for the Surrounded Islands project had a huge influence on Betancourt, and the artist will later go on to open his studio Imperfect Utopia in Miami Beach.  From this studio, he when on to absorb the feeling of the times and develop works reflecting it. Betancourt also began working on several large scale and ephemeral art installations inspired by the Surrounded Islands
 
After high school, Betancourt went on to study architecture at Miami Dade Community College and graduated from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1987 receiving Highest Achievement and Best Portfolio awards.  Following graduation, the artist moved to Miami Beach and became part of an important group of early preservationists working with MDPL (Miami Design Preservation League) that helped shape the renaissance of Miami Beach in the 1980s. Together with his friends and preservationists Barbara Capitman and Leonard Horowitz, he helped protect and preserve many Art Deco buildings in the now world famous and largest Art Deco district in the world. Sometimes the tactics included tying himself to some of the buildings, such as the Senator Hotel, a significant Art Deco hotel that was unfortunately demolished. 
His interest in history also developed into an early effort to create awareness for mid-century architecture, particularly the buildings of Morris Lapidus, who the artist admired and had developed a friendship with at this time. Betancourt’s assistant during this period, Terry D’ Amico, coined the term MiMo, for Miami Modernist architecture.  Working with the preservation league had a big impact on Betancourt’s early artwork.
He opened his studio, Imperfect Utopia, in Miami Beach right after art school and while volunteering for the preservation league. It was first located in Washington Avenue in the back room of a vintage store called Heydays and next door to The Strand, an edgy restaurant that attracted the likes of all creative types, including artist David Hockney, Ed Ruscha,  Keith Haring as well as Paloma Picasso during the Miami Beach underground years.   
 
Rent was cheap everywhere in the beach, so when his futuristic furniture won the monetary prize from the Florida Furniture Competition, he moved Imperfect Utopia to the old architecture offices of Murray Dixon off Lenox and Lincoln Road.  A friend had turned the space into a temporary underground club called Avenue A.  It was a very successful club with a particular scene. Betancourt attended regularly.  After a suspicious fire made it no longer attractive as a club, Betancourt offered to take on the remainder of the lease.  He was there for a couple of years before moving the studio to its last address right on Lincoln Road.
 
Imperfect Utopia became the Bohemian underground address of the artistic melting pot that was Miami Beach in the 80’s and 90’s, challenging the established art community and provoking new ideas. The studio was visited by some of the most important artists, writers, poets, architects, dancers and musicians of the period, including Julian Schnabel, Sandra Bernhard, Gianni Versace, Morris Lapidus, Liz Balmaseda, Octavio Paz, Celia Cruz, Rudolph Nureyev, Bruce Weber and the late Cab Calloway, who was hosted during a special event by the artist and the Miami Design Preservation League.
 
The juxtaposition of personalities and trans-culturalism that evolved during the Imperfect Utopia years and the Miami Beach renaissance provoked the artist to work in compositions loaded with collages and layering, blending and mixing, eventually creating his own syncretic world. Here he worked intensively to find his voice, experimenting with silk-screening techniques over and under acrylic paint. The artist and some of his peers used the display windows of the studio as a platform for constant experimental installations.  During this period, the artist worked on what he called Fracturism the idea that individuals or ideas may never feel complete but fractured, because of the disorganized aspect of information.  Fracturism was  “a longing to assemble all that we know, an archaic need to create memories and organized them”…We had yet to carry our photo albums in our pockets, neatly organized in our smart phones” the artist had said of Fracturism. In part, this was a reflection of the times, where information was still disorganized and Google had yet to make its appearance organizing thoughts and history more conventionally.  Betancourt’s series by the same name resulted in compositions loaded with contradictory information and the works are executed with multiple mediums, including silk screening, color pencil and painting.  These works already show the artist interest in collage as a way of layering information and resolving his visual ideas. 
 
Imperfect Utopia was in part instrumental in the Miami and Miami Beach renaissance and for creating a contemporary arts environment in Miami and Miami Beach.  During the Imperfect Utopia years, and on until the late 1990’s, the artist was part of the influential South Florida Art Center based in Miami Beach, Florida.  The studios and main offices were located within walking distance of the artist studio. Betancourt exchanged ideas, collaborated and/or exhibited with some of the artists of the center as well as the Española Art Center, including Craig Coleman, Carlos Alves and Kenny Sharf amongst others.
 
After the gentrification of Miami Beach, the artist moved his studio to downtown Miami. At the same time, he volunteered in the archeological site called the Miami Circle, an ancient Tequesta Indian site that was discovered in the mouth of the Miami River.  This experience further influenced the artist’s work and his passion for history. His studio in downtown became also an experimental ground for young artists like Martin Oppel, Bhakti Baxter and Daniel Arsham, who the artist had mentored a couple of years before.  Betancourt produced a series of acrylic and mixed media works on canvas during this time, titled Images of Heaven, where he explored probably for the last time directly, the concept of Fracturism.  These works eventually lead to the exhibit by the same name at St. Thomas University Gallery in Miami.
 
The artist went on to experiment with three dimensional wall assemblages rooted more in the neo-primitive as a way of finding art in the archaic. This is best expressed with The Sounds Symbols Project (2000), a monumental ephemeral installation in the sand in Miami Beach. With this work, the artist unconsciously uses the past and explores it in contemporary settings. The best way of appreciating the scale of this work was in a helicopter ride.  The installation made news internationally.
 
Between paintings and installations, he continued experimenting with photography, eventually producing the first large format vinyls with the series The Worshipping of Our Ancestors and Interventions in Nature. He concluded that these works were made from a profound need to start from the beginning, the primitive.  In that way, he could organize the information he has accumulated and absorbed through the years to be able to move beyond Fracturism and into the realm of memory, which was becoming clearly his main source of inspiration.
 
Betancourt’s work eventually captured the eye of art dealer Robert Miller of Robert Miller Gallery in NY, one of the top galleries in the world. Betancourt signed with the gallery in 2001.  That same year, the artist had his first gallery solo show in NYC, exhibiting the works from the large format vinyls. 
 
He was one of the first artists to move to Wynwood in Miami, where a new underground arts community was ready to form. Some of the artworks from this epoch include Interventions in Wynwood series ( 2003, I and II), produced in the studio backyard,  and the installation Intervention with Aracoel Object, (2001) consisting of dozens of elements covered in blue glitter sitting above a neatly packed pile of soil. The objects belonged to his late grandmother and the work explores the memory that is embedded in objects.
 
Looking into the past and into memories, Betancourt embraces Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, amongst many other places.  He traveled to Cuba during this time. And in one of his many trips to the rainforest in Puerto Rico with architect Alberto Latorre, they found a quaint and beautiful bed and breakfast where he could work from. Betancourt created many artworks from this enchanted place, such as Three Pointer in el Rio Blanco (2002), Petroglyphs and Surfer Shorts, (2003), Bejigante en Casa Flamboyant (2006) and the series Sunday Afternoon in El Yunque (2008), and The Enchanted Garden, (2008). Here he also worked on the Re-Collections series (2008 and on) a photo collage of hundreds of clip art elements composed in an almost kaleidoscope shape. The artist continues to produce works from the rainforest and eventually become co-owner with Alberto Latorre of the land next door to the bed and breakfast, a land that includes some majestic waterfalls that can be seen in some of his works.
 
Immediate memories became also immediate artworks, as can be seen reflected in the works from El Portal series, (2011) inspired by the experiences and the surrounding of the neighborhood (El Portal, Miami) and the house where the artist currently lives.   
 
From his studio in Little River, Miami (Little Haiti), he developed, in collaboration with architect Alberto Latorre, suspended artworks that include the commissioned work Appropriations from El Rio (2013) and Appropriations del Mar y Amor (2014). These works celebrate objects and memory as well as our personal association to them.  The explosive composition, with hundreds of elements, is suspended from the ceiling as if time stood still. Disposable Memories (2012), a wall assemblage series also from this period, is composed of hundreds of jewelry pieces held together by a mostly invisible resin that tricks the eye.  Times of Illuminations, (2017) is a large artwork wall assemblage consisting of hundreds of mostly star-shaped Christmas tree toppers that the artist has been collecting for more than ten years.  Exhibited at Primary Projects in Miami, the work has sort of become a destination artwork.  With Times of Illuminations, the artist continues to explore issues of memory by using the past and present it in a new context.  The recycled vintage objects in the artwork are removed from their original purpose and delivered t in a magical new setting.  The artist has been developing this particular work for many years, collecting these toppers not only because of the memory embedded on them, but also because of the intentional beauty inherited in their design. Betancourt has said of this artwork ” it is as if recalling all things enchanted to my experience, perhaps even a piece of night sky….” Times of Illuminations appear to have a particular attraction, becoming sort of a destination artwork.  A magic wand activates its illumination.
 
In October 2015, ”Carlos Betancourt: Imperfect Utopia” was published by Skira/Rizzoli.
Imperfect Utopia explores Betancourt’s body of work with more than 250 images and text by Robert Farris Thompson, dean of the history of Art Department at Yale University, Inaugural poet Richard Blanco and writer and art critic Paul Laster.  The artist has participated in several books signing in museums and institutions nationally and internationally, as well as dialogues with Richard Blanco, Warhol Museum chief curator Jose Diaz, and Bonnie Clearwater, director of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, amongst others.  The book was received to great success and is currently in the second printing.  It was also selected as Art Book of the month by Interview magazine.
 
Re-Collections, a mid-career retrospective of the artist’s artworks, opened at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MAC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2015. Spread through six different galleries and the Museum’s main atrium, the exhibit included more than 50 works, including several installations, such as the recreation of En La Arena Sabrosa (2004), a floor piece consisting of hundreds of Dixie-cups sand castles made with sand and soil from the beaches and rivers of Puerto Rico.  Like the book, the exhibit received excellent reviews and was selected as Art Forum Magazine Critic’s Pick.
 
During Art Basel MB 2016, The Pelican Passage Tide by Side, a large artwork commissioned to the artist by Faena Arts District in celebration of the opening of Rem Koolhaas Faena Forum, was chosen as Condé Nast Vogue magazine top five Art Basel artworks.
 
In June, 2017, the artist was invited as a speaker for TEDxRVA TED Talks in Richmond, Virginia.  The presentation, titled The Art of Memory, focused on the artist’s artwork and revolved around the theme of memory and change.
 
Carlos Betancourt IMPRINTED, an exhibition that includes works by the artist from 2001-2017 opened at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona State College, Florida in November 2017.  In June 2018, he won the People’s Choice Award for his artwork installation and exhibit in the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Orlando Art Museum. 
 
In November 2021, the artist presented  a large-scale digital projection in downtown  Miami title Into the Everglades.  The video was part of an effort with various non-for-profit organizations to  promote the culture, flora and fauna of the Everglades and bring attention to the fragile and unique environment as well as the endangered Florida Panther.  In December 2021, Milagros!,  a temporary installation commissioned  by the City of Miami Beach, was unveiled during Art Basel week.  The installation is composed of hundreds of suspended metal elements inspired by ex-votos and tamata  charms of Mexico and Greece.  The sculptural elements were fabricated by local artisans in Oaxaca, Mexico. Also in December 2021, the artist presented What Lies Beneath: Tipping Point, which consisted of a huge inflatable shaped as an iceberg, placed on a swimming pool. The fundraising  project for The Reefline, ( a future underwater public sculpture park and artificial snorkel reef ),  was sponsored by Faena Arts and Algoram, curated by Ximena Caminos.  These projects, as well as the artist’s recent artwork series titled Landscapes Re-Imagined (2020-21), were prominently featured in an editorial in the New York Times on Nov, 24, 2021   written by  Bret Sokol.  
In the last year, and in collaboration with animator Milly Cohen, Betancourt has created several animated artworks, which have been auctioned as NFT’s very successfully, donating a percentage of proceeds to the Reefline. 
Betancourt was co-founder of 801 Projects, an arts studio center that provides studio space for visual artists based in Miami.  He has been actively involved in the preservation of the Miami Marine Stadium, a mid century architectural masterpiece in Key Biscayne, Florida. He continues to find inspiration mainly from personal experiences and nature, including the Florida Everglades, the rainforest (El Yunque) in Puerto Rico and  his travels particularly to Greece and Mexico.
Betancourt and  Latorre  established the Betancourt-Latorre foundation in 2017.  A 501(c) non-for profit organization,  its main goal is to  help support artists based in Miami and the Caribbean basin. In October of the same year, the organization raised and collected supplies that were quickly donated to those affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. In 2020, the Betancourt-Latorre foundation awarded more than $30,000.00 in grants to artists that have been  affected economically by the Covid-19 pandemic.  The foundation is currently raising funds for its next project,  South Beach: Art, Culture and the Last Underground,  a book and exhibit focusing on the influential art and culture of Miami in the 1980’s to the present. The artist’s new studio, designed in collaboration with architect Alberto Latorre, is located in Little River, Miami Beach. 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, SELECTIONS:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
• The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• New Orleans Museum of Art, Lousiana
• The Frost Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida ( Perez Art Museum )
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
• University of Texas, Texas
• Art in Embassies Program, United States
• Essencies Collecio Olor Visual Ernesto Ventos, Barcelona, Spain
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California ( promised gift, private collector)
• Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach, Ca
• MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
• Miami-Dade Community Foundation, Miami, Florida
• Recent Acquisitions: Art Bank Collection, Miami, Florida
• Museo de Arte, Puerto Rico

ART FAIRS, SELECTIONS:

• Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
• Art Basel – Miami, Florida
• Art Platform -Los Angeles, California
• Photo Paris, Paris, France
• Scope – The Hamptons, NY; Miami, Florida; NY, NY; Basel, Switzerland
• Arco – Madrid, Spain
• Art Dallas -Texas
• Art Houston – Texas
• Art Platform -Los Angeles, California
• Pulse – Miami, Florida; NY, NY
• Art Chicago – Illinois
• Circa – San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Art Bologna – Italy
• Art Dubai -United Arab Emirates
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 
• Interventions In Nature, Series II
• Una Ceiba en el Rio, 2001
• pigmented inkjet on vinyl
• Gift of Mrs. Jennifer Johnson and Mr. Joseph Duke

GALLERY AFFILIATIONS:

• Primary Gallery, 7410 NW Miami Court, Miami, Florida. Christina Gonzales, info@thisisprimary 954-296-1675
• Walter Otero Contemporary Art, 402 Ave. Constitución San Juan, Puerto Rico 00906. Walter Otero, [email protected]  787.998.9622  
• Dio Horia, Mantzouraki 16, 11524 | Nea Filothei | Athens. Marina Vramapolous, [email protected]  +30 210 6714827; also: Panahra Square, 84600 | Chora | Mykonos (Dio Horia Gallery in Mykonos will re-open on April 2021)
• Heather James Gallery,  45188 Portola Ave, Palm Desert, Ca. Chip Tom, [email protected] 760-346-8926
• Robert Miller Gallery, NY NY, 212.366.4774

OTHER AFFILIATIONS:

• The Betancourt Latorre Foundation , co-founder, El Portal, Florida
• Special Collections, adivsory board, University of Miami
• Miami Marine Stadium, advisory board, Key Biscayne, Florida
• 801 Projects, co-founder, Miami, Florida 
• Artlurker’s Miami Writer’s Prize, sponsored, Miami, Florida  
• Bas Fisher Invitational (grant recipient)
• Bridge Initiative (grant recipient)

AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Peoples Choice Award, 2018
• Miami Beach Public Art (grant recipient)
• Bas Fisher Invitational (grant recipient)
• Bridge Initiative (grant recipient)
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant, in collaboration with Florida International University Art Museum
• Locust Project Curators Visit selection
• Art Walks Grant, City of Delray, Florida
• Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, Honorable Recipient
• Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award
• Stars of Design Visual Arts
• Dade County Cultural Affairs New Forms Grant
• City of Miami Beach Arts Council Grant
• Chivas Regal Order of Distinction Visual Arts Award
• The Digital Age: New Media Art Competition Award, Art Center South Florida
• Miami Dade Community College Hall of Fame
• University Frost Museum, Florida, United States
• Miami Dade Community College Hall of Fame, Florida, United States

GROUP EXHIBITS, selections

2023

• Oolite Summer Show (to be titled), Oolite Arts, curated by Dennis Scholl, Miami Florida, Jun. 30^th-_
• SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art Exhibition, group exhibit, curated by Véronique Côté, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, Jan 26^th Mar. 11^th.
• (Miami based artists) Center for VIsual Communication, Wynwood, Florida Nov. 19th -Mar. 15th. \

2021-2022

• Holy Water, group exhibit, Eric Firestone gallery, NY

• Skin in the Game, group exhibit, Art Basel Miami Beach,  curated by Zoe Lukov
• Skin in the Game, group exhibit, Expo Chicago.

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 2019

•  (Gallery artists exhibit), Dio Horia, Greece
• Transamerica/n: Gender, Identity, Appearance Today ( in tandem with Andy Warhol’s portraits)  Mc Nay Art Museum, San Antonio Texas

2017-2018

• Recent Acquisitions, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida 
• Dancing Goddesses, Dio Horia Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos, Greece
• The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art,  Orlando Museum of Art, Florida 
• The Motion of Movements, Primary Projects, Miami, Florida
• Golden Pond Wishes, Delano Hotel Pool, site-specific sponsored commission for 
• Douglas Elliman Art Basel Miami Beach official sponsors, Florida
• Brant Foundation Warhol Museum fundraising exhibit, NY NY

2015-16

• Baroque to Bling! The collection of Donna MacMillan,Palm Springs Art Museum, California
• Tide By Side,Faena Art, Claire Tacons-curator, Miami Beach, Florida
• (Exhibition title), San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
• Versus, Pepe Mar Presents, in collaboration with Warhol Foundation grant, Miami, Florida
• Joan Quinn Captured, The Brand Art Center, Glendale, California
• Joan Quinn Captured, Fresno Art Museum, Nevada

2013-14

• Gold, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
• Gold, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
• Thirty Years on the Road,Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida
• Aesthetics & Values, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
• Image Search, PAMM,(Miami Art Museum) Miami, Florida
• La Florida,Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
• (Exhibition title), Mc Nay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Celestial Gardens, site-specific permanent installation, Reflections Celebrity Cruise Ship
• (Exhibition title), Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
• (Exhibition title), Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
• (Exhibition title)Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico

2012-2011

• Shooting the Life Fantastic, Heather James Gallery, Palm Springs, California
• Interconexiones, Museo de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Pasiones:  Margarita Serapion & John Belk Collection,Ponce Museum of Art, Puerto Rico
• Identity,Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La
• All About Art, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida (auction)
• Portraits from the Permanent Collections, Smithsonian National Gallery, Washington DC
• MAM Ball, Cake Atomicos, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
• (Works from the Permanent Collection) San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
• Signos Vitales, Nuevas Adquisiciones del Mac, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, (San Juan) 
• Mysterious Object: Portraits of Joan Quinn, Santa Ana College Gallery, Santa Ana, California
• Historia Nacional de Fotografia, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Unframed, ACRIA, curated by Vic Muniz, NY, NY

2010

• (Works from the Permanent Collection), Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
• Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Good and Plenty, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida
• (Gallery artist), Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas
• (Works from the Permanent Collection), San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2009

• Photographic Encounter: Humanity and Nature, The City of San Antonio International Center, San Antonio, Texas, 
• Third Biennial Photography, Norton Museum, Palm Beach, Florida
• Photography in the 20^thCentury, Lowe Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Florida  
• Jack the Pelican Present, Brooklyn, NY 
• Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
• Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Heather James Gallery, Desert Palm, California
• Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

 2007 -08             

• Photoshopping:  MOOLA Collects, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
• Political Winter Redux , Molloy College Art Gallery, Long Island, New York  
• Contemporary ArtAuction, Sotheby’s, New York, New York
• Unbroken Ties, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• People and Places, Selection from the Allen Thomas photography Collection, SECCA,  Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Salem, North Carolina
• Gen X: Post-Baby-boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama
• Miami Accent, Heriard-Chimino Gallery, New Orleans, La.
•  Jack the Pelican Present, Brooklyn, NY
•  Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
• Aesthetics and Value, Frost Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• The (last) Supper, Miami Art Basel, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
• New Digital Age, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida  
• Miami Contemporary, Freedom Tower MDCC Gallery, Miami, Florida 
• City Limits: Re-Collections and The Hedge, Installation, DLFA, Miami, Florida
• Diana Grimberg Gallery, Ciudad de Panama, Panama 

2006-2005

• No Country is an Island, Raritan Valley Community College,Sumei Art Center, Newark, NJ
• Quadrennial of Dusseldorf, Dusselforf, Germany
• Au Courant, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman, B. W. I.
• Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits, San Antonio Museum of Art. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC;  and El Museo del Barrio; San Antonio, Texas
• Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
• Remy Toledo Gallery, NY, NY
• Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
• Go Figure! Lowe Art Museum of Art, Coral Gables, Florida 
• What’s New, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Coral Gables, Florida

2004-2002

• The Rubin Museum of Art, The Flag Project, NY, NY
• Robert Miller Gallery, New York
• Otros Lares, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
• American Dream, The Ignatian Center for the Arts, Miami, Florida
• Gallery Artists, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Essesncies 8, Universitat da Valencia, Spain
• Nepotism, Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Don’t Call it Performance, No Lo llames Performance, Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
• Photography, Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY
• Assassins of the Mirror:  the Body and the Writing, Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Inside and Out: Contemporary Sculpture, Video and Installations Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida

• Miami: Visions of Now, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
• De Cuerpos y Almas, Galeria Carmen De la Guerra, Madrid, Spain
• Proyecto Menu, Trans-EAT Art Space, Miami, Florida
• Space, Museum of Science, Coconut Grove, Florida
• Museo Galeria Banco Santander, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• PR ’02 :  En Ruta, outdoor intervention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Photography, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida  
• Contexto, outdoor intervention, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 
• Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, Robert Miller Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• Neutral Zone, Art Basel Special Event – outdoor intervention, Miami, Florida
• IV Bienal del Caribe, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Mash IV , Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
• Miami Tierra Caliente, Centro Cultural Osvaldo Guayasamín, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2001-1999

• Re-Connect, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida, 25 Powerful Artists in 25 Days New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FloridaIV Bienal del Caribe, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 
• Departing Perspectives , Espiritu Santo Bank, Miami, Florida Mash IV , Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
• Miami Tierra Caliente, Centro Cultural Osvaldo Guayasamín, Zona Colonial, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• 61st National Competition of American Painting, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
• Group Exhibit, Galeria Casa Colon, Merida, Mexico

1998-90

• Miami Artists Group Show, Conde-Goodman Gallery, Miami, FloridaLucky 13, South Florida Art Center , Miami Beach, FloridaArt Against Aids VII, Coral Gables, Florida
• Miami Right Now, Gallery on One, Sarasota, FloridaSheets, Helen Cevern Gallery, NY, NY
• Five Latin American Artists, HB Starr Gallery, Palm Beach, FloridaFracturism, Arte BA, Buenos Aires, Argentina Who’s Who, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida
• In Color, Lohman and Busse Gallery, Dortmund, Germany, Summer Exhibit, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida Sheets,World Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• Feria del Mueble, Milano, Italy
• Miami Artist Series, Coral Snake Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

SOLO EXHIBITS, selections:

2022-2023

• NFTICKET,  (video art project, one day exhibit and auction)  curated by Ximena Caminos, Eiffel Tower, Paris, Mar.  2022
• Re-Collections, La Mesa (video art intervention and commissioned site specific artwork), private residence, Miami, Florida, May, 2022
• (Studio Project, site specifc video art projections), Video Art from the artist collection, Nov.28 2022
• Golden Pond Wishes (site specific intervention), private residence, Dec.2022.

2018-2021 

• Milagros!  Public art commission in collaboration with architect Alberto Latorre, grants from Cultural Affairs City of Miami Beach, Florida

• What Lies Beneath, commisioned  artwork by Reefline and Faena Art.
• Into the Everglades, commisioned artwork with grants from the Bas-Fisher Invitational and Bridge Initiative. 
• Intimate Spirit: collages and other recent artworks, The Gallery at the Betsy, Miami Beach, Florida

2019

• Process Ritual Future Eternal, Marfa Anónimo edtiion, Marfa, Texas
• On the Edge, The Hopeful Forest, site specific installation (East Hotel), curated by Ximena Caminos 

2018

• Process Ritual Future Eternal, Primary Projects, Miami, Florida

2017

• Imprinted, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida

2015-2016 

• Re-Collections Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Carlos Betancourt, J Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida

 2012-2013

• Cabinet of Wonders , Venice Projects, Venice, Italy
• El Portal, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida 

 2011

• Portrait of a Garden, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La
• Archaic Substance, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 
• Shooting the Life Fantastic, Heather James Gallery, Palm Springs, CA

2009

• Carlos Betancourt Re-Collections, Molloy College Art Gallery Long Island, NY
• Re-Collections II: Journey into Infinity, J Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida 
• Lapidus Infinitus, DLFA, Miami, Florida

2008-2006

• The Cut-Out Army, Diana Lowenstein Fine Art, Miami, Florida
• Carlos Betancourt: Recent Work , Galeria Castellon, Castellon, Spain, 
• The Hand of the Eye, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
• Untitled 1000, Installation, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida 

2005-2003     

• About the Archaic Substance, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, La
• En la Arena Sabrosa II, OMNI-Art, Miami, Florida
• (Gallery Artists) Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY
• Realm of Secrets, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas

 2002                    

• Archaic Substance, Palacio de Espinola, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
• Carlos Betancourt, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
• Interventions in Nature, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
• Recent Photographic Works, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida

 2001

• Carlos Betancourt: Outdoor Photography Project , Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, 
• Installation: The Sounds, Symbols Project , The American Foundation for the Arts, Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council Grant and Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, Miami,   New Forms Grant Installation, Miami Beach, Florida

2000-1994

• New Works by Carlos Betancourt, GaleriaCasa Colon, Miami Beach, Florida
• Images of a Heaven: New Works by Carlos Betancourt, St. Thomas University Atrium Gallery, Miami, Florida
• Fracturism, Imperfect Utopia Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
• Carlos Betancourt:  Assemblages, Coral Snake Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS:

• Milagros, 2022, City of Miami Beach, budget $80,000.00, project manager Brandi Reddick 
• Splendor in the Shelter,2016, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, budget $150,000.00, project manager Carolina Alfonso
• Forever-Glades, 2014, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust; budget $50,000.00 project manager Patricia Romeu
• Atomic Cakes, 2011, PAMM Perez Art Museum Miami, project director Tom Collins
• Still Zoo, 2008, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, (Homestead, Florida), budget $75,000.00, project manager Patricia Romeu
• About the Temporal and Universal Substance, 2005-2009, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, (Miami International Airport), budget $650,000.00, project manager Sam Delgado and Patricia Romeu
• Sound Symbols Project, 2000, City of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs, budget $14,000.00, project manager David Whitman and Michael Springs, [email protected]

COMMISSIONS (private) selections:

• Weird Miami, Revelations from El Portal and Beyond, 2021Bas Fisher Invitational commission, Miami, Florida
• Miami Contemporary Visions from a Tropical Jungleland, 2022, (art book cover commission), Alessandro Sarno, Stephano Carniato, 

• Golden Pond Wishes, 2017, Douglas Elliman, site specific commission, Art Basel official sponsor, Delano Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
• The Pelican Passage, Tide By Side, 2016, Faena Art, site specific commission, Faena Forum and Art Basel Miami Beach week opening, Miami Beach, Florida
• Verano Eterno, 2017, Bass Museum of Art, art object commission for museum shop, Miami Beach, Florida
• Re-Collections San Antonio, 2021 The Cellars at Pearl, San Antonio Texas, “”, large scale site specific artwork
• Appropriations del Mar y Amor, 2014, Larios on the Beach, large scale site-specific suspended sculpture
• Appropriations from el Rio, 2013, as Time Goes By, Seasalt and Pepper, large scale site-specific sculpture
• Cake Atomic Murano, 2012, GLASSTRESS, Venice Projects, Berengo Studio; Murano glass sculpture, Venice and Murano, Italy
• Let them Feel Pink! 2012, Absolut Vodka, “Site-specific sculpture, Miami, Florida

• City of a Hundred Fire, 2004, University of Pittsburg Press, artwork for book cover, USA and International
• Re-Collections, Neiman Marcus, limited edition scarf from original artworks, San Antonio, Texas
• Celestial Gardens, 2012, Celebrity Cruises Ship – Reflections of The Seas, site-specific wall and ceiling murals, sculptural elements and sound, installed in Pappemberg, Germany 
• Re-Collections and Lapidus Infinitus, 2009, Barneys NY; limited edition swimwear from original artworks, Miami, Florida and NY
• Vejigante, Vieques, 2010, Celebrity Cruises Ship – Equinox: site specific photographic artwork International
• The Cut-Out Army, 2006, La Comunidad for Art Basel, site-specific installation, Miami, Florida
• Trabajadores Magicos, Starwood, St Regis; limited edition print, Miami, Florida
• Daca Bagua Sagamore Hotel, 2001, site specific large-scale outdoor photographic artwork, Miami Beach, Florida
• Untitled 1000 with Souvenir, 2005, Bass Museum of Art; site-specific large-scale outdoor photographic artwork
• Untitled, after September, 2003, International Press, Tigertail Productions; A South Florida Poetry Annual, artwork for book cover, Miami, Florida
• Re-Collections, 2007, BBH of London; site specific installation, Doral, Florida
• Arte Publico de Puerto Rico; Public Art site specific outdoor sculpture, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• A Flock of Seagulls, 2009, Royal Caribbean – Oasis Ship; site-specific large-scale sculpture, installed in Turku, Finland
• Spiral Hand, National Museum Association; Bass Museum of Art, limited edition artwork reproduction  on t-shirts, Miami, Florida
• Magic Trees, 2009, Royal Caribbean – Oasis of the Seas; 1.5 ton bronze trees sculpture, installed in Turku, Finland
• Las Practicas de la Carne, 2004, Self Portrait with letter to Aracoel, artwork for book cover, International
• Magic Garden, 2008, Celebrity Cruise Ship – Solstice; site-specific large-scale sculpture, installed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 
• Enchanted Trees,2010, Royal Caribbean – Allure of the Seas; 3 ton bronze trees sculpture,  installed in Turku, Finland. 

AWARDS, selections:

• Bas-Fisher Invitational grant 2021
• Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Choice Award, 2018
• Bridge Initiative and Waterproof grant 2020
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant, in collaboration with Florida International University Art Museum
• Miami Beach Cultural Affairs grant
• Locust Project Curators Visit selection
• Art Walks Grant, City of Delray, Florida
• Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, Honorable Recipient
• Florida Department of State Millennium Cultural Recognition Award
• Stars of Design 2010, Visual Arts
• Dade County Cultural Affairs New Forms Grant
• City of Miami Beach Arts Council Grant
• The American Foundation for the Arts Grant
• Chivas Regal Order of Distinction Visual Arts Award 
• The Digital Age: New Media Art Competition Award, Art Center South Florida
• Miami Dade Community College Hall of Fame 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS, selections:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY
• The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
• New Orleans Museum of Art, Lousiana
• The Frost Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
• Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida ( Perez Art Museum )
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
• Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
• University of Texas, Texas
• Art in Embassies Program, United States
• Essencies Collecio Olor Visual Ernesto Ventos, Barcelona, Spain
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California ( promised gift, private collector)
• Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria, Spain
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
• Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Gulf Coast Museum, Largo, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach, Ca
• MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
• Miami-Dade Community Foundation, Miami, Florida
• Recent Acquisitions: Art Bank Collection, Miami, Florida
• Museo de Arte, Puerto Rico

ART FAIRS, selections:

• Zona MACO, Mexico City, Mexico
• Art Basel – Miami, Florida
• Art Platform -Los Angeles, California
• Photo Paris, Paris, France
• Scope – The Hamptons, NY; Miami, Florida; NY, NY; Basel, Switzerland 
• Arco – Madrid, Spain
• Art Dallas -Texas
• Art Houston – Texas
• Art Platform -Los Angeles, California
• Pulse – Miami, Florida; NY, NY
• Art Chicago – Illinois
• Circa – San Juan, Puerto Rico 
• Art Bologna – Italy
• Art Dubai -United Arab Emirates

LECTURES, TALKS, selections:

(to be incorporated)

EDUCATION

• 1983-85 Miami-Dade Community College
• 1985-87 Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Associate in Science, Design

AFFILIATIONS:

• Betancourt-Latorre Foundation, founder
• Miami Marine Stadium Advisory Board Member
• Faena Arts
• Co-founder of 801 Projects
• Sponsor of Artlurker’s Miami (Art) Writer’s Price
• Bas-Fisher Invitational grant recipient
• Bridge Initiative grant recipient
• Path of the Panther

For bibliography and additional information, please contact [email protected]

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