YoungArts has hosted several exhibitions by YoungArts master teachers, winners and alumni, including Derrick Adams, Olafur Eliasson, Daniel Arsham and Hernan Bas.
Current Exhibition
Current Exhibition
Education as the Practice of Freedom2018 Alumni Exhibition
Curated by Jasmine Wahi
October 9 – December 9 (Miami Art Week)
Examining ideas based on bell hooks’s book Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, this exhibition includes collage, installation, painting, print, mixed media, sculpture and virtual reality works by YoungArts alumni that address the phases of transgressive education and prompt contemporary and forward-thinking discourse on the subject.
Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9 AM – 5 PM
Weekends: By appointment only
Miami Art Week (December 3–9) Gallery Hours:
Monday: 9 AM – 9 PM
Tuesday – Friday: 9 AM – 5 PM
Saturday – Sunday: 12 – 5 PM
U.S. Department of Education Exhibition
May 4 – June 29, 2018
The National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) was selected to partner with the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) Student Art Exhibit Program for an exhibition in Washington D.C. The exhibition showcases works by 2018 YoungArts winners in Design Arts, Photography, Visual Arts and Writing that investigate and address the theme of the exhibition – tolerance of all people regardless of religion, culture, race or gender.
Selected YoungArts winners: Amanata Adams (2018 Winner in Photography), Hanna Andrews (2018 Winner in Writing), My’Racle Brown (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Aidan Forster (2018 Winner in Writing), Kiki Gordon (2018 Winner in Design Arts), Amal Haddad (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Kevin Hopkins (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Quinlan Lewis-Mussa (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Leanne Lin (2018 Winner in Design Arts), Laiza Martinez (2018 Winner in Photography), Christopher McCready (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Ameya Okamoto(2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Janelle Radcliffe (2018 Winner in Photography), Belle Ray (2018 Winner in Photography), Juniel Solis (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Edith Trautwein (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Harley Walker (2018 Winner in Photography), Tika Wallace (2018 Winner in Writing), Hazelle Withers (2018 Winner in Photography), Caroline Zhang (2018 Winner in Visual Arts) and Bianca Zhou (2018 Winner in Writing).
Curated by Rosie Gordon Wallace
February 23 – April 27, 2018
“To be a person is to have a story to tell”
An exhibition featuring the work of 2018 YoungArts Miami participants in Design, Photography and Visual Arts. Many of the works in this exhibition have one core formal concern in common. Whether they be about the system, parents, educators, self or sexuality, these works center around the idea of a question. Some question through playful subversion of minimalist concerns, while others pose questions through bold articulation.
Exhibiting artists included: Maya Benedetti, Daniel Blanco, Emilee Briscoe, Jacob Chang-Rascle, Uma Chaterjee, Devon Davis, Mikaela Ehrenstein, Nicolas Glenn, Kiki Gordon, Megan hostetler, Fharid La Torre, Leanne Lin, Sarah Meckes, Alexander Montlvan, Emma Nieves, Carlos Ochoa, Liam Prather, Janelle Radcliffe, Frederick Rapp, Henry Rojas, Lua Schwartz, Zoe Schweiger, Jessica Sharif, Juniel Solis, Siless Vasquez, Ariana Vilchis, Harley Walker and Alexander Wong.
January 12 – February 2, 2018
This exhibition featured the work of the 2018 winners in Design, Photography and Visual Arts and is a testament to the diversity and depth of the next generation’s creative expression. The works on view range from painting and sculpture to video, photography and digital design. Examining nuances of daily life and investigating socio-political currents, some of the young artists use their practice to celebrate personal histories and ancestries, while others challenge our preconceived notions of identity. Combining a grasp on current artistic concerns with a desire to innovate, together they are poised to open up new aesthetic and conceptual territories, fueled with the common goal of harnessing art’s potential to give form to the continually evolving complexities of contemporary life.
Exhibiting artists included: Amanata Adams, Andie Aylsworth, James Balo, Gaia Barracca, Sarah Becker, Sudeep Bhargava, Helen Chen, Sean Cheng, Cyan D’anjou, Maya Dixon, Marie-Yolande Fanouvi, Melissa Fernandez-Flores, Sebrina Gao, Kate Goodvin, Amal Haddad, Kevin Hopkins, Megan Hostetler, Roxy Jamin, Lauren Lam, Bryce Landingham, Sanna Legan, Xavier Lightfoot, Leanne Lin, Jonathan Maldonado, Claire Manning, Christopher McCready, Perry Naseck, Ameya Okamoto, Francesca Peralta, Selena Pesantez, Ashley Prather, Jessica Sharif, Jessica Simpson, Ava Sodergren, Pierson Talbott, Anabella Tsarov, Felipe Urrutia, Flynn Walkinshaw, Liza Wimbish, Alexander Wong, Caroline Zhang, Cynthia Zhou and Jimmy Zhu.
Curated by Derrick Adams
October 10 – December 15, 2017
Exhibiting alumni artists included: Glenn Davis (2013), Mateo Nava (2013), Mika Rosenberg (2014), Sebastian Ruiz (2014), Celia Shaheen (2015), Su Wan Kim (2015), Cornelius Tulloch (2016), Wade Winslow (2016), Elle Cox (2017), and SWAG FUTURE David Correa x Alberto Checa (2017).
Curated by Liz Shannon
This exhibition presented work by a new generation of artists recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation for their outstanding achievement in Design, Photography and Visual Arts. Selected from across the region, these individual pieces and projects represent the diverse aesthetic, intellectual and emotional concerns of a group of highly creative young people. They interrogate the world, often in an intensely personal way, through artistic practices that engage with an impressive range of media. Supporting and celebrating these artists and their work can only serve to further the city’s proud reputation as a place where art is able – and encouraged – to flourish.
Exhibiting artists included: Ezekiel Binns, Theo Blones, Catherine Camargo, Alberto Checa, David Carrea, Adriana De La Torre, Kali Duffey, Luna Elortegui, Victoria Escobar, Dylan Etienne-Ramsay, Karina Fonseca, Abbey Franklin, Chloe Friend, Diego Gabaldon, Ryan Haney, Eloise Janssen, Sofiya Kuzmina, Korri Lampedusa, Sandy Li, Rey Londres, Alejandra Loor, Carmen Lopez, Isabel Oliva, Amelia Polyvious, Sophie Ruiz, Sophia Simmons, Nicole Stebbins, Kathryn Stenberg, Thalia Suri, Dalton Taylor, Samantha Torres, Nanette Turner-Trujillo and Michelle Voight.
MouthWater
September 27 – November 21, 2016
A multi-generational exhibition of works by YoungArts alumni curated by renowned sculptor and YoungArts master teacher Robert Chambers.
Exhibiting alumni artists included: Eric Clarke Rhein (1980), Naomi Fisher (1994), Cheryl Megan Smith (2007), Lee Heinemann (2011), Paloma Izquierdo (2014), Sebastian Ruiz (2014), Anais Perez (2015), Mark Fleuridor (2015), Ryan Yale (2015), Jackson McGrath (2015), Paloma Valencia (2015), Mikayla Brown (2015), Rachel London (2016), Leonardo Bacan (2016), Terri Ogwulumba (2016), Cornelius Tulloch (2016), and Nadia Wolff (2016).
Daniel Arsham
The Future Was Written
Curated by Franklin Sirmans
September 24 – December 6, 2015
An interactive exhibition that begins with nearly 2,000 objects made of chalk and evolves with the markings, drawings and words of gallery visitors through Miami Art Week.
Daniel Arsham (1999 YoungArts Winner in Visual Arts) transforms audiences to another time through this immersive and evolving exhibition of new work at the YoungArts Gallery, beginning with nearly 2,000 objects made of chalk, and evolving with the markings, drawings and words of gallery visitors through Miami Art Week on the gallery's black chalkboard walls. In signature Arsham style, these objects represent body parts, such as hands and faces as well as outmoded communication devices including cameras, telephones, video game controllers, and computers.
Visitors of all ages are encouraged to write, draw and make their markings on the walls of the gallery, with the chalk casts progressively disappearing throughout the duration of the show. Epitomizing many of the prevalent themes and motifs in Arsham's work—including the interplay of archaeology and architecture, eroding environments overtaken by nature, and the blurred line between the real and imagined—the exhibition will provide vistiors with a unique experience as actors and creators over a couple months' time.
Curated by Franklin Sirmans, the Director of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). As a curator, writer and editor, Sirmans has established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary art. Before arriving at PAMM, he served as department head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and is former U.S. Editor of Flash Art and Editor-in-Chief of ArtAsiaPacific. Sirmans is the 2007 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize presented by the High Museum.
Zero Tolerance: Miami
In Partnership with MoMA PS1
December 3 – December 21, 2014
Named for the 1990s policy under which New York City took a tough stance against vice and crime, Zero Tolerance: Miami brings together works by artists from across the globe that address tensions between freedom and control. Following Zero Tolerance’s initial presentation in New York, the exhibition at YoungArts makes these global concerns relevant to Miami by inviting artists whose work reflects issues of political dissidence, urban redevelopment, social policy and gay rights to participate. Taken together, the artists represented in Zero Tolerance: Miami continue YoungArts’ commitment to cultural vitality while presenting art of a charged and ambivalent nature, responding to concerns specific in place and time. Zero Tolerance: Miami is curated by MoMA PS1 Director and Chief Curator at Large of MoMA, Klaus Biesenbach, with MoMA PS1 Curatorial Assistant Margaret Aldredge.
The artists in Zero Tolerance: Miami included: YoungArts alumnus Doug Aitken, ACT UP New York, Joseph Beuys, Mircea Cantor, Chim↑Pom, Igor Grubić, Sharon Hayes, Deborah Kelly, Amal Kenawy, Yoko Ono, Pussy Riot, Christoph Schlingensief, Voina, and many more.
New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted
Hernan Bas and the Natural World: Selections from the Rubell Collection
October 2 – November 13, 2014
Our last exhibit, curated by PAMM Director Thom Collins, was the first in the ongoing gallery series entitled Junctures, highlighing the early careers of some of YoungArts' most notable alumni in visual arts. New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted was an intimate look at the early career of Hernan Bas, one of Miami’s most celebrated artists, who came through the YoungArts program in 1996. The exhibition featured approximately 19 works including drawings, works on paper and mixed media. To view photos from the Member's preview on October 1, click here.
New Voices:
Works by Recent YoungArts Alumni
July 22 – September 12, 2014
New Voices: Works by Recent YoungArts Alumni, curated by visual artist, YoungArts Master Teacher and Discipline Coordinator Loni Johnson, was the first alumni exhibition to be presented on the YoungArts campus, featuring 46 works by 30 YoungArts alumni in Visual Arts, Photography and Writing, offering a glimpse of our nation’s most promising talent. View photos from the exhibit on our Facebook page here.