YoungArts Miami 2020 Exhibition
Curated by
Edouard Duval-Carrié
On view via YoungArts Facebook Page
This exhibition features the work of the 2020 winners in Design Arts, 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, sculpture and photography to digital design and architecture. Many of these young artists celebrate personal histories and ancestries, while others challenge our preconceived notions of identity. Combining a remarkable grasp of current artistic concerns and a keen understanding of the serious environmental challenges we face, they share a desire to innovate. Together they are poised to open up new aesthetic and conceptual territories, fueled by the common goal of harnessing art’s potential in contemporary life.
Exhibiting artists: Angel Ahabue, Luis Aleman, Jazmine Baca, Piper Bangs, Jackson Bein, Sarah Branch, Carlos Cepeda, Justin Clarke, Leah Clemons, Kristian Craig, Nicholas Ferguson, Madeline Hazouri, Sofia Hernandez, Alexandra Hogue, Santiago Krossler, Sarah Leiva, Zonelys Martinez, Katherine Miller, Natalie Park, Sabrina Proano, David Rodriguez, Ariya Selvakumar, Kyle Ventura, Ariel Weinberg, Hailey Winn and Yasmin Yanez.
Within Interdependence
An exhibition of work by YoungArts alumni curated by Deana Haggag
October 2–December 13, 2019
Considering ideas of interdependence, intimacy, and the bodymind, Within Interdependence weaves together works that focus on each artist’s connection to their bodies in a rapidly changing ecological, metaphysical and social world. While entering from numerous vantage points, each selected work in the exhibition attempts to draw out what inherently connects us to ourselves, the people around us, and the lands we live on. It is in this spirit of interdependence—an admission that we cannot self-actualize without one another—that this exhibition pulls together these 20 artists.
Exhibiting artists: Alyssa Ackerman (2015 Winner in Visual Arts), Ray Banke (2019 Winner in Design Arts), Demetri Burke (2017 Winner in Visual Arts), Andrew Flanders (2013 Winner in Visual Arts), Adriana Gomez (2019 Winner in Visual Arts), Haley Hasen (2015 Winner in Photography), Carlos Hernandez (2019 Winner in Photography), Maite Iribarren (2015 Winner in Design Arts), Joshua Keeney (2018 Winner in Visual Arts), Lauren Lam (2018 Winner in Design Arts and Visual Arts), Timothy Lee (2008 Winner in Visual Arts), Alex Mediate (2016 Winner in Photography), Miles Phillips (2014 Winner in Photography), Antonio Pulgarin (2008 Winner in Photography), Jessica Simpson (2018 Winner in Photography), Gabriel Sosa (2003 Winner in Visual Arts), Patty Suau (2003 Winner in Visual Arts), Alexandra Venegas (2016 Winner in Visual Arts), Liza Wimbish (2018 Winner in Photography) and Caroline Zhang (2018 Winner in Visual Arts).
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: 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
Curated by visual artist and YoungArts Master Artist Loni Johnson, this 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.