Luisa Maria Basnuevo’s solo exhibition presents recent works from her series of painting inspired by eucalyptus seeds she collected in Spain a few years ago. Basnuevo works with an abstract genre using gestures, mask-making, over-painting and transparent washes and tonal variations to construct her imagery.

Florencio Gelabert: Intersections
(November 29 - February 28, 2009)
3rd Floor Galleries

Florencio Gelabert has created a series of environmentally based installation. The site-specific 3D works address issues of humankind’s relationship with the natural world and our role in the depletion of natural resources. The work will combine sophisticated technologies with basic materials to create complex works that address the perils facing the environment.

John Henry: Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project Illustrated
(November 29, 2008 - March 9,2009)
3rd Floor Galleries
This exhibition will highlight and illustrate the process and concept behind Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project, which incorporates large scale sculpture into the Florida landscape. Henry specifically chose Florida for its peninsular shape which creates a unique geographic environment. Each individual sculpture invites the viewer to experience the next, thus experiencing a new part of Florida. This is not only an art exhibition but a way to provide a deeper connection between the viewer, the cities and the sculptures that encourages exploration of the natural beauty of Florida. Along with each outdoor installation, a local museum partner will host an accompanying exhibition. The Frost will present the signature exhibition for the project: Peninsula Project Illustrated and will showcase all nine monumental works in the seven participating Florida cities. With models of the sculpture and large photographs of the pieces set in their various landscapes- the exhibit will be a tribute to the artist’s unprecedented use of the Florida peninsula as his canvas. Drawing in Space: The Peninsula Project Illustrated was made possible through major support from Arison Arts Foundation, Parnassus Foundation, See Rock City, Inc., Performance Video Productions, Tubatomic, Bob and Terry Edwards, David and Diane McDonald and Doug and Maureen Cohn. Additional support was provided by Comcast, the Miami-Dade Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. For more information on the Peninsula Project please visit www.peninsulaproject.com

Full Circle: Andrew Reach

Andrew Reach was working as an architect on the Frost Art Museum when his career ended because of a crippling spinal disease. In an effort to transcend his pain and physical limitations, he turned his creative energies to art.  Lacking the strength to paint, Reach created  large-format computer-generated images. His love for painters Larry Rivers and Jackson Pollock inspired him to fuse the abstract expressionist’s aesthetic with his interest in Eastern traditions, Islamic art and African patterns. Reach comes full circle with an exhibition of his work at The Frost, the beautiful and innovative structure he helped design.

MFA 2008 Exhibition
(March 14 - April 12, 2008)
An exhibition featuring works of art by graduating Master of Fine Art students from the School of Art + Art History at Florida International University.

BFA Fall 2007 Exhibition
(December 21 - January 19, 2008)
An exhibition featuring works of art by graduating Bachelor of Fine Art students from the School of Art + Art History at Florida International University.

2007 Florida Artist Series: Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables
(October 12 - December 9, 2007)
This solo exhibition presents Pip Brant's most recent series of work (2004-2007). Brant's fiber based work reflects political and social headlines and acts as an examination of our times. Her highly honest and blatent visual vocabulary expresses itself with humorous rage. The exhibition features bold weavings, dyed and embroidered tablecloths and two large-scale interactive installations. Brant has exhibited paintings, non-loom fibers, artist books and guerilla installations nationally and internationally. Brant is a Visual Arts professor at FIU and a 2002-2003 Florida Cultural Consortium Fellow in the media and visual arts.

Visión Revelada: Selección de obras de Abelardo Morell
(June 14 – August 19, 2007)
[Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell]
The Frost Art Museum’s first traveling exhibition to Latin America, sponsored by UBS, presented in Mexico City. Centro de la Imagen, Plaza de la Ciudadela 2, Mexico, DF www.conaculta.gob.mx/cimagen

2007 Cintas Fellowship Finalist Exhibition
(June 7 – September 16, 2007)
A group exhibition consisting of the four finalists for the Emilio Sanchez Fellowship in the Visual Arts. The fellowship is awarded annually to a visual artist of Cuban citizenship or direct descent living outside of Cuba. The winner of the fellowship will be announced on the opening night of the exhibition.  Curated by Ingrid LaFleur Rogers

A Room of One’s Own : Teresita Fernández, María Elena González,
Quisqueya Henríquez and María Martínez-Cañas 
(September 15 – December 10, 2006)
The conceptual work of four internationally renowned women artists is the focus of the Frost Art Museum’s biennial Cintas Fellows exhibition. A Room of One’s Own explores the boundaries of space, architecture and materiality through four distinct installations. The artists in this group exhibition challenge the notions that have traditionally defined artistic categories such as sculpture, installation art, photography, video and architecture and blur the lines between each of these mediums. Each artist integrates spatial elements with ordinary objects into their respective installations that both address and disrupt the manner in which architecture and the physicality of space shape our daily realities and our perception of the world. Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido

Visión Revelada: Selección de obras de Abelardo Morell
(July 13 – August 31, 2006)
[Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell]
The Frost Art Museum’s first traveling exhibition to Latin America, sponsored by UBS, presented in Santiago de Chile.  Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Parque Forestal S/N Santiago, Chile; www.dibam.cl

2006 Cintas Fellowship Finalist Exhibition
(May 13 – 25, 2006)
The Frost Art Museum will host the annual presentation of the Cintas Fellowships in Visual Arts and Architecture.  This event will feature an exhibition of work by the finalists and the 2006 winners.  The recognition of the 2006 Fellowship winners is officially announced at this event.

Creative Visions 2006
(May 18 – May 25, 2006)                                  
The 3rd Annual Student Art Exhibition from District 11 public schools, this exhibition is presented in association with Commission Chairman Joe Martinez and Miami-Dade County Public Schools and features a juried selection of works from students’ grades 1 – 12.   

Visão Revelada: Seleções do trabalho de Abelardo Morell  
(May 11 – June 26, 2006)
[Vision Revealed: Selections from the work of Abelardo Morell]
The Frost Art Museum’s first traveling exhibition to Latin America, sponsored by UBS, opens in Sao Paolo, Brazil.  Museo de Arte Modero (MAM), Sao Paolo, Brazil; Parque do Ibirapuera, portao 3 – s/no,  Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; www.mam.org.br

The Saint Makers: A Living Tradition in American Folk Art: Selections from the collection of Chuck and Jan Rosenak 
 (September 23 – December 4, 2005)
Highlighting a specific movement within the larger context of American Folk and Outsider art, this exhibition features over 75 objects by artists in the Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado area who continue the tradition of saint making dating back to the early 1700s.  Influenced by European Baroque Art and its religious iconography, these artists create figurative sculptures depicting narratives whereby spirituality becomes the impetus for their unique artistic expression.

Florida Artists Series: Tori Arpad & Kate Kretz
(June 3 – July 31, 2005)
A compelling exhibition featuring the work of two artists who confront ideas about the body from conceptual and visceral perspectives. Arpad's multi-media installations and video works explore the relationship between body and environment.  Kretz's paintings and mixed media textile creations address psychological and emotional vulnerabilities in a post-modern context.

Creative Visions 2005  
(May 12 - 19, 2005)
The second annual scholastic exhibition of student work from District 11 public schools presented  in association with Commission Chairman Joe Martinez and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Numerous pieces of two-dimensional artwork from each elementary, middle and high school within District 11 were selected by a panel of judges for display; and the top three works of art in each level will receive a scholarship to an arts camp for the summer.

Mark Klett: Mapping Landscapes And Time
(January 14 - March 13, 2005)
Acclaimed photographer, Mark Klett, is internationally recognized for his work on the American West. This exhibit will focus on his participation in the Rephotographic Survey Project which sought to relocate various places reproduced in famous mid 1800's landscape photographs. The exhibit will also feature his early black and white photographs, the Yosemite Project and his most recent work, Third View, whose color photographs and multi-media projections continue to revisit American landscape through contemporary eyes. Klett's conceptual work documents the temporal and spatial transformations of the land throughout history and time.

Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture 
(September 10 - December 5, 2004)
This unprecedented exhibition of Haitian sculpture brings together a diverse selection of over 50 pieces from Haitian sculptors spanning the past half century to the present. Curator Elizabeth Cerejido’s primary impetus was to focus on an area of Haitian art that had received little, if any, curatorial and scholarly attention – thus breaking with stereotypical depictions of Haitian art that have traditionally been the subject of museum and gallery exhibitions.  Another key underlying element in the curatorial focus of the exhibit was to emphasize the intrinsic importance of the process of creating artwork from a variety of recycled materials and how this reflects Haiti’s social, religious, economic and political reality.  Three categories were identified which loosely guided the structure of the exhibition:  Metal work, featuring the work of the Iron Masters who laid a foundation for one of the principal art-making practices in Haiti ; Ritual objects or Market art focusing on the work of a handful of artists whose principal motive for producing work stemmed from their religious practices and finally, Contemporary Interpretations, the work of a generation of younger and mid-career artists, working both in Haiti and outside, who address traditional Haitian themes such as Vodou in new ways, imbuing their work with a bold sense of irony, humor and sexuality.

Florida Artists Series:  R.F. Buckley & Clive King 
(June 18 — August 15, 2004)
R.F. Buckley received his M.F.A. from the Rinehart School of Sculpture, Maryland Institute, College of Art. Highly respected for his aluminum works of ordinary objects creating unusual combinations of subject and material, he has exhibited throughout the US and most recently won the Rosen Award from the Eleventh Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition in Boone, North Carolina.  Clive Kingstudied at the Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London and Exeter College of Art and taught in the Visual Arts Department of Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England, before joining the faculty at FIU. He has been the recipient of numerous National and Regional awards and fellowships, including the Southern Arts Federation/ National Endowment for the Arts award and a Fullbright Exchange Fellowship.

Vision Revealed: Selections from the Work of Abelardo Morell  
(January 16 – March 14, 2004)
Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell is the featured artist in the biennial exhibition from our Cintas Fellows Collection. Morell's best known work is the Camera Obscura series in which he turns a room into a dark chamber capturing, through long exposures the images that appear projected upside down of the outside world. He received an MFA from Yale University and his work can be found in the permanent collections of The Museums of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and many other institutions.  Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido.

The Land Through A Lens: Highlights From The Smithsonian American Museum
(September 5 - October 31, 2003)
These vintage photographs trace America's fascination with untouched wilderness, pastoral views, exotic geological formations, Indian territories, farmlands and prairies, national parks, industrial land development, and commemorative sites of former wars. From the dawn of photography to the present day, artists have transformed the land into symbols and signature images. The giants of early and modern photography represented here include Carleton Watkins, Timothy O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Doris Ullman, Bret Weston, Aaron Siskind, Mark Klett, Linda Connor, William Christenberry, and many more.

Florida Artists Series: James Couper & William Burke 
(June 27 - August 20, 2003)
James Couper III received his M.A. degree from Florida State University and has achieved national acclaim for his landscape paintings of Florida and the South.
William Burke received his M.F.A. from the State University, College of New York. His installations represent the literal storage of nature's physical objects in order to trigger recollections of sights witnessed in the past and present.

American Art Today: Faces and Figures
(January 17 — March 9, 2003)
Faces and Figures is part of an ongoing series titled American Art Today curated by museum director Dahlia Morgan and guest curator Roni Feinstein. This exhibition investigates the resurgence of interest among contemporary artists in the representation of the human face and figure.

Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the Present  
(September 20 — December 8, 2002)
This exhibition features works by international artists from the Margulies Collection.

Faculty Exhibition: Richard Duncan 
(June 21 — August 18, 2002)
An exhibition featuring FIU Visual Arts Faculty member, Richard Duncan.
 
Cintas Fellow: Waldo Balart 
(February 8 — March 10, 2002)
This Cuban artist, currently living in Spain, was the first artist to bring the movements of Constructivism to Cuban art

Arte Latino: Treasures From The Smithsonian American Art Museum
(December 7, 2001 — January 27, 2002)
This exhibition celebrates the vitality of Latino art traditions and innovations, from the 18th through the 20th centuries.

Face Of The Gods: Art & Altars Of Africa And The African Americas
(September 14 — October 25, 2001)
Composed of fifteen altars that are both recreations of traditional African sites of worship and "living" altars made by contemporary artists, this exhibition explores African art and religion.

Faculty Exhibition: Eduardo Del Valle & Mirta Gomez Del Valle 
(June 22 - August 19, 2001)
An exhibition featuring FIU Visual Arts Faculty members, Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gomez del Valle.

Winslow Homer Wood Engravings From The John And Ideal Gladstone Archival Collection
(March 1 - 30, 2001)
This exhibition features wood engravings and the leather bound collection of Harper's Weekly from 1861 to 1865.

Contemporary Folk Art   
(January 12 - March 4, 2001)
This exhibition showcases self-taught artists of the past forty years. Many have been unknown to the public until the past decade and have often worked in isolation or in small communities around the country. Traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
 
 American Art Today: Fantasies and Curiosities
(September 15 - November 5, 2000)
An exhibition exploring the themes that have power to excite wonder and astonishment in works ranging from realism to conceptualism.

Modernism and Abstraction 
(January 7-March 26, 2000)
Treasures from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, Modernism and Abstraction shows depicted artists' aesthetic responses to radical transformations of American life in the twentieth century, from new technology to new political theories.

Luis Jimenez: Working Class Heroes: Images from the Popular Culture
(September 17-November 7, 1999)
An exhibition focusing on Jimenez's imagery which grew out of his fascination with popular culture

Jose Bedia: A Retrospective 
(February 26-April 3, 1999)
This exhibition by internationally renowned Cuban-American artist Jose Bedia, explored, through his painting, sculpture and drawings, his use of myth.

Photography from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection 
(January 8-February 13, 1999)
A comprehensive collection of modern and contemporary photographs. An exhibition curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Collaborations: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley 
(September 18-November 7, 1998)
An exhibition focused on these three California artists who for the past twenty years have collaborated on creating works of art.

El Alma Del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas
 (January 23-March 21, 1998)
The first major exhibition devoted to the folk culture of Spain and its impact on the Americas. Featuring more than 350 objects from 25 museums and private collections in Spain and the Americas, it opened a window onto the Soul of Spain, its people, and its lasting impressions on the New World.

Life Cycles: The Charles E. Burchfield Collection 
(September 19-November 8, 1997)
An exhibition of one of the most original American Landscape painters. Inspired by nature and the seasons, Charles Burchfield's work impacted generations of fellow 20th Century artists. For the first time ever, a selection of Burchfield's paintings and drawings form the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York, was seen in the Southeast United States.

Guido Llinas and Los Once After Cuba 
(February 28-April 2, 1997)
An exhibition which examines Guido Llinas' participation in the historic Los Once group, exiled Cuban artists who were influenced by American abstract expressionism.

American Art Today: The Garden 
(January 10-February 15, 1997)
An exhibition exploring the way contemporary artists interpret the traditional theme of the garden. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Miami Pops! Pop Art from Miami Collections 
(September 20-November 20, 1996)
An exhibition focusing on popular culture using Miami art collections. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

American Art Today: Images from Abroad  
(February 23-March 30, 1996)
Focusing on artists that are not American, this exhibition is part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62 
(January 12-February 10, 1996)
The exhibition focuses on the work of European and American artists made between 1958-1962 whose primary source of inspiration was the Dadaist movement.

"Dictated by Life": Marsden Hartley's German Paintings and Robert Indiana's Hartley's Elegies 
(October 20-November 29, 1995)
An exhibition featuring the German Officers paintings of Marsden Hartley last seen together in Berlin in 1915 with Robert Indiana's paintings that pay homage to Hartley's work.

Miro & Noguchi   
(September 8-October 11, 1995)
Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Sheila Natasha Simrod Friedman 
(March 3-April 5, 1995)
A retrospective of the work of this poetess and designer. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

American Art Today: Night Paintings  
(January 13-February 18, 1995)
Focusing on the Nocturne, this exhibition is part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Fairfield Porter: An American Painter 1950-1975 
(October 28-November 23, 1994)
An exhibition of one of America's foremost figurative and landscape painters. Organized by The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.

Melvin Edwards Sculpture: A Thirty Year Retrospective (1963-1993) 
(September 9-October 22, 1994)
Selections from a historic survey of welded steel sculpture incorporating this artist's African American heritage. Organized by The Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase.

American Art Today: Heads Only 
(April 8-May 6, 1994)
Part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes: Heads Only examines the growing trend of contemporary artists to emulate the traditions of Greco-Roman sculpture using the monumental forum of the Head. Curated by Dahlia Morgan.

Visiones del Pueblo: The Folk Art of Latin America  
(January 21-March 19, 1994)
The first major traveling exhibition of the folk art of Latin America-much of it unknown and previously unrecorded. More than 250 objects from 17 countries trace the folk heritage of Latin American artistic expression from the 16th century to the resent day. Organized by The Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY. Curated by Dr. Marion Oettinger, Curator of Folk Art and Latin American Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX.

Photography by Cintas Fellows 
(October 29-November 27, 1993)
Photographs by contemporary Cuban exiles including the works of Mario Algaze, Victor Carlos Causo, Mirta Gomez and Eduardo Del Valle, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ramon Guererro, J.Tomas Lopez. Luis Mallo, Maria Martinez-Canas, Abelardo Morell, Jr., Ernest Scott, Andres Serrano, Ernesto I. Urdaneta, and Ricardo Zulueta. Curated by Dahlia Morgan

Elaine de Kooning 
(September 10-October 16, 1993)
A retrospective exhibition of 58 works including paintings and drawings spanning the 50-year career of one of America's foremost abstract expressionists. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA.
 
David Bates 
(April 30-May 29, 1993)
A retrospective of an American painter who has made the rediscovery of the American bayou and its people.

American Art Today: Clothing as Metaphor 
(January 8-February 20, 1993)
Part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes: exploring clothing as a subject in contemporary art.

Agustin Fernandez 
(October 30-December 11, 1992)
Tracing the evolution of style and subject matter of one of the most important figures in Cuban-American painting of the last century.

Anton Tapies in Print 
(September 18-October 17, 1992)
Prints and illustrated books by the prolific Spanish painter, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Cuba-USA: The First Generation
 (May 1-June 3, 1992)
Documents the isolation and cultural trauma associated with Cuban artists in exile

American Art Today: Surface Tension  (January 10-February 14, 1992)
Part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes: focusing on innovative surfaces in contemporary painting.

Through the Path of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico 
(October 25-November 27, 1991)
The work of a generation of Mexican artists who examine the relationship of Mexico's complex history to its contemporary culture.

Team Spirit 
(September 13-October 11, 1991)
The collaboration of pairs and groups of artists exploring such issues as personal relationships, social action, and political and environmental issues.

ArtPark at FIU 
(May 3-July 13, 1991)
A celebration of the Art in State Building Program's acquisition of major works by eight leading Florida artists for new buildings at FIU's University Park and North Miami campuses.

American Art Today: New Directions 
(January 11-February 15, 1991)
Part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes: spotlighting the work of 15 American women who use nature and abstraction as their source of expression.

Magenes Liricas: New Spanish Visions 
(October 26-November 21, 1990)
A challenging examination by contemporary Spanish artists of the heritage of romanticism and mysticism in Spanish art.

Of Time and The City: American Modernism from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 
(September 14-October 17, 1990)
A new look at the response of American artists to European ideas in the early 20th century.

New Acquisition: The Metropolitan Collection  (May 4-June 6, 1990)
Treasures from the Metropolitan Collection acquired by The Art Museum at Florida International University.

American Art Today: The City 
(January 12-February 17, 1990)
Part of an ongoing series examining the way artists today interpret traditional themes: exploring the city as a subject in contemporary art.