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Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape

July 19 - November 23, 2024
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape is USF Contemporary Art Museum’s contribution to Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, a multi-venue exhibition that profiles the best new art in the Tampa Bay region. Other institutions participating in Skyway 2024 include The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the Sarasota Art Museum, and the Tampa Museum of Art. 

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape features artworks by Elisabeth Condon, Keith Crowley, John Gurbacs, Karen Tucker Kuykendall, Caui Lofgren, Bruce Marsh, Eric Ondina, Sebastian Ore Blas, Andrés Ramírez, Bradford Robotham, Erin Titus, and Susanna Wallin. Their artworks focus on a wide-open notion of landscape, invoking both the particularities of place and the universal ideas they provoke. Their wildly varied representations give sharp-eyed evidence of a common territory—the rich artistic landscape of a cultural region that has very much come into its own.  

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape is supported in part by the USF College of The Arts; the Lee and Victor Leavengood Endowment; and the Dr. Allen W. and Janet G. Root CAM Endowment. Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration is supported by the Gobioff Foundation and the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation. 


EDISON PEÑAFIEL: MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida)

August 24 - October 26, 2024
GENERATOR | Harbor Hall Gallery, USF St. Petersburg

MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida)is a panoramic video installation featuring a stylized, monochromatic sea populated by 14 boats, each with its own unique collection of characters caught in a perpetual loop. Every 30 minutes, the film’s characters arrive back where they began. Despite appearing larger than life, their boats are constructed of various found objects, including wood, oil drums, and tires, pointing to real-life scenes of migration across bodies of water. 

The name MARE MAGNVM comes from the Latin for “Great Sea,” the term the Romans used to describe the Mediterranean. The word “mare” has a complicated history, being associated with evil spirits and terrors in various cultures, including in Old English and Old Irish. Today, the waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, along with other sites of mass migration, reflect an ongoing horror, as millions of migrants flee war, instability, and climate change. MARE MAGNVM does not refer to a single migration event, but rather expands the viewers’ experience to encompass the phenomenon as a whole. A panoramic artwork, MARE MAGNVM immerses viewers in the struggle of crossing borders, alerting them to a future in which rising waters will push unprecedented numbers of people away from the places they call home. 

EDISON PEÑAFIEL: MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida) is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. GENERATOR: USFCAM and its programs are generously supported by USF College of The Arts; USF St. Petersburg; the Lee and Victor Leavengood Endowment; and the St. Petersburg Downtown Partnership. MARE MAGNVM was produced with the technical and creative support of MAD LABS and Immersiva.

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Danielle De Jesus, Graham Avenue, 2023. Oil on linen and packing material. 20 x 24 inches

X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday

January 13 – March 8, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum

X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday locates, through the work of more than a dozen historical and contemporary artists, dynamic entry points into the discussion and expansion of the term Latinx. The exhibition grounds a series of redefinitions of “Latinity” in the everyday lives of its creators, especially where artworks and creative processes reconquer novel meanings from hackneyed and conventional ideas of ethnicity, race, class, politics, representation, and the history of US migration. 

Exhibiting artists include Gabino Castelán, Gisela Colón, Danielle De Jesús, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Eddy Lopez, Miguel Luciano, Ana Mendieta, Angel Otero, Edison Peñafiel, Yiyo Tirado, Rigoberto Torres, Rodrigo Valenzuela and Laura Insua. 

X Factor is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 


 

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Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT

May 14 - May 18, 2024
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT as part of its arts programming for military veterans. Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT brings together the art of twenty-two U.S. veterans and their family members. The installation includes a selection of sixty-six photographs from two intensive artist-led photography workshops that broaden the parameters of the portraiture genre and contribute to our understanding of the human experience. 

Breaking Barriers is a project by USFCAM in collaboration with the USF School of Art & Art History, with support from the USF Office of Veterans Success, Community Arts Impact Grant of the Hillsborough Arts Council, Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, Love IV Lawrence, USFCAM ACE (Art for Community Engagement) Fund Patrons, and the Florida Department of State, Florida Arts & Culture.


I Keep the Ladders Clean: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition

March 29 - May 4, 2024
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition featured Master's Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2024 exhibition, titled I Keep the Ladders Clean, included artists Ainaz Alipour, Tisha Benson, Caroline Colby, Mason Dowling, Andrew King, Manantial, Harsh K Sharma, Tanner Simon, and Amber Toplisek. 

I Keep the Ladders Clean is supported in part by the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, the USF School of Art & Art History, the Florida Department of State, Florida Arts & Culture, and The Dr. Allen W. and Janet G. Root CAM Endowment.


OFFSET: Robert Rauschenberg at USF Graphicstudio

January 19 – March 2, 2024
USF Contemporary Art Museum

OFFSET: Robert Rauschenberg at USF Graphicstudio tells the story of Robert Rauschenberg's long and fruitful collaboration with Donald J. Saff, founder of Graphicstudio in 1968, Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Art Department, and Founding Dean of the College of The Arts at the University of South Florida. Together, Rauschenberg and Saff worked on projects that had profound impacts locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. In addition to the artist's experimentation across mediums, Rauschenberg's legacy is explored through the works of artists that recall his radical approach to materials, process, and concepts, including Trisha Brown, Rochelle Feinstein, Christian Marclay, Narsiso Martinez, Bosco Sodi, and Tavares Strachan.


Martine Gutierrez, Queer Rage, Dear Diary, No Signal During VH1’s Fiercest Divas, p72 from Indigenous Woman, 2018. digital chromogenic print. 42 x 28 inches. Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.

Native America: In Translation

August 25 - December 1, 2023
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Native America: In Translation features diverse work by nine photographers and lens-based artists who probe the histories of colonialism, and photography’s complex and often fraught role in constructing representation of Native cultures, to offer new perspectives on Indigenous identity and heritage, reimagining what it means to be a citizen in North America today.

Native America: In Translation is curated by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star and expands on her work as guest editor of the Fall 2020 issue of Aperture magazine. The exhibition is organized by Aperture and is made possible, in part, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts. 


This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg

October 6 - November 22, 2023
Harbor Hall Gallery, USF St. Petersburg

GENERATOR: University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum presents its inaugural exhibition, SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg, which explores a world where human life depends on coexistence with other species. Emerging from SUPERFLEX’s in-depth research into the deep sea, biodiversity, and the climate, the installation immerses viewers in two parallel and interconnected realms–a terrestrial space unsettled by rising water and a submerged space in the ocean’s depths–to signify the impacts and consequences of climate change, especially relevant to Florida and its coastal communities, and prompting the imagination of a future in which all lifeforms coexist as ecological equals. SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg is curated by Sarah Howard, Director of GENERATOR: USFCAM, and organized by USFCAM.


Zora III

Rico Gatson: Visible Time

June 2 - July 29, 2023
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Rico Gatson is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture, and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, video, and public projects. In late May, Gatson will transform the walls of the USF Contemporary Art Museum with a kaleidoscopic, life-size image of Zora Neale Hurston—author, anthropologist, filmmaker, and former Florida resident—while exhibiting important paintings and works on paper, as well as a mini-survey of videos from 2001 to the present. Rico Gatson: Visible Time is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.


MFA2023

Someday You'll Have To Say It Out Loud: 2023 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 - May 6, 2023
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This eagerly anticipated annual exhibition features Master's Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2023 exhibition, titled Someday You'll Have To Say It Out Loud, features artists Kai Holyoke, Molly Duff, Caitlin Nobilé, Manon VanScoder, Rachel Treide, Alicia Watkinson, Trinity Oribio, and Willow Wells.


Jesse Murry

Poor People's Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States

January 13 - March 4, 2023
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Poor People's Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States presents a social history of the experience of underrepresented and underserved communities in the US since 1968. Individually and collectively, the artists included in Poor People's Art tell a story of intersecting injustices of race, class, immigration status, healthcare systems, food insecurity, and gender issues. Poor People's Art is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Jesse Murry

Jesse Murry: Rising

August 26 - December 3, 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Jarrett Earnest and Lisa Yuskavage and first staged at David Zwirner gallery in New York in September of 2021, Jesse Murry: Rising serves as an important introduction to the art, poetry, and criticism of a unique and polymathic American talent. The exhibition brings together paintings from the last five years of the artist's life as well as recordings of influential voices attesting to Murry’s enduring legacy.


Lisa Yuskavage

Necessary Angels: Jesse Murry & Lisa Yuskavage

August 26 - December 3, 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Jesse Murry and Lisa Yuskavage met while attending Yale School of Art, where they received their MFAs in 1986. The bonds of their creative friendship are explored in USFCAM’s concurrent exhibition Necessary Angels: Jesse Murry & Lisa Yuskavage. Besides giving proof to the idea that artistic friendship can transcend simple influence and achieve higher dimensions of collaboration spurred on by mutual learning, respect, and love, Necessary Angels features rarely seen paintings on paper by Murry and celebrated paintings and watercolors by Yuskavage. Organized by USFCAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné, the exhibition is only the second time that Murry's and Yuskavage's work has been presented under the same roof since their Yale 1986 MFA thesis show.


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The Lyrical Moment: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction by Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin

June 17 - July 30, 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Taking as a starting point a substantial award by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to USFCAM, the museum has organized an exhibition that features elegant, hand-processed paintings and prints by pioneering artist Helen Frankenthaler and digitally-informed, pop-inflected canvases and works on paper by contemporary Los Angeles painter Heather Gwen Martin. Part of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation initiative to support university museums in their educational programming, the exhibition brings together the work of two important women artists from two different generations. 

The Lyrical Moment is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Gobioff Foundation, and the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and made possible by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s generous gift to the USF Art Collection.


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Inverso: 2022 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 - May 7, 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This eagerly anticipated annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2022 artists are Kim Darling, Aimee Jones, Natalia Kraviec, Krystle Lemonias, Tatiana Mesa Paján, and Marlon Tobias. 

Inverso is supported in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the USF School of Art and Art History, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, and CAM Club.


Bosco Sodi, Vers l’Espagne Branch (2019). Photo by Will Lytch

Bosco Sodi: Básico

January 14 – March 5, 2022
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online

Bosco Sodi: Básico brings together Bosco Sodi’s various sources of artistic inspiration as examples of sustainable art making. The exhibition includes a powerful group of paintings titled “Vers l’Espagne”, whose rough surfaces recall creek beds and the footpaths trod by Mexican and Central American immigrants on their way north, as well two new series Sodi made in Mexico in 2020 during pandemic lockdown: large spherical clay sculptures he has called “perfect bodies” and a series of “Sun Paintings” on chili pepper sacks, both fashioned with materials that were readily available at his studio in Oaxaca, Mexico. Also included in the exhibition are small clay sculptures made by local children, the hands-on output of a community art program developed by Sodi’s Casa Wabi Foundation, the non-profit art and community-education complex the artist founded eight years ago on Mexico’s Oaxacan Coast. Among the messages of the exhibition: challenging times demand a return to what is Básico—art, community, and education. 

Bosco Sodi: Básico is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum. 


Miguel Luciano's Pimp My Piragua

Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and the Diaspora

September 24 – December 04, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online

Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and the Diaspora will gather, display, record, and conceptualize artistic responses to Hurricane Maria by artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Through artworks and their narratives and socially engaged initiatives, voices from the island and Puerto Rican communities in New York and Florida will materialize a synoptic view of Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery as part of an evolving, 121-year-old historical crisis.

Participating artists include: Rogelio Báez Vega, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Jorge González Santos, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Ivelisse Jiménez, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Miguel Luciano, SkittLeZ-Ortiz, Angel Otero, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Gabriel Ramos, Jezabeth Roca González, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Yiyo Tirado Rivera.

Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator at Large, and Noel Smith, Former Deputy Director and Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art.


Skyway 20/21

Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration

June 14 – September 01, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online

The Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration 20/21 exhibition, now in its second iteration, is a celebration of artistic practices in the Tampa Bay region, as it is a collaboration between four institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.

Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration 20/21 at the USF Contemporary Art Museum is supported by the Gobioff Foundation, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, the Lee and Victor Leavengood Trust, and Dr. Allen Root in honor of his late wife Janet G. Root. 


MFA 2021

Out To Pasture: 2021 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 02 – May 02, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum + Online

This annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2021 MFA artists are Bonnie Mae Carrow, Leonidas Dezes, JD Hardy, Laura Pérez Insua, Nadia Ivanova, Lisa McCarthy, Luke Myers, Erin Oliver, Chase Palmer, Maxwell Parker, Andrés Ramírez, Jonathan Talit, and Ian Wilson. Supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History.

Out To Pasture is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, MFAO, and CAM Club.


Joiri Minaya, The Cloaking of the statue of Christopher Columbus behind the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, Miami, Florida, 2019. Dye-sublimation print on spandex fabric and wood structure. Photo by Zachary Balber, commissioned by Fringe Projects Miami.

Marking Monuments

January 22 – March 05, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum Lee and Victor Leavengood Gallery + Online

Engaging with the global dialogues confronting colonialist and racist monuments, markers and memorials in public space, Marking Monuments presents a selection of artists’ installations and interventions that challenge, erase and transform dominant histories, offering reimagined representations for equity in public culture. Marking Monuments includes projects by Ariel René Jackson, Joiri Minaya, Karyn Olivier in collaboration with Trapeta B. Mayson, John Sims, and Monument Lab. 

Marking Monuments is curated by Sarah Howard, USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice; and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Marking Monuments is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, IRA Initiatives for Social Justice Fund, USFCAM Art for Community Engagement (ACE) Fund, the Lee and Victor Leavengood Endowment, and the Florida Department of State.


Griffith J. Davis. Griff Davis reviews the script for Liberia's first promotional film "Pepperbird Land"with its narrator, emerging actor Sidney Poitier in Monrovia, Liberia, 1952. Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives.

Still Here: The Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives in Context

January 22 – March 05, 2021
USF Contemporary Art Museum West Gallery + Online

Still Here: The Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives in Context features rarely seen 1939 to 1988 era photographic imagery of the groundbreaking life and photographic practice of Griff Davis. A pioneer international photographer, journalist, U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer, and photo-documentarian, Mr. Davis’ artistic and iconic photographs capture historical moments and figures, lifestyles, personalities and people across a spectrum of political, socio-economic and artistic sectors at the vortex of the Civil Rights Movement and the Independence Movement of Africa. His multi-media work will be fully displayed in context with thematically complementary contemporary artworks by artists Romare Bearden, Emory Douglas, Jacob A. Lawrence, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, and Hank Willis Thomas.

Still Here is curated by Dorothy M. Davis, President of Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives; Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator at Large; and Noel Smith, CAM Deputy Director and Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art; and organized by USFCAM. Still Here is supported by a USF Understanding and Addressing Blackness and Anti-Black Racism in Our Local, National, and International Communities Research Grant; Susana and Yann Weymouth; Mort and Sara Richter; Major Sponsor The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation; and the Florida Department of State.


Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus

An Evolving Online Exhibition - lifeduringwartimeexhibition.org
June 6 - December 12, 2020 

Life During Wartime is USFCAM’s first major virtual exhibition. It asks more than 50 international artists to respond to the realities that have gripped the planet since March 5, the date the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic. An evolving, real-time display, the exhibition mobilizes feeling, thought, and activity around art’s role as a conceptual catalyst. Artist contributions provide a picture of a planet in crisis, but also images of hope and optimism in the face of a global emergency. 

This exhibition is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa. Made possible by Major Sponsor the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, and by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.


SOS COLOR CODE 2020 // LUFTWERK & NORMAL

September 15 - November 3, 2020
USF Contemporary Art Museum façade

On September 15th, International Democracy Day, USFCAM presents an exterior installation of SOS Color Code 2020, three artist designed flags created collaboratively by Chicago-based artists and designers Luftwerk and Normal. In partnership with other installation sites in Chicago and around the US, SOS Color Code 2020 will remain on view through Election Day, November 3, 2020. 

Curated by Sarah Howard, and organized by USFCAM; Made possible by Major Sponsor the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, and by CAM’s Art for Community Engagement (ACE) funders.


The Neighbors: Slide Shows for America features photographic slideshows by artists Widline Cadet, Guy Greenberg, Curran Hatleberg, Kathya Maria Landeros, and Zora J Murff. 

Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USFCAM; Made possible by Major Sponsor the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, and by grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Florida Department of State.


Battin' A Hundred: 2020 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 3 - May 9, 2020
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2020 MFAs are Mahya Amini, Mohsen Azar, Matthew Campbell, Jenal Dolson, Rhonda Massel Donovan, Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez, Ash Lester, Jon Notwick, Kyle Timberman, and Rachel Underwood.

The Battin' A Hundred: 2020 MFA Graduation Exhibition is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History.


FloodZone: Anastasia Samoylova

January 17 - March 7, 2020
USF Contemporary Art Museum

FloodZone presents Miami-based artist Anastasia Samoylova’s ongoing photographic series reflecting the impacts of sea level rise in South Florida, and highlighting the friction between natural and constructed landscapes by focusing on the relationship among environmentalism, consumerism, and the picturesque. Capturing the precarious psychological state of living in a paradise sinking towards catastrophe, Samoylova’s work reveals the role photography plays in obscuring reality and crafting perception. 

FloodZone is curated by Sarah Howard, organized by USFCAM, and supported in part by an Oolite Arts grant, a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Dr. Allen Root.


Sponge Exchange: Hope Ginsburg

January 17 - March 7, 2020
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Sponge Exchange expands artist Hope Ginsburg’s work with ecology and knowledge transfer in two new collaboratively-produced video and sculpture installations. Historic sponge diving and contemporary coral restoration inspire these explorations of climate crisis impact on coastal ecosystems. 

Sponge Exchange is curated by Sarah Howard, organized by USFCAM, and is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant, a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Dr. Allen Root, and the USFCAM ACE Fund.


Breaking Barriers: Photography & Memory

December 11-12, 2019
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Breaking Barriers: Photography & Memory presents a selection of artworks created by USF and Tampa Bay military veterans in a workshop led by photographer Forrest MacDonald. The photographs present reflections on the essence of memory, people, and place through their orchestration of light, creation of small sets, and use of a variety of lens-based and digital techniques. Artists include Larry Busby, Chris Camplin, Michael Congdon, Loretta Fields, Evan Fountain, Isabella Guevara, Chris Hardin, Jason Lind, RaeAnne Swanson, Andres Villa Hurtado, and Rachel Westphal.


The Return of the Real: Robert Lazzarini and Rodrigo Valenzuela

August 26 – December 7, 2019
USF Contemporary Art Museum

In an era increasingly dominated by fabricated fears, alternative facts and fake news, the artists Robert Lazzarini (U.S., b. 1965) and Rodrigo Valenzuela (Chile, b. 1982) rearrange, reconstruct and ultimately distort reality in order to question its most fundamental premises. Their two-person exhibition, The Return of the Real, illustrates, among other things, how the real is made up of more than just perception—its surfaces can, in fact, harbor fantastical possibilities. This exhibition is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Kaprow Reinvented: Pose, 1969-2019

May 22 – July 10, 2019
USF Tampa campus locations

Over the summer while CAM is closed, we invite you to experience Kaprow Reinvented: Pose, 1969-2019, a pop-up performance and participatory reinvention of Allan Kaprow's Pose, reinvented by Tampa-based artist Vince Kral; co-organized by Alyssa Cordero. Every Wednesday, at a different location on the USF Tampa campus, Kral invites the public to reinvent Kaprow's Pose.


Arts4All: The Super Hero in Me!

May 13-16, 2019
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Students in the Arts4All programs at Bloomingdale and Middleton high schools present works of art exploring what the concept of "superhero" means on a personal level via self-portraits. Fictional superheroes stimulate our imaginations to connect with something beyond ourselves. Superheroes are a symbol of hope—making yourself a better person by uncovering your strengths and using them for a good purpose. With the dilemmas and problems that superheroes face, they are amazing, strong, inspiring individuals who use their talents to do good for the world. Through this artwork, the students are encouraged to not only think about the qualities in superheroes that they find exciting, but to also look at the qualities within themselves that make them unique and a "hero" in their own life.

The Super Hero in Me! is presented by the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Art4All Florida, and the Hillborough County Public Schools


Extra Butter: 2019 MFA Graduation Exhibition

March 29 - May 4, 2019
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2019 MFAs are Pat Blocher, Christian Cortes, Christopher Evans, Muriel Holloway, James Mastroni, Laura Kim Meckling, Carola Miles, Eric Ondina, Jason Pinckard, Taylor O. Thomas, and Jake Troyli.

Extra Butter: 2019 MFA Graduation Exhibition is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History and CAM Club


The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility

January 11 - March 2, 2019
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The four international artists in The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility, Karolina Sobecka, Bosco Sodi, Tavares Strachan, and Jorge Tacla, will create installations in response to the phenomenon of cultural concealment. They will combine the presentation of objects and performances inside an exhibition venue with artist-directed activities that engage and support communities in the Tampa Bay area affected by political or social invisibility. Together, the works refer to people and ideas that have crucially been omitted from today’s social, political, economic, and cultural processes. According to Duchamp’s logic, invisibility is impotence. What is powerful is to be seen.

Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation is the major supporter of The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility. Bosco Sodi, MURO is sponsored by The Gobioff Foundation and USF World. The opening night artist conversation is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Allen Root in honor of his late wife Janet G. Root. Film on the Lawn presented by CAM Club.


Breaking Barriers: Selected Work

December 12-13, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Breaking Barriers: Selected Work presents photographic artworks by USF and Tampa Bay military veterans created in a workshop series led by Photographer Jim Reiman. The exhibition photographs present reflections on self, others and a uniquely shared experience, brought into focus through a lens. Breaking Barriers is a project by USFCAM in collaboration with the USF School of Art and Art History.


Miki Kratsman: People I Met

August 20 – December 8, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

For three decades, Miki Kratsman has been one of the leading chroniclers of life in the Israeli-occupied territories. His photographs—many of them documentary images taken during a previous life as a press photographer for the Israeli newspapers Hadashot and Haaretz—uncover personal stories while revealing the violent, often detached nature of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. While trying to answer the question “What happened to the people in the photographs?,” Kratsman amassed a vast archive of more than 9,000 portraits of anonymous Palestinians, which he first uploaded onto a dedicated Facebook page in 2011. The USFCAM installation materializes the artist’s growing portrait archive together with identifying commentary that, in some cases, serves as a literal proof of life—or death. People I Met raises questions about the culture of representation and continues the museum’s tradition of presenting challenging artwork with social content. The exhibition also includes a video titled 70 Meters...White T-shirt, and several recent photographic series. Curated by USF Contemporary Art Museum curator-at-large Christian Viveros-Fauné; organized by USFCAM. Exhibition made possible by USF World and The Artis Grant Program.


For Freedoms 50 State Initiative at USF

September 26 – November 1, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum (Exterior; South Lawn)

Inspired by the Four Freedoms outlined by Franklin Roosevelt and Norman Rockwell, For Freedoms 50 State Initiative is an anti-partisan, national platform using art as a means for civic engagement, discourse and direct action. The CAM Club invites the community to participate by creating a lawn sign to articulate their own vision of freedom for public display outside the museum. USFCAM’s participation in For Freedoms 50 State Initiative is made possible in part with generous support from the Gobioff Foundation.


Raise the Flags: Pledges of Allegiance at USFCAM

August 3 – September 4, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum (exterior)

Raise the Flags presents a selection of artist-designed flags created for Pledges of Allegiance, a nationwide, year-long serialized commission presented by NY-based public art nonprofit Creative Time. As the first institution to participate in Creative Time’s public art initiative to raise the flags at arts, educational, and cultural organizations across the country over the past year, USF Contemporary Art Museum is proud to assemble a selection of flags by acclaimed artists addressing the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment. For more information on Pledges of Allegiance, please visit creativetime.org. USFCAM's participation in Pledges of Allegiance is made possible in part with generous support from the Gobioff Foundation.


RESTRICTED

June 8 – August 4, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Restricted will display seldom seen but important works from the permanent collection of the USF Contemporary Art Museum, including paintings, prints, video, sculptures, installations, and archival material by leading artists such as Claes Oldenburg, John Cage, Lynda Benglis, Mernet Larsen, Robert Stackhouse, Burt Barr, and many others. All the works are restricted in the environments and contexts in which they can be displayed and this exhibition offers not only the opportunity to view these “hidden gems,” but a discussion of their care and the competing pressures of best museum practices.


Pledges of Allegiance

July 2017 – July 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM is proud to participate in Pledges of Allegiance, a nationwide, year-long public art project featuring a serialized commission of flags created by acclaimed artists and presented by New York-based public art nonprofit Creative Time. USFCAM's participation in Pledges of Allegiance is made possible in part with generous support from the Gobioff Foundation


A Wave of Change

May 14–17, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Students in the VSA Florida My Art My Way program at Jefferson High School present works of art in response to the CAM exhibition Climate Change: Cuba/USA.


BURIED ALONE: 2018 MFA GRADUATION EXHIBITION

March 30 – May 5, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2018 MFAs are Samir Bernardez, Gloria Ceren, Will Douglas, Ben Galaday, Nestor Caparros Martin, Zakriya Rabani, and Kim Turner-Smith. Buried Alone: 2018 MFA Graduation Exhibition is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History.


Climate Change: Cuba/USA

January 12 – March 3, 2018
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition invites Cuban and Cuban-American artists to reflect on the consequences of the recent fluctuations in the relationship between the two countries. Artists Glexis Novoa, Celia y Yunior, Antonio Fernández "Tonel" and Javier Castro will produce new works, in sculpture, painting, drawing, installation and video, that consider the changes, or "no changes," that the political and diplomatic developments have wrought in their personal lives and in Cuban society. Curated by Noel Smith; organized by USFCAM.

 

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James Rosenquist: Tampa

November 13 – December 9, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Renowned Pop artist James Rosenquist, who passed away earlier this year, lived and worked in the Tampa Bay area for more than four decades. Throughout his life Rosenquist maintained a very active and generous profile within the creative community of Florida’s west coast. From November 13th through December 9th, 2017, the USF Contemporary Art Museum will celebrate this creative and collaborative legacy with the exhibition James Rosenquist: Tampa. Drawn primarily from the collection at USF, the exhibition will feature editions of Rosenquist prints produced at USF's print atelier Graphicstudio. Additionally, the exhibition will include works from private collections, drawings and support materials, and prints produced at three Tampa Bay area ateliers: Flatstone Studio, Pyramid Arts, Ltd. and Topaz Editions. James Rosenquist: Tampa is curated by Peter Foe; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


David Claerbout

August 21 – October 28, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Belgian artist David Claerbout has explored the conceptual framework of duration through use of film and digital photography throughout his career. His skilled manipulation of still and moving images appears to capture another dimension of existence, shifting between past and present. The element of sound is critical in many of his works, used as either a narrative device or a “guide” for the viewer to navigate the architectural space in the film. Claerbout’s oeuvre is characterized by a meticulous attention to production details, painstakingly created often over a period of years. The resultant works are immersive environments in which the viewer is invited to engage both philosophically and aesthetically. Curated by Margaret Miller; organized by USFCAM.


Black Pulp!

June 2 – July 20, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery

Black Pulp! examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works of art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, to etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by some of today’s leading artists. Black Pulp! is curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson. The exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York.

Black Pulp! and Woke! are supported in part by the USF Institute on Black Life.


Woke!

June 2 – July 20, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum
West Gallery

Woke! brings together recent work by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, artists and the curators of Black Pulp! The term “woke” is contemporary American vernacular terminology for acute awareness, particularly in reference to the socio-political contexts we inhabit. Woke! presents works made over the past two years, a time when the influence of the hyper-visuality of police violence upon Black bodies and the cultural currents of the Black Lives Matter movement informed new narratives in their practice. Woke! is organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Black Pulp! and Woke! are supported in part by the USF Institute on Black Life.


Every Disaster Made Us Wish For More:
2017 MFA Graduation Exhibition

March 31 – May 6, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2017 MFAs are Kate Alboreo, Benjamin Whitney Buhl, Joshua Dodhia, Victoria Trespando Escobio, Brandon Geurts, Bahareh Khoshooee, Kate Kinder, Walter Eric Matthews, Hillary Jones McCullough, and Scott Owen Pierce.

Every Disaster Made Us Wish For More: 2017 MFA Graduation Exhibition is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History. The USF Contemporary Art Museum is recognized by the State of Florida as a major cultural institution and receives funding through the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Board of County Commissioners. The USF Contemporary Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.


Duke Riley: Flights of Fancy

January 13 – March 4, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM presents a solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley, known for his ambitious and immersive projects which engage historical and contemporary social issues often through subversive performative action. Flights of Fancy will feature two projects exploring and celebrating Riley’s history of working with pigeons and waterfront districts within the nautical landscape. Curated by Sarah Howard; organized by USFCAM.

Duke Riley: Flights of Fancy is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Board of County Commissioners, and by the USFCAM Art for Community Engagement (ACE) Fund Patrons: Allison and Robby Adams; Frank E. Duckwall Foundation; Francesca and Richard Forsyth;Gobioff Foundation; Courtney and Jason Kuhn; Linda Saul-Sena and Mark Sena; Sharmila and Vivek Seth; and Stanton Storer.

 

Extracted

August 22 – December 10, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Growing consensus among scientists suggests that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by humankind’s impact on Earth: the Anthropocene. This impact is evidenced in part by remainders of fossil fuel production and consumption, petrochemical use, industrial agriculture and mining. Extracted brings together a group of artists whose work investigates the extraction of natural resources, and the material and cultural circulation of such resources around the globe.
Participating artists: Mary Mattingly, Otobong Nkanga, Claire Pentecost, David Zink Yi and Marina Zurkow. Extracted is curated by Megan Voeller and organized by USFCAM.

Claire Pentecost's participation is supported by USFCAM's Art for Community Engagement (ACE) patrons: Sharmila and Vivek Seth, Allison and Robbie Adams, Courtney and Jason Kuhn, Francesca and Richard Forsyth, the Stanton Storer Embrace The Arts Foundation, and the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation.


Amplified: Reverberations
from the Music Box

June 6 – July 23, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Amplified explores the history, collaborative process, and impact of New Orleans Airlift’s musical architecture project The Music Box, including the recent installation in Sulphur Springs, through video documentation, instrumental elements, performance videos, ephemera and new work by local artists inspired by the project. This exhibition is co-curated by USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice Sarah Howard and USFCAM Exhibitions Manager and Registrar Shannon Annis and organized by USFCAM.

The Music Box: Tampa Bay is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts ART WORKS grant, The Frank E. Duckwall Foundation, The Gobioff Foundation, and the USF School of Art and Art History’s Bank of America Community Arts Endowment Fund.


MFA 2016: Only the Tip

Only the Tip:
2016 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 – May 7, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master's Thesis work in a variety of media by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the School of Art and Art History. Artists include Sasha Adorno, Merritt Fletcher Evripidou, Craig Hanson, Tamesha Kirkland, N. Mackintosh, Jenn Ryann Miller, Leslie Reed, Gary Schmitt, Elizabeth Schneider, Princess R. Smith, and Matthew Drennan Wicks.

Only the Tip: 2016 MFA Graduation Exhibition, is sponsored in part by the USF School of Art and Art History.


The Music Box: Tampa Bay

The Music Box: Tampa Bay

March 25 – April 17, 2016
Community Stepping Stones
Sulphur Springs, Tampa

New Orleans Airlift (NOA) artists will create an interactive musical architecture project with local artists and students, in partnership with Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur Springs.

The Music Box: Tampa Bay is supported by a National Endowment for the Arts ART WORKS grant, The Frank E. Duckwall Foundation, The Gobioff Foundation, and the USF School of Art and Art History’s Bank of America Community Arts Endowment Fund. To find out more about how NEA grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.


Caio Reisewitz, Goiânia Golf Club II, 2004. c-print mounted on Diasec.

Histórias/Histories: Contemporary Art from Brazil

January 15 – March 5, 2016
Lee and Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby, USF Contemporary Art Museum

Histórias will showcase works by Jonathas de Andrade, Sonia Gomes, Virginia de Medeiros, Caio Reisewitz, and Luiz Zerbini, whose approaches address the varied histories of Brazil, some collective, some individual, but all rooted in reflections on the country’s complicated past and present, and vast geographical, racial, and cultural wealth and diversity.

Curated by USFCAM Curator Noel Smith, with Dr. Agnaldo Farias, University of São Paulo; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. Exhibition sponsored in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners, the USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, USF World, and The Gobioff Foundation.

Histórias Catalogue

PRESS:

On View Magazine, Winter 2016

Artist shares inspiration behind campus installation
By Jasmin Faisal
USF Oracle, January 20, 2016

New exhibits by Brazilian artists capture a nation's tension
By Lennie Bennett
Tampa Bay Times, January 24, 2016


Sandra Cinto:
Chance and Necessity

January 15 – March 5, 2016
West Gallery,
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Concurrent with Histórias, São Paulo-based artist Sandra Cinto will design a site-specific installation for CAM’s West Gallery. Cinto is known for her dramatic scenarios incorporating water, the night sky and billowing seas, that transform exhibition spaces into places of meditation on the passing of time and the relationship of humans to nature.

Curated by USFCAM Curator Noel Smith, with Dr. Agnaldo Farias, University of São Paulo; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. Exhibition sponsored in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners, the USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, USF World, and The Gobioff Foundation.

Sandra Cinto Exhibition Brochure

PRESS:

On View Magazine, Winter 2016

Artist shares inspiration behind campus installation
By Jasmin Faisal
USF Oracle, January 20, 2016

New exhibits by Brazilian artists capture a nation's tension
By Lennie Bennett
Tampa Bay Times, January 24, 2016

 
Corine Vermeulen, Daisa, 2015

A Family Affair

August 24 – December 12, 2015
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A Family Affair presents seven artists who explore personal identity and family relationships through photography, video, performance and animation. Adopting a range of approaches from documentary to fiction, they articulate visions of self situated within interpersonal and historical family contexts as well as broader social frameworks of race, class and gender, often working in collaboration with family members to realize their art.

A Family Affair is curated by Megan Voeller and organized by USFCAM. The exhibition catalogue for A Family Affair is supported by a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Corine Vermeulen’s residency is supported by Caspers Company and Sharmila and Vivek Seth.

A Family Affair Exhibition Brochure


Captiva Polaroid, Stephen Vitiello, 2013

With Hidden Noise

June 5 – July 25, 2015
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

With Hidden Noise is an exploration of sound art that asks museum visitors to spend time listening more carefully, revealing the richness of sound in the world. Titled after Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a ball of string containing a mysterious sound-making object hidden in its folds, this exhibition brings together evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes. With Hidden Noise is curated by Stephen Vitiello, an artist who has worked with sound for over 20 years, transforming anodyne noises into compelling soundscapes. Artists include Vitiello and Taylor Deupree, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, Steve Peters, Steve Roden and Michael J. Schumacher.

With Hidden Noise is part of ICI’s Exhibitions in a Box series. Produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, this exhibition is curated by Stephen Vitiello. With Hidden Noise is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; and the ICI Board of Trustees.

With Hidden Noise Exhibition Brochure


Museum at Work poster

Museum at Work

June 5 – July 25, 2015
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Museum at Work turns the museum inside out by making the USF art collection, and the work associated with managing the collection, visible and accessible to students and visitors. Visitors will view collection artwork displayed in a series of three rotating exhibitions while staff performs various collection care activities in the gallery.

Students and visitors will also have the opportunity to participate in free, general admission workshops presented by USFCAM collections staff on photographing artwork, safe storage practices for artwork, framing basics, and an introduction to art installation.

For two weeks the public will have a chance to participate in our first crowd-sourced exhibition through CAM's various social media outlets. You may choose what collection works you want to be installed for the final show of the summer in Museum at Work.

Museum at Work is organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Sun Kissed: 2015 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 3 – May 2, 2015
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed in a professional environment.

Sun Kissed: 2015 MFA Graduation Exhibition, is sponsored in part by the USF School of Art and Art History. The Institute for Research in Art is recognized by the State of Florida as a major cultural institution and receives funding through the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners. Energy efficient lighting in USFCAM galleries is made possible in part by a grant from the USF Student Green Energy Fund (SGEF). The USF Contemporary Art Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

Sun Kissed Exhibition Brochure | Sun Kissed Catalogue | Card


Enhanced!
Photographic Works from the Drapkin Collections
with Contemporary Light-Based Media


January 16 – March 7, 2015
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Enhanced! presents a selection of vintage and contemporary manipulated photographs that span the history of photography. The images selected for the exhibition have been transformed manually and digitally to enhance them in a variety of ways and to fool the eye of the viewer, and to expand and shift our understanding of photography as a medium. Works selected from The Drapkin Collections anchor the exhibition, with classic images dating from the 1850s to the 1960s, including works by Anna Atkins, Harold Edgerton, Alexander Gardner, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray, Eadweard Muybridge, Jerry Uelsmann, Weegee and many others. Examples of vernacular photography reflect collector Dr. Robert Drapkin’s broad range of interests. Contemporary selections include works by Yoan Capote, James Casebere, Jerome Favre, Adam Fuss, Debbie Grossman, Kalup Linzy, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Yamini Nayar, Roman Signer, and Peter Tscherkassky. Curated by Noel Smith; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Enhanced! is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners.

Enhanced! Exhibition Brochure | My Pie Town Study Guide | Artist Bios


Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones

January 16 – March 7, 2015
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Oscar Muñoz’s three-part video installation Sedimentaciones is a poetic meditation on the photographic image and its power to evoke memory, loss and mortality, and to create, alter and erase history. Muñoz (Colombia, 1951) is known for his extensive use of photography and of ephemeral material. In his practice he defies categorization by medium, as he blurs the boundaries between photography, printmaking, drawing, installation, video and sculpture. While his work is rooted in the turbulent history of Colombia in the 1980s and 90s, with its guerrilla warfare, conflicts between the government and drug cartels, assassinations and "disappearances" of ordinary citizens, his explorations of the unstable nature of personal identity against the backdrop of history are universal. Sedimentaciones is exhibited courtesy of the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami.

Curated by Noel Smith; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners.

Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones Exhibition Brochure

 
Rochelle Feinstein, Research Park Project:

MAKING SENSE:
Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant,
Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson

September 27 – December 12, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Making Sense brings together four artists who make distinctive contributions to contemporary painting. Through a range of approaches, they explore painting as a medium, a set of techniques, an historical institution and a framework for making sense. Inspired by WWII-era Enigma decoding machines, Rochelle Feinstein takes on puzzling figures of speech, inscrutable ideas and encrypted social codes as challenges for painterly representation. Using a method she calls “Random Select,” Deborah Grant creates imagined, non-linear narrative encounters between historical artists, interwoven with her own varied humanistic interests from literature to religion. Iva Gueorguieva adapts the visual language of modern abstraction to create tumultuous, energetic spaces on canvas; her process of building up paintings by layering torn cloth with pigment and color washes produces spontaneous, dynamic compositions rooted in personal stories. Dona Nelson’s two-sided paintings, stained and layered with strands of cheesecloth, invite viewers to encounter them as freestanding forms. Making Sense includes new works produced by Feinstein and Gueorguieva at Graphicstudio, the 45-year-old collaborative printmaking and sculpture atelier of the USF Institute for Research In Art.

Curated by Margaret Miller, Director, USF Institute for Research in Art, and Megan Voeller, Associate Curator of Education, USF Contemporary Art Museum; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Press Release | Comunicado de prensa PDF | Announcement Card | Making Sense Catalogue


RICHARD BECKMAN:
Outside the Curve of Reason

June 16 – September 6, 2014
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition features sculptures by Richard Beckman (1957-2004) from Florida collections. Beckman’s organic and geometric forms in human scale investigate the dynamic balance between mind and body, and the synthesis of this duality through materials and process.

Curated by Sarah Howard, USF Institute for Research in Art; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Frames

A Different Frame of Mind

June 16 – September 6, 2014
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A Different Frame of Mind presents new work by seven artists that has been produced using recycled picture frames donated by CAM as part of ongoing efforts to find new methods for sharing resources with the Tampa Bay community. Artists were chosen for the quality of their submissions in response to an open call for proposals. Over the course of the exhibition, the West Gallery served several functions: as a studio space where the artists will work, with the public invited to witness the creative process; as a location for framing workshops as the works are enclosed into the recycled frames; and as a traditional viewing space for the duration of the exhibition. A Different Frame of Mind features works by Ariel Baron-Robbins, Mike Covello, Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki, David Gabbard, Janet Pulido, and Sam Robinson.

Curated by Vincent Kral, USFCAM; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF

February 1 – May 18, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza

This exhibition of Graphicstudio editions is organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and presented by the Tampa Museum of Art.


Irreconcilable Differences:
MFA 2014 Graduation Exhibition

March 28 – May 3, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This years artists include John Allen, Emily Elliott, Corbett Fogue, Jennifer Greenwell, Johanna Keefe, Briana Phelps, Mikaela Raquel Williams and Janelle Wisehart.

Announcement Card | Irreconcilable Differences Catalogue


CAM@25:
Social Engagement

January 17 – March 8, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary with CAM@25: Social Engagement to highlight its history of bringing artists, and the practice of making contemporary art, to the Tampa Bay community. This selection of installations serves to mark CAM’s extensive history of exhibitions, commissions and collaborations with artists whose practices and projects embrace an ethos of responsible social meaning, purpose and motivation in the public sphere. Artists include Los Carpinteros, Pedro Reyes (Mexico), and Janaina Tschäpe (Brazil/Germany).

Los Carpinteros (Havana/Madrid) have collaborated with the USF Institute for Research in Art for nearly a decade, producing two and three-dimensional works while in residence at Graphicstudio as well as the exhibition Inventing the World, organized by CAM in 2005. For Social Engagement, CAM will reveal Los Carpinteros’ newly conserved and fabricated work, Transportable City, 2000. This seminal installation from USFCAM’s collection will be sited outdoors on grounds surrounding the Museum and illuminated at night. Ten three-quarter scale canvas structures—Apartment Building, Capitol, Church, Factory, Hospital, Lighthouse, Military, Prison, University, and Warehouse—are representative of everyday buildings that compose a larger whole. In addition, Conga Irreversible, a 2013 video, will be projected inside the Museum.

Map of Los Carpinteros Transportable City on the museum grounds

Imagine, 2012, a sculptural installation by Pedro Reyes, is a social/political statement on contemporary society and our responsibilities toward it. His projects serve as catalysts for communal and psychological transformation, encouraging group interaction and creativity, and poignant reminders of the consequences of inaction and apathy. The installation includes musical instruments created from firearms—including revolvers, shotguns and machine guns—crushed by tanks and steamrollers to render them useless. These were offered to the artist by the Mexican government following their confiscation and subsequent public destruction in the city of Ciudad Juarez. Reyes will be in residence at CAM to participate in a live performance of the instruments in conjunction with a Legislative Theatre Workshop with students from the community and from USF Theatre/Dance and Music.

Janaina Tschäpe returns to CAM with a new configuration of her video installation Blood, Sea, commissioned by USFCAM in 2004 and filmed at Florida's Weeki Wachee Springs. Tschäpe is a prolific mixed media artist with an international presence whose work blends mythology—evoked by the mermaids of Blood, Sea—with other spiritual and cultural influences from her complex German-Brazillian heritage. For CAM@25, Tschäpe will also create a new mixed media installation that includes sections from templates used in the print editions she has developed while in residence at Graphicstudio.

Art in the News, installed in the Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby Gallery for CAM@25, was a yearlong exhibition of artworks conceived for the context of a daily newspaper. Demonstrating CAM’s commitment to social engagement, Art in the News took the form of a full newspaper page designed by an artist in consultation with CAM staff, and distributed via The Tampa Tribune to 330,000 subscribers once per month on Sundays during 1999. Following each publication, the artist traveled to Tampa to give a public presentation about his or her work at the Tampa Museum of Art. The project featured, in order of publication, artists William Wegman, Lucy Orta, Matthew Barney, Leslie Lerner, The Art Guys, Allan McCollum, Ed Paschke, Andrea Zittel, Keith Edmier, Lorna Simpson, Mariko Mori and Mark Mothersbaugh. In 2000, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, acquired Art in the News for its permanent collection.

CAM@25 is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners, and ARTE: Tampa Bay’s Festival of the Americas. Conservation of the Los Carpinteros project generously provided by the Knox Family Foundation. The Pedro Reyes project is supported in part by a grant from the USF College of The Arts (Funding generously provided by the Arnold and Louise Kotler Memorial Endowment and the Macy’s Distinguished Artist Fund). Energy efficient lighting in USFCAM galleries is made possible in part by a grant from the USF Student Green Energy Fund (SGEF).

Press Release | CAM@25 Exhibition Brochure

PRESS:

CAM@25: A social function
Creative Loafing - January 15, 2014

University Beat Radio | News Story
WUSF - January 22, 2014

Artist Transforms Guns To Make Music — Literally
NPR - January 25, 2014

USF Contemporary Art Museum celebrates with 'Social Engagement'
Tampa Bay Times - January 29, 2014

The Gun Report
NYTimes.com - January 29, 2014

La ciudad de la furia artística (pdf)
CENTRO Tampa - 31 ENERO

 

SubRosa: The Language of Resistance

August 26 – December 7, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza

SubRosa examines the language of art across continents and cultures in response to social, political, and environmental repression. Sometimes covertly and dangerously, the artists in SubRosa share a desire to question dominant political systems and the cultural status quo. Artists include Ai Weiwei (China), Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Khaled Jarrar (Palestine), Zanele Muholi (South Africa), and José Toirac and Meira Marrero (Cuba). Curated by Noel Smith; Organized by USFCAM; Made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and supported by the USF Institute on Black Life and EG Justice.

Announcement Card | SubRosa: The Language of Resistance Exhibition Brochure

SubRosa is also the basis for the latest edition of InsideART, our free web-based visual literacy program integrating secondary school social studies and science with contemporary art in an examination and discussion of critical societal issues.

Access InsideART SubRosa edition | Explore other InsideART editions


MEgan Hildebrandt Counting Radiation

Megan Hildebrandt: Counting Radiation

March 5 – September 15, 2013
Moffitt Cancer Center
Vincent A. Stabile Research Building Atrium

Megan Hildebrandt: Counting Radiation showcases 19 large-scale, ink and graphite on paper drawings by Hildebrandt that explore her experience battling cancer. Using tally marks, Hildebrandt creates a visual meditation on the meaning of time for cancer patients as they endure the seemingly endless waiting required by chemotherapy, CT scans and remission, and adapt to a life redefined by numbers (weight loss or gain, blood pressure, treatment hours, radiation exposure). “I use tally marks to evoke time and memory as landscape,” Hildebrandt says. “To repeat a tally mark is to move a step further toward taming my history and future. I am tallying my past and future, drawing a desert that shifts perspectives, a landscape that rolls, tumbles, and caves in.”


Cuban Video

Occupying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art (1990-2010)

June 7 – August 3, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of videos by Cuban artists working worldwide invites contemplation of what it means to occupy (a home, a plot of land, a city, a society…) and the relationship between occupying and building and the concept of the work of art in today’s global culture. Three interconnected segments pose the question of how to reinvent a language for imagining what is public, private and intimate in a culture like Cuba’s, where civil society has been supplanted by the State.

Concept and Video Curation by Dennys Matos; Exhibition Curated by Noel Smith; Environment by Vanessa Diaz; Organized by USFCAM.

Occupying, Building, Thinking Exhibition Brochure | Announcement Card


Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson: Form of Absence
x-rays | paintings | reliquaries

June 7 – August 3, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Paul O. Robinson is an artist and architect living and teaching in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose research concerns transformative methods of representation using artifactual and indexial sources. Form of Absence references the work of the Slovene architect Jože Pležnik, known for his abstracted classical forms built in Prague, Vienna and throughout Slovenia. The exhibition proposes that the accessible evidence found in the aftermath of occupation is not always what it seems.

Project curated by Robert MacLeod, USF Professor and Director of the School of Architecture and Community Design; organized by USFCAM.

Announcement Card


We Didn't Come Here to Make Friends:
2013 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 5 – May 4, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. Artists include Felici Asteinza, Jaime Bird, Michael Covello, Rick Dailey, Vanessa Diaz, Stephen John Ellis, Adam W. Hill, Reiko Kawahara, Sarah Krupp, Chalice Mitchell, Desireé Moore, Kale Roberts, and Selina Roman.

Announcement Card


Bill Vorn, Hysterical Machines, 2006

Open Score

January 18 – March 9, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Open Score pays homage to artist Robert Rauschenberg and the first in the series of groundbreaking performance art presentations he titled 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, held in 1966 at the Armory in New York City. With its emphasis on the technological aspects of new media, Open Score examines the possibilities these technologies offer as tools for the poetic transformation of reality and the approach to forms of expression in art and daily life. Participating artists include Ingrid Bachmann and Bill Vorn (Canada); Patricia Clark and Barry Moon (USA); Luis Gómez, Antonio Gómez Margolles, and Levi Orta (Cuba); Camilo Martínez and Gabriel Zea (Colombia); and Mariano Sardón (Argentina).

Initially curated by Luis Gómez and Dannys Montes de Oca for the 11th Biennial in Havana, Cuba, the Open Score project in the USA is curated by Noel Smith, IRA Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art, in collaboration with Gómez and Montes de Oca, and is organized by USFCAM. Open Score is supported in part by the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners.

Open Score Exhibition Brochure | Announcement Card | Press Release

 
Copyright Andy Warhol

The Andy Warhol Legacy Project

August 20 – December 15, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Andy Warhol Legacy Project is an exhibition of 106 Polaroids and 50 gelatin silver prints the USF Contemporary Art Museum received in 2008 as a gift from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. The portraits, celebrity snapshots, couples, nudes, painting ideas, party photos, still lifes, and outdoor scenes that make up the gift demonstrate the range of Warhol’s interests.


The Importance of Being Photographed

August 20 – December 15, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Importance of Being Photographed takes its cue from the gift from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Oscar Wilde’s seminal play “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Although separated by an ocean and almost a century, both Warhol and Wilde were interested in examining celebrity, beauty, sexuality, privacy, and despair. The American photographers in this exhibition continue to examine those themes, often revealing a rapport between the artist and his or her subject. Artists include: Tina Barney, Dawoud Bey, Katy Grannan, Jason Lazarus, Malerie Marder, Ryan McGinley, Catherine Opie, and Alec Soth.

The Importance of Being Photographed is curated by Jane Simon, USFCAM Curator, and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.

Announcement Card | The Importance of Being Photographed Brochure | Press Release


In Residence

In Residence

June 4 – August 4, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

In Residence brings together the work of four Miami-based artists—Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Naomi Fisher, Christy Gast, and Samantha Salzinger—who focus artistic inquiries on the contested space between the natural and the built environment. For decades, Miami has been the site of tremendous speculative real estate development, but it is also the southern edge of the famed Florida Everglades, a unique geography and the focus of a vast reclamation project. These artists fold the world around them into complex examinations of the history of art and an evolving understanding of landscape.

In Residence is curated by Jane Simon, USFCAM Curator, and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.

Announcement Card | In Residence Brochure


MFAs 2012

Sand in the Vacuum:
MFA 2012 Graduation Exhibition

March 30 – May 5, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features Master’s research project work by Master of Fine Art candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History, and provides an opportunity to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. Artists include Biff Bolen, Megan Hildebrandt, Jay Hollick, Sarah Kelly, Shane M. Maberry, Forrest MacDonald, Cynthia Mason, Taylor Pilote, Scott Rosenberg, and Serhat Tanyolacar.

Announcement Card | Sand in the Vacuum Brochure


Mark Dion: Troubleshooting

January 13 – March 3, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

For decades, Mark Dion has created drawings, prints, cabinets of curiosity, archaeological digs, and sprawling installations about the discrepancy between perceived knowledge and scientific inquiry, between common perception and advanced research. His works have addressed famous intellectuals in history, such as William Bartram, as well as important social and environmental sites, most recently the fragile Florida Everglades. Mark Dion: Troubleshooting is a focused survey of his most ecologically-themed works.

Organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.

Troubleshooting Brochure | Announcement Card | Press Release

 
David Lamelas

The Talent Show

September 30 – December 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Talent Show explores the competing desires of notoriety and privacy, and the evolving relationship between artists and audiences in our culture of reality television and Web-based social media. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both with and without their knowledge. Artists include: Stanley Brouwn, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, Peter Campus, Graciela Carnevale, Phil Collins, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Tehching Hsieh, David Lamelas, Piero Manzoni, Adrian Piper, Amie Siegel, John Smith, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Shizuka Yokomizo, and Carey Young.

The Talent Show is organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and is made possible by generous support from the David Teiger Foundation and Ann M. Hatch. The exhibition is curated by Peter Eleey.

Announcement Card | Handout | Press Release


Starting Fires

Stagecraft: Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore, Mary Reid Kelley

June 10 – September 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Stagecraft brings together a group of artists who share an impulse to re-imagine and re-script our relationships to everyday objects and characters. Working with a do-it-yourself directness across the fields of sculpture, theater, performance, cinematography and animation, the artists in Stagecraft delve into absurdity to make the familiar strange once again. In the process, they present us with a skillful meditation on art-making itself.

Curated by David Louis Norr; organized by USFCAM.

Stagecraft Exhibition Brochure | Press Release


Starting Fires

STARTING FIRES:
2011 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 – May 7, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition featuring Master’s Final Project works by MFA Candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. This year's class includes: Robb Fladry, Ryan Foster, Zak Hemsteger, Lin Li, Francis Marquez, Justin Martin, Bruce Monroe, Daniel Moore, Ellen Mueller, Chris Otten and Jordi Williams.


It Takes Two

Trenton Doyle Hancock:
WE DONE ALL WE COULD
AND NONE OF IT'S GOOD

Janaury 14 – March 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Internationally acclaimed Texas-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images. This exhibition features new and selected works executed across a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. The exhibition also highlights a commissioned wall drawing.

Curated by David Louis Norr, IRA Chief Curator; Organized and circulated by USFCAM. Project is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nimoy Foundation, and the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners.

 

Carlos Garaicoa:
La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends)

August 23 – December 11, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Inspired by the architecture and culture of his native Havana, Carlos Garaicoa explores issues relevant to contemporary society including urbanism, politics, history and human rights. He uses a variety of materials and techniques that incorporate drawing, photography, sculpture and text in dramatic, large-scale installations as well as precious miniatures. Garaicoa was born in Havana in 1967 and currently lives and works between Havana and Madrid.

Co-curated by Noel Smith, IRA Curator of Latin American and Caribbean Art, and Corina Matamoros, Curator of Contemporary Cuban Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba. Organized by USFCAM, and available for travel. Carlos Garaicoa is supported, in part, by the SEA Foundation, Inc., the USF Cuban American Student Association (CASA), and the USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC).


Broadcast

Broadcast

June 4 – August 7, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Broadcast explores ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. The exhibition features works in a variety of media by an international group of artists: Dara Birnbaum, Chris Burden, Gregory Green, Doug Hall, Chip Lord and Jody Procter, Christian Jankowski, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, neurotransmitter, Antonio Muntadas, Nam June Paik, TVTV/Top Value Television and Siebren Versteeg.

Broadcast is a traveling exhibition co-organized by the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, and iCI (Independent Curators International), New York, and circulated by iCI. The guest curator is Irene Hofmann. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, with support from the iCI Exhibition Partners.


Rouse

ROUSE: MFA Graduation Exhibition 2010

March 26 – May 8, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features artworks in a variety of media that reflect the research interests of these seven graduating MFA candidates from the School of Art and Art History: Ariel Baron-Robbins, Toni Danette Billick, Maxim Maximovitch, Andrew Nigon, Victoria Lee Skelly, Stead Thomas, and Carmen Tiffany.

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New Weather:
Diana Al-Hadid, Robyn O’Neil and
Iva Gueorguieva

November 6, 2009 – March 6, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

New Weather brings together the monumental sculptures of Diana Al-Hadid, the turbulent paintings of Iva Gueorguieva, and the enigmatic drawings of Robyn O’Neil. Their works explore the atmospheres and forces, which characterize our time, presenting us with an apt metaphor for the unpredictability of a rapidly changing world.

Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Louis Norr; organized by USFCAM.

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Blind Landscape

Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape

August 17 – October 10, 2009
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects.

Curated by IRA Chief Curator David Norr; Organized and traveled by USFCAM.

See the Walkthrough, Artist Talk, and other documentation at our Media Gallery


Museum at Work

Museum at Work

May 18 – July 15, 2009
USFCAM East Gallery

What do museums do behind closed doors? Visit CAM this summer when the museum opens its doors to the public to see the process for photographing and documenting the collection with Peter Foe, Curator of the Collection. See what really happens, participate in the project and explore the collection online at CAM’s Collection kiosk.

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Sixty Minutes

SIXTY MINUTES

May 18 – July 15, 2009
USFCAM West Gallery

The program features videos by artists Olaf Breuning, Kate Gilmore, Luis Gispert, and William Villalongo, alongside interview based profiles with each artist. SIXTY MINUTES is conceived to expose the diversity and complexity of artists’ process and provide an inspiring critical space to research, analyze and debate contexts for practice now and in the future.

Sixty Minutes is curated by David Norr, Chief Curator for the Institute.


Reiterer

CLOSURE:
2009 MFA Graduation Exhibition

March 30 – May 2, 2009
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features Master’s research project work by Master of Fine Art candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. This exhibition gives the graduating students an opportunity to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment.

Artists include Kimberly Adams, Jeremy Chandler, April Childers, Rebecca Flanders, Chad Harmon, Shane Hoffman, Lauren Howard, James Reiman, Ivan Reyes-Garcia, Marta Slaughter, Jonathan Vaughan and Wesley Wetherington.

See the Walkthrough at our Media Gallery


Reiterer

Werner Reiterer: Raw Loop

January 9 – March 7, 2009
USFCAM East Gallery

Raw Loop is the first US solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Werner Reiterer. The exhibition features drawings, objects and participatory installations that engage the viewer in a re-examination of everyday experience that makes us think and often smile.

Curated by Julien Robson, Speed Art Museum. Organized by the consortium of participating institutions, including USFCAM.

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Press:

ARTforum.com Critic's Picks
By Gregg Perkins

St. Petersburg Times
By Lennie Bennett

Creative Loafing
By Megan Voeller


detail ofCesar Cornejo MUSEUMORPHOSIS, 2008-2009

Faculty Focus
Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon and Cesar Cornejo

January 9 – March 7, 2009
USFCAM West Gallery

The Faculty Focus exhibition series highlights the recent work of artists on the studio faculty from the USF School of Art and Art History.

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Audience & Avatar

Audience & Avatar

October 24 – December 13, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation of the viewer in art. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano. Curated by Don Fuller and organized by CAM.

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Brody Condon: Modifications

Brody Condon: Modifications

October 24 – December 13, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

Brody Condon is a New York-based artist who uses game development tools, online games, sculpture, live performers and found footage as performance surrogates blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality. For his project gallery Modifications in Audience & Avatar he uses game technology to re-imagine late medieval religious paintings into self-running games simultaneously implying and denying interaction.

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MashUp

MashUp

August 25 – October 4, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

MashUp is a group exhibition that traces the history of destruction as a creative force in visual art, and its resonance in the mass culture realm of popular music. Inflicting damage for audio effect and visual ends, MashUp features newly commissioned installations by artists Pedro Reyes and Ted Riederer—plus, an historical array of art and artifacts dating from the 1960s-on by Czech Fluxus “Broken Music” pioneer Milan Knížák, The Art Guys, Christian Marclay and The Plasmatics.

Guest Curated by Jade Dellinger, and organized by CAM.

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Torolab: One Degree Celsius

August 25 – October 4, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

One Degree Celsius is part a series of projects called Molecular Urbanism developed by Torolab, a Tijuana-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. For USFCAM the artist collective morphs the gallery space into an actual proposal and a laboratory for creative experiments investigating the multiple uses of a garden. The exhibition includes drawn proposals for large-scale architectural interventions (on the USF campus and downtown Tampa), displayed with functional sculptural elements. This commissioned museum installation is staged in conjunction with the colloquium Art as a Catalyst for Social Transformation and Film Screenings: Socially-Engaged Artistic Practices.

Curated by Izabel Galliera.

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Rauschenberg Bamhue

Rauschenberg: USF

June 20 – August 1, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) created over 50 editions of prints, sculptures and photographs with USF’s Graphicstudio from 1972 through 1987. The exhibition includes selected works from USF and area collectors.

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Roger Palmer: In Dog Light

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light

June 20 – August 1, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light is an exhibition of selected drawings (2003–2008) by Tampa-based artist Roger Palmer. Palmer’s brush, wash and ink drawings are darkly humorous meditations on humanity’s foibles and actualities. Anthropomorphic animals, local flora and fauna and technologies of modern man such as cannons and fire trucks unfold in pure-pigment amalgamations of word and image.

Curated by David Norr.

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MFA 2008

2008 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

The USF Contemporary Art Museum will host an exhibition featuring Master’s theses work by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition will give the graduating students an opportunity to have their theses work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment.

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Impact Sight: Cameron Gainer

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

May 4 – May 24, 2008
USF Botanical Gardens & USF Riverfront Park

Cameron Gainer is a New York-based artist whose work explores the presence and power of photography in contemporary culture, particularly how a photograph can catalyze belief and disbelief. The exhibition brings together three large-scale sculptural works including a new commission on view at CAM, and installations at the USF Botanical Gardens and USF Riverfront Park. The two outdoor works are based on 20th century alleged hoaxes that Gainer sites and models from photographic sources; often the only form of evidence that sightings actually occurred.

Curated by David Norr.

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Moving Thought

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM Bookstore & USF Library Special Collections

Moving Thought is an art bookmobile project by the graduate students of the USF School of Art and Art History.


32nd Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 24 – April 18, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. This year's juror is Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, New York City.


Robert Stackhouse: Editions Archive

January 11 – February 23, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

In 1993, distinguished USF alumnus and artist Robert Stackhouse designated USF Contemporary Art Museum as the archive for his editioned works. USFCAM celebrates this gift with the publication of a catalogue for the Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive and an exhibition of work selected from the archive. This exhibition explores the evolution of Stackhouse’s work from his first print to the most recent editions, his relationship with various print workshops and the interaction across media of his prints, paintings and sculpture.

Curated by Peter Foe and organized by the USFCAM.

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Everyday Atrocities

January 11 – February 23, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Faculty Focus Exhibition: John Byrd, Gregory Green and Julie Weitz use painting, sculpture and installation to explore themes and the aesthetics of violence, danger and empowerment embedded in politics and popular culture.

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Homing Devices

October 26 – December 15, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

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Elsewhere

August 27 – October 13, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Elsewhere explores the familiar and often tragic theme of the quest. The artists included in this exhibition embark upon quixotic adventures to both real and imagined places - at times edging on the ridiculous, treacherous, and sublime. Pulling from sources as varied as Victorian expeditions, romantic tourism, travel literature, and Hollywood films, the artists in Elsewhere blend documentary styles with found footage, tableaux, and performance into potent mixtures of fact, fantasy, and feeling. To this end, they employ strategies of displacement, re-enactment, and repetition in an effort to erode the temporal boundaries implicit to existing representations of histories, identities, and geographies.

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StereoVision

June 15 – August 4, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

StereoVision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

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2007 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 27 – May 25, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This premiere of the Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum features diverse artworks by twelve artists from the nationally ranked studio art program at USF.

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31st Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 23 – April 6, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year, a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards, which are donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. Past jurors include notables Marcia Tucker, Roberta Smith, Sue Coe, The Guerilla Girls, The Art Guys, Elyse Goldberg and Jerry Saltz. We are pleased to have exiled Haitian painter and sculptor Edouard Duval-Carrié as the juror for the 31st Student Exhibition.


Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air

January 12 – March 3, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for 35 years. In addition to dance, Brown is known for her work in the visual arts, including improvisational works combining dance and drawing, and collaborations with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Laurie Anderson and Terry Winters. Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air will present Brown’s new improvisational drawings, a selection of collaborative works with artists, and new prints commissioned by Graphicstudio.

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Berni Searle: Approach

October 27 – December 16, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

South African artist Berni Searle, whose work was included in the group exhibition with eight contemporaries in 2002 at USF CAM, The Field’s Edge: Africa / Diaspora / Lens, will be in residence at Graphicstudio to create a newly commissioned work for her solo exhibition. Searle, known for her performances, photography and video work, addresses issues of race, gender and social history, came to the public’s attention in 1997 with an installation that was an important component at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, based at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, where she lives and works. Searle creates noteworthy projects that serve as a continuing series of ongoing explorations of identity and self-representation.

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Vik Muniz: Reflex

July 7 – October 7, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has been making an international impact with his photographs documenting images he has made in an astonishing variety of non-art, often ephemeral materials, including dirt, sugar, wire, string, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, fake blood, color chips, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, and diamonds. Muniz’ images are at once familiar—they are often of recognizable news images, works from art history, or well-known personages—and alien: after an initial moment or recognition, it quickly becomes clear that these images are not what they first seemed.

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30th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 7 – May 26, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year, a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards, which are donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. This year artist Claudi X. Valdeswill will juror and give a talk. Past jurors include notables Marcia Tucker, Roberta Smith, Sue Coe, The Guerilla Girls, The Art Guys, Elyse Goldberg and Jerry Saltz.


Dragon Veins

January 13 – March 11, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Dragon Veins surveys a variety of ways in which traditional East Asian art informs contemporary painting. The twelve artists idiosyncratically mine East Asian traditions of Chinese landscape painting, Buddhism, ukiyo-e, emaki, bunraku, nihon-ga and kazari, intermixing them with current political events, hip-hop culture, geological maps, modernist abstraction, bodily experience, Dr. Seuss, anime, Post-Impressionism and more.

 

Beautiful Losers:
Contemporary Art and Street Culture

November 4 – December 17, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture is an exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from aspects of street culture loosely organized around the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip-hop in urban U.S. cities. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, photography, film, video and performance by thirty individuals who have emerged over the last decade.

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AudioFiles

September 9 – October 21, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

AudioFiles brings together converging elements of the spectrum of Sound Art. Artists Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Christian Marclay and Stephen Vitiello create three individually engaging and enigmatic sonic installations, which defy convention and resist categorization. The exhibit represents an emerging and provocative art form by drawing connections between artist modalities and experimental media.

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Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World

April 8 – July 15, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World is the first major museum exhibition to survey the work of the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters). This mid-career retrospective will include a selection of drawings, paintings, prints, installations and sculptures, and be a significant part of the ARTE celebration of Latin American and Caribbean cultures being hosted by the city of Tampa, the USF College of The Arts, and other cultural institutions.

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29th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 14 – March 26, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This eagerly awaited exhibition features the work of undergraduate and graduate students at the School of Art & Art History, and is juried by a nationally recognized artist, curator, critic or museum professional. Works include a variety of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and video. Awards for the students are provided by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons of the arts, and designated by the juror.


Alex Katz

January 18 – February 26, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Through drawing, Katz first denotes that which he finds provocative. Then he builds upon his sketched lines through more steps that both enlarge and refine the line. The exhibition in the East Gallery is composed of cartoons and drawings, guest curated by Michael Klein. The West Gallery features a selection of related prints and paintings.

 

USF School of Art & Art History Studio Faculty Exhibition

October 29 – December 18, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The triennial USF School of Art & Art History Studio Faculty Exhibition provides faculty members time to develop new ideas and serves to showcase projects by new studio faculty. A diverse selection of work is represented: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, video, new media and performance projects.


Burt Barr: Solid Water

August 27 – October 9, 2004
USFCAM East Gallery

New York based artist Burt Barr has been making video-works since the 80s. At CAM he will show a series of video projections, all with water as an element, produced from 1999–2004.

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Janaina Tschäpe: Blood, Sea

August 27 – October 9, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

New York and Brazil based artist Janaina Tschäpe works in a variety of media including drawing, photography, film and installation. For CAM, Tschäpe developed a new high definition video installation filmed at Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida.

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For All the Wrong Reasons…

May 28 – July 17, 2004
USFCAM East Gallery

This loosely defined group of area artists describes itself as an “uncomfortable alliance” – ambitious, obsessed, over-reaching, critical and self-effacing. Each member is engaged in radically different vocabularies and strategies – with a preoccupation of “badness”. The group’s sub-composition is made up of “the Fluff Constructivists” – Mikel Durlam, Ethan Kruszka and Jon Peterson; others include Matthew Guest, Rachel Hoffman and John McGrane.


Jose Marin

May 28 – July 17, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

Memorial exhibition of paintings by Jose Marin, USF School of Art Alumnus and one of the founders of the Tampa-based collaborative group, titanic anatomy, inc.


28th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 3 – May 1, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

For the 28th year, USF students are given the opportunity to enter their art in an exhibtion juried by Allan McCollum, an internationally known artist. Awards are donated by community businesses and museum supporters.


The Amazing & The Immutable

February 2, – March 12, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of photography relies on a number of sources, including works published by Graphicstudio, the collections of other cultural institutions and private individuals, most notably Tampa collector Dr. Robert Drapkin. Vintage and contemporary works will be installed together, exploring the history of photography. In conjunction with the USF CAM exhibition, Graphicstudio will house a didactic exhibit of the apparatus and methods involved in the fabrication and printing of photographs. Techniques represented include: ambrotype, tintype, albumen, salt, calotype, cyanotype, stereoscope in paper, tissue and glass, gum prints, and silver gelatin.

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DNA: Art & Science / Double Helix

Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7–9pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Institute for Research in Art and Office of Research at USF bring the arts and sciences together to celebrate research and the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, with a special solo-night of projected images created by artists, scientists, architects and designers, featured throughout the USF CAM. The works from the juried exhibition are available online here. The exhibition is sponsored by the IRA and Office of Research; juried by Eduardo Kac.

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Jim Campbell

November 21, 2003 – January 16, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell comes from a technical background in engineering - he holds two Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT - and an artistic background in filmmaking. Campbell creates fascinating, interactive, electronic works and installations that involve the viewer and the viewer's response to a given situation.

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Walk Ways

November 21, 2003 – January 16, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Walk Ways brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who have focused on the theme of walking, a purposeful or meandering activity that unites physical and mental freedom. Walking - like breathing - is a basic act which is its own expression. The 19 artists in this exhibition have used the walk as a means of exploring notions of work, leisure, politics, geography and identity. Informed by their own experiences as well as examples from literature and art history, these artists have created works about and by walking.


Trespassing: Houses X Artists

August 29 – October 17, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Trespassing is an exhibition about house designs by nine contemporary artists in collaboration with the New York architectural firm, OpenOffice. The projects are presented through a variety of strategies including architectural models, text writings and interviews, conceptual sketches, digital media and partial and/or full-scale realizations.

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Exeunt Omnes

May 24 – July 19, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the arts community are invited to gather for a rare event recognizing the accomplishments of the School of Art & Art History’s retiring faculty. With Exeunt Omnes — Latin for ‘all exit’, commonly used in theatre as a stage direction — we will be highlighting the historic contributions that Alan Eaker, Diane Elmeer, Chuck Fager, Bob Gelinas, Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mernet Larsen, Bruce Marsh and Theo Wujcik, have made to the University of South Florida and people of the Tampa Bay area.


27th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 5– May 5, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

For the 27th year, USF students are given the opportunity to enter their art in an exhibtion juried by a nationally known gallerist, museum professional, or artist. Awards are donated by community businesses and museum supporters.


Unnaturally

January 18– March 15, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

UnNaturally features over 40 visually stunning works by fifteen artists who employ artificial materials to create simulations of nature that explore the frequently blurred boundary between culture and our environment. Traveled by ICI, New York.

 

The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens

October 18 – December 21, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Field's Edge is a multimedia exhibition that explores the relationship between contemporary art and colonial ethnography, most notably the legacy of colonial ethnography on readings of contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora. The visual exploration of this often contested relationship between art and ethnography focuses on major themes around the politics of narrative and domestic life.

Sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the Rockefeller Foundation.


USF School of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition

August 26 – October 5, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Approximately every three years, the USF CAM hosts an exhibition of Art Department faculty work. This schedule allows faculty members to develop new ideas in anticipation of the show, and also serves to showcase projects by new studio faculty. A diverse selection of work is represented: painting, photography, print making, sculpture, ceramics, film, video as well as digital and new media projects.


Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette

May 24 – July 20, 2002
USFCAM East Gallery

New project by USF Alumni Sharon Engelstein and Aaron Parazette, specifically designed for CAM. Engelstein, known for her "inflatable" sculptures will collaborate with Parazette, who creates colorful wall paintings, to produce an exciting installation.


Blip

May 24 – July 20, 2002
USFCAM West Gallery

Houston-based artists Sharon Engelstein and Aaron Parazette will co-curate an exhibition that features the work of other Houston artists that share their ideas and working methodologies.


26th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

April 1 – May 6, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A significant artist, curator or art critic will be invited to select works for the annual student show. Undergraduate and graduate students and the community have the opportunity to have their work evaluated by a visiting art professional.


Outside of the Box

January 12 – March 9, 2002
USFCAM East Gallery

Outside of the Box features recent work by leading international artists who not only think differently about subject and content, but propose unconventional modes of presentation for their video-based art. These artists extend video beyond the television monitor and often outside of traditional exhibition spaces. Artists include: Ron Athey, Jim Campbell, Maria Marshall, Mariko Mori, Tony Oursler, Chris Cunningham, Wolfgang Staehle, Daniel Pflumm and Sam Taylor-Wood.


Carlos Amorales:
Fighting Evil (with style)

January 12 – March 9, 2002
USFCAM West Gallery

USF CAM is pleased to present a new video installation and public billboard project by Carlos Amorales: Fighting Evil (with style), based on the popular Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) of the artist's native Mexico. "Wherever Carlos Amorales is, there's name-calling, viscous threats, gambling, and bloodthirsty crowds all steeped with the anticipation of violence. And the gallery doors haven't even opened yet. Inside, Amorales is preparing his fight for justice."

 

Lucy Orta: Nexus Architecture & Connector IV

October 27 – December 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Orta's project for USF includes her collaborations with Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa and a new architectural infrastructure for a modular social space.

See the Exhibition Walkthrough at our Media Gallery


Never Never Land

September 1 – October 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Walt Disney Company has made a business of creating entertainment narratives and consumer desire since 1929. Its lexicon of popular icons, combined with fantasy spaces that make up the Disney theme parks, has become an entire vernacular culture. Disney has become synonymous with "American" culture. This exhibition featues the work of artists from diverse cultural backgrounds that reflect the effect of Disney's influence. As Disney continues to create fictional characters and places, the work of these 17 contemporary artists portray imaginary world and question the relationship of the real to the unreal.

The exhibition is curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Independent Curator and traveled by University Galleries of Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.


Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island

September 1 – October 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This fascinating exhibition presents the work of 16 Cuban artists of the 1990s who explore irony as a strategy for psychological survival and oblique commentary. Embedded in their art is the notion that when political and personal problems are inescapable, humor may be one of the few outlets for the frustration, and a practical means to maintain stability within a context that appears at times to be rules by irrationality. The works reflect various views of the 1959 revolution and the realities of life in Cuba under the United Sates embargo. The artists work speculates on Cuba's complex past, its cultural uniqueness as a nexus of African, European and Asian cultures and exemplifies the concept of inventando, the improvisation and creative resourcefulness required for everyday survival. The exhibition is curated by Marilyn Zeitlin, Director of Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, and traveled by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.


UNION

April 23 – May 6, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Union is James Kevin Dowdee, Heather Cushman-Dowdee, Jason Irwin, Carole Loeffler, and Shane M. Richardson, Union is cohesive cell of current USF MFA students who address issues ranging from the spiritual to the political.


25th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 30 – April 20, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Annual exhibition showcasing the work of graduate and undergraduate students in all media. The show is juried by a nationally recognized artist, critic, gallery or museum professional and is supported by the USF CAM, Art Department and the student organization, the Fine Arts Forum.


William Wegman: Fashion Photographs

February 10 – March 17, 2001
USFCAM East Gallery

William Wegman: Fashion Photographs is a solo exhibition featuring his famous Weimaraners, photographed in couture provided by Saks Fifth Avenue, curated by David Moos and Mary Dinaburg, organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art. Drawings, Photographs and Videos: 1970–2000 is a selection of the artist's videos, films, prints, photographs and drawings curated by Margaret Miller and Peter Foe, organized by University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.


Dreamtime, Our Time: The Eternal Circle

January 12 – 27, 2001

Fiona Foley: River of Corn, USFCAM West Gallery

Aboriginal Bark Paintings and Native American Beadwork, USFCAM East Gallery

USF CAM has commissioned a new installation by Australian Aboriginal artist Fiona Foley. Didactic exhibitions of traditional Aboriginal bark paintings and Native American beadwork and headdresses, on loan from private collections, will complement the project. The installation will serve as a performance site for guest dancers and musicians being produced by Gretchen Warren, USF Professor of Dance. The exhibition will be the starting point for twelve performances, which will move with the audience to the adjacent Theatre.

 

Ed Ruscha: Editions 1959 – 1999

October 23 – December 23, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Edward Ruscha has not only been an influential voice in post-war American Painting, but also one of contemporary art's most significant graphic arts. The Walker Art Center has organized a major exhibition of Ruscha's editions that include artist books and prints from 1962 through 1999. This exhibition will have particular resonance for the Tampa Bay community, as Ruscha was a featured guest artist with USF's fine art atelier Graphicstudio in 1970.


USF Collects

August 21 – September 29, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The University of South Florida Art Collection features over 3,600 works, many of them by internationally renowned artists such as John Chamberlain, Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Graves, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg. This exhibition will feature watershed works from the collection, as well as special works on loan by artists.


The Creeley Collaborations

May 22 – July 15, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of collaborative works by poet Robert Creeley and noted artists of our time affirms and celebrates the importance of cross-disciplinary art forms. The show features over sixty projects beginning in the 50s and ending up in 1997, in the form of prints, drawings, photographs, mixed-media works and books. The exhibition is organized by the Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University, New York.


24th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 24 – April 15, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition of student work is very much anticipated and enjoyed by both the exhibiting artists and the community. The show provides an opportunity for student artists to have their work professionally presented within the Contemporary Art Museum. The show is juried by a nationally recognized artist, critic, gallery or museum professional, who is selected by students who are members of the Fine Arts student organization, the Fine Art Forum.


UltraLounge: The Return of Social Space, (With Cocktails)

January 14 – March 3, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibit was curated by Las Vegas-based art and culture critic Dave Hickey. Hickey selected eleven artists from the Las Vegas and Los Angeles communities to reclaim the puritanical exhibition space of a museum as a "social space"–space where people might actually enjoy spending time and being together. The iconography of this reclamation is derived from post hip-hop lounge culture, with its infrastructure of raves, clubs, bands, net sites and 'zines. Artists include: Jane Callister, Phil Argent, Tim Bavington (Britain); Christine Seimens, Wayne Littlejohn (Canada); Yek Wong (Singapore); Aaron Baker, Cynthia Chan, Jack Hallberg, Jennifer Steinkamp and Mary Warner (United States).

 

USF Art Department Faculty and Alumni Exhibitions

October 29 – November 29, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF CAM is pleased to host concurrent exhibitions of recent works by USF Art Department studio faculty and selected Art Department Alumni. A diverse selection of work will be represented: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and video, as well as digital and new media projects.


AMNESIA: Contemporary South American Art

August 23 – October 16, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exciting exhibition represents 16 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela that explore current artistic, political and cultural discourses taking place in South America. Curated by Christopher Grimes of Los Angeles, the show will also consider the idea of South America as a forgotten continent (as the title suggests) within the context of the Western art world, and how issues are still formed, shaped and processed through a colonial history.


Selections from the Rubell Family Collection

May 26 – July 24, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Leslie Lerner: The Man with the Wooden Arm,
The Imagined City

March 19 – May 15, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Sarasota-based artist Leslie Lerner will present a fascinating, multimedia exhibition that includes paintings, 3-dimensional architectural forms, prints and texts. Lerner's work is a series of complex, visual narratives that transport the viewer into an imaginary world full of both contemporary and historical references. His images are a montage of canonical pictorial sources that reference Dutch, French Rococo and American Realist paintings.


23rd Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 19 – April 24, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF CAM is proud to host this annual exhibition of student works. Submissions in all media are welcome. Prize monies are contributed by community patrons and businesses.


Atelier van Lieshout

January 15 – February 27, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exhibition of new work by the Dutch Atelier van Lieshout organized by CAM Director Margaret Miller and New York-based independent curator Jade Dellinger. Joep van Lieshout applies a hybrid sensibility to his popular sculptures, blending a cool jumble of stream-lined, curvilinear molds with occasional dashes of wit.


Art In The News

January – December, 1999
The Tampa Tribune, Sunday Edition

ART IN THE NEWS was a year-long exhibition of artworks designed for the newspaper medium. The project was curated by Margaret Miller, Director of USF CAM and Jade Dellinger, Independent Curator. Twelve artists were invited to design a work to appear one Sunday a month from January to December, 1999. Artist's talks were scheduled in conjunction with each project.

 

Allan McCollum: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida
(With Supplemental Didactics)

October 23 – December 19, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This show is the result of a collaboration between Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and USF CAM to organize and produce a major new exhibition by the reknowned American artist, Allan McCollum. CAM will present an installation of fulgurites (glass objects that are formed when lightning strikes and fuses sand), and MOSI will create a permanent exhibition on triggered lightning. Sponsored in part by The Arts Council of Hillsborough County and The Tampa Tribune.

Click here to view the Supplemental Didactics.


Freeze Frame

August 24 – October 3, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Freeze Frame features the work of 17 artists from Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Haiti, Venezuela and the United States. Selected by Viennese Curator Grita Insam, the works are based on classical cinema of various epochs, as well as experimental and documentary film.


(re) Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking

August 24– October 10, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by USF CAM Director Margaret Miller and New York-based independent curator Jade Dellinger for the 1997 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, this exhibition returns to the U.S. for its American premier.


Jürgen Partenheimer: Songs and Other Lies

May 8 – July 24, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This was the first major exhibition in the United States of lyrical, abstract watercolors and prints by this leading German artist. The exhibition, curated by USF CAM Director Margaret Miller, will be on display in CAM and at Graphicstudio/The Institute for Research in Art.


Harrison Covington: The Last Picture Show I

March 16 – May 1, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exhibition of works by Professor Emeritus Harrison Covington, former Dean of the USF College of Fine Arts.


22nd Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 20 – April 18, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF CAM is proud to host this annual exhibition of student works. Submissions in all media are curated by New York-based Gallerist and Collector Todd Leven. Prize monies are contributed by community patrons and businesses.


Tim Rollins & K.O.S.: Kids Across Amerika

January 16 – March 3, 1998
USFCAM East Gallery

Tim Rollins & K.O.S. emerged from a high school art education setting to establish themselves as an internationally renowned art group. This exhibit was held in conjunction with the dedication of the Tim Rollins & K.O.S. public art commission for USF's new College of Education building.


Layers: Between Science and the Imagination

January 10 – February 28, 1998
USFCAM West Gallery

The five artists in this exhibition were commissioned to use their own vocabulary to translate the voices of their collaborators, elderly storytellers living in long term care facilities and aspiring young artists from local youth groups.

 

Rogelio Lopez Cuenca: Read and Made: Contemporary Spanish Art

November 14 – December 20, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Shouts From The Wall

November 8 – December 22, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum


CROSS/ING: Time • Space • Movement

September 4 – October 18, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exciting exhibition of work by African artists practicing in the international contemporary art world. The show was organized by the Contemporary Art Museum in collaboration with the Museum of African American Art, Tampa.


Patrick Corillon: Osker Serti’s House

July 11 – August 16, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Pop Art from the USF CAM Collection

May 1 – June 28, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Max Valentonis


FOCI: Selections from the Martin Margulies Collection

March 8 – May 29, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Max Valentonis


New Grounds: Prints and Multiples

January 17 – March 8, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum


EK:KE Keith Edmier (Evel Knievel)

January 10 – February 28, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

Architecture and Community Design

October 11 – December 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


USF Art Department Faculty Exhibition

October 4 – December 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Peter Foe: Some People

September 6 – October 5, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography

August 26 – September 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Symbolized Signifier: Narrative Art from the Collection

July 8 – August 24, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Two Cents: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kevin Young

July 1 – August 17, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


The 90s: Recent Donations to the Collection

April 30 – June 22, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


20th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – May 4, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Mark Stock: Paintings and Designs 1986-1996

March 11 – May 11, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Perfect Speed

January 13 – February 24, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

Use as Directed (#3): Basic Korean: Rainer Ganahl

November 10, 1995 – January 16, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Use as Directed (#2): Ocean Mist: That’s Painting Productions: Bernard P. Brunon

November 18, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Use as Directed (#1): Choose Your Destination: How To Get A Museum-Paid Vacation:Maurizio Cattelan

1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


RE:FAB Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised

October 30 – December 27, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Spirit Eyes, Human Hands: African Art from the Harn Museum, University of Florida

August 21 – October 14, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


L.C Armstrong

July 10 – August 26, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Richard Tuttle: Renaissance Unframed

July 10 – August 18, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


LOGO NON LOGO

May 30 – July 29, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Hollis Sigler

April, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


19th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – April 22, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Alfredo Jaar

January 13 – March 4, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

A Collection of Maggots: George Pappas

October 10 – December 17, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


USF Faculty Exhibition

October 10 – December 17, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Ciphers of Identity

August 17 – September 24, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Translucent Writing

June 16 – July 19, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Marie Jo Lafontaine

May 6 – July 22, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


18th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – April 23, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum


The Belgian Accident

January 14 – March 5, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

The Scene of the Crime (Who’s Crime): Pepon Osorio

November 1 – December 22, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


House of the Caribbean: Antonio Martorell

November 1 – December 22, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


From Globe to Glove: Peter Weibel

August 23 – October 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Robin Winters: Body Politic

May 14 – July 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Regenerative Spirit

March 12 – April 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Jenny Marketou: 114+114

March 5 – April 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

Matt Mullican: World Frame

October 30, 1992 – January 9, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum


17th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

September 11 – October 6, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Prints Exhibition Exchange: Najing: College of Fine Arts

September 3 – October 4, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


New Acquisitions: USF Collections

July 6 – August 26, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Tyler Turkle: Plastic Criteria

June 29 – August 28, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Spanish Art / Approaching 1992

June 14 – August 30, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Alfred Eisenstaedt

May 3 – June 13, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


USF Faculty Exhibition

April 3 – June 13, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Ernie Cox

April 3 – April 25, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Transparence/Transcendence

January 20 – March 14, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

Elyn Zimmerman

November 2 – December 20, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Robert Stackhouse: Soundless

November 2 – December 20, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Trans-Positions & Sonia Delaunay

September 23 – October 19, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Prints from Nanjing College of Fine Arts: Peoples Republic of China

September 3 – October 4, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Frazione De Tempo

June – July, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Unique

June 21 – August 2, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Australian Contemporary Art

April 9 – May 26, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Contemporary Moscow Artists: USSR Artists’ Guild

February 9 – March 31, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum


USF Art Department and Museum Biennal

January – February, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

 

Pat Steir

October 22 – December 21, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


David Baker

October 16 – November 25, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


15th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

August 28 – September 30, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Selected USF Graduate and Alumni Works

June 26 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum

June 26 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Architecture/Environmental Sculpture Exhibition

June 12 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Nina Felshin

April 15 – May 25, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Alumni Exhibition

February 12 – March 26, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Selections from the Rivendell Collection

February 6 – June 1, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum


 

Telex. Iran: Portrait of a Country in Revolution

November 3 – December 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Photography Exhibition

November 3 – November 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Art Dept. Faculty Exhibition

September 24 – October 29, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


New Acquisitions

September 22 – October 22, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


14th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

July 8 – September 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Made in Florida

March 11 – June 18, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Fischli/Weiss and James Casebere

January 21 – February 25, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum


 

Selections from the USF Collection

October 10 – December 3, 1988
USF Contemporary Art Museum


James Rosenquist at USF

October 7 – December 3, 1988
USF Contemporary Art Museum


Eight Contemporary Photographers

April 3 – May 1, 1981
USF Art Galleries - Teaching Gallery


Artists from the John Weber Gallery, NYC

November 3 – December 13, 1980
USF Art Galleries - Teaching Gallery