Next Exhibition

Within the Art in the Community Program

Julio Figueroa-Beltrán, Helier Batista and Luis Abreu – from July 25, only at the MoCAA in Kendall

Curated by Rodriguez Collection Team

July 25th - August 25th | 2025

At the heart of this exhibition lies a friendship—not a trivial or anecdotal bond, but one that has endured for over two decades among artists who, though from different generations and paths, have cultivated an aesthetic and personal complicity. Tree of a Kind springs from that bond. Its title—drawn from a poker hand where three distinct cards share the same value—becomes a metaphor for what unfolds here: three singular voices, with markedly different visual languages, yet rooted in a shared cultural ground and a will to dialogue through mutual respect. Rather than forcing a synthesis or a closed narrative, the exhibition offers an open architecture, where each work maintains its autonomy while gaining depth through proximity. There are no hierarchies, no spaces marked as anyone’s 'exclusive territory.

Current Show

A Collaboration Between MoCAA, the City of Marco Island, and Marco Island Center for the Arts

Gulf Coast Creativity Meets Miami’s Cultural Pulse

As part of a dynamic and evolving cultural exchange across Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is pleased to present Marco to Miami, an exceptional group exhibition that brings the work of 14 distinguished artists from Marco Island to the heart of Miami. This initiative builds upon the reciprocal partnership established with Marco Island Center for the Arts during MoCAA’s participation in ¡Arte Viva!, a county-wide celebration of Hispanic heritage and artistic diversity across Collier County.

Curated by Lisett Llorens

June 20th - July 20th | 2025

Marco to Miami unfolds as both an exhibition and a cultural statement—one that underscores the significance of interregional collaboration and the vitality of Florida’s artistic ecosystems. Through an expansive array of media and styles, the show captures the creative energy of Florida’s Gulf Coast while weaving it into Miami’s rich and ever-evolving cultural fabric. The participating artists offer a compelling portrait of Southwest Florida’s artistic diversity and depth. Their work invites new dialogues around regional identity, shared histories, and the broader landscape of contemporary expression.

MoCAA in São Paulo

Cuban Art from Both Shores Debuts in São Paulo

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) opens Cuban Art from Both Shores in São Paulo, featuring works exclusively from the Rodríguez Collection—one of the most significant private holdings of Cuban art, assembled by collector and cultural advocate Leonardo Rodríguez. Showcasing pieces by Cuban artists from both the island and the diaspora, the exhibition explores the impact of the Revolution on artistic production and the tensions between official art and free expression. Including celebrated figures such as Belkis Ayón, Carmen Herrera, and José Bedia, the show underscores the creative voices in exile and their enduring contributions to contemporary art

Curated by MoCAA Team

April 2nd, 2025

Cuba is an archipelago nestled in the Antilles of the Caribbean Sea. Its modest size, however, belies the political and historical weight it has carried in the region and across much of the Global South. Its unique political trajectory has left a profound imprint on the historical and ideological evolution of the Americas for nearly a century. Following the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the nation veered from its previous course and aligned itself ideologically and structurally with the Eastern Bloc, under the leadership of the now-defunct Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. At that time, the world was starkly divided into two distinct economic and social systems—two antagonistic blocs that regarded each other with disdain and engaged in relentless ideological confrontation.

Past exhibitions

May 5th - July 1st, 2025

The Rodriguez Collection Makes Cross-Coastal Debut at Marco Island

From May 5 to July 1, 2025, the Marco Island Center for the Arts hosted a special exhibition featuring selections from the Rodríguez Collection, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCA‑Americas). This event marked a significant moment in the museum’s mission to promote artistic dialogue across geographic and cultural boundaries

Curated by Lisett Llorens

The Exhibition was part of a wider institutional exchange that brought contemporary voices from across the Americas to new and eager audiences. Running through July 1, this exhibition marked a rare and important opportunity for audiences on Florida’s southwest coast to experience highlights from MoCAA’s growing permanent collection.

May 16th - June 20th | 2025

Sculpted Pathways Carlos Albert

Carlos Albert is a longstanding acquaintance of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCA-Americas), an institution that has closely followed his artistic trajectory and actively promoted the dissemination of his work. In that spirit, the Rodriguez Collection was one of the key sponsors of the book Carlos Albert. Road to the Unknown, written by the distinguished Spanish art theorist and critic Alfonso de la Torre.

Curated by Jorge Rodriguez Diez (R10)

Hosting an exhibition by the renowned Spanish sculptor Carlos Albert marks a significant milestone for the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) and the vibrant community it serves. The inclusion of his work in our curatorial program reaffirms the museum’s commitment to excellence in contemporary art and to fostering international artistic voices whose trajectories and visions enrich the cultural dialogue within our local context.

May 16th - June 20th | 2025

The Luciano Méndez’s Collection arrives at MoCA

After more than a year of information exchanges, a selection of works from Luciano Méndez’s Cuban Art Collection has finally arrived at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. As is well known, the core of the Museum's permanent collection is founded upon the holdings of Leonardo Rodríguez, with a primary focus on Cuban art produced in the state of Florida.

Curated by Jorge Rodriguez Diez (R10)

The Cuban art collection of Mr. Méndez has been assembled over the course of two decades, beginning in Havana itself. The works were acquired directly from the artists—an approach that, from the outset, served as both a gesture of patronage and a means of sustaining their creative paths. Leonardo Rodríguez also prioritized direct acquisition as support and commitment to the artists.

April 25th – May 16th | 2025

Lineages

MoCA‑Americas presented Descendencias, a collective exhibition that featured six Cuban women artists who explored lineage as a living, embodied memory. Through photography, performance, and symbolic portraiture, these artists revealed how identity was shaped across generations. With poetic and often provocative gestures, their works traced the invisible threads that connected personal history to collective inheritance.

Curated by Mayda Tirado and Amanda Castell

Lineages offered a multilayered meditation on ancestry, presence, and reinvention. It posed enduring questions—what does it mean to speak of lineage, of ancestry, of descent? Is it a burden, a continuity, a scar, a myth? Through photography, performance, and symbolic portraiture, the artists revealed how identity *was shaped—claimed, questioned, and transformed—*across generations

April 25th – May 16th | 2025

Memories in Transit: Liza Camilo's Life.

MoCA‑Americas presents Liza Camilo: a photographic journey through Cuban memory and diaspora, where intimate spaces and everyday objects reveal how identity endures, adapts, and transforms between those who stayed and those who left. Liza Camilo’s exhibition unfolded as a map of subtle encounters, where intimate interiors and traces of daily rituals revealed how a transplanted culture reshapes itself within a new geography.

Curated by Mayda Tirado and Amanda Castell

Her photographs lingered on overlooked corners—faded storefronts, improvised altars, weathered objects carried from one shore to another—each image charged with the weight of private histories and quiet resilience. Rather than framing exile as rupture alone, she highlighted how memory weaves itself into new patterns, creating spaces that feel both borrowed and entirely one’s own...

April 25th – May 16th | 2025

Cartography of an Island

MoCA-Americas presented—under the unifying title Island Alchemy—a joint exhibition featuring Cuban artists Lianet Martínez and Liza Camila, two creators who, from opposite shores—Cuba and the United States—explored the female body as both landscape and language. Through sculpture and photography, their works engaged in a compelling dialogue between intimacy and resistance.

Curated by Mayda Tirado and Amanda Castell

What unfolded was a dual journey: that of Lianet Martínez, working from within Cuba, and of Liza Camila, based in the United States. A third journey emerged—that of the viewer, who was invited to traverse the visual and emotional terrain the two artists laid before us. Both began with the female body as a site of memory, politics, and transformation, placing it at the heart of their creative inquiry.

Where do we come from?

KENDALL ART CENTER

The Kendall Art Cultural Center (KACC), dedicated the past six years to the preservation and promotion of contemporary art and artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout Miami and South Florida, as well as abroad. Through an energetic calendar of exhibitions, programs, and its collections, KACC provides an international platform for the work of established and emerging artists, advancing public appreciation and understanding of contemporary art.

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Passion and Instinct: Collecting Art

A resemblance of the Rodriguez Collection

The Rodríguez collection is a blueprint of Cuban art and its diaspora. Within the context of the new MoCA-Americas the collection becomes an invaluable visual source for Diaspora identity. It represents a different approach to art history to try to better understand where we come from to better know where we are heading.

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