MoCAA Collection in Yucatán

A survey of Cuban art spanning the 1960s to the present

Opened on September 18 at the Museo de la Ciudad de Mérida, MoCAA Collection in Yucatán brings together works by more than 60 Cuban artists in a broad survey spanning the 1960s to the present. Curated by David Mateo, the exhibition includes paintings, prints, photographs, and installations drawn from the museum's holdings. Presented in collaboration with UADY, the show forms part of the program marking the 53rd anniversary of its Facultad de Arquitectura, Hábitat, Arte y Diseño and the 20th anniversary of its Visual Arts program. It will remain on view through October at the Museum of the City of Mérida.

Geometrías habitadas

Body, Space and Architecture in the Work of Ivonne Ferrer

“Geometrías habitadas. Cuerpo, espacio y arquitectura en la obra de Ivonne Ferrer” is the title of the Cuban artist’s exhibition, currently on view in the gallery of UADY’s Faculty of Architecture, Habitat, Art and Design. The exhibition, coordinated by art critic and curator David Mateo, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, and UADY’s Faculty of Architecture, Habitat, Art and Design, drew a large audience, particularly university students and professors, and will remain open to the public through October in the gallery of the CAHAD Library on the university campus.

Crossing the Border

A Photographic Exhibition by Jens G. Rosenkrantz Jr.

Photographer Jens G. Rosenkrantz Jr. opens Crossing the Border next Friday, September 4, in the main gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas in Miami. This is only the second time this body of photographs, taken along an extensive stretch of the southern border of the United States, has been shown publicly. Its first presentation took place in Cuba, at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, in 2019. The resulting photographic series, Crossing the Border, records fragments of a territory that political discourse attempts to dehumanize and reduce to a line.

Eclectic

Freddy Trujillo / The Caregiver’s Heart / Languages Foundation

On August 22, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas welcomed a large and diverse audience for the opening of Eclectic, a solo exhibition by Venezuelan artist Freddy Trujillo, presented alongside the launch and signing of The Caregiver’s Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo. The convergence of the two projects transformed the museum into a space where painting, literature, personal experience, and community could inhabit the same conversation. The exhibition and its accompanying presentation remain on view through Wednesday, September 2, 2026.

Echoes of Humanity

Two-person exhibition by Tony Rodríguez and Noel Dobarganes

On Friday, June 26, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas opened Echoes of Humanity in its main hall, a two-person exhibition by the Cuban painters Tony Rodríguez —Juan Antonio Rodríguez Olivares, Santiago de Cuba, 1980— and Noel Dobarganes —Matanzas, 1977—, brought together in that space for the first time. The evening drew a broad and diverse audience. Family members and friends of the artists joined collectors, fellow artists, cultural workers, and others engaged in the promotion and the everyday labor of the arts, alongside a large gathering of art lovers from across South Florida. Music accompanied the viewing.

Sentient Constructivism

Techniques and materials, a Latin American dialogue

On May 22, MoCAA opened Sentient Constructivism. Techniques and Materials, a Latin American Dialogue, a two-person exhibition bringing together Venezuelan sculptor Jorge Salas and Uruguayan ceramist Mario Marinoni. Through stone, wood, ceramics, geometric structures, and richly patinated surfaces, the exhibition explored the continuing vitality of Latin American constructivism and its capacity to absorb memory and materiality. Conceived as a visual dialogue, the installation placed the distinct practices of both artists in conversation, revealing a shared language in which modernist geometry encounters the archaic, the tactile, and the organic.

On View / On File

A selection from the MoCAA collection

In May 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas presented On View, On File, an exhibition drawn from the MoCAA Collection and installed in the museum’s Mezzanine Gallery. Bringing works out of storage and back into public view, the project revisited artists whose practices have accompanied the institution across different moments of its history, including Alain Pino, Ivonne Ferrer, Lia Galletti, Orlando González Naranjo, Reynerio Tamayo, Tomás Esson, and Zaida del Río. Conceived as a living activation of the collection, the exhibition reaffirmed the museum’s commitment to circulation, research, and renewed dialogue between its archive, its artists, and its audiences.

Sense of Belonging II

Public art as a field of symbolic production

This exhibition considers public art as a field of symbolic production capable of reshaping the relationship between community, territory, and urban experience. Through a photographic record of works created by local artists in South Florida, the project advances a reading of public space not as a passive backdrop, but as an active framework where memory, identity, and artistic practice converge. Far from serving a merely decorative function, the works gathered here demonstrate how public art intervenes in the construction of meaning. shifting the status of urban spaces—from “sites” defined by use to “places” charged with character, history, and significance.

Aaron Kent'n Stain & Relics

Recent ceramic works and prints by Cincinnati-based artist Aaron Kent

Stain & Relics brought together a body of work developed by Aaron Kent (Cincinnati) over years of material investigation, in which ceramics, printmaking, and hybrid processes intersect without submitting to stable disciplinary boundaries. The exhibition, which opened on April 17, 2026 at MoCAA, was the result of a collaboration between the Fine Arts Ceramic Center and The Annex Gallery. The show included pit-fired vessels, tile work, sculptural pieces, and a core of graphic work.

Double Portrait

On Friday, March 27, 2026, as part of the Pendleton Art Center’s widely attended Final Friday, the gallery welcomed close to one hundred visitors between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. The public showed particular interest in the political dimension underlying Ciro Quintana’s work and in the reflections on identity and gender articulated through Ivonne Ferrer’s ceramic selection. Both artists share a common origin and a rigorous studio formation, with trajectories shaped in Havana and linked to the generation of Cuban artists that came into focus in the 1980s.

Women of PAC

M. Katherine Hurley and Guest Artists from the Pendleton Art Center

On Friday, March 13, 2026, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) opened Women of PAC, an exhibition celebrating the work of Cincinnati-based artist M. Katherine “Kay” Hurley alongside six guest artists from the Pendleton Art Center in Cincinnati. Presented within the museum’s Women in the Arts Program and coinciding with International Women’s Month, the exhibition brought together diverse artistic voices reflecting the vitality, generosity, and creative independence of women working across painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media.

Cuban Photography from the Rodriguez Collection: Memory, Generation, and the Feminine Gaze

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA) inaugurated on January 30, 2026, a photography exhibition drawn from the Rodriguez Collection, presented in parallel with the museum’s broader program addressing diversity, representation, and contemporary artistic practice. Conceived as a complementary exhibition, the show offers a focused yet expansive reading of Cuban photography, bringing together works produced both on the island and in exile, and situating them within a broader narrative of continuity, rupture, and transformation.

An Exhibition at MOCAA Examines Neurodivergent Practices and Their Place in Contemporary Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA) inaugurated on January 30, 2026, an exhibition dedicated to the work of neurodivergent artists, conceived as part of the museum’s sustained commitment to inclusion, cultural accessibility, and the strengthening of its relationship with the community.This exhibition forms part of MOCAA’s ongoing efforts to expand spaces of participation and visibility for historically underrepresented creators, recognizing neurodiversity as a fundamental dimension of human experience and of contemporary artistic practice.

A rereading of seminal works from the Rodríguez Collection in the closing of 2025

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), in dialogue with the simultaneous presentation at the Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center in Goiás, Brazil, opens an exceptional platform to revisit Cuban art in exile through the Rodríguez Collection. The decision to unfold the exhibition across two distinct geographies underscores a central thread of the collection: the notion of transit, displacement, and constant reconfiguration. Cuban art beyond its borders has confronted the hardships of uprootedness while also embracing the possibilities of new contexts that have fostered alternative gazes, languages, and affinities. Exile has embodied both rupture and revelation...