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...
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A recent meeting between the directors of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA) and Belgian-American poet, novelist, and visual artist Alain Arias-Misson opened the possibility of developing a series of projects of mutual interest aimed at bringing his work closer to audiences in South Florida. The conversation created a space for collaboration around one of the defining aspects of Arias-Misson’s extensive career: his ability to move poetry and language beyond their traditional formats and turn them into visual, spatial, and participatory experiences.
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Miami Dade College West Campus and the Doral International Art Fair present WATER TRAIL | Rastro de agua, a group exhibition curated by Félix Suazo and featuring Julia Zurilla, Emilia Martín Fierro, Zura Lagarde, Samara Ash, and Alexandra de Yavorsky. Opening September 15, the exhibition explores water as a physical, existential, and symbolic force through photography, painting, and sculpture, with MoCAA joining the City of Doral and CCE Miami as an institutional collaborator.
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The presentation of The Caregiver’s Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo, drew an engaged audience to the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) on Saturday, August 22, turning the launch of the book into a broader conversation about caregiving, vulnerability, family, and the forms of strength that frequently remain invisible.
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On Saturday, August 22, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) welcomed a large and diverse audience for the opening of Eclectic, the solo exhibition by Venezuelan artist Freddy Trujillo. Throughout the day, visitors moved through the museum’s galleries, met the artist, and encountered a body of work in which abstraction has become the visual vocabulary of a practice developed over decades.
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This Saturday, August 22, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) hosts the presentation and signing of El corazón del cuidador. El arte como puente / The Caregiver's Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo. Opening remarks will be delivered by Edith Monge Silva, director of Languages Foundation, one of the institutions backing the project. She is worth pausing over, because her presence on Saturday's program goes well past protocol.
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There is an experience that unfolds daily in thousands of homes and rarely reaches the page — that of the person who cares for another. The Caregiver's Heart. Art as a Bridge, by Yamilet Uzcanga Trujillo, takes up precisely that territory, and does so from the inside. The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas hosts its presentation and signing on Saturday, August 22. The book departs from a premise the author states without circling it. Caregiving is an act born of the soul. From there she opens a passage in which art works as shelter, as bridge, as company.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas opens Eclectic, an exhibition devoted to the work of Freddy Trujillo, a Venezuelan artist based in Doral whose career overruns the boundaries of any single discipline. Television director and producer, novelist, lecturer, poet, painter — the title reads as a literal description. Trujillo came to painting before he came to the camera. A first canvas, brushes, oils, an easel, along with the linseed oil and turpentine he still recalls with the precision of an inventory, settled a vocation that the Cristóbal Rojas School of Visual Arts turned into training. Television followed. At RCTV, at the Academia de Arte del Cine y la Televisión, and later at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel in Paris.
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On August 12, 2026, the international art magazine Art Sôlido published “Two Donations, One History of Cuban Art,” an article by critic and curator Anthony Bianchi examining the presence of Cuban art in the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS) in Daytona Beach through two donations separated by more than six decades. The first was made in 1957 by Fulgencio Batista and Marta Fernández Batista. The second, in 2020, consisted of fourteen works from the Rodríguez Collection donated by collector Leonardo Rodríguez.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is pleased to announce the acquisition of a photographic work by Laura Capote Mercadal (Havana, Cuba, 1991), further strengthening the museum's commitment to collecting and preserving significant voices in contemporary Latin American art. Born in Havana and currently based in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, where she has become a naturalized Mexican citizen, Capote Mercadal has developed a photographic practice that investigates the intersections of body, landscape, and memory.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) and the Fine Art Ceramic Center extend their sincere gratitude to the Urukum Institute in Britânia, Brazil; the renowned Brazilian artist Gerson Fogaça; and cultural manager Malu da Cunha for making this important meeting possible. During the visit, the first agreements were established for the development of future collaborative and exchange projects involving both institutions and Brazil’s ceramic community.
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MoCA Americas and the Fine Art Ceramic Center extend their deepest gratitude to the Urukum Institute of Britânia (Brazil), the distinguished Brazilian artist Gerson Fogaça, and cultural manager Malu da Cunha for making this first working meeting possible. The encounter resulted in important agreements that will serve as the foundation for future collaborative projects and international exchange.
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São Paulo, Brazil — July 14, 2026. The Instituto Cervantes São Paulo inaugurated Territorios de Encuentro. Prácticas contemporáneas entre Brasil, Cuba y Puerto Rico, a group exhibition that brings together six artists whose trajectories reflect the movement of people, memories, and visual languages across Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States. The opening took place at the institution’s Avenida Paulista headquarters, one of São Paulo’s most prominent cultural corridors.
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São Paulo, Brazil — July 14, 2026. Representatives of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) and Instituto Cultural Urukum formally presented the documentary catalog of Caminhos de Terra e Vento / Paths of Earth and Wind to the leadership of Instituto Cervantes São Paulo during an institutional meeting held today at its Avenida Paulista location.
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The acquisition expands the museum’s permanent collection and opens new avenues of collaboration with a significant figure in contemporary Cuban printmaking based in Yucatán. During a recent institutional visit to Mérida, Yucatán, representatives of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) visited the studio of Cuban artist Enrique Giovanni Miralles Tartabull, professionally known as Tente, where the museum acquired two works directly from the artist.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) continues to strengthen its collaborative ties with institutions and representative artists from Latin America. As part of its recent working agenda in Mérida, Leonardo Rodríguez, founder of the museum, and Ivonne Ferrer, artist and director of the Florida-based institution, visited the studio of Mexican photographer and painter Javier Barrera.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas mourns the passing of Luis Miguel Valdés Morales, the Cuban painter, printmaker, sculptor, teacher, and cultural promoter whose work moved with remarkable freedom between graphic tradition, architectural imagination, and the new technologies that began to reshape artistic practice in the late twentieth century. Valdés was born in Pinar del Río in 1949 and developed a long career that joined artistic production with teaching and institutional work.
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Architect David Reynaldo Alcocer, director of the Faculty of Architecture, Habitat and Design at UADY in Mérida, welcomed Leonardo Rodríguez, founder and owner of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), and Ivonne Ferrer, director of the Florida-based museum, to finalize details for two exhibitions that will soon travel to the state of Yucatán. Both exhibitions will be part of the program of activities to be held in September in celebration of the 53rd anniversary of this important academic institution.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas recently welcomed Cuban musician Baby Lores during a visit to Echoes of Humanity, the two-person exhibition by Tony Rodríguez and Noel Dobarganes currently on view in the museum’s main hall. Born Yoandys Lores González in Cienfuegos, Baby Lores began his musical formation as a teenager with the youth ensemble Ismaelillo.
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The upcoming collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) and the Faculty of Architecture, Habitat and Design at UADY is beginning to take shape in Mérida with the preparation of a collective exhibition of Cuban art, scheduled to open in September 2026 as part of the professional exchange program developed in connection with the 53rd anniversary of this academic institution.
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As part of the working trip undertaken by the leadership of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) to Mérida, Yucatán, Leonardo Rodríguez and Ivonne Ferrer visited Galería Secreta, where they were welcomed by its director, Mario Torre. The visit offered an opportunity to engage directly with one of Mérida’s distinctive contemporary art spaces. Located in the city’s historic center, Galería Secreta has developed a profile defined by its discreet character, its guided visits, and its use of an industrial space transformed into a venue for contemporary art.
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The Cuban musician, known for his connection to Cubanito 2002 and now active in Miami, encountered the work of Tony Rodríguez and Noel Dobarganes at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. Known to audiences in Cuba and across the diaspora for his work with Cubanito 2002, Ángel “El White” belongs to a generation of musicians whose sound helped define an important moment in the development of Cuban urban music during the early years of the twenty-first century.
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The presence of the Cuban singer, pianist, and composer—winner of one GRAMMY Award and two Latin GRAMMYs—added a singular resonance to the opening of Tony Rodríguez and Noel Dobarganes’s exhibition on Friday, June 26. On Friday, June 26, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, MoCA-Americas, welcomed the celebrated Cuban artist Aymée Nuviola during the opening of Echoes of Humanity, an exhibition by painters Tony Rodríguez and Noel Dobarganes currently on view in the museum’s main hall.
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From July 14 to August 14, 2026, the Instituto Cervantes of São Paulo presents Territorios de Encuentro. Prácticas contemporáneas entre Brasil, Cuba y Puerto Rico, a group exhibition that the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) advances together with the Rodríguez Collection as part of its international curatorial initiatives. Curated by the Instituto Cervantes team, the exhibition may be visited from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. at the institution's premises, on Avenida Paulista 2439, ground floor of the Edifício Eloy Chaves, Bela Vista (CEP 01311-300).
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On Friday, June 26, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) 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.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), in Kendall, welcomed [date] a visit from Mundo Arte Gallery, an independent space devoted to Latin American contemporary art with locations in Medellín and North Miami Beach. The delegation was led by the gallery's Miami director and curator, Fernando Fernández, together with art critic and curator Shirley Moreira, a member of the gallery's advisory board...
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On the occasion of the opening of Echoes of Humanity, the new exhibition by Juan Antonio Rodríguez Olivares (Tony Rodríguez) and Noel Dobarganes at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, the public will have the chance to enjoy a special performance by the distinguished guitarist and composer Ricardo González. His music will accompany an evening devoted to painting, memory, matter, and the many tensions of the human; a concert conceived as part of the experience of moving through this powerful exhibition by two Cuban artists brought together for the first time in MoCAA's main hall.
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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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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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