Within the framework of the third edition of the Doral International Art Fair (DIAF 2025), held from 6 to 9 November, the Ninoska Huerta Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Cuban-American artist Ivonne Ferrer that reflects her growing leadership in the ceramic medium and in the broader Latin American contemporary art scene. The Miami-based gallery, dedicated to promoting dynamic and critical voices in abstract, constructivist and kinetic art from Latin America and beyond, provides a strategic setting for the exhibition.
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As part of the Art in the Community program, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) once again welcomed students from Kingdom Academy for a day that intertwined art, learning, and community engagement. During the visit, Leonardo Rodríguez, the museum’s director, moved among the children, encouraging them to look closely, imagine freely, and create—reminding them that some may one day become the artists of tomorrow.
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s part of the Artin the Community program, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas(MoCAA) welcomed a group of students from Kingdom Academy, aneducational institution distinguished for its commitment to the holisticformation of children and young people. Its academic model combines rigorousinstruction with Christian values rooted in leadership, excellence, service,and inclusion. Kingdom Academy fosters ethical reflection, ...
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In recent days, groups of children visited “Paths of Earth and Wind / Caminhos de Terra e Vento,” a binational project conceived by Instituto Urukum (Goiás, Brazil) in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA).
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In Goiânia, senior leadership from the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA, Miami–Kendall) met with their counterparts at the Museu de Arte de Goiânia (MAG) to advance a joint exhibition slated for 2026 and to outline a broader framework for research, collection exchange, and public programs. The conversations were anchored in a shared premise: that the Americas constitute not a periphery of multiple centers but a single, interdependent field in which artistic languages circulate with reciprocal consequence.
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Through the donation of catalogues, including the publication Cuban Art from Both Shores, MoCAAmericas underscores the enduring value of memory and cultural exchange. In partnership with Instituto Cervantes, this gesture affirms gratitude while projecting a shared commitment to future collaborations across borders.
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MoCAAmericas’ donation of catalogues, including its publication for Cuban Art from Both Shores, has been met with acclaim. Praised by audiences and press alike, the project now moves forward with definitive images and the preparation of a commemorative catalogue, affirming a shared commitment to memory, dialogue, and future collaboration.
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Recognized for its cross-continental resonance, Caminhos de Terra e Vento (Paths of Earth and Wind) emerges as a pivotal dialogue between Miami and Goiás, gathering institutions, artists, and publics around a shared vision. Celebrated by The Brazilian Times, journalist João Costa highlights how the project threads communities and practice into a living exchange across the Americas. It affirms art’s power to connect cultures and futures all.
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In the early evening of Tuesday, October 21, 2025, the Grande Sala of the Vila Cultural Cora Coralina in Goiânia welcomed the opening of Caminhos de Terra e Vento (“Paths of Earth and Wind”), a major cultural initiative bridging the art worlds of central Brazil and South Florida. The exhibition—conceived by the Instituto Urukum in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA), Miami—brought together over 100 works by more than 90 artists. Its inauguration was framed as a symbolic gesture, affirming the audacity of networks that transcend regional boundaries and reposition the American continent’s art institutions in collective dialogue.
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The Brazilian Times, one of the leading Portuguese-language publications in the United States, has featured the exhibition Caminhos de Terra e Vento (Paths of Earth and Wind) as a landmark cultural exchange between Miami and the Brazilian state of Goiás. The article, penned by journalist João Costa, underscores the exhibition’s unique ability to unite institutions, artists, and audiences across the Americas through a shared artistic vision.
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Few exhibitions of recent years have achieved the kind of resonance that Caminhos de Terra e Vento has generated throughout Brazil. Following its inauguration at Vila Cultural Cora Coralina in Goiânia, the project—organized by the Urukum Institute in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA), Miami—captured the attention of major media outlets, art platforms, and government channels across Goiás and beyond. More than twenty publications, from O Popular and Diário do Estado to O Mundo Diplomático, Correio da Manhã, and Revista Zelo, echoed the event’s significance as a landmark of cultural exchange between Brazil and the United States.
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Members of the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, together with directors of the Fine Arts Ceramic Center, visited today the Instituto Antônio Poteiro. They were received by painter, draftsman, and ceramist Américo Poteiro, son of the renowned Luso-Brazilian artist Antônio Poteiro. The delegation not only had the opportunity to admire dozens of magnificent ceramic sculptures but also agreed upon forthcoming exchanges and collaborations between the two institutions.
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The Museum MoCA Americas’ visit to the historic city of Goiás City marked the beginning of a cultural exchange linking Brazil and the United States through art and memory. At the Casa-Museum Cora Coralina and the Casa Milena Curado, the delegation reaffirmed the power of art as both a bridge between communities and an instrument of social transformation. Woven between poetry, embroidery, and human commitment, the experience outlined a binational agenda that celebrates cultural heritage and the creative spirit that moves effortlessly across borders.
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Sergio H. Payarés Rivero (Havana, 1962) belongs to the generation of Cuban artists who transformed the country’s painting at the close of the twentieth century. Trained within the rigorous academic tradition of Cuban art, his early career was shaped by his work at the “René Portocarrero” Screen Printing Workshop, where he mastered the craft with a sensitivity he would later expand toward conceptual experimentation. His trajectory, extending from Havana to Miami, traces the map of an inner search that engages with exile, identity, and the need to construct meaning across dispersed territories.
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The representation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus finds its roots in seventeenth-century Christian spirituality, though its symbolism reaches much further back—to the medieval devotion to the suffering humanity of Christ. The heart is conceived as the center of Jesus’s divine and human love, a symbol of his total self-giving and infinite compassion toward humankind. Encircled by a crown of thorns, crowned with a cross, and burning with flames, this heart expresses both redemptive pain and loving passion. Its iconography was consolidated through the visions of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in France, who spread the devotion to the Heart of Jesus...
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Goiânia, Brazil — Caminos de tierra y viento opens at Vila Cultural Cora Coralina with an expansive reading of the Rodriguez Collection that forges bridges between the Caribbean and Brazil. Conceived as a journey where earth holds memory and wind carries voices, the exhibition listens to two geographies that touch through art. Under the rubric “Dialogues of the Caribbean and the Americas: The Rodriguez Collection in Brazil,” the project unfolds without rigid chronology in conversation with works from the Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer, underscoring a local dimension of exchange that is as affective and aesthetic as it is geographic.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), based in Kendall, Miami, is pleased to announce the appointment of Suzzete Rodríguez as Co-Curator for Europe. A distinguished cultural promoter and gallerist, Rodríguez brings with her an extensive international trajectory in curatorial practice and cultural management. Her journey in the arts began in November 2008, when she curated her first exhibition at the Simonsbaken Gallery in Sandnes, Norway. Since then, she has developed a truly global presence, curating projects at the Art Shanghai and Shanghai Art Fair in China with two dedicated stands for Cuban artists...
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The official catalog of Essence, the solo exhibition by acclaimed Cuban photographer Raúl Cañibano presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), is now available for purchase on Amazon. This full-color publication of [number of pages] pages offers a carefully curated selection of works shown between October 6 and November 17, 2023, enriched by curatorial texts authored by Jens G. Rosenkrantz Jr. and the MoCAA curatorial team. Together, they provide a critical framework for understanding the aesthetic and conceptual depth of the exhibition. Curated by Jens G. Rosenkrantz Jr. in collaboration with MoCAA's curatorial staff...
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Spanish sculptor Iván Larra recently met with the leadership of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in Kendall, Miami. The cordial exchange confirmed a project to present a solo exhibition in one of the museum’s galleries in 2026. This will mark the second time that a prominent Spanish sculptor exhibits in MoCAA’s main hall. Since 2024, works by Larra have already been part of the Rodriguez Collection, the cornerstone of the museum’s holdings. Before his trip to the United States, the artist’s calendar offers another chance to discover his work. On August 9th, the exhibition Mínimo Tamaño Grande, MTG 2025 opened at the Patio and Manuel Andújar Multifunctional Hall in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.
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Leonardo Rodríguez, founder and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in Kendall, Miami, recently visited the studio of renowned Cuban artist Luis Cruz Azaceta, accompanied by Ivonne Ferrer, deputy director of MoCAA and director of the Fine Arts Ceramic Center. The central purpose of the visit was the delivery of two bronze sculptures, cast by the Bronze Foundry Art Foundation, an institution unwavering in its commitment to transmitting technical knowledge and sustaining the cultural value of bronze casting. Azaceta received the pieces, examined their finishes with the meticulous eye that distinguishes him, and certified them in recognition of their technical refinement, precision, and finish.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is pleased to announce the release of the catalogue Body Language, featuring the work of Israeli-Venezuelan artist Nurit Birnbaum. The exhibition Body Language was presented from September 8 to 22, 2023. One of its most notable works, La ventana, has since become part of MoCAA’s bronze collection. This publication forms part of the museum’s ongoing initiative to revisit past exhibitions, ensuring that most are preserved through a physical documentary record. While all exhibitions are permanently documented in the Exhibitions section of our website, the museum is currently working on five catalogues and two books, soon to be available in the Publications section.
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The official catalog of Marco to Miami: The Trip Back—a collaborative project between the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), the City of Marco Island, and the Marco Island Center for the Arts—is now available on Amazon. This 64-page full-color publication not only documents the works exhibited between June 20 and July 20, 2025, but also features biographical notes and personal statements by the fourteen participating artists, who traveled from Florida’s west coast to take part in this meaningful cultural dialogue in Miami.
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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.
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In a recent visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in Kendall, Florida, acclaimed Mexican performance artist and curator Pancho López met with museum director Leonardo Rodríguez and Cuban artist Ivonne Ferrer to explore future avenues of cultural collaboration. The meeting focused on forging artistic exchanges between the vibrant Mexican performance scene and MoCAA’s growing network of Latin American artists and institutions...
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As we anticipated several months ago, this publication stands among the most ambitious editorial projects undertaken by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA). Sponsored by The Rodriguez Collection, it marks the inaugural volume in a series dedicated to documenting and reflecting upon the practices of artists whose ongoing relationship with the museum has been both meaningful and enduring. Ivonne Ferrer. Recent Works, 2014–2024 offers a rigorous and sensitive examination of the recent oeuvre of one of the most compelling Cuban artists of her generation.
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As part of the vibrant exhibition Marco to Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) is proud to highlight a focused presentation titled Ceramic Also Travels. This intimate showcase brings together four ceramic artists whose practices reflect not only technical mastery, but also the deeply social and accessible nature of ceramics as an artistic medium. While the larger Marco to Miami exhibition traces the cultural exchange between Marco Island and Miami through a range of media, Ceramic Also Travels offers a unique lens through which to consider clay—not just as a material, but as a form of dialogue, ritual, and community.
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As part of a dynamic and enriching cultural exchange across the state of Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) presented Marco to Miami, a standout group exhibition that brought the work of 14 distinguished artists from Marco Island to the heart of Miami. This initiative built upon the reciprocal partnership established with the Marco Island Center for the Arts during MoCAA’s participation in ¡Arte Viva!, a county-wide celebration of Hispanic heritage and artistic diversity throughout Collier County. The exhibition was a resounding success, strengthening connections and fostering meaningful cultural dialogue.
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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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