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.
Rather than adopting a thematic or merely testimonial approach, the exhibition advances a critical and current reading of the place occupied by cognitive difference and non-normative biographies within the art system. From this perspective, the project deliberately avoids assistive or charitable frameworks, placing emphasis instead on the aesthetic, symbolic, and conceptual quality of the works presented.
The exhibition brings together recent works in a variety of media and features the practices of Luc de Castro, Ana de Jesús, Luis Espinosa, Milagros Fernández, Jasmine González, Giovanna Maser, Hayden Nelson, Maddox Padilla, Victoria Redondo, Emma Valdez, Stephanie Varela, Peter Colbert, and Nicole Becker, whose approaches collectively articulate a diverse and complex landscape of formal, narrative, and symbolic strategies within contemporary art.
Among the participating artists, Maggie Pernas stands out as a self-taught practitioner who, following profound changes in her neurological condition, has developed a sustained artistic practice that now enters into dialogue with the work of several of her granddaughters, some of whom are also neurodivergent. This shared creative experience foregrounds familial transmission, memory, and collaboration as central axes of the project.
The works on view also engage with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, which operates here as an open symbolic territory where notions of fragility, desire, resistance, and transcendence converge, reinterpreted through contemporary perspectives.
The exhibition remains on view through February 27th, 2026, when it will conclude with a special presentation by the Area Stage Inspire Theater Project, featuring choreography by Nicole Becker, at MOCAA’s venue (12063 SW 131st Avenue, Miami, FL 33186).
At a moment when debates surrounding inclusion, accessibility, and representation continue to gain urgency within the cultural field, this exhibition reaffirms MOCAA’s commitment to a museological practice that understands neurodiversity not as an exception, but as an essential component of the social fabric and of the language of contemporary art.
The works on view also engage with The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, which operates here as an open symbolic territory where notions of fragility, desire, resistance, and transcendence converge, reinterpreted through contemporary perspectives.
The exhibition remains on view through February 27th, 2026, when it will conclude with a special presentation by the Area Stage Inspire Theater Project, featuring choreography by Nicole Becker, at MOCAA’s venue (12063 SW 131st Avenue, Miami, FL 33186).
At a moment when debates surrounding inclusion, accessibility, and representation continue to gain urgency within the cultural field, this exhibition reaffirms MOCAA’s commitment to a museological practice that understands neurodiversity not as an exception, but as an essential component of the social fabric and of the language of contemporary art.
This exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners and Rodriguez Collection
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