WHO WE ARE
As part of USF’s College of The Arts, the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) organizes and presents significant and investigative exhibitions of contemporary art from Florida, the United States and around the world. Serving as a teaching laboratory, USFCAM’s curatorial and socially engaged initiatives and educational programs are designed to present the students, faculty, and community with current issues of contemporary art practice, and to explore the role of the arts in society. USFCAM publishes relevant catalogues, presents critically recognized traveling exhibitions and commissions new projects by national and international artists. USFCAM maintains the university’s art collection, comprising more than 5000 contemporary art works.
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Upcoming Events
Past USFCAM Events
2023
Native America: In Translation
Online Conversation
Replay of the October 4, 2023 online discussion. Native America: In Translation Curator Wendy Red Star and artists Marianne Nicolson and Koyoltzintli discuss concepts and approaches to Indigenous visual sovereignty in reclaiming cultural identity. Moderated by USF Curator of Social Practice Sarah Howard.
SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum presents its inaugural exhibition, SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg, which explores a world where human life depends on coexistence with other species. Curated by Sarah Howard, Director of GENERATOR: USFCAM, and organized by USFCAM.
The World Is My Pallette
John R. Blakinger Talk
What Remains: Listening to Indigenous Perspectives Forum
Replay of the November 4, 2023 Forum titled What Remains: Listening to Indigenous Perspectives. This forum gathered the voices of an Indigenous artist, tribal cultural preservationist, and Native American civil rights and environmental advocates in dialogue with an expert in the field of anthropology to explore ways of restoring and expanding Indigenous cultural agency and honoring tribal heritage and ecological knowledge.
Rico Gatson: Visible Time 2023
Rico Gatson is a multimedia visual artist whose work explores themes of history, identity, popular culture, and spirituality, through sculpture, painting, video, and public projects. In late May, Gatson transformed the walls of the USF Contemporary Art Museum with a kaleidoscopic, life-size image of Zora Neale Hurston—author, anthropologist, filmmaker, and former Florida resident—while exhibiting important paintings and works on paper, as well as a mini-survey of videos from 2001 to the present. Rico Gatson: Visible Time is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large and organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Poor People's Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States 2023
Poor People's Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States presents a social history of the experience of underrepresented and underserved communities in the US since 1968. Individually and collectively, the artists included in Poor People's Art tell a story of intersecting injustices of race, class, immigration status, healthcare systems, food insecurity, and gender issues. Poor People's Art is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Someday You'll Have To Say It Out Loud: 2023
This eagerly anticipated annual exhibition features Master's Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2023 exhibition, titled Someday You'll Have To Say It Out Loud, features artists Kai Holyoke, Molly Duff, Caitlin Nobilé, Manon VanScoder, Rachel Treide, Alicia Watkinson, Trinity Oribio, and Willow Wells.
Virtual Exhibition
Artist Talk with SUPERFLEX Founder Bjørn Christiansen
Replay of the October 6, 2023 Artist Talk with SUPERFLEX Founder Bjørn Christiansen and USF Contemporary Art Museum Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné. Watch the talk here.
2021/2022
Jarrett Earnest and Christian Viveros Fauné Gallery Talk
Replay of the live gallery talk from August 26, 2022, with curator Christian Viveros-Fauné and Jarrett Earnest in conjunction with the USF Contemporary Art Museum exhibitions, Jesse Murry: Rising and Necessary Angels: Jesse Murry & Lisa Yuskavage.
The Lyrical Moment: Modern & Contemporary Abstraction
The museum has organized an exhibition that features elegant, hand-processed paintings and prints by pioneering artist Helen Frankenthaler and digitally-informed, pop-inflected canvases and works on paper by contemporary Los Angeles painter Heather Gwen Martin. The exhibition brings together the work of two important women artists from two different generations. The Lyrical Moment is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, CAM Curator-at-Large; organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Inverso: 2022 MFA Graduation Exhibition
This eagerly anticipated annual exhibition features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2022 artists are Kim Darling, Aimee Jones, Natalia Kraviec, Krystle Lemonias, Tatiana Mesa Paján, and Marlon Tobias.
Bosco Sodi: Básico brings together Bosco Sodi’s various sources of artistic inspiration as examples of sustainable art making. The exhibition includes a powerful group of paintings titled “Vers l’Espagne”, whose rough surfaces recall creek beds and the footpaths trod by Mexican and Central American immigrants on their way north, as well two new series Sodi made in Mexico in 2020 during pandemic lockdown: large spherical clay sculptures he has called “perfect bodies” and a series of “Sun Paintings” on chili pepper sacks.
Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and the Diaspora
Constant Storm: Art From Puerto Rico and the Diaspora will gather, display, record, and conceptualize artistic responses to Hurricane Maria by artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora. Through artworks and their narratives and socially engaged initiatives, voices from the island and Puerto Rican communities in New York and Florida will materialize a synoptic view of Puerto Rico’s fragile recovery as part of an evolving, 121-year-old historical crisis.
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration
The Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration 20/21 exhibition, now in its second iteration, is a celebration of artistic practices in the Tampa Bay region, as it is a collaboration between four institutions: the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.
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Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration 20/21 celebrates the artists and work created in the Tampa Bay area, and is mounted collaboratively and concurrently by the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum. Launched as a triennial exhibition in 2017, this second iteration of Skyway highlights the breadth of contemporary artistic practices in the counties served by the organizing museums: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota, and Pasco.
Skyway 20/21 at USFCAM features eight intergenerational artists who translate ideas and transform materials to communicate unique perspectives of our contemporary experience. Articulating visual languages through a range of media and processes, Rosemarie Chiarlone, Cynthia Mason, Ry McCullough, and Kodi Thompson offer opportunities to translate and decipher their individual lexicons that express the human condition. Danny Dobrow, Babette Herschberger, Akiko Kotani, and Casey McDonough highlight the complexities of their practice through deep material investigation and transformation. Collectively, the works create an expanded dialogue that speaks to our current moment, engaging and reflecting the social challenges of our time.
Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration at the USF Contemporary Art Museum is supported by the Gobioff Foundation, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, the Lee and Victor Leavengood Trust, and Dr. Allen Root.
Explore this virtual 360-degree interactive walkthrough of Skyway 20/21 at USFCAM. For the best experience click the View Fullscreen icon in the lower right of the window. Virtual tour Courtesy of USF Access 3D Lab, Dr. Laura Harrison, and Elliot Alvarez.
Out To Pasture features Master’s Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. The 2021 MFA artists are Bonnie Mae Carrow, Leonidas Dezes, JD Hardy, Laura Pérez Insua, Nadia Ivanova, Lisa McCarthy, Luke Myers, Erin Oliver, Chase Palmer, Maxwell Parker, Andrés Ramírez, Jonathan Talit, and Ian Wilson. Out To Pasture is supported in part by the USF School of Art and Art History, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, MFAO, and CAM Club.
Explore this virtual 360-degree interactive walkthrough of Out To Pasture, the 2021 MFA Graduation Exhibition. For the best experience click the View Fullscreen icon in the lower right of the window. Virtual tour Courtesy of USF 3D Access Lab, Dr. Laura Harrison, and Elliot Alvarez.
Out To Pasture Virtual Guided Tour – April 9, 2021
Replay of April 9, 2021 USF Contemporary Art Museum virtual guided tour of Out To Pasture: 2021 MFA Graduation Exhibition led by writer SK West, USF MA Alumna 2019. Live camera by Leonidas Dezes.
Out To Pasture Panel Discussion - April 22, 2021
Hear from the 2021 MFAs about their practice and thesis projects in the Out To Pasture exhibition. Moderated by Amanda Poss, MA, Gallery Director, HCC Art Galleries; Supported by CAM Club.
Skyway 20/21 Online Panel Discussion - June 17, 2021
Online panel discussion with four artists featured in USFCAM’s Skyway 20/21: A Contemporary Collaboration. Artists Danny Dobrow, Babette Herschberger, Akiko Kotani, and Casey McDonough discuss material investigations and transformations within their creative practice in dialogue with Sarah Howard, USF Curator of Public Art and Social Practice.
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