Artist News: July 2026

Nicole Combeau: When we Surrender. Courtesy of Nicole Combeau.

Congratulations to Marilyn Loddi, Nicole Combeau, KUNST, and Jenna Efrein for being selected for the Four Artists, Four Seasons Program as Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring respectively. Four Artists: Four Seasons is a Bakehouse year-long artist-led micro-film initiative who will document life at Bakehouse through short form videos. 

Jenna Efrein was included as a featured artist at World Oceans Celebration Miami with Art Sail and Blue Scholars Initiative and is included in a juried online group exhibition, Trace 2026: GAS Green Exhibition.

Congratulations to Alexandra Fields O’Neale for being awarded recipient of the Miami-Dade County FUNDarte Artist Access (ART).

Nicole Combeau has a solo exhibition, When We Surrender, a collection of photographs spanning over a decade which encourages slow looking and curiosity.

Niko Devera and Luz Estrella Cruz are included in the exhibition The Places We Make by ProjectArt Miami which highlights the importance of public libraries as centers of learning and community.

  • Opening July 9, 2026

  • On view through July 19, 2026

  • Locust Projects | 297 NE 67th St, Miami, FL 33138

Marco Caridad is included in a two-person group exhibition THE SHAPE THEY GAVE US at OUTER SPACE, reinterpreting the tarot’s Major Arcana in terms of archetypes and assigned social roles.

  • Opening July 9, 2026

  • On view through August 7, 2026

  • OUTER SPACE | 2925 Salzedo St., Coral Gables, FL 33134

Shawna Moulton, Cornelius Tulloch, and BAC Alumni Chris Friday are included in a group exhibition Where We Stay at Daisy Arts Center, exploring the overlapping experience of home within Black communities through cultural legacy and lived experiences.

  • On view through September 5, 2026

  • Daisy Arts Center | 1033 Sistrunk Boulevard  Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311

Shawna Moulton is included in Studio Viscaya’s Summer Finale, The Fruit We Bear at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens.

  • Event takes place on July 25, 2026 from 7:00PM to 9:30PM

  • Vizcaya Museum and Gardens | 3251 S Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33129

Beatriz Chachamovits, Rituals of Becoming, 2026, Installation Photo. Courtesy of Coral Gallery Miami.

Beatriz Chachamovits has a solo exhibition Rituals of Becoming at the Coral Gallery which displays a collection of ceramic sculptures and drawings exploring ecological memory, fragility, and persistence.

  • On display until August 9, 2026

  • The Coral Gallery | 30 NW 34 Street, Miami, FL 33127

Tom Virgin, Sterling Rook, and BAC Alumni Chris Friday are included in a group exhibition What’s My Line? Drawing as Experience by Edge Zones Gallery at Miami Beach Regional Library that considers drawing as process, gesture, and lived experience.

  • On view until July 16, 2026

  • Miami Beach Regional Library | 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach, 33139 

Christine Cortes is included in a group exhibition Affective Archives presented by WOPHA x GreenSpace Miami exploring memory, identity, and personal histories through contemporary artistic practices..

  • On view until August 28, 2026

  • GreenSpace Miami | 7200 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida, 33138

Ingrid Schindall, Chee Bravo, Jennifer Basile, Tom Virgin, and Joseph Valesquez are included in the group exhibition, Sunshine and Ink: Florida Printmakers at the Hollywood Arts and Culture Center.

  • On view through August 30, 2026

  • The Hollywood Arts and Culture Center | 1650 Harrison Street Hollywood, 33020

Installation image of Close to Home, 2026. Courtesy of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

Josh Aronson, Susan Kim Alvarez, Leo Casteaneda, Joel Gaitan, Zoe Schweiger, and Onajide Shabaka are included in the group exhibition, Close to Home, at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

  • On view until October 4, 2026

  • NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale | 1 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33301

Antonia Wright is included in the group exhibition, Defining Landscapes, at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

  • On view until July 26, 2026

  • NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale | 1 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33301

Katelyn Kopenhaver, Fabiola Larios, Philip Lique, Moises Sanabria, and Mateo Serna Zapata are included in the group exhibition F*CK ART: Nature + Artifice at the Museum of Sex Miami.

  • On view through January 31, 2027

  • Museum of Sex Miami | 2200 NW 24th Ave, Miami, FL 33142

Thomas Bils and Sandra Ramos are included in This is America: Selections from PAMM’s Collection, a presentation of works that reflect the breadth of contemporary American experience through the museum's permanent collection at the Perez Art Museum Miami.

  • On view through May 23, 2027

  • Perez Art Museum Miami | 1103 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132

Chee Bravo is included in a group exhibition Florida Artists Group Area V: New Work, at the Hand Art Center

  • On view until July 25, 2026

  • The Hand Art Center | Stetson University, DeLand FL

Gabriel Gamboa will be a guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design

  • July 30, 2026 at 1:00PM

  • DMC Lecture Hall | Massart, Boston, MA

Maritza Caneca has an installation titled Brésil A La Samaritaine at Samaritaine PARIS.

  • On view until August 26, 2026.

  • Samaritaine PARIS | 9 R. de la Monnaie, 75001 Paris, France

Maritza Caneca is included in a group exhibition Brésil A La Samaritaine at Porto Rotondo.

  • On view until September 19, 2026.

  • Porto Rotondo, Sardinia | 9 R. de la Monnaie, 75001 Paris, France.

Congratulations to Emma Saiz for being a recipient of the 2026 Mosaic Fund Grantee by the Coral Gables Community Foundation.

Congratulations to Leticia Sánchez Toledo, who has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Spring 2026 Innovate Grant.

Morel Doucet, Ebony in Veil of Flight (Whispers of the Everglades), Porcelain Ceramic, 13” x 9” x 16.5”, 2025. Courtesy of Moreldoucet.com.

Congratulations to Cornellius Tulloch, who has been accepted to the 2026 Silver Arts Center as an Artist in Residence at the World Trade Center in New York City.

Congratulations to Isa Marie Garcia for acceptance into the Image Text Master MFA Program at Cornell University for the class of 2028.

Congratulations to BAC artists Amanda Linares, Onajide Shabaka, Lauren Shapiro, Gerbi Tsesarskaia, and Jen Clay for receiving the 2024–2025 South Florida Cultural Consortium Award.

An exhibition featuring the award recipients is currently on view at MOCA North Miami through October 4, 2026.

  • MOCA North Miami | 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, FL 33161

Congratulations to Morel Doucet for being named 2026 Best Visual Artist by the Miami New Times. Doucet focuses on the Black and Afro-Caribbean communities across Miami through ceramics, printmaking, painting, and mixed media installations.

Congratulations to Luna Palazzalo Daboul whose gallery, Tunnel Projects, was named 2026 Best Artist Run Space. Tunnel Projects is located in a basement parking lot in Little Havana, housing a project room and studios.

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