Summer Open - 2021

Autumn Casey draws on the ambiguity of personal memory and pop-cultural ephemera to fantasize and elaborate on reflections of her world. Her practice usually takes the form of, but is not limited to, sculptures, collage, videos, and performance. She received a BFA from the New World School of the Arts and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL; Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Her work is collected by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and Pérez Art Museum Miami. She once made a music video for Snoop Dogg.

Carolina Casusol lives and works in Miami, Florida. She holds a BFA from Corriente Alterna Art School, in partnership with San Marcos University, where she graduated with honors in 2011, and an MFA from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. She received the Summer Merit Fellowship Award from Tulane University and was a Nominated Candidate at CIFO Grants & Commissions Program in 2017. Casusol has presented work in over twelve solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Peru, and Argentina. Currently, she is working on Servicios en Español, a project about Latin American aesthetics in the immigrant communities in the Gulf South region of the US.

Christine Cortes is a first generation Colombian-American based in Miami, Florida. In 2020, she graduated from New World School of the Arts with a BFA in Photography. As a photo-based artist, she is interested in exploring alternative and non-traditional processes of making, printing, and installing images. In 2020, she was included in a publication zine called “HOUSEFIRE- WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” published by Cumulus Photo and curated by artist Nick Drain. She also self-published her first photobook titled “Meditations In The Mundane” and was included in a group photography exhibition titled “OPAQUE” curated by artist Reginald O’Neal at Void Projects Miami.

Cynthia Cruz was born in Miami, Florida and received her MFA from Goldsmiths University of London in 2014. She has exhibited in several notable galleries and institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami as part of the group exhibition Optic Nerve (2009). She won the ACME studio award for her MFA show in 2014 and had her solo show at ACME project space in 2015. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the Griffin Art Prize and exhibited her work in the Griffin Gallery as one of the shortlisted artists. She co-curated two painting exhibitions at TAP in Southend (2017) and ASC gallery (2018). She also participated in a group show at the David Castillo Gallery for Art Basel Miami (2018) and was chosen for the Elephant Lab Residency in 2019.

Woolser Delisfort is a documentary photographer born, raised and currently residing in Little Haiti, a predominantly Haitian-American neighborhood in Miami, FL. Woosler has spent the last eight years documenting the emotion, humanity, and spirituality of Little Haiti, hoping to replace the negative stereotypes of crime, drugs and poverty often associated with his hometown with more positive and personal images of joy, life and creative expression. In 2015, Woosler decided to shift his lens to focus more on the spiritual traditions of the African Diaspora, specifically the ceremonies of Vodou, Santeria and other Orisha traditions found in Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Jamaica and Benin. He focuses his documentation on the foundational elements of these traditions, namely dance, drum, song and physical adornment.

Chris Friday is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Miami, FL. Friday received a BFA in Drawing from New World School of the Arts and an MFA from Florida International University. Her portfolio features works in various mediums, including works on paper, murals, video, projections, sculpture, graphic design and illustration, photography and social practice/activism through product creation. Friday has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally. Most notably, she was an exhibiting artist in “ReFrame Miami” (2019), commissioned by the City of Miami Beach, “#WhoOwnsBlackArt?” presented by Zeal Press, which was featured in the New York Times and the Boston Globe, and recently in “Imagine: Black Thought Anthology” (2020) curated by Octavia Yearwood and presented by Spinello Projects during Miami Art Week.

Arsimmer McCoy is a 34-year-old storyteller residing in Miami Gardens, FL and born and raised in Richmond Heights, FL. McCoy’s work is centered around the nuances of her city/community and her identity, as a black woman, mother, artist, and daughter. For over twelve years, McCoy has been producing work in the form of poetry, short story literature, creative writing, performance, educational workshops, and creative direction. She earned her BA from Florida Memorial University.

Alejandra Moros was born in 2000 in Miami, FL to Venezuelan parents. Primarily an oil painter and graphic designer, Alejandra is currently a student at the University of Miami and will earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2021. She has worked as a design intern at Passion & Poison NYC and at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Megan Kylee Tran was born in Miami, FL. As an Amerasian woman, she explores diversity and self-expression through multiple elements of art such as video, collage, and writing. In 2021, she received her BFA in Art & Technology rom the University of Florida. She was a 2020 Cinema Slam Finalist in the Miami Film Festival for her experimental film “Dessert” and is currently preparing for her thesis show “Unrequited Void,” opening summer 2021.

Alexandra Venegas is an artist born and raised in Miami, FL. She got her BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. From a young age, Venegas was fascinated with cinema, always a constant in her life and a source of inspiration for her visual language. She creates paintings, drawings, furniture and sculpture. Currently, these sculptures are in the form of dioramas that use old Hollywood methods of set design. Her work has most recently been shown at the Lichen showroom in Brooklyn, NY. She is a member of the Female Design Council.

Avi Young is a Miami native and a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, fiber, collage, photography, ceramics, and painting. Young uses these multi-disciplinary techniques to explore the intersection of gender, race, emotion, sexuality, and ethnicity. These themes are expressed in the form of poetry that engages with either human representation or surface treatment on 3D constructed vessels. Integrating text in unconventional ways, Young strives to make work that evokes an empathetic relatability that ties us with the most intimate human experiences.