Current Show

Within the Art in the Community Program

A rereading of seminal works from the Rodríguez Collection in the closing of 2025

Curated by Rodriguez Collection Team

October - December | 2025

The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA), in dialogue with the simultaneous presentation at the Oscar Niemeyer Cultural Center in Goiás, Brazil, opens an exceptional platform to revisit Cuban art in exile through the Rodríguez Collection. The decision to unfold the exhibition across two distinct geographies underscores a central thread of the collection: the notion of transit, displacement, and constant reconfiguration. Cuban art beyond its borders has confronted the hardships of uprootedness while also embracing the possibilities of new contexts that have fostered alternative gazes, languages, and affinities. Exile has embodied both rupture and revelation. Within this dual register, the practices of Gustavo Acosta, Ana Albertina Delgado, Tomás Esson, Ivonne Ferrer, and Rocío García translate the tension between memory and innovation into divergent visual strategies. Brought together, their works stand as testimony to the difficult path of diaspora, where nostalgia becomes a generative force and critical distance enables a repositioning of the Cuban experience within the global contemporary field.

Past exhibitions

July 25th - August 25th | 2025

An Unforgettable Trio: Figueroa-Beltrán, Batista, and Abreux — On View at MoCAA in Kendall (July 25–August 25)

Curated by Rodriguez Collection Team

Numerous people, including family and friends, attended the opening of the exhibition "Three of a Kind," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) in Kendall, as part of the Art in the Community program. The exhibition, which took place from July 25 to August 25, 2025, featured artists Julio Figueroa-Beltrán, Helier Batista, and Luis Abreux, and was curated by the Rodriguez Collection team. At the center of this exhibition was a friendship—not a trivial or anecdotal bond, but one that had endured for over two decades among artists who, although not necessarily of the same generation or trajectory, had cultivated aesthetic and personal complicity. 

June 20th - July 20th | 2025

Marco to Miami: The Trip Back.

As part of a dynamic and evolving cultural exchange across Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) was pleased to present Marco to Miami, an exceptional 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 Marco Island Center for the Arts during MoCAA’s participation in ¡Arte Viva!...

Curated by Lisett Llorens

Marco to Miami unfolded as both an exhibition and a cultural statement—one that underscored the significance of interregional collaboration and the vitality of Florida’s artistic ecosystems. Through an expansive array of media and styles, the show captured the creative energy of Florida’s Gulf Coast while weaving it into Miami’s rich and ever‑evolving cultural fabric.

May 5th - July 1st, 2025

The Rodriguez Collection Makes Cross-Coastal Debut at Marco Island

From May 5 to July 1, 2025, the Marco Island Center for the Arts hosted a special exhibition featuring selections from the Rodríguez Collection, presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCA‑Americas). This event marked a significant moment in the museum’s mission to promote artistic dialogue across geographic and cultural boundaries.

Curated by Lisett Llorens

The Exhibition was part of a wider institutional exchange that brought contemporary voices from across the Americas to new and eager audiences. Running through July 1, this exhibition marked a rare and important opportunity for audiences on Florida’s southwest coast to experience highlights from MoCAA’s growing permanent collection.

May 16th - June 20th | 2025

Sculpted Pathways Carlos Albert

Carlos Albert is a longstanding acquaintance of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCA-Americas), an institution that has closely followed his artistic trajectory and actively promoted the dissemination of his work. In that spirit, the Rodriguez Collection was one of the key sponsors of the book Carlos Albert. Road to the Unknown, written by the distinguished Spanish art theorist and critic Alfonso de la Torre.

Curated by Jorge Rodriguez Diez (R10)

Hosting an exhibition by the renowned Spanish sculptor Carlos Albert marks a significant milestone for the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MoCAA) and the vibrant community it serves. The inclusion of his work in our curatorial program reaffirms the museum’s commitment to excellence in contemporary art and to fostering international artistic voices whose trajectories and visions enrich the cultural dialogue within our local context.

May 16th - June 20th | 2025

The Luciano Méndez’s Collection arrives at MoCA

After more than a year of information exchanges, a selection of works from Luciano Méndez’s Cuban Art Collection has finally arrived at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas. As is well known, the core of the Museum's permanent collection is founded upon the holdings of Leonardo Rodríguez, with a primary focus on Cuban art produced in the state of Florida.

Curated by Jorge Rodriguez Diez (R10)

The Cuban art collection of Mr. Méndez has been assembled over the course of two decades, beginning in Havana itself. The works were acquired directly from the artists—an approach that, from the outset, served as both a gesture of patronage and a means of sustaining their creative paths. Leonardo Rodríguez also prioritized direct acquisition as support and commitment to the artists.

April 25th – May 16th | 2025

Lineages

MoCA‑Americas presented Descendencias, a collective exhibition that featured six Cuban women artists who explored lineage as a living, embodied memory. Through photography, performance, and symbolic portraiture, these artists revealed how identity was shaped across generations. With poetic and often provocative gestures, their works traced the invisible threads that connected personal history to collective inheritance.

Curated by Mayda Tirado and Amanda Castell

Lineages offered a multilayered meditation on ancestry, presence, and reinvention. It posed enduring questions—what does it mean to speak of lineage, of ancestry, of descent? Is it a burden, a continuity, a scar, a myth? Through photography, performance, and symbolic portraiture, the artists revealed how identity *was shaped—claimed, questioned, and transformed—*across generations.

Where do we come from?

KENDALL ART CENTER

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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Passion and Instinct: Collecting Art

A resemblance of the Rodriguez Collection

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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