Below is a selection of art exhibits that have appeared at the Arsht Center.
Depth of Identity 11: Art as Memory and Archive
December 5, 2023 – February 11, 2024
Depth of Identity 11: Art as Memory and Archive explores the African, Indo-Pacific and Caribbean diasporas in the United States and the Caribbean. In this exhibition, Haiti, Nicaragua and Jamaica are specifically in conversation. The works contemplate relationships between states and their constituents and the ways humans interact with the environment.
What does identity hold? What does it reveal or remember? Depth of Identity 11 features paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations by three first-generation immigrant artists: Asser Saint-Val from Haiti, Shawna Moulton from the Bahamas and Devora Perez from Miami. The artists live and work in Miami.
The Good Miami Project
By Greg Clark
December 2022 – May 2023
The Good Miami Project showcased 60 Miami non-profit organizations through 60 photographs by artist Greg Clark. The passion project, inspired by Clark's volunteer experience with Overtown Music Project in 2020, highlighted all the good that happens in Miami. The pieces were on display in the lobbies of the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall and Ziff Ballet Opera House, marking the largest exhibit of Clark’s work. Visit goodmiami.org to learn more.
All Power to All People
By Hank Willis Thomas
December 2019 – July 2020
The Arsht Center and Kindred Arts collaborated to bring sculptures by Hank Willis Thomas to two public outdoor spaces in Miami’s urban core. Two versions of Thomas’ “All Power to All People” were on display in Overtown and at the Arsht Center. The statues are 8 and 25 feet tall, with the latter on display through March 2020 in the Center’s Thomson Plaza for the Arts.
Tribal Art Exhibition
By Various Artists
Fall/Winter 2011
AOA Tribal Art Miami 2011 featured a world-class selection of exhibitors of all types of tribal art, including African art, Oceania art, American art, Asian art and Pre-Columbian art. The fair coincided with Art Basel and Miami Art Week. It ran from November 30 to December 4, 2011.
Julian Lennon Exhibition
December 2010
Julian Lennon, internationally acclaimed musician, philanthropist and artist, made his first visit to Miami in December 2010 to exhibit his personal collection of photography during Art Miami Week at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Produced by Awesome Global Events, in association with ACT Productions and Soulfrito Arts Foundation and presented by the Arsht Center, Timeless included more than 30 pieces from Lennon’s collection of hand-signed portraiture and landscape photography.
The exhibition was curated by celebrity photographer Timothy White. It primarily showcased Lennon's landscape work, but also featured behind-the-scenes photos of musicians such as the members of U2 and his brother, Sean Lennon.
Daniel Arsham Installation
2010
Merce Cunningham Dance Company's 2010 engagement in Miami, part of the company's final national tour, featured “Avalanche,” a site-specific installation constructed in the auditorium of the Ziff Ballet Opera House by Cunningham's final artistic collaborator, Miami/New York visual artist Daniel Arsham. Arsham had also created the sets and costumes for Cunningham's eyeSpace, which premiered during the Cunningham company's first visit to Miami and the Arsht Center in 2007. He also collaborated with choreographer Daniel Bokaer on a site-specific dance-visual work for the Carnival Studio Theater. Additionally, Arsham had taken part in a number of well-received group and solo-expositions in the United States and in Europe. His work has been included in a range of high-profile collections such as that of the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and the LVMH Collection.
Overtown Rhythm & Soul
By Various Artists
February 2008
Overtown Rhythm & Soul allowed viewers to relive a vibrant era of Overtown nightlife, when Miami's historic neighborhood was the place to catch America's reigning jazz, blues and R&B entertainers. In honor of Black History Month 2008, the Arsht Center hosted the largest-ever showing of classic billboards from The Black Archives' Clyde Killens/Sam Rabin collection. Count Basie, B.B. King, Duke of Earl, Bo Diddley, Little Eva, Etta James, Ben E. King, The Dells, Nina Simone, Patti LaBelle and Bill Haley were just a few of the many top stars featured in the dazzling retrospective. Overtown Rhythm & Soul was at once a richly hued re-creation of a moment in our city's past and a stirring tribute to one of the most fruitful eras in the history of American music.