James Rosenquist: Tampa

November 13 – December 9, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Renowned Pop artist James Rosenquist, who passed away earlier this year, lived and worked in the Tampa Bay area for more than four decades. Throughout his life Rosenquist maintained a very active and generous profile within the creative community of Florida’s west coast. From November 13th through December 9th, 2017, the USF Contemporary Art Museum will celebrate this creative and collaborative legacy with the exhibition James Rosenquist: Tampa. Drawn primarily from the collection at USF, the exhibition will feature editions of Rosenquist prints produced at USF's print atelier Graphicstudio. Additionally, the exhibition will include works from private collections, drawings and support materials, and prints produced at three Tampa Bay area ateliers: Flatstone Studio, Pyramid Arts, Ltd. and Topaz Editions.

David Claerbout

August 21 – October 28, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Belgian artist David Claerbout has explored the conceptual framework of duration through use of film and digital photography throughout his career. His skilled manipulation of still and moving images appears to capture another dimension of existence, shifting between past and present. The element of sound is critical in many of his works, used as either a narrative device or a “guide” for the viewer to navigate the architectural space in the film. Claerbout’s oeuvre is characterized by a meticulous attention to production details, painstakingly created often over a period of years. The resultant works are immersive environments in which the viewer is invited to engage both philosophically and aesthetically.

Black Pulp!

June 2 – July 20, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery

Black Pulp! examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works of art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, to etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by some of today’s leading artists. Black Pulp! is curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson. The exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York.

Woke!

June 2 – July 20, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum
West Gallery

Woke! brings together recent work by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, artists and the curators of Black Pulp! The term “woke” is contemporary American vernacular terminology for acute awareness, particularly in reference to the socio-political contexts we inhabit. Woke! presents works made over the past two years, a time when the influence of the hyper-visuality of police violence upon Black bodies and the cultural currents of the Black Lives Matter movement informed new narratives in their practice.

Every Disaster Made Us Wish For More:
2017 MFA Graduation Exhibition

March 31 – May 6, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This 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 2017 MFAs are Kate Alboreo, Benjamin Whitney Buhl, Joshua Dodhia, Victoria Trespando Escobio, Brandon Geurts, Bahareh Khoshooee, Kate Kinder, Walter Eric Matthews, Hillary Jones McCullough, and Scott Owen Pierce.

Duke Riley: Flights of Fancy

January 13 – March 4, 2017
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM presents a solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley, known for his ambitious and immersive projects which engage historical and contemporary social issues often through subversive performative action. Flights of Fancy will feature two projects exploring and celebrating Riley’s history of working with pigeons and waterfront districts within the nautical landscape. Curated by Sarah Howard; organized by USFCAM.

Extracted

August 22 – December 10, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Growing consensus among scientists suggests that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by humankind’s impact on Earth: the Anthropocene. This impact is evidenced in part by remainders of fossil fuel production and consumption, petrochemical use, industrial agriculture and mining. Extracted brings together a group of artists whose work investigates the extraction of natural resources, and the material and cultural circulation of such resources around the globe.
Participating artists: Mary Mattingly, Otobong Nkanga, Claire Pentecost, David Zink Yi and Marina Zurkow.

Amplified: Reverberations
from the Music Box

June 6 – July 23, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Amplified explores the history, collaborative process, and impact of New Orleans Airlift’s musical architecture project The Music Box, including the recent installation in Sulphur Springs, through video documentation, instrumental elements, performance videos, ephemera and new work by local artists inspired by the project.

Only the Tip:
2016 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 – May 7, 2016
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master's Thesis work in a variety of media by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the School of Art and Art History. Artists include Sasha Adorno, Merritt Fletcher Evripidou, Craig Hanson, Tamesha Kirkland, N. Mackintosh, Jenn Ryann Miller, Leslie Reed, Gary Schmitt, Elizabeth Schneider, Princess R. Smith, and Matthew Drennan Wicks.

The Music Box: Tampa Bay

March 25 – April 17, 2016
Community Stepping Stones
Sulphur Springs, Tampa

New Orleans Airlift (NOA) artists will create an interactive musical architecture project with local artists and students, in partnership with Community Stepping Stones in Sulphur Springs.

Histórias/Histories: Contemporary Art from Brazil

January 15 – March 5, 2016
Lee and Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby, USF Contemporary Art Museum

Histórias will showcase works by Jonathas de Andrade, Sonia Gomes, Virginia de Medeiros, Caio Reisewitz, and Luiz Zerbini, whose approaches address the varied histories of Brazil, some collective, some individual, but all rooted in reflections on the country’s complicated past and present, and vast geographical, racial, and cultural wealth and diversity.

Sandra Cinto:
Chance and Necessity

January 15 – March 5, 2016
West Gallery,
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Concurrent with Histórias, São Paulo-based artist Sandra Cinto will design a site-specific installation for CAM’s West Gallery. Cinto is known for her dramatic scenarios incorporating water, the night sky and billowing seas, that transform exhibition spaces into places of meditation on the passing of time and the relationship of humans to nature.

A Family Affair

August 24 – December 12, 2015
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A Family Affair presents seven artists who explore personal identity and family relationships through photography, video, performance and animation. Adopting a range of approaches from documentary to fiction, they articulate visions of self situated within interpersonal and historical family contexts as well as broader social frameworks of race, class and gender, often working in collaboration with family members to realize their art.

With Hidden Noise

June 5 – July 25, 2015
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

With Hidden Noise is an exploration of sound art that asks museum visitors to spend time listening more carefully, revealing the richness of sound in the world. Titled after Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a ball of string containing a mysterious sound-making object hidden in its folds, this exhibition brings together evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes. With Hidden Noise is curated by Stephen Vitiello, an artist who has worked with sound for over 20 years, transforming anodyne noises into compelling soundscapes. Artists include Vitiello and Taylor Deupree, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, Steve Peters, Steve Roden and Michael J. Schumacher.

Museum at Work

June 5 – July 25, 2015
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Museum at Work turns the museum inside out by making the USF art collection, and the work associated with managing the collection, visible and accessible to students and visitors. Visitors will view collection artwork displayed in a series of three rotating exhibitions while staff performs various collection care activities in the gallery.

Students and visitors will also have the opportunity to participate in free, general admission workshops presented by USFCAM collections staff on photographing artwork, safe storage practices for artwork, framing basics, and an introduction to art installation.

For two weeks the public will have a chance to participate in our first crowd-sourced exhibition through CAM's various social media outlets. You may choose what collection works you want to be installed for the final show of the summer in Museum at Work.

Sun Kissed: 2015 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 3 – May 2, 2015
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed in a professional environment.

Enhanced!
Photographic Works from the Drapkin Collections
with Contemporary Light-Based Media

January 16 – March 7, 2015
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery and
Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt Lobby Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Enhanced! presents a selection of vintage and contemporary manipulated photographs that span the history of photography. The images selected for the exhibition have been transformed manually and digitally to enhance them in a variety of ways and to fool the eye of the viewer, and to expand and shift our understanding of photography as a medium. Works selected from The Drapkin Collections anchor the exhibition, with classic images dating from the 1850s to the 1960s, including works by Anna Atkins, Harold Edgerton, Alexander Gardner, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray, Eadweard Muybridge, Jerry Uelsmann, Weegee and many others. Examples of vernacular photography reflect collector Dr. Robert Drapkin’s broad range of interests. Contemporary selections include works by Yoan Capote, James Casebere, Jerome Favre, Adam Fuss, Debbie Grossman, Kalup Linzy, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Yamini Nayar, Roman Signer, and Peter Tscherkassky.  .

Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones

January 16 – March 7, 2015
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Oscar Muñoz’s three-part video installation Sedimentaciones is a poetic meditation on the photographic image and its power to evoke memory, loss and mortality, and to create, alter and erase history. Muñoz (Colombia, 1951) is known for his extensive use of photography and of ephemeral material. In his practice he defies categorization by medium, as he blurs the boundaries between photography, printmaking, drawing, installation, video and sculpture. While his work is rooted in the turbulent history of Colombia in the 1980s and 90s, with its guerrilla warfare, conflicts between the government and drug cartels, assassinations and "disappearances" of ordinary citizens, his explorations of the unstable nature of personal identity against the backdrop of history are universal.

MAKING SENSE:
Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant,
Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson

September 27 – December 12, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Making Sense brings together four artists who make distinctive contributions to contemporary painting. Through a range of approaches, they explore painting as a medium, a set of techniques, an historical institution and a framework for making sense. Inspired by WWII-era Enigma decoding machines, Rochelle Feinstein takes on puzzling figures of speech, inscrutable ideas and encrypted social codes as challenges for painterly representation. Using a method she calls “Random Select,” Deborah Grant creates imagined, non-linear narrative encounters between historical artists, interwoven with her own varied humanistic interests from literature to religion. Iva Gueorguieva adapts the visual language of modern abstraction to create tumultuous, energetic spaces on canvas; her process of building up paintings by layering torn cloth with pigment and color washes produces spontaneous, dynamic compositions rooted in personal stories. Dona Nelson’s two-sided paintings, stained and layered with strands of cheesecloth, invite viewers to encounter them as freestanding forms. Making Sense includes new works produced by Feinstein and Gueorguieva at Graphicstudio, the 45-year-old collaborative printmaking and sculpture atelier of the USF Institute for Research In Art.

RICHARD BECKMAN:
Outside the Curve of Reason

June 16 – September 6, 2014
Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition features sculptures by Richard Beckman (1957-2004) from Florida collections. Beckman’s organic and geometric forms in human scale investigate the dynamic balance between mind and body, and the synthesis of this duality through materials and process.

A Different Frame of Mind

June 16 – September 6, 2014
West Gallery
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A Different Frame of Mind presents new work by seven artists that has been produced using recycled picture frames donated by CAM as part of ongoing efforts to find new methods for sharing resources with the Tampa Bay community. Artists were chosen for the quality of their submissions in response to an open call for proposals. Over the course of the exhibition, the West Gallery served several functions: as a studio space where the artists will work, with the public invited to witness the creative process; as a location for framing workshops as the works are enclosed into the recycled frames; and as a traditional viewing space for the duration of the exhibition. A Different Frame of Mind features works by Ariel Baron-Robbins, Mike Covello, Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki, David Gabbard, Janet Pulido, and Sam Robinson.

Graphicstudio: Uncommon Practice at USF

February 1 – May 18, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza

Irreconcilable Differences:
MFA 2014 Graduation Exhibition

March 28 – May 3, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USFCAM hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This years artists include John Allen, Emily Elliott, Corbett Fogue, Jennifer Greenwell, Johanna Keefe, Briana Phelps, Mikaela Raquel Williams and Janelle Wisehart.

CAM@25:
Social Engagement

January 17 – March 8, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary with CAM@25: Social Engagement to highlight its history of bringing artists, and the practice of making contemporary art, to the Tampa Bay community. This selection of installations serves to mark CAM’s extensive history of exhibitions, commissions and collaborations with artists whose practices and projects embrace an ethos of responsible social meaning, purpose and motivation in the public sphere. Artists include Los Carpinteros, Pedro Reyes (Mexico), and Janaina Tschäpe (Brazil/Germany).

SubRosa: The Language of Resistance

August 26 – December 7, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Tampa Museum of Art, 120 W Gasparilla Plaza

SubRosa examines the language of art across continents and cultures in response to social, political, and environmental repression. Sometimes covertly and dangerously, the artists in SubRosa share a desire to question dominant political systems and the cultural status quo. Artists include Ai Weiwei (China), Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Khaled Jarrar (Palestine), Zanele Muholi (South Africa), and José Toirac and Meira Marrero (Cuba).   

Megan Hildebrandt: Counting Radiation

March 5 – September 15, 2013
Moffitt Cancer Center
Vincent A. Stabile Research Building Atrium

Megan Hildebrandt: Counting Radiation showcases 19 large-scale, ink and graphite on paper drawings by Hildebrandt that explore her experience battling cancer. Using tally marks, Hildebrandt creates a visual meditation on the meaning of time for cancer patients as they endure the seemingly endless waiting required by chemotherapy, CT scans and remission, and adapt to a life redefined by numbers (weight loss or gain, blood pressure, treatment hours, radiation exposure). “I use tally marks to evoke time and memory as landscape,” Hildebrandt says. “To repeat a tally mark is to move a step further toward taming my history and future. I am tallying my past and future, drawing a desert that shifts perspectives, a landscape that rolls, tumbles, and caves in.”

Occupying, Building, Thinking: Poetic and Discursive Perspectives on Contemporary Cuban Video Art (1990-2010)

June 7 – August 3, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of videos by Cuban artists working worldwide invites contemplation of what it means to occupy (a home, a plot of land, a city, a society…) and the relationship between occupying and building and the concept of the work of art in today’s global culture. Three interconnected segments pose the question of how to reinvent a language for imagining what is public, private and intimate in a culture like Cuba’s, where civil society has been supplanted by the State.

Paul Robinson: Form of Absence
x-rays | paintings | reliquaries

June 7 – August 3, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Paul O. Robinson is an artist and architect living and teaching in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose research concerns transformative methods of representation using artifactual and indexial sources. Form of Absence references the work of the Slovene architect Jože Pležnik, known for his abstracted classical forms built in Prague, Vienna and throughout Slovenia. The exhibition proposes that the accessible evidence found in the aftermath of occupation is not always what it seems.

We Didn't Come Here to Make Friends:
2013 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 5 – May 4, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum hosts this annual exhibition featuring Master’s research projects by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. Artists include Felici Asteinza, Jaime Bird, Michael Covello, Rick Dailey, Vanessa Diaz, Stephen John Ellis, Adam W. Hill, Reiko Kawahara, Sarah Krupp, Chalice Mitchell, Desireé Moore, Kale Roberts, and Selina Roman.

Open Score

January 18 – March 9, 2013
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Open Score pays homage to artist Robert Rauschenberg and the first in the series of groundbreaking performance art presentations he titled 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, held in 1966 at the Armory in New York City. With its emphasis on the technological aspects of new media, Open Score examines the possibilities these technologies offer as tools for the poetic transformation of reality and the approach to forms of expression in art and daily life. Participating artists include Ingrid Bachmann and Bill Vorn (Canada); Patricia Clark and Barry Moon (USA); Luis Gómez, Antonio Gómez Margolles, and Levi Orta (Cuba); Camilo Martínez and Gabriel Zea (Colombia); and Mariano Sardón (Argentina).

The Andy Warhol Legacy Project

August 20 – December 15, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Andy Warhol Legacy Project is an exhibition of 106 Polaroids and 50 gelatin silver prints the USF Contemporary Art Museum received in 2008 as a gift from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, as part of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. The portraits, celebrity snapshots, couples, nudes, painting ideas, party photos, still lifes, and outdoor scenes that make up the gift demonstrate the range of Warhol’s interests.

The Importance of Being Photographed

August 20 – December 15, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Importance of Being Photographed takes its cue from the gift from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Oscar Wilde’s seminal play “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Although separated by an ocean and almost a century, both Warhol and Wilde were interested in examining celebrity, beauty, sexuality, privacy, and despair. The American photographers in this exhibition continue to examine those themes, often revealing a rapport between the artist and his or her subject. Artists include: Tina Barney, Dawoud Bey, Katy Grannan, Jason Lazarus, Malerie Marder, Ryan McGinley, Catherine Opie, and Alec Soth.

In Residence

June 4 – August 4, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

In Residence brings together the work of four Miami-based artists—Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Naomi Fisher, Christy Gast, and Samantha Salzinger—who focus artistic inquiries on the contested space between the natural and the built environment. For decades, Miami has been the site of tremendous speculative real estate development, but it is also the southern edge of the famed Florida Everglades, a unique geography and the focus of a vast reclamation project. These artists fold the world around them into complex examinations of the history of art and an evolving understanding of landscape.

Sand in the Vacuum:
MFA 2012 Graduation Exhibition

March 30 – May 5, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features Master’s research project work by Master of Fine Art candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History, and provides an opportunity to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. Artists include Biff Bolen, Megan Hildebrandt, Jay Hollick, Sarah Kelly, Shane M. Maberry, Forrest MacDonald, Cynthia Mason, Taylor Pilote, Scott Rosenberg, and Serhat Tanyolacar.

Mark Dion: Troubleshooting

January 13 – March 3, 2012
USF Contemporary Art Museum

For decades, Mark Dion has created drawings, prints, cabinets of curiosity, archaeological digs, and sprawling installations about the discrepancy between perceived knowledge and scientific inquiry, between common perception and advanced research. His works have addressed famous intellectuals in history, such as William Bartram, as well as important social and environmental sites, most recently the fragile Florida Everglades. Mark Dion: Troubleshooting is a focused survey of his most ecologically-themed works.

The Talent Show

September 30 – December 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Talent Show explores the competing desires of notoriety and privacy, and the evolving relationship between artists and audiences in our culture of reality television and Web-based social media. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both with and without their knowledge. Artists include: Stanley Brouwn, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, Peter Campus, Graciela Carnevale, Phil Collins, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Tehching Hsieh, David Lamelas, Piero Manzoni, Adrian Piper, Amie Siegel, John Smith, Andy Warhol, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Shizuka Yokomizo, and Carey Young.

Stagecraft: Brian Bress, Deville Cohen, Kate Gilmore, Mary Reid Kelley

June 10 – September 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Stagecraft brings together a group of artists who share an impulse to re-imagine and re-script our relationships to everyday objects and characters. Working with a do-it-yourself directness across the fields of sculpture, theater, performance, cinematography and animation, the artists in Stagecraft delve into absurdity to make the familiar strange once again. In the process, they present us with a skillful meditation on art-making itself.

STARTING FIRES:
2011 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 1 – May 7, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition featuring Master’s Final Project works by MFA Candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History provides an opportunity for graduate students to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. This year's class includes: Robb Fladry, Ryan Foster, Zak Hemsteger, Lin Li, Francis Marquez, Justin Martin, Bruce Monroe, Daniel Moore, Ellen Mueller, Chris Otten and Jordi Williams.

Trenton Doyle Hancock:
WE DONE ALL WE COULD
AND NONE OF IT'S GOOD

Janaury 14 – March 10, 2011
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Internationally acclaimed Texas-based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images. This exhibition features new and selected works executed across a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. The exhibition also highlights a commissioned wall drawing.

Carlos Garaicoa:
La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends)

August 23 – December 11, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Inspired by the architecture and culture of his native Havana, Carlos Garaicoa explores issues relevant to contemporary society including urbanism, politics, history and human rights. He uses a variety of materials and techniques that incorporate drawing, photography, sculpture and text in dramatic, large-scale installations as well as precious miniatures. Garaicoa was born in Havana in 1967 and currently lives and works between Havana and Madrid.

Broadcast

June 4 – August 7, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Broadcast explores ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. The exhibition features works in a variety of media by an international group of artists: Dara Birnbaum, Chris Burden, Gregory Green, Doug Hall, Chip Lord and Jody Procter, Christian Jankowski, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, neurotransmitter, Antonio Muntadas, Nam June Paik, TVTV/Top Value Television and Siebren Versteeg.

ROUSE: MFA Graduation Exhibition 2010

March 26 – May 8, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features artworks in a variety of media that reflect the research interests of these seven graduating MFA candidates from the School of Art and Art History: Ariel Baron-Robbins, Toni Danette Billick, Maxim Maximovitch, Andrew Nigon, Victoria Lee Skelly, Stead Thomas, and Carmen Tiffany.

New Weather:
Diana Al-Hadid, Robyn O’Neil and
Iva Gueorguieva

November 6, 2009 – March 6, 2010
USF Contemporary Art Museum

New Weather brings together the monumental sculptures of Diana Al-Hadid, the turbulent paintings of Iva Gueorguieva, and the enigmatic drawings of Robyn O’Neil. Their works explore the atmospheres and forces, which characterize our time, presenting us with an apt metaphor for the unpredictability of a rapidly changing world.

Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape

August 17 – October 10, 2009
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Fernández is internationally known for her immersive installations and evocative large-scale sculptures that address space, light, and the perception of change. The exhibition will present a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects.

Museum at Work

May 18 – July 15, 2009
USFCAM East Gallery

What do museums do behind closed doors? Visit CAM this summer when the museum opens its doors to the public to see the process for photographing and documenting the collection with Peter Foe, Curator of the Collection. See what really happens, participate in the project and explore the collection online at CAM’s Collection kiosk.

SIXTY MINUTES

May 18 – July 15, 2009
USFCAM West Gallery

The program features videos by artists Olaf Breuning, Kate Gilmore, Luis Gispert, and William Villalongo, alongside interview based profiles with each artist. SIXTY MINUTES is conceived to expose the diversity and complexity of artists’ process and provide an inspiring critical space to research, analyze and debate contexts for practice now and in the future.

CLOSURE:
2009 MFA Graduation Exhibition

March 30 – May 2, 2009
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The exhibition features Master’s research project work by Master of Fine Art candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. This exhibition gives the graduating students an opportunity to have their work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment.

Artists include Kimberly Adams, Jeremy Chandler, April Childers, Rebecca Flanders, Chad Harmon, Shane Hoffman, Lauren Howard, James Reiman, Ivan Reyes-Garcia, Marta Slaughter, Jonathan Vaughan and Wesley Wetherington.

Werner Reiterer: Raw Loop

January 9 – March 7, 2009
USFCAM East Gallery

Raw Loop is the first US solo exhibition of works by Austrian artist Werner Reiterer. The exhibition features drawings, objects and participatory installations that engage the viewer in a re-examination of everyday experience that makes us think and often smile.

Faculty Focus
Neil Bender, Elisabeth Condon and Cesar Cornejo

January 9 – March 7, 2009
USFCAM West Gallery

The Faculty Focus exhibition series highlights the recent work of artists on the studio faculty from the USF School of Art and Art History.

Audience & Avatar

October 24 – December 13, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

Audience & Avatar brings together an international group of artists who explore diverse ways in which videogames, game culture, technology and psychology influence participation of the viewer in art. Artists include: John Paul Bichard, Damiano Colacito, Jon Haddock, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG), Eddo Stern and Phillip Toledano.

Brody Condon: Modifications

October 24 – December 13, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

Brody Condon is a New York-based artist who uses game development tools, online games, sculpture, live performers and found footage as performance surrogates blurring the boundary between fantasy and reality. For his project gallery Modifications in Audience & Avatar he uses game technology to re-imagine late medieval religious paintings into self-running games simultaneously implying and denying interaction.

MashUp

August 25 – October 4, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

MashUp is a group exhibition that traces the history of destruction as a creative force in visual art, and its resonance in the mass culture realm of popular music. Inflicting damage for audio effect and visual ends, MashUp features newly commissioned installations by artists Pedro Reyes and Ted Riederer—plus, an historical array of art and artifacts dating from the 1960s-on by Czech Fluxus “Broken Music” pioneer Milan Knížák, The Art Guys, Christian Marclay and The Plasmatics.

Torolab: One Degree Celsius

August 25 – October 4, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

One Degree Celsius is part a series of projects called Molecular Urbanism developed by Torolab, a Tijuana-based consortium of artists, architects and designers. For USFCAM the artist collective morphs the gallery space into an actual proposal and a laboratory for creative experiments investigating the multiple uses of a garden. The exhibition includes drawn proposals for large-scale architectural interventions (on the USF campus and downtown Tampa), displayed with functional sculptural elements. This commissioned museum installation is staged in conjunction with the colloquium Art as a Catalyst for Social Transformation and Film Screenings: Socially-Engaged Artistic Practices.

Rauschenberg: USF

June 20 – August 1, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) created over 50 editions of prints, sculptures and photographs with USF’s Graphicstudio from 1972 through 1987. The exhibition includes selected works from USF and area collectors.

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light

June 20 – August 1, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

Roger Palmer: In Dog Light is an exhibition of selected drawings (2003–2008) by Tampa-based artist Roger Palmer. Palmer’s brush, wash and ink drawings are darkly humorous meditations on humanity’s foibles and actualities. Anthropomorphic animals, local flora and fauna and technologies of modern man such as cannons and fire trucks unfold in pure-pigment amalgamations of word and image.

2008 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM East Gallery

The USF Contemporary Art Museum will host an exhibition featuring Master’s theses work by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition will give the graduating students an opportunity to have their theses work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment.

Impact Sight: Cameron Gainer

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM West Gallery

May 4 – May 24, 2008
USF Botanical Gardens & USF Riverfront Park

Cameron Gainer is a New York-based artist whose work explores the presence and power of photography in contemporary culture, particularly how a photograph can catalyze belief and disbelief. The exhibition brings together three large-scale sculptural works including a new commission on view at CAM, and installations at the USF Botanical Gardens and USF Riverfront Park. The two outdoor works are based on 20th century alleged hoaxes that Gainer sites and models from photographic sources; often the only form of evidence that sightings actually occurred.

Moving Thought

April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM Bookstore & USF Library Special Collections

Moving Thought is an art bookmobile project by the graduate students of the USF School of Art and Art History.

32nd Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 24 – April 18, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. This year's juror is Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time, New York City.

Robert Stackhouse: Editions Archive

January 11 – February 23, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

In 1993, distinguished USF alumnus and artist Robert Stackhouse designated USF Contemporary Art Museum as the archive for his editioned works. USFCAM celebrates this gift with the publication of a catalogue for the Robert Stackhouse Editions Archive and an exhibition of work selected from the archive. This exhibition explores the evolution of Stackhouse’s work from his first print to the most recent editions, his relationship with various print workshops and the interaction across media of his prints, paintings and sculpture.

Everyday Atrocities

January 11 – February 23, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Faculty Focus Exhibition: John Byrd, Gregory Green and Julie Weitz use painting, sculpture and installation to explore themes and the aesthetics of violence, danger and empowerment embedded in politics and popular culture.

Homing Devices

October 26 – December 15, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Homing Devices is a group exhibition that considers the way contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors—who may live and work anywhere in the world—approach the idea of home in context of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented but not defined or delimited by cultural, geographical, and national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.

Elsewhere

August 27 – October 13, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Elsewhere explores the familiar and often tragic theme of the quest. The artists included in this exhibition embark upon quixotic adventures to both real and imagined places - at times edging on the ridiculous, treacherous, and sublime. Pulling from sources as varied as Victorian expeditions, romantic tourism, travel literature, and Hollywood films, the artists in Elsewhere blend documentary styles with found footage, tableaux, and performance into potent mixtures of fact, fantasy, and feeling. To this end, they employ strategies of displacement, re-enactment, and repetition in an effort to erode the temporal boundaries implicit to existing representations of histories, identities, and geographies.

StereoVision

June 15 – August 4, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

StereoVision, an interdisciplinary museum project, gazes simultaneously at the past, present and future as it proposes a glimpse at ways art and technology shape our vision and perception. Stereographs, a 19th century groundbreaking historical antecedent of virtual reality, are joined with contemporary works that make use of perspective, features of virtual reality and immersive environments to probe and disturb our normative visual, auditory, and kinetic perceptive experiences.

2007 MFA Graduation Exhibition

April 27 – May 25, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This premiere of the Master of Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum features diverse artworks by twelve artists from the nationally ranked studio art program at USF.

31st Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 23 – April 6, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year, a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards, which are donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. Past jurors include notables Marcia Tucker, Roberta Smith, Sue Coe, The Guerilla Girls, The Art Guys, Elyse Goldberg and Jerry Saltz. We are pleased to have exiled Haitian painter and sculptor Edouard Duval-Carrié as the juror for the 31st Student Exhibition.

Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air

January 12 – March 3, 2007
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Trisha Brown Dance Company has presented the work of its legendary artistic director for 35 years. In addition to dance, Brown is known for her work in the visual arts, including improvisational works combining dance and drawing, and collaborations with artists including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Laurie Anderson and Terry Winters. Trisha Brown: Drawing on Land and Air will present Brown’s new improvisational drawings, a selection of collaborative works with artists, and new prints commissioned by Graphicstudio.

Berni Searle: Approach

October 27 – December 16, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

South African artist Berni Searle, whose work was included in the group exhibition with eight contemporaries in 2002 at USF CAM, The Field’s Edge: Africa / Diaspora / Lens, will be in residence at Graphicstudio to create a newly commissioned work for her solo exhibition. Searle, known for her performances, photography and video work, addresses issues of race, gender and social history, came to the public’s attention in 1997 with an installation that was an important component at the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, based at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, where she lives and works. Searle creates noteworthy projects that serve as a continuing series of ongoing explorations of identity and self-representation.

Vik Muniz: Reflex

July 7 – October 7, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Since the mid-1990s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has been making an international impact with his photographs documenting images he has made in an astonishing variety of non-art, often ephemeral materials, including dirt, sugar, wire, string, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, fake blood, color chips, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, and diamonds. Muniz’ images are at once familiar—they are often of recognizable news images, works from art history, or well-known personages—and alien: after an initial moment or recognition, it quickly becomes clear that these images are not what they first seemed.

30th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 7 – May 26, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Each year, a nationally recognized juror (critic, artist, curator) selects the works and designates the scholarship awards, which are donated by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons. This year artist Claudi X. Valdeswill will juror and give a talk. Past jurors include notables Marcia Tucker, Roberta Smith, Sue Coe, The Guerilla Girls, The Art Guys, Elyse Goldberg and Jerry Saltz.

Dragon Veins

January 13 – March 11, 2006
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Dragon Veins surveys a variety of ways in which traditional East Asian art informs contemporary painting. The twelve artists idiosyncratically mine East Asian traditions of Chinese landscape painting, Buddhism, ukiyo-e, emaki, bunraku, nihon-ga and kazari, intermixing them with current political events, hip-hop culture, geological maps, modernist abstraction, bodily experience, Dr. Seuss, anime, Post-Impressionism and more.

Beautiful Losers:
Contemporary Art and Street Culture

November 4 – December 17, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture is an exhibition of multi-media art and design that explores the recent work of a diverse group of visual artists that have emerged from aspects of street culture loosely organized around the subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip-hop in urban U.S. cities. The exhibition includes painting, sculpture, photography, film, video and performance by thirty individuals who have emerged over the last decade.

AudioFiles

September 9 – October 21, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

AudioFiles brings together converging elements of the spectrum of Sound Art. Artists Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Christian Marclay and Stephen Vitiello create three individually engaging and enigmatic sonic installations, which defy convention and resist categorization. The exhibit represents an emerging and provocative art form by drawing connections between artist modalities and experimental media.

Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World

April 8 – July 15, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Los Carpinteros: Inventing the World is the first major museum exhibition to survey the work of the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters). This mid-career retrospective will include a selection of drawings, paintings, prints, installations and sculptures, and be a significant part of the ARTE celebration of Latin American and Caribbean cultures being hosted by the city of Tampa, the USF College of The Arts, and other cultural institutions.

29th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

March 14 – March 26, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This eagerly awaited exhibition features the work of undergraduate and graduate students at the School of Art & Art History, and is juried by a nationally recognized artist, curator, critic or museum professional. Works include a variety of media: ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and video. Awards for the students are provided by area corporations, cultural institutions and private patrons of the arts, and designated by the juror.

Alex Katz

January 18 – February 26, 2005
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Through drawing, Katz first denotes that which he finds provocative. Then he builds upon his sketched lines through more steps that both enlarge and refine the line. The exhibition in the East Gallery is composed of cartoons and drawings, guest curated by Michael Klein. The West Gallery features a selection of related prints and paintings.

USF School of Art & Art History Studio Faculty Exhibition

October 29 – December 18, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The triennial USF School of Art & Art History Studio Faculty Exhibition provides faculty members time to develop new ideas and serves to showcase projects by new studio faculty. A diverse selection of work is represented: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, film, video, new media and performance projects.

Burt Barr: Solid Water

August 27 – October 9, 2004
USFCAM East Gallery

New York based artist Burt Barr has been making video-works since the 80s. At CAM he will show a series of video projections, all with water as an element, produced from 1999–2004.

Janaina Tschäpe: Blood, Sea

August 27 – October 9, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

New York and Brazil based artist Janaina Tschäpe works in a variety of media including drawing, photography, film and installation. For CAM, Tschäpe developed a new high definition video installation filmed at Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida.

For All the Wrong Reasons…

May 28 – July 17, 2004
USFCAM East Gallery

This loosely defined group of area artists describes itself as an “uncomfortable alliance” – ambitious, obsessed, over-reaching, critical and self-effacing. Each member is engaged in radically different vocabularies and strategies – with a preoccupation of “badness”. The group’s sub-composition is made up of “the Fluff Constructivists” – Mikel Durlam, Ethan Kruszka and Jon Peterson; others include Matthew Guest, Rachel Hoffman and John McGrane.

Jose Marin

May 28 – July 17, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

Memorial exhibition of paintings by Jose Marin, USF School of Art Alumnus and one of the founders of the Tampa-based collaborative group, titanic anatomy, inc.

28th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 3 – May 1, 2004
USFCAM West Gallery

For the 28th year, USF students are given the opportunity to enter their art in an exhibtion juried by Allan McCollum, an internationally known artist. Awards are donated by community businesses and museum supporters.

The Amazing & The Immutable

February 2, – March 12, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of photography relies on a number of sources, including works published by Graphicstudio, the collections of other cultural institutions and private individuals, most notably Tampa collector Dr. Robert Drapkin. Vintage and contemporary works will be installed together, exploring the history of photography. In conjunction with the USF CAM exhibition, Graphicstudio will house a didactic exhibit of the apparatus and methods involved in the fabrication and printing of photographs. Techniques represented include: ambrotype, tintype, albumen, salt, calotype, cyanotype, stereoscope in paper, tissue and glass, gum prints, and silver gelatin.

DNA: Art & Science / Double Helix

Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7–9pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Institute for Research in Art and Office of Research at USF bring the arts and sciences together to celebrate research and the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, with a special solo-night of projected images created by artists, scientists, architects and designers, featured throughout the USF CAM. The works from the juried exhibition are available online here..

Jim Campbell

November 21, 2003 – January 16, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell comes from a technical background in engineering - he holds two Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT - and an artistic background in filmmaking. Campbell creates fascinating, interactive, electronic works and installations that involve the viewer and the viewer's response to a given situation.

Walk Ways

November 21, 2003 – January 16, 2004
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Walk Ways brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who have focused on the theme of walking, a purposeful or meandering activity that unites physical and mental freedom. Walking - like breathing - is a basic act which is its own expression. The 19 artists in this exhibition have used the walk as a means of exploring notions of work, leisure, politics, geography and identity. Informed by their own experiences as well as examples from literature and art history, these artists have created works about and by walking.

Trespassing: Houses X Artists

August 29 – October 17, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Trespassing is an exhibition about house designs by nine contemporary artists in collaboration with the New York architectural firm, OpenOffice. The projects are presented through a variety of strategies including architectural models, text writings and interviews, conceptual sketches, digital media and partial and/or full-scale realizations.

Exeunt Omnes

May 24 – July 19, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Students, faculty, staff, alumni and the arts community are invited to gather for a rare event recognizing the accomplishments of the School of Art & Art History’s retiring faculty. With Exeunt Omnes — Latin for ‘all exit’, commonly used in theatre as a stage direction — we will be highlighting the historic contributions that Alan Eaker, Diane Elmeer, Chuck Fager, Bob Gelinas, Jeffrey Kronsnoble, Mernet Larsen, Bruce Marsh and Theo Wujcik, have made to the University of South Florida and people of the Tampa Bay area.

27th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

April 5– May 5, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

For the 27th year, USF students are given the opportunity to enter their art in an exhibtion juried by a nationally known gallerist, museum professional, or artist. Awards are donated by community businesses and museum supporters.

Unnaturally

January 18– March 15, 2003
USF Contemporary Art Museum

UnNaturally features over 40 visually stunning works by fifteen artists who employ artificial materials to create simulations of nature that explore the frequently blurred boundary between culture and our environment. Traveled by ICI, New York.

The Field's Edge: Africa, Diaspora, Lens

October 18 – December 21, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Field's Edge is a multimedia exhibition that explores the relationship between contemporary art and colonial ethnography, most notably the legacy of colonial ethnography on readings of contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora. The visual exploration of this often contested relationship between art and ethnography focuses on major themes around the politics of narrative and domestic life.

USF School of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition

August 26 – October 5, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Approximately every three years, the USF CAM hosts an exhibition of Art Department faculty work. This schedule allows faculty members to develop new ideas in anticipation of the show, and also serves to showcase projects by new studio faculty. A diverse selection of work is represented: painting, photography, print making, sculpture, ceramics, film, video as well as digital and new media projects.

Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette

May 24 – July 20, 2002
USFCAM East Gallery

New project by USF Alumni Sharon Engelstein and Aaron Parazette, specifically designed for CAM. Engelstein, known for her "inflatable" sculptures will collaborate with Parazette, who creates colorful wall paintings, to produce an exciting installation.

Blip

May 24 – July 20, 2002
USFCAM West Gallery

Houston-based artists Sharon Engelstein and Aaron Parazette will co-curate an exhibition that features the work of other Houston artists that share their ideas and working methodologies.

26th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

April 1 – May 6, 2002
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A significant artist, curator or art critic will be invited to select works for the annual student show. Undergraduate and graduate students and the community have the opportunity to have their work evaluated by a visiting art professional.

Outside of the Box

January 12 – March 9, 2002
USFCAM East Gallery

Outside of the Box features recent work by leading international artists who not only think differently about subject and content, but propose unconventional modes of presentation for their video-based art. These artists extend video beyond the television monitor and often outside of traditional exhibition spaces. Artists include: Ron Athey, Jim Campbell, Maria Marshall, Mariko Mori, Tony Oursler, Chris Cunningham, Wolfgang Staehle, Daniel Pflumm and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Carlos Amorales:
Fighting Evil (with style)

January 12 – March 9, 2002
USFCAM West Gallery

USF CAM is pleased to present a new video installation and public billboard project by Carlos Amorales: Fighting Evil (with style), based on the popular Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) of the artist's native Mexico. "Wherever Carlos Amorales is, there's name-calling, viscous threats, gambling, and bloodthirsty crowds all steeped with the anticipation of violence. And the gallery doors haven't even opened yet. Inside, Amorales is preparing his fight for justice."

Lucy Orta: Nexus Architecture & Connector IV

October 27 – December 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Orta's project for USF includes her collaborations with Metropolitan Ministries in Tampa and a new architectural infrastructure for a modular social space.

Never Never Land

September 1 – October 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Walt Disney Company has made a business of creating entertainment narratives and consumer desire since 1929. Its lexicon of popular icons, combined with fantasy spaces that make up the Disney theme parks, has become an entire vernacular culture. Disney has become synonymous with "American" culture. This exhibition featues the work of artists from diverse cultural backgrounds that reflect the effect of Disney's influence. As Disney continues to create fictional characters and places, the work of these 17 contemporary artists portray imaginary world and question the relationship of the real to the unreal.

Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island

September 1 – October 8, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This fascinating exhibition presents the work of 16 Cuban artists of the 1990s who explore irony as a strategy for psychological survival and oblique commentary. Embedded in their art is the notion that when political and personal problems are inescapable, humor may be one of the few outlets for the frustration, and a practical means to maintain stability within a context that appears at times to be rules by irrationality. The works reflect various views of the 1959 revolution and the realities of life in Cuba under the United Sates embargo. The artists work speculates on Cuba's complex past, its cultural uniqueness as a nexus of African, European and Asian cultures and exemplifies the concept of inventando, the improvisation and creative resourcefulness required for everyday survival. The exhibition is curated by Marilyn Zeitlin, Director of Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, and traveled by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.

UNION

April 23 – May 6, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Union is James Kevin Dowdee, Heather Cushman-Dowdee, Jason Irwin, Carole Loeffler, and Shane M. Richardson, Union is cohesive cell of current USF MFA students who address issues ranging from the spiritual to the political.

25th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 30 – April 20, 2001
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Annual exhibition showcasing the work of graduate and undergraduate students in all media. The show is juried by a nationally recognized artist, critic, gallery or museum professional and is supported by the USF CAM, Art Department and the student organization, the Fine Arts Forum.

William Wegman: Fashion Photographs

February 10 – March 17, 2001
USFCAM East Gallery

William Wegman: Fashion Photographs is a solo exhibition featuring his famous Weimaraners, photographed in couture provided by Saks Fifth Avenue, curated by David Moos and Mary Dinaburg, organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art. Drawings, Photographs and Videos: 1970–2000 is a selection of the artist's videos, films, prints, photographs and drawings curated by Margaret Miller and Peter Foe, organized by University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum.

Dreamtime, Our Time: The Eternal Circle

January 12 – 27, 2001

Fiona Foley: River of Corn, USFCAM West Gallery

Aboriginal Bark Paintings and Native American Beadwork, USFCAM East Gallery

USF CAM has commissioned a new installation by Australian Aboriginal artist Fiona Foley. Didactic exhibitions of traditional Aboriginal bark paintings and Native American beadwork and headdresses, on loan from private collections, will complement the project. The installation will serve as a performance site for guest dancers and musicians being produced by Gretchen Warren, USF Professor of Dance. The exhibition will be the starting point for twelve performances, which will move with the audience to the adjacent Theatre.

Ed Ruscha: Editions 1959 – 1999

October 23 – December 23, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Edward Ruscha has not only been an influential voice in post-war American Painting, but also one of contemporary art's most significant graphic arts. The Walker Art Center has organized a major exhibition of Ruscha's editions that include artist books and prints from 1962 through 1999. This exhibition will have particular resonance for the Tampa Bay community, as Ruscha was a featured guest artist with USF's fine art atelier Graphicstudio in 1970.

USF Collects

August 21 – September 29, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The University of South Florida Art Collection features over 3,600 works, many of them by internationally renowned artists such as John Chamberlain, Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Graves, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg. This exhibition will feature watershed works from the collection, as well as special works on loan by artists.

The Creeley Collaborations

May 22 – July 15, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibition of collaborative works by poet Robert Creeley and noted artists of our time affirms and celebrates the importance of cross-disciplinary art forms. The show features over sixty projects beginning in the 50s and ending up in 1997, in the form of prints, drawings, photographs, mixed-media works and books. The exhibition is organized by the Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University, New York.

24th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 24 – April 15, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition of student work is very much anticipated and enjoyed by both the exhibiting artists and the community. The show provides an opportunity for student artists to have their work professionally presented within the Contemporary Art Museum. The show is juried by a nationally recognized artist, critic, gallery or museum professional, who is selected by students who are members of the Fine Arts student organization, the Fine Art Forum.

UltraLounge: The Return of Social Space, (With Cocktails)

January 14 – March 3, 2000
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exhibit was curated by Las Vegas-based art and culture critic Dave Hickey. Hickey selected eleven artists from the Las Vegas and Los Angeles communities to reclaim the puritanical exhibition space of a museum as a "social space"–space where people might actually enjoy spending time and being together. The iconography of this reclamation is derived from post hip-hop lounge culture, with its infrastructure of raves, clubs, bands, net sites and 'zines. Artists include: Jane Callister, Phil Argent, Tim Bavington (Britain); Christine Seimens, Wayne Littlejohn (Canada); Yek Wong (Singapore); Aaron Baker, Cynthia Chan, Jack Hallberg, Jennifer Steinkamp and Mary Warner (United States).

USF Art Department Faculty and Alumni Exhibitions

October 29 – November 29, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF CAM is pleased to host concurrent exhibitions of recent works by USF Art Department studio faculty and selected Art Department Alumni. A diverse selection of work will be represented: painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and video, as well as digital and new media projects.

AMNESIA: Contemporary South American Art

August 23 – October 16, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This exciting exhibition represents 16 artists from Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela that explore current artistic, political and cultural discourses taking place in South America. Curated by Christopher Grimes of Los Angeles, the show will also consider the idea of South America as a forgotten continent (as the title suggests) within the context of the Western art world, and how issues are still formed, shaped and processed through a colonial history.

Selections from the Rubell Family Collection

May 26 – July 24, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Leslie Lerner: The Man with the Wooden Arm,
The Imagined City

March 19 – May 15, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Sarasota-based artist Leslie Lerner will present a fascinating, multimedia exhibition that includes paintings, 3-dimensional architectural forms, prints and texts. Lerner's work is a series of complex, visual narratives that transport the viewer into an imaginary world full of both contemporary and historical references. His images are a montage of canonical pictorial sources that reference Dutch, French Rococo and American Realist paintings.

23rd Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 19 – April 24, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF CAM is proud to host this annual exhibition of student works. Submissions in all media are welcome. Prize monies are contributed by community patrons and businesses.

Atelier van Lieshout

January 15 – February 27, 1999
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exhibition of new work by the Dutch Atelier van Lieshout organized by CAM Director Margaret Miller and New York-based independent curator Jade Dellinger. Joep van Lieshout applies a hybrid sensibility to his popular sculptures, blending a cool jumble of stream-lined, curvilinear molds with occasional dashes of wit.

Art In The News

January – December, 1999
The Tampa Tribune, Sunday Edition

ART IN THE NEWS was a year-long exhibition of artworks designed for the newspaper medium. The project was curated by Margaret Miller, Director of USF CAM and Jade Dellinger, Independent Curator. Twelve artists were invited to design a work to appear one Sunday a month from January to December, 1999. Artist's talks were scheduled in conjunction with each project.

Allan McCollum: Petrified Lightning from Central Florida
(With Supplemental Didactics)

October 23 – December 19, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This show is the result of a collaboration between Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and USF CAM to organize and produce a major new exhibition by the reknowned American artist, Allan McCollum. CAM will present an installation of fulgurites (glass objects that are formed when lightning strikes and fuses sand), and MOSI will create a permanent exhibition on triggered lightning. Sponsored in part by The Arts Council of Hillsborough County and The Tampa Tribune.

Freeze Frame

August 24 – October 3, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Freeze Frame features the work of 17 artists from Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Haiti, Venezuela and the United States. Selected by Viennese Curator Grita Insam, the works are based on classical cinema of various epochs, as well as experimental and documentary film.

(re) Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking

August 24– October 10, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by USF CAM Director Margaret Miller and New York-based independent curator Jade Dellinger for the 1997 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, this exhibition returns to the U.S. for its American premier.

Jürgen Partenheimer: Songs and Other Lies

May 8 – July 24, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This was the first major exhibition in the United States of lyrical, abstract watercolors and prints by this leading German artist. The exhibition, curated by USF CAM Director Margaret Miller, will be on display in CAM and at Graphicstudio/The Institute for Research in Art.

Harrison Covington: The Last Picture Show I

March 16 – May 1, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exhibition of works by Professor Emeritus Harrison Covington, former Dean of the USF College of Fine Arts.

22nd Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

March 20 – April 18, 1998
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF CAM is proud to host this annual exhibition of student works. Submissions in all media are curated by New York-based Gallerist and Collector Todd Leven. Prize monies are contributed by community patrons and businesses.

Tim Rollins & K.O.S.: Kids Across Amerika

January 16 – March 3, 1998
USFCAM East Gallery

Tim Rollins & K.O.S. emerged from a high school art education setting to establish themselves as an internationally renowned art group. This exhibit was held in conjunction with the dedication of the Tim Rollins & K.O.S. public art commission for USF's new College of Education building.

Layers: Between Science and the Imagination

January 10 – February 28, 1998
USFCAM West Gallery

The five artists in this exhibition were commissioned to use their own vocabulary to translate the voices of their collaborators, elderly storytellers living in long term care facilities and aspiring young artists from local youth groups.

Rogelio Lopez Cuenca: Read and Made: Contemporary Spanish Art

November 14 – December 20, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Shouts From The Wall

November 8 – December 22, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

CROSS/ING: Time • Space • Movement

September 4 – October 18, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

An exciting exhibition of work by African artists practicing in the international contemporary art world. The show was organized by the Contemporary Art Museum in collaboration with the Museum of African American Art, Tampa.

Patrick Corillon: Osker Serti’s House

July 11 – August 16, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Pop Art from the USF CAM Collection

May 1 – June 28, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Max Valentonis

FOCI: Selections from the Martin Margulies Collection

March 8 – May 29, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Curated by Max Valentonis

New Grounds: Prints and Multiples

January 17 – March 8, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

EK:KE Keith Edmier (Evel Knievel)

January 10 – February 28, 1997
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Architecture and Community Design

October 11 – December 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF Art Department Faculty Exhibition

October 4 – December 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Peter Foe: Some People

September 6 – October 5, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography

August 26 – September 20, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Symbolized Signifier: Narrative Art from the Collection

July 8 – August 24, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Two Cents: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kevin Young

July 1 – August 17, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The 90s: Recent Donations to the Collection

April 30 – June 22, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

20th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – May 4, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Mark Stock: Paintings and Designs 1986-1996

March 11 – May 11, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Perfect Speed

January 13 – February 24, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Use as Directed (#3): Basic Korean: Rainer Ganahl

November 10, 1995 – January 16, 1996
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Use as Directed (#2): Ocean Mist: That’s Painting Productions: Bernard P. Brunon

November 18, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Use as Directed (#1): Choose Your Destination: How To Get A Museum-Paid Vacation:Maurizio Cattelan

1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

RE:FAB Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised

October 30 – December 27, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Spirit Eyes, Human Hands: African Art from the Harn Museum, University of Florida

August 21 – October 14, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

L.C Armstrong

July 10 – August 26, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Richard Tuttle: Renaissance Unframed

July 10 – August 18, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

LOGO NON LOGO

May 30 – July 29, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Hollis Sigler

April, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

19th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – April 22, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Alfredo Jaar

January 13 – March 4, 1995
USF Contemporary Art Museum

A Collection of Maggots: George Pappas

October 10 – December 17, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF Faculty Exhibition

October 10 – December 17, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Ciphers of Identity

August 17 – September 24, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Translucent Writing

June 16 – July 19, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Marie Jo Lafontaine

May 6 – July 22, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

18th Annual Juried Student Exhibition

March 25 – April 23, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Belgian Accident

January 14 – March 5, 1994
USF Contemporary Art Museum

The Scene of the Crime (Who’s Crime): Pepon Osorio

November 1 – December 22, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

House of the Caribbean: Antonio Martorell

November 1 – December 22, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

From Globe to Glove: Peter Weibel

August 23 – October 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Robin Winters: Body Politic

May 14 – July 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Regenerative Spirit

March 12 – April 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Jenny Marketou: 114+114

March 5 – April 23, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Matt Mullican: World Frame

October 30, 1992 – January 9, 1993
USF Contemporary Art Museum

17th Annual Juried USF Student Exhibition

September 11 – October 6, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Prints Exhibition Exchange: Najing: College of Fine Arts

September 3 – October 4, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

New Acquisitions: USF Collections

July 6 – August 26, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Tyler Turkle: Plastic Criteria

June 29 – August 28, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Spanish Art / Approaching 1992

June 14 – August 30, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Alfred Eisenstaedt

May 3 – June 13, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF Faculty Exhibition

April 3 – June 13, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Ernie Cox

April 3 – April 25, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Transparence/Transcendence

January 20 – March 14, 1992
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Elyn Zimmerman

November 2 – December 20, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Robert Stackhouse: Soundless

November 2 – December 20, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Trans-Positions & Sonia Delaunay

September 23 – October 19, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Prints from Nanjing College of Fine Arts: Peoples Republic of China

September 3 – October 4, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Frazione De Tempo

June – July, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Unique

June 21 – August 2, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Australian Contemporary Art

April 9 – May 26, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Contemporary Moscow Artists: USSR Artists’ Guild

February 9 – March 31, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF Art Department and Museum Biennal

January – February, 1991
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Pat Steir

October 22 – December 21, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

David Baker

October 16 – November 25, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

15th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

August 28 – September 30, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Selected USF Graduate and Alumni Works

June 26 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum

June 26 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Architecture/Environmental Sculpture Exhibition

June 12 – August 12, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Nina Felshin

April 15 – May 25, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Alumni Exhibition

February 12 – March 26, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Selections from the Rivendell Collection

February 6 – June 1, 1990
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Telex. Iran: Portrait of a Country in Revolution

November 3 – December 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Photography Exhibition

November 3 – November 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Art Dept. Faculty Exhibition

September 24 – October 29, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

New Acquisitions

September 22 – October 22, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

14th Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition

July 8 – September 17, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Made in Florida

March 11 – June 18, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Fischli/Weiss and James Casebere

January 21 – February 25, 1989
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Selections from the USF Collection

October 10 – December 3, 1988
USF Contemporary Art Museum

James Rosenquist at USF

October 7 – December 3, 1988
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Eight Contemporary Photographers

April 3 – May 1, 1981
USF Art Galleries - Teaching Gallery

Artists from the John Weber Gallery, NYC

November 3 – December 13, 1980
USF Art Galleries - Teaching Gallery