Current Exhibitions


Richard Tuttle, Renaissance Unframed #13, 1994. Published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida Collection

After Structure and Beyond Support

June 13 - August 2, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum

June 13: Film Screening + Opening Reception 

After Structure and Beyond Support are two related and concurrent exhibitions that complicate our accepted notions of support systems as both the formal structures of artworks and necessary aspects of social, cultural, and political life. After Structure, curated by Mark Fredricks, takes place in CAM's West Gallery to pair a body of Richard Tuttle work with artwork from artist Mike Cloud. Beyond Support, curated by Mark Fredricks, assisted by Christian Viveros-Fauné, is drawn entirely from the USF Collection and will be installed in the Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery.


Upcoming Exhibitions


Sam Hamilton, Te Moana Meridian at Oregon Contemporary for Converve 45, 2023. Credit: Mario Gallucci

Ta Moana Meridian: How the Prime Meridian Shapes the World and the Case for Relocating It

August 25 - October 18, 2025
GENERATOR, Harbor Hall Gallery, USF St. Petersburg

Sam Hamilton/Sam Tam Ham (b. 1984, Auckland, New Zealand/Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa) created Te Moana Meridian as a vessel for proposing a radical new United Nations General Assembly Draft Resolution to formally relocate the prime meridian from Greenwich, London, to Te Moana-Nui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean. Since its inception at an 1884 conference in Washington D.C., the prime meridian has functioned to implicitly serve the ambitions of the British colonial empire. Rather than serving as a "beacon of humanity," the prime meridian today more resembles a bygone imperial relic. As an original operatic performance and five-channel video installation, Te Moana Meridian proposes to elect a new "center of the world" while acknowledging that doing so has the potential to reframe the dynamics of global power. Hamilton proposes this center to be the open waters of Te Moananui-ā-Kiwa/the South Pacific Ocean. According to Hamilton, the prime meridian should be "anchored in the global commons and personified by the ocean; connective, circulatory, omnipresent, integral to all life. To avoid drowning, we must become the ocean." Te Moana Meridian is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Brian Maguire, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, 2016. acrylic on linen, 290 x 270 cm / 114.2 x 106.3 in. Courtesy of the Tia Collection. © Brian Maguire. Image courtesy of Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion

September 5, 2025 - March 7, 2026
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion is an exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed Irish artist. One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. His paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects he undertook in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire's artworks are painted from direct experience, after spending extensive time on the ground in each of the locations presented in the exhibition. The result are paintings that visualize the commonality of human suffering, something that most people avoid or try to forget. Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, and supported in part by a grant from Culture Ireland.


Past Exhibitions

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