Miami Art Museum (MAM) serves one of the most diverse and fast-growing regions of the country, where a confluence of North and Latin American cultures adds vibrancy and texture to the civic landscape. The city's thriving community of artists, designers, and collectors and its avid and growing art-viewing public, are... Read more
Miami Art Museum (MAM) serves one of the most diverse and fast-growing regions of the country, where a confluence of North and Latin American cultures adds vibrancy and texture to the civic landscape. The city’s thriving community of artists, designers, and collectors and its avid and growing art-viewing public, are driving Miami’s demand for a world-class museum.
Miami-Dade is the only major metropolitan area in the United States that does not have a major art museum serving the full spectrum of its community. Therefore, MAM has begun building a new Museum and resource commensurate to Miami’s position as a hemispheric hub and creative capital, one whose impact extends nationally and beyond. MAM embraces its role as a cultural anchor and touchstone in a city that welcomes countless ethnic and age groups, lifestyles and ideas.
MAM’s far-ranging vision is expressed in the breadth and depth of its exhibition program, from major solo exhibitions of artists such as Ana Mendieta and Vik Muniz, to "Miami in Transition," in which Miami-based artists responded to the city’s development, MAM’s broad curatorial mandate accommodates wide-ranging artistic approaches. MAC@MAM, the groundbreaking collaboration with Miami Art Central, presents exhibitions such as "Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories," "Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega: Parres Trilogy" and "Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space." Future exhibitions at MAM will include an internationally traveling, mid-career retrospective of the works of Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca.
MAM recently received a number of major gifts from Miami collectors, in honor of the Museum’s 10th anniversary in 2007. The Museum has embarked on an initiative to build on its collection of holdings from the twentieth century through the present. Among the artists represented in MAM’s growing collection are Carlos Alfonzo, José Bedia, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Guillermo Kuitca, Wilfredo Lam, Sol LeWitt, Doug Aitken, Robert Rauschenberg, and Lorna Simpson.
