Peter Hosfeld
Peter Hosfeld (Sevilla, 1973) grew up in Norway and received his BFA in Painting from SAIC in 1998. His work has been presented at group exhibitions throughout South Florida at venues such as the Girls’ Club Collection, the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Robert Fontaine Gallery and the Deering Estate. His work was profiled in the book “100 Degrees In The Shade”, a survey of South Florida artists.
Hosfeld lives and works in Miami.
Jason Aponte
Jason Aponte was born and raised in Homestead, FL in 1976 on an air force base. He received a Bachelors of Illustration Degree in 2002 from Ringling School of Art and Design, graduating with high honors. After graduating, Jason moved to Boston where he further developed his art in The Vernon Street Studios. In 2009, he returned to Miami and currently is an artist-in-residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. In 2016, he was awarded a grant by the National Endowment of the Arts. In 2021, Jason was invited and granted funding by The City of Miami Beach as part of an initiative to re-energize the city by occupying an empty retail space where he produced new work.
Magnus Sodamin
Born in Manhattan, New York (1987) Sodamin lives and works in Miami. He spent a year developing his painting practice at the Nansenskolen in Lillehammer, Norway; a humanitarian institute that focuses on cross-cultural exchange. He received his BFA in painting with a minor in art history from the New World School of the Arts, Miami in 2012. Sodamin explores practices ranging from painting, textile, ceramic and drawing. Selected Solo's include "Wild Altar" (Dot fiftyone Gallery, 2021), "Impressions of Our Landscape" (Primary Projects, 2017) , "Infinity Split" (Primary Projects, 2015). Some Residencies include Agder Kunst Center, Norway (2020), Vermont Studio Center (2018), Airie, Everglades (2017), Museums Quartier, Vienna (2015) Deering Estate, Miami, Florida (2015). His work resides in both the Boca Raton Museum of Art and Jorge Perez private collection.
Fereshteh Toosi
Fereshteh Toosi designs experiences that pose questions and foster animistic connections through encounter, exchange, and sensory inquiry. Their artwork often involves documentary processes, oral history, and archival research. Immersive performances are produced in conjunction with small sculptures, short films, installations, scores, and poetry, often situated outdoors. Fereshteh lives and works in El Portal, Florida on stolen lands still stewarded by the Miccosukee and Seminole people, and previously by the Calusa, Taino, and Tequesta
tribal bands.
Asser Saint-Val
Born in Haiti and lives & works in Miami, Florida. Saint-Val earned BFAs in both Painting and Graphic Design from NWSA University of Florida, Gainesville Florida. Saint-Val’s work is a study in Neuromelanin as it relates to spirituality and self-consciousness and he explores these ideas in paintings and multi-sensory interactive art installations. Saint-Val’s works are quasi-figurative and ambiguous, and brings together ideas central to modern debates about Neuromelanin.
Saint-Val’s solo exhibitions include “The Universe Within,” Museum of Art & Design/MDC (2014); “Something Left Behind,” Farside Gallery, (2013); “The Melanin Project, Miami Dade County Public Library” (2008). Saint-Val’s group exhibitions include “Selections from the New Wave Residents,” Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida (l2021); and “Visionary Aponte Art & Black Freedom,” New York University, New York, (2018).
Carol Jazzar
Carol Jazzar is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in El Portal, Florida. Her work is centered on Nature, be it her own, or that of Mother Nature. She has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, Girls Club Collection in Ft Lauderdale, The Miami-Dade Public Library and The Deering Estate, as well as private galleries and artist-run alternative spaces. Her work is part of the collections of the Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami International Airport, Related Group and other private collections.
Christina Pettersson
Born in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in Miami, Florida. Her large scale drawings, videos, sculptural installations and group performances focus on the history and environment of Florida. She is the recipient of a Knight Grant, Ellies Creator Award and Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is in the collections of the Perez Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Margulies Collection and the Four Seasons Hotel. She is the 2021-22 ARTSail artist in residence, a nomadic research-based residency, collaborating with Friends of the Everglades to create an illustrated compendium of urgent water issues in South Florida.
John W Bailly
French–American artist born in 1968 in Slough, UK. He is an Artist-in-Residence Fellow at the Deering Estate in Miami. He received his MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University, and has been a Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University since 2004. His work explores history and culture, with an emphasis on the Transatlantic dialogue. His paintings explore the question of how we are who we are in relation to history, place, and culture. His works have been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Texas State University, as well as other venues in the US and France. He was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind.
Onajide Shabaka
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1948, lives and works in Miami, Florida.
Shabaka received an MFA from Vermont College of the Fine Arts (2000) and a BFA from Florida Atlantic University (1993). Shabaka’s investigative and researched based practice underscores the environment and material cultural, open-ended assemblages, and questions regarding ecology and history within notions of the African diaspora and Native American cultures.