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Christina Pettersson is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work references art
history, classic myths, and literature with ties to the wilderness. The naturalistic elements
of her works are greatly inspired by the Florida Everglades, which she often explored
as a small child when she moved to Miami from Stockholm, Sweden. She received
her BFA in Painting in 1988 from the Maryland Institute’s College of Art, graduating
Magna Cum Laude. Recent exhibitions include The Castle Dismal, Primary Projects,
Miami (2014); The Sentinel, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood (2012); and
my dear Leona, Farside Gallery, Miami (2011). Recent group exhibitions include
Intersectionality, the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2016); Black
Carriage/White Heart/Screendance Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2016); and
Video Program, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, California (2015). In 2016 she
was awarded the Knight Arts Challenge Grant for Weird Miami Bus Tour and
has received grants from Funding Arts Broward and the Broward County
Cultural Division.
Roberta Marks is a Key
West-based mixed-media
artist from Savannah, Georgia.
Her assemblages incorporate
various antique objects such
as suitcases and shoes
collected from her time in
France and art-making tools
that create a point of reflection
for both cultural, spiritual,
and personal narratives. She
received her BFA from the
University of Miami in 1980,
and in 1981 she received her
MFA from the University of
South Florida in Tampa.
Selected solo exhibitions
include the Key West Museum
of Art & History (2016); The Arts
Council Court House Cultural
Center in Stuart (2010); and
Miami International University of
Art & Design in Miami, (2007).
Selected group exhibitions
include Circle of Friends, Hal
Bromm Gallery in New York City
(2015); Then and Now, Florida
Keys Council of the Arts, Key
West (2015); and An Abstract
View, The Arts Council of Martin
County, Stuart, Florida (2015).
She has been an instructor and
lecturer at many locations around
the world, including the American
Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, the
Lowe Art Museum at the University
of Miami, and the Ministry of
Culture in Havana, Cuba.
Vincent Miranda is a Fort Lauderdalebased
artist and is a current graduate
student at California College of the Arts
in San Francisco, California. Miranda’s
mixed-media wall works utilize sewing and
the manipulation of fiber to create tension
and texture and employ experimental
surface treatments such as acid washing.
He received his BFA in Sculpture from
Florida Atlantic University in 2014. Recent
solo exhibitions include Art in Public Places,
Patch Reef Park Community Center, Boca
Raton (2016); and Dime Museum, Studio
259, Deerfield Beach (2015). Recent group
exhibitions include Show Motel Florida,
Southland Motel, Ocala (2016); The Void,
Miami (2016); Art Fallout, Girls’ Club, Fort
Lauderdale (2015); and Exit 26, Ritter Art
Gallery at Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton (2014). In 2014 Miranda was the Merit
Award Winner for the 63rd Annual All Florida
Juried Exhibition and he won Best in Show at
the Juried Student Exhibition at FAU.
Vickie Pierre is a Miami-based mixed media
artist. Both her two-dimensional stamp works
and her mixed-media assemblages feature
allusions to femininity, botany, and Haitian
mythology. She was born in Brooklyn, New York,
and received her BFA in Visual Arts from the
School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1997.
Recent solo exhibitions include The More I Let Go,
The More I Am Home, Little Haiti Cultural Center,
Miami (2016); If You Win Me, I’m Forever, Art and
Culture Center of Hollywood (2009); and Beautiful
Collision, Miami (2007). Other projects include
Ascent: Black Women’s Expressions, Fort Lauderdale
(2016); RE-Produce, Boca Raton Museum of Art
(2016); and Miami B.C., Little Haiti Cultural Center,
Miami (2015). She was awarded the Leo and Raye
Chestler Contemporary Visual Arts Award in 2004,
and the Jurors’ Award in 1997.