On View
Conversaciones: Latin American Indigenous Art
April 3rd – December 5th, 2025
This exhibition invites visitors to explore the dialogue between ancient and contemporary Latin American art. Conversaciones: Latin American Indigenous Art features newly acquired works by Ana De Orbegoso, a New York-based Peruvian-American interdisciplinary artist, and Nadín Ospina, an acclaimed Colombian painter and sculptor. Their innovative pieces are presented alongside rarely exhibited treasures from FSU’s collections, including Maya textiles, ancient Andean ceramics, metalwork, and other artifacts.
Drawing on FSU faculty expertise in ancient Latin American art history and archaeology, the exhibition offers enriched discussions of the contexts in which ancient Moche and Nasca objects were deployed, enriching the conversations about their meanings across time. Through this interplay, the exhibition explores Indigenous concepts of animacy, materiality, and sacrality, the connections between bodies and landscapes, and evolving notions of identity.
By bridging the ancient and the contemporary, Conversaciones celebrates the enduring vitality of Latin American Indigenous art and thought. Additional featured artists include Christian Bendayán, Lastenia Canayo García (Pecón Quena), Hoesy Corona, Francisca Rojas Pohlhammer, Rufino Tamayo, the De La Torre Brothers, and Kukuli Velarde.
Origins & Afterlives
April 11th – May 3rd, 2025
The Florida State University Department of Art and MoFA are pleased to announce Origins & Afterlives, an exhibition of works by Florida State University’s 2025 MFA graduating class Lua Barbosa, Katie Grinell, Jillian Heusohn, Kalee Iturrioz, Hannah Keats, Tevin Lewis, Liz Masterson, Audrey McKenzie, Chloe Sailor, Kim Springs, and Alina Valenzuela.
Origins & Afterlives explores themes of memory, bodies, environments, and identity- examining how stories originate and how they are collected, fragmented, or reimagined in their afterlives. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media, artists transform, deconstruct, and reconstruct- thread, pigment, pixels, organic matter- revealing cycles of preservation, entropy, and adaptation. Memory becomes subject and process through the collection of the ephemeral, and the ways personal and collective histories are altered and retold. Human and non-human bodies become vessels for resilience and fragility, a site of trauma, care, and transformation. Interspecies and intersystem relationships intertwine and shift, blending natural and digital to question hierarchies, networks, and speculative futures. As fragments are stitched, layered, and repurposed, Origins & Afterlives proposes an ongoing negotiation between presence and absence, permanence and decay- inviting viewers to reconsider what is kept, lost, or reborn.
Origins & Afterlives will only be on view from April 11 to May 3, so come out and celebrate the hard work of our MFA students over their time at Florida State.
