Jada Art
An arts organization that promotes artist-in-residences, scholarly programs, and exhibitions on Metamodern discussions. Based in Paris, New York, and Miami.
12/18/2025
We did it.
The 2025 edition of the JADA Art Fair during Miami Art Week, once again affirmed our position as a leading independent, movement-driven art institution.
Our goal was precise: to re-center artistic agency as a counterpoint to fragmentation. We achieved this by privileging raw artistic intelligence over spectacle, substance over trend, and creative integrity over noise.
This edition reaffirmed a fundamental truth: when artists lead with honesty and resolve, culture recovers its sense of direction. We did not merely participate in Miami Art Week 2025—we helped shape its discourse. Forward—deliberately, collectively, and without hesitation.
Participating Artists: JÔNATAS, Dana Blickensderfer Aviles, Alla Broeksmit, Maria Cosatto, Maria Blanco, Mariana Wenger, Iasmin Benayon, Jamie Straz, Stephanie Agudelo, Ora Fraze, Marius Wiget, Seth Benzel, Patrick Oleson, Marcus Blake, Midia Joy Hasso, Daniel Catania, John Urbain.
With Gratitude to Our Sponsors & Partners, and Collaborators: .mundane
12/03/2025
This weekend! JADA In-Persona December 6th & 7th
11/29/2025
opened its doors for a magical night with a performance by and an exhibition “FROM MIAMI, WITH LOVE” curated by Samuel Loetscher of JADA
Participating artists:
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Exhibition will be on view in First Miami’s Gallery until December 7th for Miami Art Week
11/20/2025
FROM MIAMI, WITH LOVE
This Friday November 21 join us for the opening reception during the Florida Grand Opera performance at 7:30pm.
📍609 Brickell Ave, Miami, FL 33131
On view through December 7
06/17/2025
Meet Jônatas Chimen, co-founder of JADA and a Paris-based multimedia artist whose work fuses painting, film, AI, and AR to explore identity, migration, and cultural hybridity. With over 12 years teaching in the U.S. and roots in the Spanish Realist tradition, he bridges classical training with cutting-edge tech to shape new narratives in contemporary art.
06/17/2025
Dana Blickensderfer Aviles (DBA), co-founder of JADA and a multidimensional force in the art world. From painting and installation to strategy and innovation, she leads JADA’s cross-cultural vision, connecting artists and curators across the U.S. and Europe. Her practice lives at the intersection of creativity, narrative, and leadership.
05/29/2025
Meet Samuel Loetscher, JADA Leader and powerhouse behind some of South Florida’s most dynamic cultural moments. As a writer for Miami New Times and founder of Samiami, he bridges storytelling with immersive event production—shaping the pulse of Miami’s art, music, and nightlife scenes.
05/14/2025
Meet Hugo Aviles, JADA Leader and Strategic Innovation Partner. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran and ethical innovation advocate, Hugo has driven scalable initiatives across tech, wellness, and medicine—building inclusive frameworks that center community and global impact.
05/14/2025
Introducing Dudz, JADA Collaborating Curator and GenAI consultant based in Paris. An educator and experimentalist, Dudz is at the forefront of digital art innovation—reshaping its boundaries with integrity, imagination, and intent.
05/14/2025
Honored to welcome Jamie Straz, JADA Leader and Cultural Architect based in Miami Beach. As a Jewish-Cuban architect, artist, and founder of Studio 3, Jamie draws from heritage and daily life to design with depth, memory, and forward vision—crafting a meaningful present shaped by both past and future.
04/22/2025
Meet Cristina Ortega, JADA Leader and visionary art historian and curator based between Spain and Paris. Her work in contemporary art brings vital conversations to light—exploring how artistic creation responds to the social, political, and cultural challenges of our time.
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JADA art
JADA artists share a philosophy central to their identity, as thinkers and makers. They acknowledge that no current or past Art movement is fully representative of their artistic disposition. They are mostly Y-generation adults, whose visual manifestations demonstrate a naivety that is both conceptually strong and highly informed. JADA is a Metamodern Art collective, mediating between aspects of both Modernist and Postmodernist theories. It diverges from Modernism as it defends absolute universal truths, and from Post-Modernism as it excessively embraces irony and the concept of l’art pour l’art. JADA’s contention with “art for art’s sake” stems from the lenience intrinsic to the concept. While recognizing that significant advances took place in the 1960’s and 70’s through Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg’s insights (i.e. that the painted surface should be the only valid concern of the artist), JADA understands that such notion also elevated mediocrity, thus hindered the future appreciation and sustainability of Art and Art careers. JADA understands that today’s society has grown detached from Art, partially due to Art’s detachment from society. By consistently rejecting deeper content, sincerity, narrative, folklore, observation of the natural world, examinations of the human condition, the didactic, the philosophical, the political, and the spiritual. Art has divorced itself from pivotal roles that it once occupied. JADA wants to change the status-quo, by mobilizing artists to embrace a pragmatic idealism as agents of culture, while challenging themselves scholarly, skillfully, and conceptually as makers of culture. It acknowledges that change will not come from the System, but from self-starting artists who can flourish in a globalized, fast-paced, technology-driven, information-rich, and culturally-underfunded world. JADA represents a murmuring artistic voice of the 21st century, as it rises to challenge the hegemony of the Establishment, to transform the perception of Art in society, and to occupy meaningful spaces in the macrocosm of the 2020s.
If you identify with any of these ideals, you are JADA too.