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RSVP NOW: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 🎤✨ ARTIST TALKS: RYAN INOUYE ✨🎤

Join us for the return of ARTIST TALKS with curator Ryan Inouye ()!

Ryan Inouye is Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator of the 59th Carnegie International: If the word we (2026–27) and Curator, International Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. He is also a member of the curatorial team of the upcoming 37th Bienal de São Paulo (2027).

🗓 Wednesday, September 30
🕖 7–9pm
📍 Locust Projects
🎟 FREE (register at link in bio!)
🚗 Street parking available

ARTIST TALKS invites past Locust Projects exhibition artists back to Miami to reflect on their time at the space and trace the evolution of their practices and careers in the years since. Each conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from artists whose work has been central to Locust Projects’ programming—and whose practices continue to shape contemporary art.

CURATOR TALKS and ARTIST TALKS are supported by a CreARTE grant from The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation The Miami Foundation. CURATOR TALKS are presented by VIVANT SKIN CARE. Additional support is provided from The Wege Foundation, the Grob Gift Fund, and Vagabond Boutique Hotel Miami

🎤✨ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ✨🎤

Last week, we continued our ARTIST TALKS series with an incredible evening with 2023 past exhibiting Locust Projects artist Tania Candiani!

In her talk Todo Suena (Everything Sounds), Candiani traced the evolution of a practice in which sound becomes a way of translating—and reimagining—the relationships between language, machines, labor, ancestral knowledge, and the natural world. Moving through major international installations and performances from across her career, Candiani shared how she transforms everything from looms and obsolete technologies to waterways, birdsong, and the human voice into instruments for exploring how knowledge is carried, communicated, and heard.

It was a pleasure to welcome Tania back to Locust Projects and to hear firsthand about the research, experimentation, and curiosity behind a body of work that continually asks us to listen differently—to machines, histories, landscapes, and one another.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and brought such thoughtful questions to the conversation. We’ll share the video recording as soon as possible on our YouTube channel! 🩷🦜🪡📣

MARK YOUR CALENDARS 👀

 Next up: CURATOR TALKS with Ryan Inouye (), Kathe and Jim Patrinos Co-Curator of the 59th Carnegie International: If the word we (2026–27) and Curator, International Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Register at the link in bio!

ARTIST TALKS and CURATOR TALKS are supported by a CreARTE grant from The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation The Miami Foundation. CURATOR TALKS are presented by VIVANT SKIN CARE. Additional support is provided from The Wege Foundation, the Grob Gift Fund, and Vagabond Boutique Hotel Miami

🎂💥 IT’S MUNISHA’S BIRTHDAY! 💥🎂

Help us celebrate the one and only Munisha Underhill! We’re raising a glass (or two 😉) to our Deputy Director and all the energy, vision, and good vibes she brings to Locust Projects.

Happy birthday, Muni! We hope your day is as fabulous as you are! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

: Niñalandia has landed in Times Square! 🎀🌈✨

We’re excited to celebrate LIZN'BOW, the Miami-based artist duo of Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty, whose parafictional universe is taking over more than 100 electronic billboards across Times Square this month as part of Times Square Arts’ September .

🎀 El Mundo es Niña 🎀 invites viewers into the duo’s colorful, surreal universe, transforming pop culture references, nostalgia, humor, and q***r-futurist perspectives into an immersive digital landscape. The work screens nightly from 11:57pm–12:00am through September 30.

LIZN’BOW are 2022 Locust Projects WaveMaker Grantees and previously presented Niñalandia Skycoaster at Locust Projects in 2024 as part of Knight Digital Commissions. The multimedia installation transported visitors into their Niñalandia Mixed Reality Multiverse—a q***r-futurist, post-apocalyptic version of Miami—through a VR rollercoaster, digital animation, sound, and their very own custom-wrapped 2006 Buick Rendezvous. 🎀🚗💫

Congratulations, Liz & Bow! 👏✨ We love seeing you continue to build out the wildly imaginative world of Niñalandia.

🔥 Coming in hot! We just dropped our INCUBATORS Fall Calendar! ✨ Members of the Locust Projects family are invited to enjoy unique art events and behind-the-scenes experiences immersed in our community.

This Fall there are many fun opportunities to enjoy events with exhibiting artists, Meet the Artist openings, ArtVentures to private collections, artist studios and other fabulous locations, Artist Dinners co-created and inspired by artists offering unpredictable glimpses into their worlds, our monthly Wednesdays with ____ + Locust Projects for evenings highlighting cultural happenings and local partnerships, and access to Miami Art Week VIP passes and events that week! 🎨🥂

Indulge with like-minded art enthusiasts — creating, collecting and connecting — while supporting artists! Not a member yet? Monthly payment options are available starting at $45 a month and your donation is fully tax-deductible! JOIN NOW through the link in bio and HELP MAKE ART HAPPEN. 💫

Introducing the 2026 WaveMakers! Congratulations to Teri Watson on their Implementation  for their project, SEED Erosion Blocks.

SEED Erosion Blocks is a research-driven installation that repurposes invasive sargassum seaweed into modular concrete blocks designed to stabilize shorelines and support coastal plant growth. Developed through interdisciplinary collaboration with engineers and marine scientists, the project combines climate-adaptive design with material science that repurposes waste as infrastructure. Each block integrates planter cavities and solar lighting, forming a scalable prototype for erosion control that doubles as public art. Installed at sites across South Florida’s beaches, SEED Erosion Blocks introduce an experimental model for sustainable coastal design rooted in art, science, and site-specific research.

 at Locust Projects are made possible by lead support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation  , a network of 41 partner organizations across the country.

 

Introducing the 2026 WaveMakers! Congratulations to Enrique Villacreses on their New Work  for their project, NIJI: BLUE.

Niji: Blue is a large-scale outdoor visual installation and performance that transforms a sports field into an immersive monochromatic landscape of movement, inflatable sculpture, and aerial cinematography. Audiences are invited onto the field to experience shifting compositions of performers and sculptural forms while a drone livestream reveals the work from above as a living abstract artwork.

 at Locust Projects are made possible by lead support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation  , a network of 41 partner organizations across the country.

 

Introducing the 2026 WaveMakers! Congratulations to Oscar Rieveling on their Research & Development  for their project, La Diosa de Oro (“The Golden Goddess”).

La Diosa de Oro (“The Golden Goddess”) is a multidisciplinary performance inspired by the life and legacy of Peruvian-Chilean bullfighter Conchita Cintrón and the engineered ecology of Miami Beach. Through choreography, projected video, and an original sound score, the immersive work re-imagines the ritual structure of the “corrida” within a coastal landscape shaped by ongoing cycles of erosion 
and reconstruction.

 at Locust Projects are made possible by lead support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation  , a network of 41 partner organizations across the country.

 

Introducing the 2026 WaveMakers! Congratulations to Najja Moon on their New Work  for their project, Movement Studies.

Movement Studies is a public lecture-performance series that approaches art history through the lens of basketball. Presented on outdoor basketball courts across Miami-Dade County, each court is temporarily transformed into a classroom where audiences gather to examine artworks, artistic movements, and key ideas from the history of visual art. Using basketball as a form of art historical literacy, the project offers new pathways into art history for audiences who may not encounter it through traditional institutions, while inviting art audiences to reconsider basketball as a rich cultural and aesthetic framework. Each public course is recorded and edited into an online educational series, extending the project beyond the live audience while preserving its central commitment to free, site-specific public learning.

 at Locust Projects are made possible by lead support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation  , a network of 41 partner organizations across the country.

 

Introducing the 2026 WaveMakers! Congratulations to Bex McCharen on their New Work  for their project, Q***r Atlantics Film.

Q***r Atlantics is an experimental documentary short film and archive of trans and gender-expansive communities in Miami who gather in and around water as a site of transformation and spiritual renewal. The project expands on a series of collective textile and quilted works, culminating with a public shoreline film screening accompanied by a collective ocean soaking ritual. Through oral histories with Miami-based trans and gender-expansive participants, Q***r Atlantics positions South Florida’s q***r communities as deeply rooted, resilient, and adaptive within the coastal ecosystems they call home.

 at Locust Projects are made possible by lead support from the The Andy Warhol Foundation  , a network of 41 partner organizations across the country.