Manuel Mathieu: Dwelling on the Invisible, an exhibition organized by Adeze Wilford, presented primarily new paintings, mosaics, and film addressing Haiti’s political climate alongside questions of identity, displacement, loss, and the artist’s search for self-understanding.

Manuel Mathieu: World Discovered Under Other Skies, a hosted presentation organized by Amin Alsaden, brought together paintings, drawings, and ceramics that merged abstraction and figuration to examine Haiti’s history, state violence, liberation, resistance, and global entanglements.

Leah Gordon: Kanaval, an exhibition organized by Adeze Wilford, surveyed 20 years of Gordon’s black-and-white photography of Carnival in Haiti, contextualized by oral histories from troupe leaders and a feature-length documentary.

My Name Is Maryan, a traveling exhibition organized by Alison Gingeras, was the first retrospective to examine every period of Maryan’s life and work, situating his figurative “truth-painting” within postwar art and his experience as a Holocaust survivor.

‍

After the Rain Comes Light: Portraits of Resilience, an exhibition organized by Amanda Sanfilipo Long, presented a collaborative project by Morel Doucet and Stephen Arboite that paired portraits of North Miami residents with local flora and fauna to address gentrification and celebrate the African diaspora.

Life & Spirituality in Haitian Art. Selection from the Betty and Isaac Rudman Trust Collection, an exhibition organized by Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, presented paintings from the Betty and Isaac Rudman Trust Collection that fused African, Indigenous American, and European traditions to explore Haitian identity, history, spirituality, landscape, and daily life.

Raúl de Nieves: Eternal Return and The Obsidian Heart, an exhibition organized by Risa Puleo, was the most comprehensive survey of de Nieves’s work to date, connecting his exuberant material practice to punk music, devotional ritual, celebratory queerness, and operatic performance.

Alice Rahon: Poetic Invocations, an exhibition organized by Tere Arcq, surveyed the French-Mexican Surrealist’s work while advancing scholarship on underrecognized women artists and the Indigenous and intercultural influences on European artists exiled in the Americas.

South Florida Cultural Consortium, an exhibition organized by Amy Galpin, brought together grant-winning artists from Broward, Martin-Monroe, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties to showcase the region’s diverse and innovative practices.

Collection Focus: Works on Paper from the 1960s–1980s, a collection-based exhibition organized by Elizabeth Shannon, launched MOCA’s Collection Focus series with works on paper from the 1960s through the 1980s, spanning drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, collage, and sculpture.

PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince, a hosted presentation organized by Edouard Duval-Carrié and Leah Gordon, brought together more than 20 Port-au-Prince artists whose work illuminated the Haitian capital’s history, music, politics, religion, architecture, art, and literature.

Mira Lehr: Tracing the Red Thread, an exhibition organized by Eleanor Heartney, used a large-scale multimedia installation and a winding red marine rope to invoke Ariadne’s thread as a metaphor for navigating nature’s complex systems in search of insight.

Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, a hosted presentation organized by Risa Puleo, was on view at MOCA North Miami from May 24 to August 5, 2018.

Lionel Smit: Obscura, an exhibition, explored evolving multiracial and multicultural identity through paintings and sculptures informed by Cape Malay communities in Cape Town and South Africa’s colonial history.

Jacob Felländer: How to Unlock a Portal, an exhibition organized by Robert Whitlock, traced Felländer’s photo-based practice from analog photography to virtual reality, presenting his exploration of layered time, perspective, and immersive image-making.

Édouard Duval-Carrié: Metamorphosis, an exhibition organized by Anthony Bogues, revisited Caribbean colonial history, sugar production, slavery, rebellion, and cultural transformation through a major reexamination of Duval-Carrié’s practice.

Synergism: The Art of Ekaterina and Victor Khromin, a hosted presentation organized by Maria Zavialova, merged painting’s line and color with sculpture’s dimensionality in collaborative work shaped by the artists’ lives between Soviet Russia and the United States.

Jean-Claude Legagneur: Faces of Freedom, a hosted presentation organized by Jorge Luis Gutiérrez, presented oversized portraits that captured human expression and nonverbal gesture while drawing on Caribbean, Black, Western, and diasporic representational traditions.

Antuan Rodriguez: The Other Dimension, an exhibition organized by Jorge Luis Gutiérrez, was on view at MOCA North Miami from November 30, 2016, to January 22, 2017.

SYZYGY, an exhibition organized by Tiffany Madera, featured work by Beatriz Ricco, Alessandra Santos, Griselle Gaudnik, Sandra Ramos, Charo Oquet, Barbara Bollini Roca, Laura Luna, Nereida Garcia Ferraz, Natasha Perdomo, and Nina Surel.

Rolando Pena: Black Gold, an exhibition organized by Jorge Luis Gutiérrez, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 15 to November 13, 2016.

Intersectionality, an exhibition organized by Richard Haden, addressed how overlapping forces including race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, faith, nationality, and colonialism shape bodies and lived experience.

Acta Non Verba: The Art of Marielle Plaisir, an exhibition organized by MOCA, explored cultural hybridity and Caribbean identity through carefully composed forms connecting the artist’s imagery to Caribbean aesthetics.

Carlos Salas: Latin American and the Global Imagination, an exhibition organized by Babacar M'Bow, examined the human condition and subjectivity through painting, sculpture, and writing conceived as sites of argument, intervention, and global dialogue.

Beijing Booster: The Art of Peter Wayne Lewis, an exhibition organized by Babacar M'Bow, presented works emerging from Peter Wayne Lewis’s self-described analytic practice of unbinding, decomposing, and sequencing forms to intensify sensory experience.

Ars Memoria: A Selection from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from June 20 to August 30, 2015.

Alternative Contemporaneity: Temporary Autonomous Zones, an exhibition organized by Richard Haden, examined intentional community, authenticity, and spontaneity through a group exhibition inspired by Hakim Bey’s concept of temporary autonomous zones.

Under the Bridge, Beyond the Beach and Above the Muck: The Art of Purvis Young, an exhibition organized by MOCA, presented a gift of works by Purvis Young from Ruth Shack in memory of Richard Shack.

Shifting the Paradigm: The Art of George Edozie, an exhibition organized by Nkiru Nzegwu, used George Edozie’s work to reconsider form, color, texture, and aesthetics beyond modernism through a proposed shift in human consciousness.

Third Space: Inventing the Possible, organized by william cordova and Gean Moreno, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 20 to November 2, 2014.

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, a hosted Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Trevor Schoonmaker, was on view at MOCA North Miami from April 18 to July 6, 2014.

Tracey Emin: Angel Without You was on view at MOCA North Miami from December 4, 2013, to March 9, 2014.

Love of Technology, organized by Alex Gartenfeld, brought together international artists who dismantled and reassembled familiar technologies to question how human relationships with devices and operating systems shape perception and ideology.

Open Systems: Works from the Permanent Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by MOCA, paired with Dawoud Bey’s Picturing People and selected permanent-collection works in which routine commands, collaboration, and interaction produced unexpected results.

Dawoud Bey: Picturing People, a hosted presentation organized by Susanne Ghez, surveyed 50 photographs ranging from street encounters to formal studio portraits, tracing Bey’s commitment to portraiture as a way of understanding contemporary society.

Bill Viola: Liber Insularum, a hosted presentation organized by Roc Laseca, surveyed immersive moving-image work by pioneering video artist Bill Viola, drawing on Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

Trading Places. Part II, an exhibition, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 12 to November 11, 2012.

Ed Ruscha: On the Road, a hosted presentation organized by Douglas Fogel, presented Ruscha’s artist’s book, six large paintings, ten drawings, and photographs inspired by text from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.

Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, a hosted Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Dan Byers, was the Icelandic artist’s first U.S. museum solo exhibition and surveyed a decade of video works shaped by music, theater, performance, and extreme environments.

Rita Ackermann, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, surveyed 48 paintings, drawings, and collages from 1993 onward, tracing Ackermann’s shifting visual language and her exploration of female liberation, literature, film, and philosophy.

Mark Handforth: Rolling Stop, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, brought together 25 sculptures from 1998 onward, using urban objects, altered scale, and luminous materials to give everyday forms poetic and comic personalities.

Pivot Points V: Teresita Fernández, a collection-based Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, reintroduced Untitled (Pool) (1996), Fernández’s first major installation and the first work shown in MOCA’s Pavilion Gallery during its inaugural exhibition.

Modify as Needed, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Ruba Katrib, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 23 to November 13, 2011.

Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever, an exhibition organized by Ruba Katrib, presented Any Ever, a seven-film epic produced in Miami with Lizzie Fitch and other collaborators, in its entirety in the city for the first time.

Pablo Cano: Seven Wonders of the Modern World, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from May 7 to May 28, 2011.

At Capacity: Large Scale Works from the Permanent Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from March 18 to June 5, 2011.

Open Process: New Work by Miami Artists, an exhibition organized by Ruba Katrib, was on view at MOCA North Miami from March 18 to June 5, 2011.

Jonathan Meese: Sculpture, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was the artist’s first major U.S. museum solo exhibition and focused on his three-dimensional work, from early talismans to large-scale sculpture across media.

Bruce Weber: Haiti/Little Haiti, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, presented approximately 75 photographs of Miami’s Haitian community made from 2003 to 2010, foregrounding immigrant struggle, strength, pride, resilience, and beauty.

PIVOT POINTS IV: Selections from MOCA's Permanent Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 16 to November 7, 2010.

Shinique Smith: Menagerie, a traveling Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was Smith’s first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition, bringing together installations, works on paper, and video that combined found materials, urban references, and art-historical sources.

Claire Fontaine: Economies, an exhibition organized by Ruba Katrib, was on view at MOCA North Miami from June 2 to August 22, 2010.

Serge Jolimeau and Michée Ramil Remy, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from April 16 to May 30, 2010.

Ceal Floyer: Auto Focus, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was Floyer’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition, surveying minimal conceptual multimedia works from the late 1990s onward that redirected attention to overlooked moments, language, and perception.

Cory Arcangel: The Sharper Image, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Ruba Katrib, was on view at MOCA North Miami from March 11 to May 9, 2010.

The Reach of Realism, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Ruba Katrib, examined how contemporary artists addressed the fusion of daily life and popular media, using realism as a political strategy while questioning images’ ability to convey objective truth.

Pablo Cano: Cavaletti's Dream, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 18 to November 8, 2009.

Pivot Points III: Highlights from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 25 to November 8, 2009.

Convention, an exhibition organized by Ruba Katrib, was on view at MOCA North Miami from May 21 to September 13, 2009.

Luis Gispert, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was the artist’s first comprehensive solo museum exhibition, bringing together large-scale photographs, videos, sculpture, and film made from 1999 onward.

Abstract Cinema and Technology, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, traced how technological innovations from the 1920s onward enabled artists to create abstract moving images, from experiments with celluloid, color, light, and sound to interactive digital media.

The Possibility of an Island, a Knight Exhibition Series presentation at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse organized by Ruba Katrib, used science fiction as a lens on fantasies of the future, escape, and contemporary social and political anxieties through work by international artists across media.

Anri Sala: Purchase not by Moonlight, a hosted presentation organized by Raphaela Platow, was on view at MOCA North Miami from December 3, 2008, to March 1, 2009.

Pablo Cano: The Blue Ribbon, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 11 to November 9, 2008.

Dark Continents, an exhibition organized by Ruba Katrib, challenged historical links between femininity and nature and reexamined ideas of the “primitive” and “exotic” through installation, murals, painting, sculpture, video, and collage.

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock & Roll Since 1967, a hosted presentation organized by Dominic Molon, was on view at MOCA North Miami from May 30 to September 7, 2008.

PIVOT POINTS I (Part 2). New Mythologies, a collection-based exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from April 12 to June 28, 2008.

PIVOT POINTS I (Part 1). Defining MOCA's Collection, a collection-based exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from March 25 to May 11, 2008.

Enoc Perez, a presentation at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse from December 6, 2007, to March 22, 2008.

Jorge Pardo: House (Mi Casa es su Casa), a traveling exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, presented sculpture, installations, and paintings as domestic vignettes that crossed boundaries among art, design, architecture, and utility in Pardo’s first comprehensive U.S. museum exhibition.

Pablo Cano: Viva Vaudeville, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 20 to December 29, 2007.

New Art: South Florida, an exhibition organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 8 to October 27, 2007.

Karen Kilimnik, a hosted presentation organized by Ingrid Schaffner, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 6 to November 12, 2007.

Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, a hosted presentation organized by Bennett Simpson, brought together three generations of European and American artists whose exchanges in Cologne during the 1980s and early 1990s reshaped contemporary art.

Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge. Part I, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was the first U.S. exhibition devoted to Merce Cunningham’s collaborations with visual artists from 1997 onward, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol.

Pablo Cano: City Beneath the Sea, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 28 to December 23, 2006.

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, a hosted presentation organized by Joseph D. Ketner, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 13, 2006, to February 7, 2007.

Artificial Light, a hosted presentation organized by John B. Ravenal, was on view at MOCA North Miami from September 15, 2006, to February 18, 2007.

Christian Holstad: The Terms of Endearment, a presentation at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse from September 9 to November 11, 2006.

metro pictures, Part Two, a hosted presentation organized by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, was on view at MOCA North Miami from May 4 to September 17, 2006.

Natalia Benedetti: Luminosity, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from February 24 to June 4, 2006.

Raqib Shaw: Garden of Earthly Delights, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami beginning February 18, 2006.

Malcolm Morley: The Art of Painting, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from January 21 to April 16, 2006.

Friends with You: Cloud City, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, was on view at MOCA North Miami from December 1, 2005, to January 29, 2006.

Isaac Julien: True North, a hosted presentation organized by Lauri Firstenberg, was on view at MOCA North Miami from November 23, 2005, to February 5, 2006.

Albert Oehlen: I Know Whom You Showed Last Summer, an exhibition organized by Bonnie Clearwater, focused on Albert Oehlen’s abstract paintings and his career-long challenge to the idea that painting and abstraction had reached an endpoint.

Pablo Cano: The Beginning, a marionette production organized by MOCA, was on view at MOCA North Miami from October 16 to December 18, 2005.