The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood invites you to see the works of the 24 artists selected to participate in the upcoming 2022 Florida Biennial exhibition. This 11th edition of the Center’s Biennial was juried by Ylva Rouse, Senior Curator at MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art), Jacksonville. Over 1,000 submitted works from 349 artists from cities throughout Florida were submitted. From the large number of submissions, 24 artists, representing eight Florida counties were selected by Rouse. One artist will be selected for a solo exhibition in 2023 and will receive a $1,000 honorarium. The selected artist will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on October 15, 2022.
As the title implies, a multi-media approach is revealed in the practices of artmaking by the participating artists. From traditional portraiture to recycled materials, the exhibition seeks to reveal a rawness that evokes our current times and experiences. As Rouse states, “Overall, the sense I get is an exploration of our place, in/with nature and in society right now, with a dominant strain of what I want to call magic realism, as well as an overall developed sense of materiality.”