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Beyond the Gallery—Collecting from Nonprofits Talk at Untitled Art
Join DV at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2025. On Saturday, December 6, at 12 pm, Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova and Dennis Scholl will discuss collecting beyond the gallery and from nonprofits. Moderated by DV’s own—Laurie Rojas.
Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova was born in Havana, Cuba in 1973. He is an artist, curator, co-founder, and co-director of Dimensions Variable (DV) and resides in Miami. He attended the Ringling School of Art and Design as well as the New World School of the Arts. Rodriguez-Casanova is a recipient of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts and has been awarded two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships. He was also nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship and United States Artists Fellowship. His projects have received support from various entities including The National Endowment for the Arts, The Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the State of Florida, and he has been recognized as a five-time Knight Foundation award winner.
His work has been exhibited widely at Sculpture Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Abrons Arts Center, Anina Nosie Gallery, and White Box in New York; Museo de Bellas Artes and Factoria Habana in Havana, Cuba; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, Mexico; Capri Palace and Villa Lena in Italy; Prosjektrom Normanns in Stavanger, Norway; Shoshanna Wayne, LA; Casa Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia; PAMM, Frost Museum, The Bass, MOCA, DV, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, David Castillo, Emerson Dorsch, and Locust Projects in Miami. His work is in several public and private collections including PAMM, Frost Museum of Art, CIFO Collection, The Cintas Foundation, Sayago Collection, Villa Lena Foundation, and The Bass. His projects have been covered in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, Art Nexus, Arte al Dia, Artforum, Artsy, Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Miami Rail, and Miami Magazine.
His work is in select publications including Fortunate Objects, published by CIFO and Edizioni Chart, Milano; Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction, published by the Sayago Collection and Hatje Cantz, Berlin. Since co-founding DV in 2009, he has organized and curated many projects by local and international emerging artists.
Dennis Scholl
Dennis Scholl is an award-winning documentary filmmaker focusing on arts and culture. His interview subjects have included Robert Redford, Frank Gehry, Wynton Marsalis, Ai Wei Wei, and Tracy Emin.
He also maintains a studio art practice focusing on assemblage of historical objects. He mines archival materials creating unexpected entanglements between memory, artifact and conceptual drawings. Interrogating memory, Dennis uses source materials that reflect his own lived experience, like baseball cards, while also accessing more divergent historical and pop culture resources. His practice questions how we assign memory and value to objects and though it seems to conserve and resuscitate archival materials, it also reimagines its very forum. His work has been exhibited widely across Europe and in New York and Miami.
He is the director of the feature documentary The Last Resort, which won the Miami Jewish Film Festival Audience Choice Award, received a national theatrical release, and screened on Netflix.
His newest documentary, Naked Ambition, tells the story of Bunny Yeager, a pin up model who became America’s greatest pin up photographer. The film debuted at DOC NYC and is currently playing at film festivals around the world.
Laurie Rojas
Laurie Rojas is a Miami-based cultural mediator, independent art critic, and grant writing expert with nearly two decades of experience across North America and Europe. Her international background includes significant periods in Berlin, London, New York, and Chicago, enriching her global perspective on art and culture. In Miami, Laurie has served as the Grants Program Manager at Locust Projects, where she played a pivotal role in securing funding and managing grant programs to support innovative art initiatives.
She is also the founding editor of Caesura, an independent publication that reimagines art criticism, fostering discourse at the intersection of art, politics, and society. Laurie’s writings have been featured in esteemed international art publications such as The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Artsy, Art Basel, BMW Art Guide, Sotheby’s Magazine, and the Financial Times. Her work often explores the relationship and tension between art and politics, examining the conditions that shape artistic communities in global art hubs. With an extensive journalism background, Laurie has conducted over 200 interviews, gaining deep insights into the art world. She combines her scholarly approach with a genuine love for connecting with people from all walks of life, making her adept at moderating public panels and discussions that foster meaningful conversations in the global art ecosystem.
Her recent work includes the publication of her essay “Gothic: The Return of the Repressed” in the book Cases of Citation: On Literature in Art (2024), and the forthcoming publication of her graduate thesis on confronting the “death” of art criticism.
