Visit our Open Studios on January 30, 2025, and see the working spaces of seven dynamic artists. Visit the studios of Chris Byrd, Liene Bosquê, Nicole Burko, Karla Kantorovich, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Marisa Telleria, and Frances Trombly. Refreshments will be available, and the event is open to all.
Studios
Chris Bryd
Christopher Byrd was born in Melbourne, Florida, and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Byrd received a Master of Fine Art from American University (2004) Washington, DC, and a Bachelor of Fine Art (1992) from the Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. The artist’s work is composed of a rigorously structured geometric abstract language that is simultaneously hard-edged, ordered and rational, yet fluid, lively and emotional. With such a dualistic approach, the artist explores multi-faceted ideas of Beauty through a dynamic allegorical language. Selected solo exhibitions include “ From Observation” (2020) Dimensions Variable, Miami, Florida, and “Adventureland” (2006) David Castillo, Miami, Florida. Selected group exhibitions include “Interaction” (2019) Art and Cultural Center, Hollywood, Florida “I See The Spotlight In You” (2018) Emerson Dorsch, Miami, Florida and “Searching For Love And Fire” (2006) David Castillo, Miami, Florida. Collections include the Watkins Collection at American University, Washington, DC, and Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco, California.
Liene Bosquê
Liene Bosquê is a visual artist and art educator based in Miami. Bosquê’s installations, sculptures, site-specific projects, as well as social engaged practice works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States at MoMA PS1 in New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Frost Art Museum in Miami, among other places. Her artworks were also included in international exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea; at places such as Museu de História Natural in Lisbon, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto and Sesc São Paulo. Her work is in major collections, such as the Perez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM), Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, Soho House and private collections internationally.
In 2023, Liene received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship. Bosquê received the Ellies Creator Award, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards, and a WaveMaker Grant to present HamacaS Project. First iteration of this socially engaged project was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami (MOCA NoMi) during February 2020.
Bosquê was artist in residence at Oolite Arts 2023-24 in Miami Beach. In 2019 she was at residencies in New York such as Wave Hill, Bronx and Queens Museum’s ArtBuilt. In 2016, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, where she presented her first public sculpture.
Liene Bosquê holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the São Paulo State University, and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University in Brazil, where she is from. Bosquê is professor at University of Miami.
Nicole Burko
Nicole Burko was born in Toronto, Canada in 1987. Burko holds an MFA from Columbia University (2019) and a BFA from the New World School of the Arts (2011). Her works have been exhibited in prestigious museums and institutions in NYC and Miami, including the Frost Art Museum. In addition to her artistic practice Nicole is an experienced educator having worked as an assistant professor at Columbia University and currently teaching visual art at Miami Arts Charter School. Burko’s paintings are informed by her own explorations of the ocean through freediving—the act of taking a single breath of air and descending into the ocean as far as humanly possible. The resulting psychological landscape paintings investigate the vastness of the natural world through an intimate lens.
Karla Kantorovich
Karla Kantorovich is a mixed media artist from Mexico City-based in Miami, FL. She works with paintings, textiles, hand-made paper, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality to explore renewal. Karla’s art is a testament to the transformative power of nature. She brings the outside world into our realms, allowing us to explore the profound togetherness that binds us to the natural environment. By deconstructing and reassembling sustainably sourced materials, Karla creates a visual language that speaks to the ephemeral nature of life, the beauty of decay, and the intricate layers that compose our collective story.
Kantorovich received the Ellies Creator Award 2021 from Oolite Arts, leading to her immersive art installation “AMATE” at Piero Atchugarry Gallery in 2022. She also received an Honorable Mention at the XIX Bienal Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, exhibiting at the Museo Rufino Tamayo and the MACO Museum of Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has showcased her work nationally and internationally, including at the XIX International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, the MFA Exhibition at the Frost Art Museum, the Mexican Consulate in Miami, and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
Kantorovich holds a Master of Fine Arts from Florida International University. Actively engaging with the community is of utmost importance to her; she works as a teaching artist aiming to inspire, connect, and provoke meaningful dialogues, embodying the potential for regeneration and growth.
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova was born in 1973 in Havana, Cuba and currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. He is one of the founders and directors of Dimensions Variable (DV) in Miami, FL.
Select exhibitions include Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Miami; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; The Center for Architecture and Design, Miami, FL; Factoria Habana, Havana, Cuba; Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, Miami, FL; ZONA MACO Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway; Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida; David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL; Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Colombia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Selected collections include Sayago & Pardon Collection, San Diego, CA; Alfredo Hertzog Da Silva, Sao Palo, Brazil; Cintas Foundation Collection, Miami, FL; The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; Capri Palace, Capri, Italy; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) Miami, FL; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Frost Museum of Art, Miami, FL. Select coverage of Rodriguez-Casanova’s projects have been in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, Art Nexus, Sculpture Magazine, The Miami Rail, Temporary Art Review, ArtSlant, Aesthetica Magazine, The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, PBS News Hour and The Miami New Times.
Marisa Telleria
Born in Nicaragua, Telleria moved to the United States in 1978. In 1993, she earned a BFA from Florida International University in Miami and in 1996, a MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, both magna cum laude, after receiving several awards and distinguished fellowships. She has lived and worked as a professional artist in Washington DC, New York City, Managua and Miami. Her work has been shown in solo as well as group exhibitions in museums and galleries in the US, Latin America and Europe. Selected museum shows are The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the Albright Knox Gallery, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Frost Museum of Art, The Perez Art Museum and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Her work is represented in several private collections and in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Women in the Arts both in Washington DC, the Frost Museum of Art in Miami, Fl, and the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC. Her work has also been included in biennials at the Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, the Contemporary Museum, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Fundación OrtizGurdian, Managua, Nicaragua. She currently lives and works in Miami.
Frances Trombly
Frances Trombly has exhibited nationally and internationally, with important institutional solo exhibitions at Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Girls’ Club Collection in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; and the Goldie Paley Gallery at the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. She is represented in diverse and international public and private collections, with a strong base in FL, a reflection of making Miami, FL her home. Trombly is also co-founder and co-director of an alternative art space in Miami called Dimensions Variable. Her extensive bibliography reflects both her art practice and her role at DV. She is represented by Emerson Dorsch, Miami and Shoshana Wayne, Los Angeles, CA. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and completed residencies at Artpace, San Antonio, TX, Oolite Arts in Miami Beach, FL, the Capri Palace in Anacapri, Italy, and the Vermont Studio Center. Trombly has exhibited throughout the US, as well as venues abroad, including important group exhibitions, such as Happy at NSU Art Museum (2019), Stitch, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design (2017), Textures of Place, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway (2014), Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum Miami (2013), and united states, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2012). In addition to these shows, institutions who have exhibited her work in solo and group shows include: Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA; Girls’ Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Perez Art Museum Miami, FL; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketcham, Idaho; L’Œil de Poisson, Manif d’art, Québec City Biennale, Quebec City, Canada.
