DV members and Soho Beach House: Art Club members are invited to a private tour of Salon Together, a small-works fundraising exhibition featuring artists who have shown with the nonprofit over the past 16 years. Guests will also have the opportunity to meet and tour the studios of our artists-in-residence: Liene Bosquê, Salua Ares, Moira Holohan, Alfredo Travieso, Karla Kantorovich, Felice Grodin, Karen Starosta-Gilinski, Marisa Telleria, Nicole Burko, Claudia Vieira, Anna Biondo, Frances Trombly, and Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova. Please RSVP to join us.
Studios
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.
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.
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.
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.
Felice Grodin
Felice Grodin lives and works in Miami Beach, Florida. Grodin received a Bachelor of Architecture from Tulane University (1992) and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard University (1997). Her work highlights the transformative and unstable state of our ecosystems. She depicts speculative futures and abstract landscapes that invite the viewer to mediate on their space and environment. Solo exhibitions include “Yellowjacket_2524” at Dimensions Variable (2024) in Miami, “IM/Movable Assets” at the Miami International Airport (2019-20), “Felice Grodin: Invasive Species”at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017-2019), and “Mezzbug (Offspring 3.0)” for Special Projects through Untitled Art Fair (2018) in Miami. Selected group exhibitions include: “Natured Studies” at Void_Melbourne (2024), “Draw: Point to Point” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2023) in Miami, “Elemental – Terra, Tide & Time” at The Frank Gallery in Pembroke Pines (2022), and “Tension in 3 Dimensions” at the Deering Estate (2019) in Miami.
Grodin was recently an artist-in-residence at the Oolite Arts Studio Residency (2019-22). Other residencies include the AIRIE Residency (Artists in Residence in Everglades) with her collaborative A.S.T. (2021). Grodin is a founding member of A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle) which is an initiative speculating on interconnections between climate change, real-estate development, contemporary art, geopolitics, infrastructure, and technology. Additionally, Grodin was awarded a Wavemaker Grant through Cannonball (2015), for her group exhibition “Residential Properties” that took place at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami. Her work is included in The Joann Gonzalez Hickey Collection in New York, Girls’ Club Collection in Ft. Lauderdale, as well as the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
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.
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.
Alfredo Travieso
Born July 1, 1973 in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. Alfredo was trained in film and arts in New York City. His studies include a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College; film directing and production, at Parsons New School University; and numerous production collaborations with New York University’s TISCH School of the Arts film program. He currently resides and works out of the city of Miami, Florida. He has obtained his MFA at the School of Visual Arts: Arts Practice Program in New York in 2014. Alfredo has had group exhibitions in Miami, New York and Philadelphia.
Salua Ares
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, and recently based in Miami, Salua Ares has been developing her artistic practice through hybrid approaches that move between photography, video, installation, text, and object. Her work focuses on what fades as much as on what is revealed within the dynamics of the contemporary world, exploring frictions between past and present, memory and invention, the visible and the latent.
Words have become increasingly present, as she investigates the dialogue between text and image, or text and matter. And she often explores monochromy and the restraint of composition as a counterpoint to the many forms of excess we are daily exposed to.
In 2023, she held her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo (MIS-SP), after being selected for the museum’s “Nova Fotografia” open call. The exhibited works have since become part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Salua holds a degree in Economics from INSPER (São Paulo, 2007) and in Photography from Escola Panamericana de Arte (São Paulo, 2017).
Claudia Vieira
Claudia Vieira is a multimedia artist based in New York City, expanding her practice in Miami, FL. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, she earned a BA in Social Communications before shifting to Fine Arts, obtaining a BFA in Studio Art, a certificate from the New York Studio School, and an MFA in Sculpture and New Forms. For over two decades, Vieira has explored the transformative potential of continuous lines through large-scale drawings, site-specific installations, and live performances. Her work, rooted in the performative act of drawing, meditates on movement, time, and presence. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Queens Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and the Kyoto Arts Center in Japan. A solo exhibition at Praxis, New York, featured her large-scale drawings and immersive live performances. Vieira has been recognized with numerous awards, including the XIV Salão da Bahia from the Museum of Modern Art in Brazil, the Projectiles Contemporary Art Prize from FUNARTE/the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, and the Urban Artists Initiative from NYFA/New York Foundation for the Arts.
Moira Holohan
Moira Holohan (b.1976, New York, NY; lives and works, Miami, FL). Raised in Manhattan, Holohan studied at iconic New York art schools such as the Arts Students League of New York, Cooper Union, New York Studio School, or the National Academy of Design School of Fine Art. Holohan was greatly influenced by some of her earlier training including her high school teacher Marc Schlesinger who assisted Lee Krasner, a renowned artist from the New York School. Holohan was an artist assistant to John Coplans (1995) and to Fred Tomaselli (1998). Holohan received a Masters of Fine Arts Degree at Hunter College, NY and a Bachelor Degree at Bard College, NY.
Holohan lives and works in Miami, FL. She was an artist in residence at Annex Arts in Castine, ME with a final exhibition, Subsurface(2019) and had a solo exhibition Green, at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden(2019) Holohan was one of the cofounders of meetinghouse, an exhibition space merging disciplines of art, design and architecture. She served as the Director of Art from (2015-2018). Since 2020 Holohan has been an associate artist at the Bakehouse, Miami, Fl.
Select group exhibitions include; A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Fl , (2017) Aesthetics & Values, FIU Frost Art Museum, Miami, Fl , Screen Dance Miami, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Fl (2016 ) Flow State: Thisishappening, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Fl (2014 ) Pattern State: Fringe Project, Miami, Fl (curated by Amanda Sanfilippo) (2014) Miami Light and Texture, Miami, Fl (curated by Kathryn Mikesell) (2014) Cortaditos, MDC Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Fl (2013 ) New Work Miami 2013, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Fl (2013), co-curated by PAMM associate curators René Morales and Diana Nawi. Practices Remain, Regina Rex, Queens, NY (2012), DCG 2012, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Fl , (2012); Practices Remain, Norwegian Wood Building, Miami Fl (2012); Split, General Practice, Miami, Fl, curated by Carlos Rigau (2011); Re-Framing the Feminine, Girls Club Web Project, Fort Lauderdale, Fl (2010); and Sky/water…Reproduction, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, Fl, curated by Carlos Rigau (2009 ).
Anna Biondo
Anna Biondo (b. 1975, São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works between São Paulo and Miami. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Drawing and Design from Faculdade de Belas Artes de São Paulo (2002) and a postgraduate degree in Visual Arts from Universidade Santa Marcelina (2004), where she studied under Leda Catunda. In 2022, she completed a postgraduate program in Analytical Psychology at the Freedom Institute and is currently pursuing advanced studies in mental health practices inspired by the work of Nise da Silveira.
Her artistic practice investigates symbolism, affective experimentation, and relational processes through installations and textile-based works. Working with pure wool felt and recycled, between embroidery and cut-out forms, Biondo creates malleable structures that engage transformation, memory, and shared narratives.
From 2004 to 2007, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) São Paulo, collaborating on the curatorship and production of exhibitions. Since 2020, she has been Director of Special Projects at The55Project in Miami, where she coordinates artistic programs, residencies, workshops, and art fairs, fostering connections between Brazilian artists and the North American art scene. She was part of the Red Thread Studio collective for two years and is currently based at Dimensions Variable.
Selected exhibitions include Remorph: Unending (Doral Contemporary Art Museum), Visions from Inside the Walls (Coral Gables Museum), What Does Miami Mean to You? (Vizcaya Museum & Gardens), The Things We Carried (Emporium B Gallery, Miami), Cargo (Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro), Just Breathe (The55Project, Miami Art Week), Lumen Art (Miami Art Week), among others.
Karen Starosta-Gilinski
Karen Starosta-Gilinski was raised in Caracas, Venezuela and born in Minnesota, USA in 1982. She holds degrees from the Accademia Del Giglio in Florence, Italy, and a BFA from Miami International University of Art & Design, graduated Cum Laude. Her practice incorporates found objects and altered materials, as well as comforting objects such as clay on canvas, plush toys and recycled objects to create a variety of assemblages and sculptures that are humorous, provocative to touch and heartfelt. She has had solo exhibitions at the Design District Dacra’s Melin Building, granted by former Miami Design District, Craig Robin’s collection and program curator, Tiffany Chestler. Starosta-Gilinski’s has exhibited twice at The Moore Building, supported by Design District DACRA. She has exhibited at the Art Culture Center of Hollywood, curated by Jane Hart. The Frost Art Museum, curated by Klaudio Rodriguez, former executive director of the Bronx Art Museum, NY, and now executive director and CEO of the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg.
Her group shows include David Castillo Gallery, The Bass Museum, Coral Gables Museum & The Freedom Tower, curated by Sonia Becce, also at Bakehouse, curated by former MOCA chief curator, Bonnie Clearwater, and Primary Los Angeles. A commissioned sculpture is in the permanent collection at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. Some international shows include London, Venezuela & Shanghai Art.
Starosta-Gilinski’s artwork is part of important private and public collections, such as FIU Frost Art Museum, Bass Museum President’s collection: Diane & Alan Lieberman, Bass Museum President: George Lindemann Jr., Art Collector & Miami Design District Visionary: Craig Robins, Alberto Chehebar, Paul Berg, Joseph Berg, Solita Cohen-Mishaan, Mario Cader-Fretch, Lolo Sudarsky, Felipe Grimberg & Eduardo Ojeda, Gallerist Jumanne Naamdie, Fredric Snitzer, John Linn, Valentina Tintori, Pamm Board members: Arlene & Wayne Chaplin, Fountainhead Residency founders: Kathryn & Dan Mikesell, Cota Cohen, Artist Liu Bolin, Typoe, between others.
Since 2012, Karen Starosta-Gilinski, has presented workshops as Guest Artist, for adults and children at The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Design District), Oolite Arts, PAMM, The Underline, The Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, Site 95 Brooklyn-based Gallery at Bayfront Park, Design District Family Day, and Coral Gables Museum. Karen is a former pioneer artist at The Fountainhead Studios and at her current studio, Located at “City State” in Little River, Miami, directed by fellow artist, Jillian Mayer; visits can be arranged by appointment.
Karen has had her work displayed at The PAMM Museum Shop, and is currently on view at the vibrant Bass Museum Shop.
Starosta-Gilinski’s work has been featured in Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Ocean Drive Magazine, New Times, White Hot Magazine, Tide Magazine, Art Nexus Magazine, Haute Living, [NAME] Publications, Casacor, Design District Magazine and more. She was named Miami Design District Ambassador 2014, and was part of The MOCA shakers board committee 2007.
