Events

Amanda Linares Artist Reception

Saturday, Jul 18, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM - English

Join the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) and Amanda Linares at MDC's Kendall Campus Art Gallery for a reception celebrating Linares's artist residency.

Throughout the summer term, Linares will create new work and engage with students, campus groups, and members of the public.

Amanda Linares (Havana, 1989) is a Cuban-born visual artist who currently lives and works in Miami. Her work expands like branches, utilizing an immense variety of media, from design and drawing to installation and photography. She holds a technical degree in printmaking from San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana and a BFA in graphic design from New World School of the Arts in Miami.

Influenced by literature and spatial awareness, Amanda's work incorporates poetic language while exploring narrative and/or spatial elements through the use of reflection, transparency, revelation, found objects, and typographical solutions. Although her work is constantly evolving, it intimately explores a range of universal themes, including identity, displacement, absence, and reconnection. Since receiving her degree, the artist has exhibited at Deering Estate, Frost Art Museum FIU, Orlando Museum of Art, and Oolite Arts, among other venues.

• Refreshments will be served.
• Free parking is available in the MDC Campus parking lot adjacent to the art gallery.

Image: Amanda Linares in her studio, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Mateo Serna Zapata.