The Ringling Museum of Art presents “Nuestro vaivén (Our Sway)”— The Ringling’s first major exhibition “dedicated to contemporary Latin art.” Curated by Amy Rosenblum-Martín with Sarasota-based curator and Ringling trustee emeritus Javi Suárez, the exhibition opened on October 4, 2025, and runs through March 22, 2026.
Gallery Talks: October 7 and 21 (with eight Nuestro vaivén artists)
Panel Discussion: November 7, 2025
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Participants: The Ringling commissioned four new installations by pairs of artists: Adrián Gómez and Emily Martínez; Yanira Collado and Manuela González; Francisco Masó and Edison Peñafiel; and Karen Arango and Rigoberto Torres. They are accompanied by 14 works by 14 artists in three other exhibition spaces. These artists are william cordova, Diana Eusebio, Yessica Gispert, Nicario Jiménez, Tatiana Mesa Paján, Carola Miles, Glexis Novoa, Charo Oquet, Libbi Ponce, Gabriel Ramos, Selina Román, Destyni “desi” Swoope, Marisa Telleria, and Juana Valdés.
Juana Valdés explains, “My contribution will be installed in one of the museum’s glass alcove galleries, responding directly to the surrounding architecture and landscape. For me, this is a deeply meaningful opportunity to extend the conversations at the heart of my practice—about migration, colonial legacies, material culture, and how our lived experiences continue to transform the spaces we inhabit.”
Description: The Ringling is proud to present Nuestro Vaivén (Our Sway), one of The Ringling’s largest exhibitions of contemporary Latin art, opening October 4, 2025, through March 22, 2026. The 22 artists in this regional survey represent both the Americas and Florida: 11 Latin American nations and 11 Florida counties, from Osceola south, including Sarasota.
This unique art exhibition pairs these Latin artists from all over the southern half of the state, including the east and west coasts, with Latin Sarasotans who are leaders in other fields: Diana González, a Mexican radio personality; Dr. Manuel Gordillo, a Peruvian doctor; Gloria Noemy López Herrera, a Nicaraguan organizer of immigrant entrepreneurs; and Ada Toledo, a Dominican salon owner. These leaders tell the artists about their communities’ ideas, concerns, joys, challenges, achievements, and dreams. Then the artists create installations, both as art for the public and as settings for their partner communities’ private celebrations at The Ringling. Additionally, Nuestro Vaivén features an exhibition-within-the-exhibition of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, textiles, collage, ceramics, and video art, to highlight a broad range of contemporary Latin art from abstraction to realism, from minimalism to maximalism, from somber to playful in tone. Themes include family, work, the circus, rodeos, UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), beauty, light, nature, divinity, memory, health, mythology, epistemology, as well as Indigeneity and African, Asian, and European diasporas in Latin America. [. . .]
Guest curator Amy Rosenblum-Martín specializes in Latin art and community engagement. With strong ties to Florida, this New York-based curator helps the art world broaden audiences with her guiding question: “Who’s talking to whom?” As a former staff curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and The Bronx Museum, she worked for MoMA, the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros after receiving her MA in art history from Columbia University. She is co-curating the 2025 Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador). Her Ringling project partner, Community Curator Javi Suárez, connects this exhibition to Latin Sarasota. Born in Puerto Rico, and raised and based in Sarasota, Suárez is an architect, artist, and a Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Board Emeritus. Exhibition advisors include Francine Birbragher-Rozenwaig and Mercedes Soler-Martínez.
For more information, see https://www.ringling.org/event/nuestro-vaiven/
The Ringling Museum of Art presents “Nuestro vaivén (Our Sway)”— The Ringling’s first major exhibition “dedicated to contemporary Latin art.” Curated by Amy Rosenblum-Martín with Sarasota-based curator and Ringling trustee emeritus Javi Suárez, the exhibition opened on October 4, 2025, and runs through March 22, 2026. Gallery Talks: October 7 and 21 (with eight Nuestro vaivén artists)Panel Discussion: November 7,
