USF Contemporary Art Museum

USF Contemporary Art Museum CAM is part of the USF College of Design, Art & Performance.

USF Contemporary Art Museum presents exhibitions of contemporary art from Florida, the United States and around the world, and manages the USF Collection comprised of more than 5,000 art works.

Breaking Barriers: Gathering Light, a new exhibition, opens Friday, May 22, at the Contemporary Art Museum, featuring an...
05/19/2026

Breaking Barriers: Gathering Light, a new exhibition, opens Friday, May 22, at the Contemporary Art Museum, featuring an artist panel and an evening opening reception. The curated selection of photography was created by veterans during 2025’s Breaking Barriers workshops, led by artist and educator Kristen Roles and assisted by US Air Force veteran Derek Hopkins.

It’s free and open to all. Closed Sundays and Memorial Day.

Museum hours are found at www.usf.edu/arts/events.

JOIN US FOR…Breaking Barriers: Gathering LightOpening Reception and Artists Panel: Friday, May 22 // 7-9pm, USF Contempo...
05/14/2026

JOIN US FOR…
Breaking Barriers: Gathering Light

Opening Reception and Artists Panel:
Friday, May 22 // 7-9pm, USF Contemporary Art Museum

The USF Contemporary Art Museum is honored to present Breaking Barriers: Gathering Light, a curated selection of photographs created through the 2025 Breaking Barriers workshops. These intensive online photography workshops—offered free of charge to veterans and their families in the USF community, Tampa Bay, and beyond—were led by artist and educator Kristen Roles, with assistance from US Air Force veteran Derek Hopkins.

Gathering Light reflects the many ways participants encountered, shaped, and gathered light, revealing it as both a physical phenomenon and a metaphor for perception, resilience, and connection. Through these images, Gathering Light honors the creative labor of all participants and invites visitors to slow down, look closely, and consider how the simple act of seeing and sharing what we see can help us better understand ourselves and one another.

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.
Editha Perez Heberlein, Glow and Shadow, 2025.

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USF College of Design, Art & Performance USF School of Art & Art History James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital USF Office of Veteran Success Hillsborough County, Florida Government

LAST CALL!Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition closes THIS Saturday, May 9.Thank you to the MFA studen...
05/06/2026

LAST CALL!
Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition closes THIS Saturday, May 9.

Thank you to the MFA students for their participation, the CAM and School of Art History faculty and staff for making it possible, and all who attended.

We look forward to seeing you May 22 for the opening of our next exhibition, Breaking Barriers: Gathering Light. This show presents a curated selection of photographs created through the 2025 Breaking Barriers online photography workshops (offered free of charge to US military veterans and their families).

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.
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04/22/2026

ON VIEW NOW: Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Brogan Willis, born in 2000, is a sculptor and designer from Cleveland, Ohio, and was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He completed his undergraduate studies at Penn State with a BFA in Sculpture. Willis’s work explores the intersection of athletic discipline, material labor, and cultural memory. Approaching sculpture through a process-driven lens, he tests how ordinary objects, particularly sneakers, can be transformed through repetition, endurance, and physical constraint. His practice reframes the “unnecessary,” reimagining footwear as vessels of identity, labor, and personal history.

Learn more about his work and process TONIGHT at our Panel Discussion: 6-7:30pm // USF Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall (FAH 101)

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.

Brogan Willis, Interference in Stride Shoe 1, 2026.
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04/21/2026

ON VIEW NOW: Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Diana Sosnowska (b. 1995) is a Polish-Italian visual artist working between Florida and Italy. She holds a BA in Photography from Robert Gordon University, Scotland. Her practice investigates how institutional regimes and scientific knowledge systems both record and construct knowledge. Through the manipulation of institutional, governmental, and vernacular archives, staged photography, and sculptural interventions, Sosnowska challenges dominant understandings of history and memory, exploring the spaces where truth and fiction converge.

Learn more about her work and process at tomorrow’s Panel Discussion: April 22, 6pm // USF Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall (FAH 101)

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.

Diana Sosnowska, SESSION DCC-14, 2025
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04/20/2026

ON VIEW NOW: Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Born in Oklahoma in 1984 and raised across Texas and the American South, Atia Shafie’s childhood shifted dramatically in the mid-1990s when, at the age of ten, she migrated with her family to Iran. The decade she spent there— negotiating new cultural codes while holding onto the remnants of another life—became the foundation of her artistic sensibility. Returning to the United States in 2005, she rebuilt her life independently. She pursued art studies, moving from graphic design to painting before ultimately finding her voice in sculpture and completing her BFA in Los Angeles, CA.

Learn more about her work and process at our upcoming Panel Discussion: April 22, 6pm // USF Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall (FAH 101)

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.

Atia Shafie, On My Mother’s Land, 2026.

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04/17/2026

ON VIEW NOW: Things Don’t Seem The Same: 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Through self-portraiture that foregrounds pleasure, vulnerability, and connection, Darlene Gold’s photography challenges cultural assumptions about age, sexuality, and female visibility. Her self-portraits position the aging female body as an active subject of desire. She extends this inquiry through performance and image-text works that explore erotic self-disclosure as both risk and agency.

Learn more about her work and process at our upcoming Panel Discussion: April 22, 6pm // USF Fine Arts Building Lecture Hall (FAH 101)

For more information, check out the link in our bio! Free and open to all.

Darlene Gold, Self-Portrait/Portal & Threshold, 2025.

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USF College of Design, Art & Performance USF School of Art & Art History

04/17/2026

Calling all artists in the Tampa Bay region!

Applications are now open for Skyway 2027: A Contemporary Collaboration, a triennial exhibition presented across five leading art museums in our region. Through this partnership, our museums work together to highlight local artists, support creative growth, and discover new talent shaping the future of contemporary art in Tampa Bay.

Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply.

📅 Deadline: July 1, 2026
➡️ Apply at: https://skywaytampabay.com

Know an artist who should be part of this exhibition? Share this opportunity and help us celebrate the creativity in our region.

Participating Museums:
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
The Ringling
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College
Tampa Museum of Art, Inc.
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