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USF Contemporary Art Museum is currently CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC for the installation of our next exhibition. Please join us Friday, April 4 at 7pm for the opening reception for the 2025 MFA exhibition.


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Thank You in Advance: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 4 - May 10, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum

This annual exhibition features Master's Thesis work by the 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History. This year's exhibition, Thank You in Advance, features artists Jocelyn Chase, Olin Fritz, Adrian Gomez, Michael Lonchar, Emily Martinez, and Tom Rosenow.






Upcoming Exhibitions


Richard Tuttle, Renaissance Unframed #17, 1994. Published by Graphicstudio, University of South Florida Collection

After Structure and Beyond Support

June 13 - August 2, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum

After Structure and Beyond Support are two related and concurrent exhibitions that complicate our accepted notions of support systems as both the formal structures of artworks and necessary aspects of social, cultural, and political life. After Structure, curated by Mark Fredricks, takes place in CAM’s West Gallery to pair a body of Richard Tuttle work with artwork from artist Mike Cloud. Beyond Support, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné and Mark Fredricks, is drawn entirely from the USF Collection and will be installed in the museum’s Lee & Victor Leavengood Gallery.


Brian Maguire, Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up, 2016. acrylic on linen, 290 x 270 cm / 114.2 x 106.3 in. Courtesy of the Tia Collection.

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion

August 29 - December 6, 2025
USF Contemporary Art Museum

Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion is an exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed Irish artist. One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. His paintings are global in scope and are derived from projects he undertook in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon. Maguire's artworks are painted from direct experience, after spending extensive time on the ground in each of the locations presented in the exhibition. The result are paintings that visualize the commonality of human suffering, something that most people avoid or try to forget. The exhibition is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.


Past Exhibitions

View the complete catalogue of USF Contemporary Art Museum's past exhibitions back to 1988, or use the pop-down menu below to visit exhibitions as early as 1997.



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