MOAD Artist Residency Featuring Amanda Linares

MOAD will host Miami-based artist Amanda Linares for an artist residency at Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus. 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.

MOAD is proud to offer artists resources, support, and space to create in Miami. This artist residency will also invite the public to step into the studio and observe and interact with the artist at work, promoting conversations about process, multidisciplinary artmaking, and the role of the artist within learning institutions.

The Museum of Art and Design (MOAD) at MDC may document the event, including its attendees. By entering the area, and/or participating in the event, you consent to the recording and its use in any form.

MOAD's programs are made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor, and Board of County Commissioners. They are sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, and with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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