about Elisa Turner
Elisa Turner is an award-winning art critic and art journalist. In 2021 and 2020 she was awarded First Place for her Arts Commentary & Criticism and in 2021 Second Place for her Arts Beat reporting from Florida’s Sunshine State Society of Professional Journalists. In 2020 she was one of nine visual art journalists nationwide to receive the annual $50,000 Rabkin Prize. Other awards include the 2019 Leadership Award of the Florida Chapter of ArtTable and President’s Volunteer Service Award from Miami Dade College in 2012. Her writing has appeared in Artburstmiami, Art+Auction, Art Circuits, Arte Al Dia, ARTnews, Biscayne Times, Burnaway, Delicious Line, Hamptons Art Hub, Hyperallergic, Inspicio, Miami Herald, and Miami Rail. She has taught writing at Miami Dade College and guest-lectured at University of Miami and New World School of the Arts. Drawing on her research in Miami Herald archives, she wrote the foreword covering the Miami art scene from early 1980s to 2006 for Miami Contemporary Artists by Julie Davidow and Paul Clemence (Schiffer Books, 2007). Launched at Art Basel Miami Beach, this well-received book gathers statements by over 100 Miami-based artists with full-color photographs of their work. Her Miami Herald career began in 1986 and continued for 21 years. From 1995 to 2007, she was primary art critic for The Miami Herald, with international assignments to Havana Biennial, Haiti, Venice Biennial, and Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland. As Miami Correspondent for ARTnews magazine, she has written reviews, news reports, feature stories, and profiles of prominent figures in Miami's art community. She has taken part in over 20 panel discussions in Miami venues concerning the visual arts as panelist or moderator. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Section, and ArtTable, a national organization for women in visual arts professions.More By This Author
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Traveling exhibition returns to Miami, where DVCAI has it on display through May.
These master works have rarely, if ever, been exhibited, according to museum executive director Chana Budgazad Sheldon.
The museum seeks community participation to record what daily life was like as South Florida endured a barrage of historic events, including the pandemic, BLM protests and elections.
Presented in conjunction with the University of Miami’s COVID-19 Rapid Response effort, the project website invites the community to find information ... and solace.
The goal is for the online photo gallery to eventually become traveling exhibits around the world.
GeoVanna Gonzalez and Najja Moon's YouTube series focuses on the process of living in a tiny house.
Art is increasingly coming online for the viewers, and critical financial resources are coming online for the artists.
Liene Bosquê's interactive art project is on view through March 29.
The exhibit, on display through Jan. 19 at the Lowe Art Museum, brings together 40 works from 1993 to the present.
Nine monumental, map-inspired paintings are on view at the gallery through May 3.
Maria Daniel Balcazar's series of black-and-white photographs document intimate, up-close moments of daily life in "quilombos," autonomous communities established several centuries ago by runaway slaves.
The display occupies the Miami Dade College Cuban Legacy Gallery at MDC Special Collections.
Miami Beach native Mitchell "Micky" Wolfson Jr. donated the building and its collection of about 80,000 objects of art and design to the state of Florida, paving the way for FIU to operate the museum.
With its pumpkins and polka dots, Yayoi Kusama's enormously popular installation is meant to be a full-body experience.
"Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989" seduces and assaults with a powerful, seemingly endless stream of images drawn from two decades of radical change.
Thirteen artists from Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties are represented in “South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition.”
The Pérez Art Museum Miami exhibition features work by 14 artists from the region and its diaspora.
“Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books” features 32 works by 14 South Florida artists.
Two exhibitions offer contrasting views of the late Miami artist's work.
The bold, bright sun of what’s known as the Global South has risen in Miami, shining a can’t-miss light on
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Pieced together as a mosaic of glitter and gritty refuse, “Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” at Museum of Contemporary
“Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” was co-created by Haitian-American artist Edouard Duval-Carrié.
"Beatriz González: A Retrospective" is on view through Sept. 1 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Featuring works by 19 artists, "Echo-Natures: Cannibal Desire” is on view through April 17 at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
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