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

At Spinello Projects, Antonia Wright pushes back on abortion ban

Antonia Wright reacts to the state of affairs over the shift in abortion rights in her fierce, yet delicate exhibition at Spinello Projects.

Surfside resident and Design District gallery owner takes Champla...

Surfside resident Oliver Sanchez called on the talents of his close networks of artists to create "CHAMPLAIN in memoriam" at Swampspace, his Design District gallery and studio space.

Miami Beach native Michele Oka Doner leaves footprint on upcoming...

Artist Michele Oka Doner will visit the "Aspen Ideas: Climate" beginning May 9 in her native Miami Beach. Her artistic legacy has long been inspired by Florida's fragile eco-system.

Review: Seeing MOAD’s ‘The Body Electric’ durin...

Exhibit on art and technology is on display at Miami Dade College's Museum of Art and Design through May 30.

‘Inter|Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City̵...

Traveling exhibition returns to Miami, where DVCAI has it on display through May.

MOCA’s ‘Life and Spirituality in Haitian Art’ e...

These master works have rarely, if ever, been exhibited, according to museum executive director Chana Budgazad Sheldon.

HistoryMiami’s ‘Collecting 2020’: Documenting a...

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.

In Miami Corona Project, artist Xavier Cortada creates daily jour...

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.

‘Imagine Visions of Hope’ encourages photojournalists...

The goal is for the online photo gallery to eventually become traveling exhibits around the world.

Review: ‘Aesthetics of Mobility’ offers corona-era in...

GeoVanna Gonzalez and Najja Moon's YouTube series focuses on the process of living in a tiny house.

How will Miami’s arts community survive? Groups answer call...

Art is increasingly coming online for the viewers, and critical financial resources are coming online for the artists.

MOCA’s ‘HamacaS’ exhibition invites visitors to...

Liene Bosquê's interactive art project is on view through March 29.

‘Diago: The Pasts of this Afro-Cuban Present’ aims to show how pa...

The exhibit, on display through Jan. 19 at the Lowe Art Museum, brings together 40 works from 1993 to the present.

Lowe Art Museum features Carlos Estevez’s distinctive visio...

Nine monumental, map-inspired paintings are on view at the gallery through May 3.

‘Post-apocalyptic’ Haitian art on display at Museum o...

“Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” was co-created by Haitian-American artist Edouard Duval-Carrié.

How Colombian artist Beatriz González got serious

"Beatriz González: A Retrospective" is on view through Sept. 1 at the Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Artists from Miami and beyond report on the Global South in new e...

Featuring works by 19 artists, "Echo-Natures: Cannibal Desire” is on view through April 17 at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.

Browse content by Author