MMoCA Presents Federico Uribe: Metamorphosis | Metamorfosis

An exhibition celebration is scheduled for Saturday, September 30, 2023, from 5–8 PM, including a conversation between Uribe and Guest Curator Laura Dickstein Thompson from 6–7 PM in the Museum Lecture Hall. Admission to MMoCA’s galleries and exhibition events is free and open to the public.

Laura Dickstein Thompson, EdD, is the Guest Curator for Metamorphosis | Metamorfosis. Thompson has held leadership positions in museums for three decades, including as founding Director of Education and Curator of Kidspace from 2002–2023 at MASS MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts. There, she curated 30 exhibitions with renowned artists including Uribe, Wendy Red Star, and Ran Hwang, and developed community partnership programs exploring social justice, compassion, and socio-emotional learning.

About the Artist

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1962, Federico Uribe now lives and works in Miami, Florida. His artwork resists classification and emerges from intertwining ordinary objects in surprising ways that maintain a formal reference to art history. Uribe studied art at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá and received an MFA at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase, under the supervision of Luis Camnitzer. He later studied and worked in Cuba, Mexico, Russia, England, before settling in Miami.

Uribe’s work has been regularly shown at galleries and museums in Europe, Asia, and widely across the United States. His works are in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Vero Beach Museum, Florida; and Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, among others. Over the past decade, Uribe has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MASS MoCA; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; and has been featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale. Federico Uribe is represented by Adelson Galleries.