United Arts ColIier Inner Cartographies: Mapping the Self

Building on UAC's inaugural 2025  Latin Surrealism: An  ¡ARTE VIVA! Exhibition, an exploration of  Surrealism that ran May 5th – June 30st, 2025. This  2026 ¡ARTE VIVA!  exhibition's call invites UAC member artists and Collier community artists to dive into personal and cultural identity, mental landscapes, memory, and the examinations of self. Artists may also be inspired by visual “maps” of identity. 

¡ARTE VIVA! Inner Cartographies: Mapping the Self

Through painting, textile-based works, assemblage, and mixed media practices, participating artists chart interior landscapes that resist fixed boundaries revealing the self as fluid, layered, and continuously evolving. The exhibition considers the idea of “mapping” not as a strictly geographic act, but as a poetic and psychological one. Here, maps become metaphors for lived experience: pathways of cultural inheritance, fragments of memory, familial histories, and individual transformation.

Artists navigate questions of belonging and self-definition while tracing connections between the personal and collective. Together, these works form an evolving atlas of the inner self, one that honors cultural memory informed by personal and shared experience. Artists: Jonathan Martinez, Jessica Leon, Misoon Whang, Ray Gallo, Adorable Monique.

All exhibition artwork listed here: https://unitedartscollier.org/exhibitions/arte-viva-innercartographies-mapping-the-self/

 

 

 

 

 

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Norris Center, 755 8th Ave S., Naples, View Map