THE JUAN CARLOS MALDONADO COLLECTION ANNOUNCES A NEW CHAPTER: IT IS CLOSING ITS SPACE IN MIAMI
After a decade in the Miami Design District, the institution shifts its focus toward collaborations with museums, universities, and cultural organizations worldwide.
The Juan Carlos Maldonado Collection (JCMC) has announced the conclusion of operations at its exhibition space in the Miami Design District, marking the completion of a ten-year chapter as a cultural destination in South Florida. The institution transitions from a venue-based model to one centered on institutional collaborations, research, and expanded digital access.
"This is not an ending, but an evolution," said Juan Carlos Maldonado, Founder and President of JCMC. "Today, we look ahead to new ways of fulfilling our mission by collaborating with institutions and expanding access to the collection."
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Photo: Juan Carlos Maldonado by Íñigo de Amescua for El Español, 2024
Since opening in 2016, JCMC maintained a free, publicly accessible space that organized more than thirteen exhibitions exploring geometric abstraction, Indigenous knowledge systems, and contemporary practice, including The Ye'kwana Universe: Living in the Middle of the Jungle (2022–2023) and Urban Forms (2025–2026). The Collection's holdings span modern, contemporary, and Indigenous art from Latin America and beyond, including Ye'kwana artifacts and basketry acquired in 2018, and pre-Columbian ceramics and textiles added in 2024.
The Collection's impact extended internationally through traveling exhibitions and loans to leading institutions, among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fundación Juan March in Madrid, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. Convergencias / Divergencias. Dos estéticas en diálogo, curated by Ariel Jiménez, traveled to Casa de América in Madrid as part of ARCOmadrid 2025, and subsequently to the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO). Since 2016, JCMC has maintained a long-term loan of Jesús Rafael Soto's Penetrable BBL Bleu to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). In 2025, JCMC received the Fundación ARCO "A" Award for International Collecting.
Going forward, JCMC will direct its resources toward collaborations with museums, universities, and cultural organizations worldwide, alongside an expanded digital platform serving as the primary gateway to the Collection's artworks, publications, and programming.
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