Founded by artists for artists in 1998, Locust Projects is Miami’s longest running nonprofit alternative art space. We produce, present, and nurture ambitious and experimental new art and the exchange of ideas through commissioned exhibitions and projects, artist residencies, summer art intensives for teens, and public programs on contemporary art and curatorial practice. As a leading incubator of new art and ideas, Locust Projects emphasizes boundary-pushing creative endeavors, risk-taking and experimentation by local, national and international artists. We invest in South Florida’s arts community by providing artists with project grants and empower creative careers by supporting the administrative work of being an artist through an onsite artist resource hub and access to pro bono legal services.
We create opportunities for visual artists at all career stages by commissioning local, national and international artists to create new work through an open call process juried by a constantly rotating panel of local and non-local past exhibiting artists and local curators. Locust Projects gives artists the time, space, and resources to create new work on a large scale without commercial pressures or limitations of traditional arts institutions. Out-of-town artists are supported with residencies allowing them to live nearby and work in Miami to realize their projects. Artists have 24/7 access to work on their own schedules and terms. Powered by open-minded curators, artists, staff and housed in a flexible, former warehouse, we have the capability to support ambitious ideas, inviting experimentation and risk taking as part of a vital process for pushing one’s practice.
