Florida Room No. 1
Group Exhibition

March 13 – April 17, 2022

OPENING RECEPTION MARCH 13TH, 2-5 PM
1322 SW 11 TH STREET
MIAMI FL 33135

KDR305 presents Florida Room No. 1, featuring 24 artists, writers, and makers in an eclectic sunroom setting.

Florida Room No. 1 acts as a survey of subtropical artists living and working from Miami and beyond. Inspired by the Greater NY show at MOMA PS1 that assembles artists from the metropolitan area, this exhibition celebrates a snapshot of Floridian artists' uncanny and familiar “humid” thread they all share through various practices in an intergenerational grouping.

KDR305 is housed in a structure from 1920 which lends itself as a perfect setting for this show. Subtropical weather like hurricanes, hot vaporous summers, and mild winters have permeated through these untraditional walls of the sunroom (now a gallery) for the last 102 years. 

Thematically the artworks overall range from the organic, nautical, historical, fantastical, sometimes problematic, political, climate-related, floral, fauna, folklore, underwater, over water, of course, the beauty, and most of all the quirkiness that is the peninsula! 

The exhibition is framed in the John James Audubon engraving of the Roseate Spoonbill, a species of particular concern in Florida. Serving as a beautiful reminder of the ecological fragility of this majestic state. 

Florida Room No1 most of all encapsulates the feeling of Florida as it is a special place all the artists call home, rain or shine.

Jason Arles ( b. 1983 ), Zack Balber ( b. 1983 ), R. Beans ( b. 1986 ), Kelly Breez ( b. 1985 ), Autumn Casey ( b.1987 ), Beatriz Chachamovits ( b. 1986 ), Max Ferro ( b. 1985 ), Naomi Fisher ( b. 1976 ), Raymond Fort ( b. 1988 ), Rodrigo Gaya ( b. 1987 ), Adler Guerrier ( b. 1975 ), Islandia Journal ( est. 2019 ), Justin H Long ( b. 1980 ), Carly Mejeur ( b. 1986 ), Nicole Mijares ( b. 1990 ), Jessy Nite ( b. 1985 ), Ian Patrick O'Connor ( b. 1982 ), Brett Olivieri ( b. 1986 ), Lauren Shapiro ( b. 1984 ), Paul Anthony Smith ( b. 1988 ), Magnus Sodamin ( b. 1987 ), Cornelius Tulloch ( b. 1997 ), Alexandra T. Vazquez ( b. 1976 ), Purvis Young ( 1943 – 2010 )

KDR305 is a contemporary exhibition space housed in a 101 yr old cottage in the heart of Little Havana, Miami, FL. The exhibition opens Sunday, March 13, from 2 pm - 5 pm. Rideshare is encouraged as there is little public street parking. For images, information and appointments, please contact katia@kdr305.com.