Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of Coronavirus

An Evolving Online Exhibition // June 6 – December 12, 2020

Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa.

Current Artist Contributions

// Marcos Agudelo // Diana Al-Hadid // Atelier Van Lieshout // Alberto Borea // Sebastiaan Bremer // The Bruce High Quality Foundation // Seth Cameron // Samantha Casolari // Rebecca Chamberlain // Jake and Dinos Chapman // Jordi Colomer // Patricia Cronin // Godfried Donkor // Dysturb // Inka Essenhigh // Maureen Gallace // Zhao Gang // Rico Gatson // Mark Thomas Gibson // Patrick Hamilton // Ellen Harvey // Yishai Jusidman // Deborah Kass // Basil Kincaid // Glenda León // Matvey Levenstein // Kalup Linzy // Hew Locke // Cristina Lucas // Narsiso Martinez // Eva and Franco Mattes // Allan McCollum // Richard Mosse // Angel Otero // Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara // Edison Peñafiel // Dagoberto Rodríguez // Anastasia Samoylova // Fernando Sánchez Castillo // Guy Richards Smit // Kiki Smith // Bosco Sodi // Tavares Strachan // SUPERFLEX // Sarah Sze // Jorge Tacla // Tony Tasset // Newsha Tavakolian // Janaina Tschäpe // Spencer Tunick // Rodrigo Valenzuela // William Villalongo // Kennedy Yanko // Lisa Yuskavage //

Life During Wartime is the USF Contemporary Art Museum’s first major virtual exhibition.  It humbly engages a select company of international artists to respond to the overwhelming realities of the crisis that has gripped the planet since March 5, the date the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The exhibition takes full advantage of one of the few outlets artists still have—the Internet—during a public health emergency recently exacerbated by the wanton murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis. It aims to mobilize sentiment, thought and activity around art and its enduring possibilities: its role as a conceptual catalyst, its ability to trigger ideas, stories, conversations, emotions, feelings and mental states. Separately and together, each artist contribution provides a picture of a planet in crisis, now further enraged and victimized by violence, but also images of hope and optimism in the face of a global emergency. The exhibition will continue to evolve with the addition of new artists and materials.

Made possible by Major Sponsor the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation, and by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.