Skyway 2020 To Feature Artworks From Throughout Tampa Bay

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — The curators have announced the artists selected to participate in Skyway 2020: A Contemporary Colloboration, a special exhibition among the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Tampa Museum of Art and the USF Contemporary Art Museum of Art.

The call for artists was open from June through September 2019, and generated 300 submissions from Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Sarasota counties.

Skyway 2020 is the second iteration of the exhibition celebrating the diversity and talent of artistic practices in the Tampa Bay area. It is also an exercise in collaboration, as it is shared between four institutions. Working together, curators from these institutions are proud to provide context for artwork being made in Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas and Sarasota counties within the past year.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue featuring contributions from each institution, as well as guest juror Claire Tancons, an independent curator and scholar whose practice takes a global focus on the conditions of cultural production. Tancons has curated biennials around the world, including Prospect.1, New Orleans; the 2008 Gwangju Biennial; and the 2019 Sharjah Biennial.

Here are the 49 artists, their place of residence and the art institutions where their work

will be presented:

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (May 30 through Aug. 16)

• Robert Aiosa – Hillsborough
• Bassmi – Pinellas
• Savannah Bonnette – Hillsborough
• Dolores Coe – Hillsborough
• Keith Crowley – Sarasota
• Becky Flanders – Hillsborough
• Dakota Gearhart – Pinellas
• Morgan Janssen – Sarasota
• Ezra Johnson – Hillsborough
• Karl Kelly – Hillsborough
• Jon Notwick – Hillsborough
• OK! Transmit – (shared with Ringling)
• Gabriel Ramos – Pinellas
• Lynne Railsback – Sarasota
• Matthew Wicks – Hillsborough
• Janelle Young – Hillsborough

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (June 21 through Oct. 4)

• Carrie Boucher – Pinellas
• Ya La’Ford – Hillsborough
• Kalup Linzy – Hillsborough
• Noelle Mason – Hillsborough
• OK! Transmit – Pinellas
• Eric Ondina – Hillsborough
• Heather Rosenbach – Hillsborough
• Jake Troyli – Pinellas

TMA (June 25 through Oct. 11)

• Jaime Alaventhura – Hillsborough
• Kim Anderson – Sarasota
• Wendy Babcox – Hillsborough
• Janet Folsom – Pinellas
• Samson Huang – Hillsborough
• Jason Lazarus – Hillsborough
• Kirk Ke Wang – Hillsborough
• Cassia Kite – Sarasota
• Jenn Miller – Hillsborough
• Sarah O’Donoghue – Sarasota
• Herion Park – Sarasota
• Anat Pollack – Hillsborough
• Libbi Ponce – Hillsborough
• Selina Roman – Hillsborough
• John Sims – Sarasota
• Mike Solomon – Sarasota
• Jill Taffett – Sarasota

USF Contemporary Art Museum (June 22 through Sept. 5)

• Rosemarie Chiarlone – Hillsborough
• Danny Dobrow – Pinellas
• Babette Herschberger – Pinellas
• Akiko Kotani – Pinellas
• Cynthia Mason – Pinellas
• Ry McCollough – Hillsborough
• Casey McDonough – Pinellas
• Kodi Thompson – Pinellas