Dalton Gata: The Way We'll Be
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
May 7 – November 21, 2021
In Cuban-born, Puerto Rico-based artist Dalton Gata’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition, ICA Miami presents his surrealistic installations across media, which explore his personal experiences, queer and popular culture, and psychological and mythical symbols. The artist’s recent focus on metaphysical still-lifes is reflected through newly commissioned paintings and sculpture that depict symbolic elements in human scale, such as monsters, masks, and a pearl that doubles as an 8-ball.
Trained as a fashion designer, Dalton Gata reimagines craft to consider its relationship to identity and sexuality, creating innovative works across mediums. Dalton Gata’s work draws from an expansive and deeply personal archive of images assembled by the artist over the past five years, including a trove of digital sources. His practice is also profoundly impacted by his experience of immigration, and explores the diasporic conditions of Cuba in the Caribbean through symbolic landscapes and the incorporation of cross-cultural references.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MIAMI
61 NE 41st Street, Miami, Florida 33137
