Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa
August 29, 2025 — October 10, 2025
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“This solo exhibition showcases a new body of work by St. Petersburg-based visual artist and poet Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (b. 1998, Colombia). Loaiza Bonilla, who currently serves as the Eleanor Merritt Fellow at the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at USF, crafts experimental work that transcends media and genre. This immersive exhibition centers on eight new, experimental video poems by the artist as well as interactive digital games and a curated reading nook. While deeply tethered to the artist’s personal journey as a queer, trans first-generation immigrant, all of these works conjure larger questions about what it means to confront intergenerational trauma; how memory work can engender and complicate forgiveness; and how poetics—digital and analog—can forge a path for authenticity, belonging, and healing.
Curated by Lesley A. Wolff, Assistant Professor, Art History and Museum Studies, Art + Design Dept., Exhibitions and Art Programs Coordinator, College of Arts and Letters at The University of Tampa.”
Camilo Loaiza Bonilla 