Curating Emerging Latin American Voices
Curator · Art Critic · Editor
Based in Miami
About Shirley Moreira
Shirley Moreira is an art historian, curator, editor, and art critic based in Miami. A graduate of the University of Havana, Cuba, she has curated exhibitions presented at the Havana Biennial, Art Verona, the Instituto Cervantes in Rome, and various galleries in Havana and Miami.
Her essays and reviews have been published in books, catalogues, and specialized journals such as ArteCubano, CdeCuba, and Art OnCuba. With a strong focus on emerging Latin American art, Moreira explores the intersections of image, identity, memory, and politics, analyzing how visual practices engage with social contexts and power narratives.
She has worked as an editor for art books and exhibition catalogues, and has taught courses in Art History, Appreciation, and Photographic Composition. Her curatorial vision combines the intellectual rigor of critical theory with an intuitive sensitivity to visual storytelling and cultural context.
She is currently serving as Curator-in-Residence at MIFA (Miami International Fine Arts)
MOVArts by Shirley Moreira
Discover MOVArts: A space for creative encounters
MOVArts emerges as a space for artistic growth, critical reflection, and collaboration among Emerging Latin American Artists. It is a project in constant motion, one that accompanies and nurtures creative processes, offering guidance and support from the birth of an idea to the realization of an exhibition.
With a sensitive eye on themes of identity, memory, and the human experience, MOVArts encourages dialogue between artistic disciplines and between art and life itself. Each collaboration becomes an act of exploration, where artworks discover new ways to inhabit and communicate the world around them.
Through a practice that weaves together curatorship, critique, and art consulting, MOVArts is dedicated to supporting the processes of creation, reflection, and presentation in contemporary art. Its mission is to amplify artists’ ideas, strengthen their voices, and create spaces for meaningful and coherent projects to emerge.
Directed by Shirley Moreira, MOVArts serves as a bridge between voices, territories, and sensibilities—a meeting point where the visions of Emerging Latin American artists expand, intertwine, and reach beyond the limits of creation.
News & Reviews
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
Adrián Fernández (La Habana, 1984) is one of those artists of restless intellect. The image is not only visual support for him but becomes alive in each one of his proposals and is the essence of his creative condition. Even surrounded by the most dissimilar environments, Adrián does not feel that everything can be an efficient reason to
Adrián Fernández (La Habana, 1984) is one of those artists of restless intellect. The image is not only visual support for him but becomes alive in each one of his proposals and is the essence of his creative condition. Even surrounded by the most dissimilar environments, Adrián does not feel that everything can be an efficient reason to issue a coherent discourse using photography. He analyzes the environment, the impulses and ideas with mistrust; he struggles to select an original and sufficiently versatile topic that, even emerging from the context in which he develops, may be capable of connecting with a broader universe of meanings.
In his work, the artist penetrates the visual sphere. He is interested in exploiting to the utmost the possibilities of the photographic means and achieving a formal result that will dialogue about the individual and identity without having to appeal to trite codes. He is seldom satisfied with the initial results of the creative process; each idea must be a challenge, each work must go beyond the searches of the one that preceded it.
Whispers of the Skin
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
As part of Pride Month, Whispers of the Skin opens at Mundo Arte Gallery on June 14, 2025, offering a striking visual journey into the male body as a site of emotion, memory, and transformation. Curated by Shirley Moreira, the exhibition features photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media works that invite the viewer to conside
As part of Pride Month, Whispers of the Skin opens at Mundo Arte Gallery on June 14, 2025, offering a striking visual journey into the male body as a site of emotion, memory, and transformation. Curated by Shirley Moreira, the exhibition features photography, sculpture, installation, and mixed media works that invite the viewer to consider the body not as object, but as language—fragile, expressive, and deeply human.
This group exhibition brings together artists from across Latin America and its diaspora, all members or affiliates of the Círculo del Arte Erótico Latinoamericano, a collective that reclaims eroticism as a legitimate terrain of artistic exploration. From the poetic and symbolic imagery of Jonathan Arriagada and Marco Caridad, to the theatrical and performative presence in the works of Misael Carpio and Dill Rodrigo, each artist contributes a distinct perspective on masculinity, intimacy, and queer identity.
Other featured artists include Mauricio Laing Sáenz, whose photographs merge nude bodies with natural and architectural landscapes; Oscar Milano, a veteran artist and founder of the Erotic Art Circle; Sebastián Prado, who frames the male body as landscape through a painterly and cinematic lens; and Martín Toyé, known for his raw, unidealized portraits of everyday men.
The sculptural and spatial elements of the exhibition are expanded by Erlen Zerpa, whose kinetic-influenced forms explore movement and presence, and by Teresa Cabello, whose work Swimmers (2016) is presented as a delicate yet powerful installation in resin and enamel, evoking fluidity, sensuality, and immersion.
Together, these artists dismantle stereotypical depictions of the male form and offer new, often intimate narratives that foreground emotion, sensuality, and self-discovery.
Whispers of the Skin will remain on view through July 20, 2025, at Mundo Arte Gallery in North Miami. Admission is free and open to the public.
Fragments: In the Midst of Shifting Tides
“The Image as Epicenter” by Shirley Moreira, art critic and curator
Fragments: In the Midst of Shifting Tides
The exhibition by artist Isaac Bencid brings together over fifteen works in collage, ink, and wire mesh sculpture that explore the tension between fragment and whole—between disintegration and the emergence of new forms. These are pieces born from cutting, repetition, and reconstruction, each carrying the mark of both wound and transforma
The exhibition by artist Isaac Bencid brings together over fifteen works in collage, ink, and wire mesh sculpture that explore the tension between fragment and whole—between disintegration and the emergence of new forms. These are pieces born from cutting, repetition, and reconstruction, each carrying the mark of both wound and transformation.
With a direct, tactile, and uncompromising visual language, Bencid transforms the vertigo of change into images that speak to both the intimate and the collective. His work inhabits the threshold between chaos and order, inviting viewers to pause before a map of pulsations and fractures that resonate deeply with our time.
The exhibition is curated by Shirley Moreira, known for her focus on contemporary Latin American art and her ability to connect emerging voices with international audiences. The show also features the collaboration of Jorge Hulián of ArtDealerMiami, who provided support throughout the installation process.