Part of the 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art Exhibit
Amanda Linares is a Cuban-born, Miami-based multidisciplinary artist whose poetic installations explore the fragile interplay between memory, migration, and materiality. Trained in printmaking and graphic design, Linares weaves together drawing, sculpture, and found objects, often embedded with personal and collective histories, to create immersive experiences that evoke both place and longing. Her work is rooted in ancestral memory and often draws from family archives, tactile materials, and the natural landscape of Cuba to explore what is lost, transformed, or carried across generations. Linares invites viewers to journey through the sediments of identity and home, discovering meaning in absence, erosion, and the subtle persistence of cultural memory.