William Osorio: Common Ground
On view: July 8 - August 5, 2026
Reception: Thursday, July 9, 2026 – 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: University of Miami Art Gallery @ The Chapel, 6565 Red Road, Room 112, Coral Gables, FL 33143, USA
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The University of Miami’s Department of Art & Art History presents Common Ground by William Osorio.
Common Ground is a body of work by William Osorio spanning the past four years, bringing together oil stick paintings, fabric works, and collage drawn from everyday scenes and quiet, often unnoticed moments. These seemingly ordinary images carry their own presence and meaning as domestic and communal spaces become sites shaped by memory, geography, migration, family separation, and daily rhythms. The work considers the everyday as shared yet uneven terrain, physically experienced by all but shaped by distinct histories, identities, and emotional realities.
The exhibition reflects on the intimate domestic sphere where the world speaks through subtle forms and relationships. It invites viewers to slow down and look again, attending to what lies just beneath recognition. Curated by IKT Member Milly Cardoso, Common Ground proposes attentiveness rather than resolution, reflecting how we inhabit the same world yet never in quite the same way.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Holguín, Cuba, William Osoriomigrated to the United States in search of creative and intellectual freedom. Working outside traditional academic structures, he developed a rigorous self-directed education and a mature studio practice grounded in research, experimentation, and critical inquiry. He lives and works in Miami, where he maintains an active studio practice. Osorio’s large-scale paintings combine gestural figuration, vivid chromatic structures, and layered material processes, drawing from both classical painting traditions and contemporary abstraction. His work investigates the psychological terrain shaped by migration, memory, identity, and the instability of living between cultures.
He has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including Plain and Height at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Brussels (2026); Postcards and The Path to the Volcanoes at LnS Gallery, Miami (2025, 2024); Contrapunto at Adrian Sutton Gallery, Paris (2023); and Only Silence Hears, Margins of Truth, and Inside Out at LnS Gallery (2023, 2021, 2018). He has also exhibited at Expo Chicago with LnS Gallery.
Selected group exhibitions include Untitled Miami Beach (2025), Pinta Miami (multiple editions), Espacio 23 in Miami (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from The Jorge M. Pérez Collection, 2023), the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood through the South Florida Cultural Consortium (2023), and earlier exhibitions across Miami and Boston from 2009 onward.
Osorio is a recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award (2023) and The Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts (2022). He has participated in residencies including the Bakehouse Art Complex Studio Residency (2020–2022), the Oolite Arts Home + Away Program at Anderson Ranch (2020), MASS MoCA (2024), and an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College (2025–2026). He is also a recipient of the Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grant (2025).
Public & Private Collections include Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL; Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL; The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU, Miami, FL; Espacio 23 - The Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, FL; Museum of Art and Design, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL; and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Collection, Miami, FL.
For more information about the exhibition and online programming, visit art.as.miami.edu or contact Milly Cardoso, Gallery Manager and Curator, at m.cardoso1@miami.edu.