MOCA’s permanent collection now numbers over 700 works and is distinguished by its major holdings of new and experimental art. Works from MOCA’s permanent collection are frequently on loan to major museum exhibitions around the world. MOCA also jointly shares a selection of works with Tate Modern in London.
Selections from Permanent Collection
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ
Head, 1974
Burlap with resin
36 x 26 x 19 3/4 inches
Gift of Sirje and Michael Gold
RITA ACKERMANN
Firecrotch, 2008
Plexiglas, yarn, printed paper, cardboard,
Tape, charcoal, spray paint and tempera
93 ¼ x 45 x 2 ¾ inches
Museum purchase with funds from the
MOCA POP 8 ½ fundraiser
CORY ARCANGEL
Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration,2007
Projection from a digital source
08:48
Color/sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by
MOCA POP Bollywood fundraiser
RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER
Untitled, 1995
Graphite on paper
25 x 27 inches
Promised gift of Evelyn Aimis
DANIEL ARSHAM *
ODE/EON (Marquee), 2006-2007
EPS, paint, aluminum, wood, neon
73 x 18 x 24 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
MOCA Pop 8 ½ fundraiser
JOHN BALDESSARI
Three Red Paintings, 1988
Vinyl paint on three black and white
photographs
94 ¼ x 128 ¼ inches
Gift of the Lannan Foundation
STEPHAN BALKENHOL
Untitled (Seated Man), 1997
Painted wawa wood
65 x 13 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Gift of Lucy Mitchell-Innes & David Nash in
honor of Irma Braman
MATTHEW BARNEY
Cremaster 2: The Metamorphosis, 1999
C-print
54 x 43 x 1 inches
Promised gift of Joan and Michael Salke
HERNAN BAS*
Fleeting Moments, 2005
DVD
03:30
Color/sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
JOSE BEDIA*
Cargo Cult, 2005
Mixed media
121 x 648 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and
Diane and Robert Moss
JOHN BOCK
Zero Hero, 2003-2005
Mixed media installation and videos
Dimensions variable
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami and the American Fund for the
Tate Gallery
Gift of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
CHRISTINE BORLAND
A Life Time of Love, 1993
Second hand blankets and quilts
36 x 96 x 108 inches
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Mordes
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
Untitled, 2001
Pink fabric, aluminum, glass and wood
12 ¾ x 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches
Gift of Louise Bourgeois and Cheim & Reid
Gallery, New York
PABLO CANO*
Hope, 2001
Mixed media
48 x 24 x 12 inches
Gift of the artist in memory of Jose Larrondo
ROBERT CHAMBERS*
Capes, 1995
Silk, latex, bakelite, electrical parts
Variable dimensions
Gift of Lynne and Daniel Gelfman
ROBERT CHAMBERS*
3 Breathing Sacks, 2005
Silk, latex, bakelite, electrical parts
Variable dimensions
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend / Sonesta
International Hotels Corp
ANNE CHU
Bestial, 2003
Wood, fabric, and wire
69 x 63 . x 70 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Pop Love and Pop Soup fundraisers
ANN CRAVEN
Bird in White (for Johnny Cash), 1998
Oil on canvas
74 x 50 inches
Anonymous gift
ANN CRAVEN
Little One Eye (White Bird #2), 1998
Oil on canvas
74 x 50 inches
Gift of Lois Plehn
GREGORY CREWDSON
Untitled, 1997
Cibachrome on paper
38 x 47 inches
Purchased with funds provided by
Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
RUSSELL CROTTY
Basin and Range (Two hanging spheres), 2001
Drawing on paper applied to Plexiglas spheres
45 inch diameter
16 inch diameter
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend
MARK DI SUVERO
Untitled, 1965
Steel, rubber tire on welded steel
52 1/4 x 116 x 48 inches
Gift of Irma and Norman Braman
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
Bye and Bye (Portfolio of nine works), 2002
Etching on paper
17 x 14 1/4 inches (each)
Gift of Dr. Carl and Shirley Schwartz
TRACEY EMIN
Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995
Videocassette
06:40
Color/sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by
the Janet and Robert Liebowitz Acquisitions Fund
INKA ESSENHIGH
Romantic Painting, 2002
Oil on panel
52 x 64 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Victoria Hughes and John H. Smith, Carolee
and Nathan Reiber, Warren Miro, Jeanne and
Michael Klein, and the Pop Soup fundraiser
TERESITA FERNANDEZ
Untitled (Pool), 1996
Wood, paint, metal and glass
120 x 252 x 444 inches
Gift of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY
Selection of 55 works
Gift of Marvin and Ruth Sackner
DAN FLAVIN
Puerto Rican Lights (to Jeanie Blake) #2, 1965
Red, pink, and yellow fluorescent light
81 1/2 x 49 x 4 3/4inches
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend
CLAIRE FONTAINE
Please Come Back (K.font: American
Version), 2008
Fluorescent light fittings, cabling and
movement detector
Edition 1/1+AP
570 x 59 1⁄2 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
MOCA POP 8 ½ fundraiser
DARA FRIEDMAN *
Bim Bam, 1999
16 mm film installation with audio CD
Dimensions variable
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
ANNA GASKELL
Untitled #14 (wonder), 1996
Cibachrome print on aluminum
6 1/3 x 5 3/8 x1 ¾ inches
Gift of Debra and Dennis Scholl
ANNA GASKELL
Untitled #8 (wonder), 1996
Cibachrome print on Plexiglas
30 x 40 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Janet and Robert Liebowitz Acquisitions Fund
ANNA GASKELL
Untitled #23 (override), 1997
Cibachrome print on Plexiglas
60 x 90 inches
Gift of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz
LYNNE GELFMAN*
For the Coral Castle, 1995
Acrylic on canvas
66 x 96 inches
Gift of Anna Atkins Simkins
LUIS GISPERT*
Stereomongrel, 2005
DVD
10:00
Color/sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and Raquel and Michael Scheck
FELIX GONZÁLEZ-TORRES
Untitled (Ross in L.A.), 1993
Offset print on paper
Endless copies
Edition of 3
10 x 24 3/8 x 30 7/8 inches
Gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
ADLER GUERRIER*
Untitled (Airport), 2000
Cibachrome prints on foam core
16 x 66 inches (overall)
Museum purchase with funds provided by Dr. Jules Oaklander
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN
Diorama, 1997
Mixed media
84 x 732 x 144 inches
Gift of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
JIM HODGES
View (metallic), 1999
Metallic Pantone chips w/acid free adhesive
54 x 104 inches
Gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz in honor of Marc Antonio Vilaca
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD
House Training #25, 2006
Six sculptures
Mixed media
48 x 28 x 20 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Braman Family Foundation, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and Lourdes and Tim Collett
CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD
Empty Trust, 2006
Six drawings
Graphite on acid neutralized erased
Newsprint, various dimensions
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Braman Family Foundation, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and Lourdes and Tim Collett
ALEX HUBBARD
Screens for Recalling the Blackout, 2009
HD DV Cam transferred to DVD/loop
8:48
Color/sound
Edition: No 2/5 of 2AP
Museum purchase
BILL JENSEN
Drawing for Denial III, 1985
Charcoal on paper
30 x 22.inches
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend
JASPER JOHNS
Ale Cans, 1967-69
Etching and aquatint
19 1/4 x 24 ¾ inches
Gift of Ruth and Richard Shack
ALEX KATZ
Bathers (Vincent and Anastasia), 1984
Oil on aluminum
144 x 108 inches
Gift of Robert and Betsy Wittenborn Miller
MARTIN KERSELS
Speaker/Slam Lancer 44’s, 1993
Motor, amplifier, speakers, ropes, pulley
Dimensions variable
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Janet and Robert Liebowitz
ED AND NANCY KIENHOLZ
Soup Course at the She-She Café, 1982
Mixed media
87 ¼ x 141 x 112 inches
Gift of Irma Braman
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON
God, 2007
DVD Installation
30:00
Color/Sound
Museum purchase
ELAD LASSRY
Guinevere (Green), 2009
C-print
14 x 11 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by MOCA Pop Bollywood fundraiser
ELAD LASSRY
Papayas, 2009
C-print
11 x 14 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by MOCA Pop Bollywood
ELAD LASSRY
Teal Swirl, 2010
Silver gelatin print on c-print with painted frame
14 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 1/2. inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by MOCA Pop Bollywood fundraiser
SUSAN LEE CHUN*
You are cordially invited to tea time, 2008
Mixed media
84 x 84 x 84 inches
Gift of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz
ZOE LEONARD
Rear View (Geoffrey Beene Fashion Show),
1990
Black and white photograph
38 ¼ x 26 3/4 inches
Gift of Barbara Herzberg
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
Whistle, 1989
Staples and collage on paper
11 x 8 ½ inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Daphne and Peter Farago
ANA MENDIETA
Untitled (Glass on Face), 1972
Six color photographs
24 x 17 ¼ inches (each)
Museum purchase with funds provided by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
ANA MENDIETA
Untitled (Glass on Body), 1972
Six color photographs
24 x 17 1/4 inches (each)
Museum purchase with funds provided by Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
BEATRIZ MONTEVARO*
Friend or Foe, 2000
Video (VHS)
11:00
Color/Sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by Clara Sredni
GEAN MORENO*
Werner, 2005
Mixed media
36 7/8 x 36 x 48 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by Francine Birbragher and Leslie Rozencwaig
ROBERT MORRIS
Hyperotomachia Series, 1982
Hydrocal in metal frame
51 . x 41 x 3 inches
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend
ROBERT MORRIS
Blind Time III, 1985
Graphite on paper
38 x 50 inches
Gift of Joan and Roger Sonnabend
BRUCE NAUMAN
Lip Sync, 1968
Videotape on . inch format
57:00
Black and white / Sound
Museum purchase
ERNESTO NETO
Un pe de Sonho (A foot of Dream), 1997
Cotton and lycra
Dimensions variable
Gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER
Mapa-Mundi (postal), 2007
Mixed media
35 1/2 x 102 1/2inches
Gift of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz
LOUISE NEVELSON
Untitled, 1976-1978
Wood on wood
89 1/2 x 39 ¾ x 7 inches
Gift of Pace Wildenstein, New York in honor
of Irma Braman
NO GHOST JUST A SHELL, 2000-2002
Various works
Mixed media
Various dimensions
Collection of Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami and the American Fund for the
Tate Gallery
Gift of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
Anna Lena Vaney
Angela Bulloch and Imke Wagener
Francois Curlet
Lili Fleury
Liam Gillick
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno
(collaboration)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Melik Ohanian
Pierre Joseph and Mehdi Belhaj
Richard Phillips
Joe Scanlan
CHRIS OFILI
Untitled, 2003
Watercolor and pencil on paper
9 ½ x 6 1/8 inches
Gift of Douglas S. Cramer
CHRIS OFILI
Untitled, 2003
Watercolor and pencil on paper
9 ½ x 6 1/8 inches
Gift of Douglas S. Cramer
JULES OLITSKI
Dookashee 1, 1977
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 70 inches
Gift of Irma and Norman Braman
YOKO ONO
Instructions for Photographs, 1961-1971
Ink on paper
13 ¼ x 10 ½ inches
Promised gift of Jeanne and Michael Klein
CATHERINE OPIE
Justin Bond, 1993
Chromogenic print
60 x 30 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
MOCA POP 8 1/2 fundraiser
DENNIS OPPENHEIM
Attempt to Raise Hell, 1974
Wood and metal platform, brass bell and
dummy doll
42 x 60 x 1 inches
Partial gift of the Oppenheim Foundation and Museum Purchase and Gift of Dennis and Debra Scholl
GABRIEL OROZCO
Blue Sandals, 1996
Cibachrome print
12 7/16 x 18 5/8 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation
GABRIEL OROZCO
Common Dream, 1996
Cibachrome print
12 7/16 x 18 5/8 inches
Museum purchase with funds from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation
GABRIEL OROZCO
Migration, 1996
Cibachrome print
12 7/16 x 18 5/8 inches
Museum purchase with funds from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation
LAURA OWENS
Untitled, 2004
Oil and watercolor on paper
24 x18 inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by Janet and Robert Liebowitz
NAM JUNE PAIK
Burn Calories, Not Octane, 1993
Mixed media and digital laser disks
108 x 65 x 94 inches
Gift of Irma and Norman Braman
JORGE PANTOJA*
Tourist Giza axis, 1998 (15 works on paper
from the Haiku series)
Collage, acrylic, graphite, tape on paper
3 x 5 inches
Purchased with funds provided by Francine Birbragher and Leslie Rozencwaig
JORGE PARDO
Round Light, Darker on the Bottom, 1997
Glass, electrical fixture and cord
14 x 14 x 14 inches
Gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
JORGE PARDO
1994, 1994
Wood and plastic paint
91 x 245 inches
Gift of Carlos and Rosa de la Cruz
JORGE PARDO
Six Lamps (multiple), 2010-2011
Mixed media various dimensions
Gift of Barbara, David & Casey Herzberg in memory of Sophie Miller
ENOC PEREZ
Seagram Building, New York [After a
photograph by Ezra Stoller], 2006
Oil on canvas
105 x 86 inches
Museum purchase with funds from Peter and Jody Robbins, Braman Family Foundation and Moca Pop 007 fundraiser
ENOC PEREZ
Peter’s Vase, 2007
Oil on paper
59 ⁷⁄₈ x 41 1/4 inches
Gift of Enoc Perez in honor of
Bonnie Clearwater
RAYMOND PETTIBON
Untitled (Oh, me if), 1997
Pen and ink on paper
18 x 12 inches
Gift of Carolee and Nathan Reiber
RAYMOND PETTIBON
Untitled (Mother Atlantis), 2003
(From a collection of 10 works)
Ink on paper
Various dimensions
Gift of the artist, Courtesy of Regen Projects,
Los Angeles
RICHARD PETTIBONE
Flim Flam, 1975
Acrylic on canvas
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Gift of Ruth and Marvin Sackner
JACK PIERSON
Paradise Lights, 1996
Neon lights
168 x 540 x 14 inches
Museum purchase with funds from: (P) Janet
and Robert Liebowitz; (A) Janet and Robert
Liebowitz; (R) Dr. Linda Kaplan for Rachel; (A)
Dr. Jules Oaklander for Alexander and Eric;
(D) Diane Sepler; (I) Jacquelyn and Bruce
Brown, Michael and Jeanne Klein for Matthew
and Mark; (S) Sara Gibbons and Natalie
Ireland; (E) Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund,
(Star) Chasen Family
ALI PROSCH*
Not My Mama, 2004
DVD
02:36
Black and white / sound
Museum purchase with funds provided by
Pop Love fundraiser
ELAINE REICHEK
Sampler (Adam and Eve), 2002
Textile
32 1/2 x 28 ⁵⁄₈ inches
Museum purchase with funds provided by
the Braman Family Foundation
JASON RHOADES
More Moor Morals and Morass, 1994
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Gift of Eileen and Peter Norton
MATTHEW RITCHIE
Fast Set (Abraxas, The Child), 2000 (From a
collection of 7 works)
Ink on paper
16 x 13 1/2 inches
Museum purchase: Gucci Young Artist Fund
KAREN RIFAS*
Inside Out, 2008
Yellow and black cord
164 x 120 x 72 inches
Gift of Bernice Steinbaum
BERT RODRIGUEZ*
File Cabinet, 2001
Mixed media
21 . x 12 x 21 . inches
Gift of Dennis and Debra Scholl
BERT RODRIGUEZ*
Let’s Not Talk About It, 2005
74 x 24 x 36 inches
Life size mannequins with tee shirt and
boxing gloves
Gift of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz
DAVID ROHN*
Gymnasts, 1996
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Gift of David M. Rohn in honor of Bonnie and Jim Clearwater
JULIAN SCHNABEL
Lola, 1989
Oil and gesso on velvet
108 x 120 inches
Gift of Waddington Galleries Ltd., London in honor of Irma Braman
ANN-SOFI SIDÉN
Station 10 and Back Again, 2001
DVD Installation, 18 channels, b/w, silent,
18 surveillance monitors on metal shelves
81 ¾ x 115 x 16 inches
Gift of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation
STERLING RUBY
Monument Stalagmite/Skulldragged, 2008
Aluminum, formica, spray paint, urethane on
PVC pipe and wood
214 x 40 x 48 inches
Gift of Roman Hinson
GARY SIMMONS
Scat Cab, 1994
Charcoal and chalk on paper
30 x 22 ¼ inches
Museum purchase with funds from Janet and William Eaglstein
TM SISTERS*
She Said As Long As You Run With Me, 2009
Digital Video
03:09
Color/sound
Museum purchase with funds from Starbucks Coffee Company, Optic Nerve 2009
JENNIFER STEINKAMP
Smoke Screen, 1995-2004
Video projection installation
Dimensions variable
Gift of the artist
FRANCES TROMBLY*
Confetti, 2005
Crocheted fabric
Dimensions variable
Museum purchase with funds provided by Pop Love fundraiser
RICHARD TUTTLE
Two Red Squares, 1977
Watercolor on paper on paper
7 ⁵⁄₈ x 8 ⁷⁄₈ inches
Gift of Jock Truman and Eric Green
URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD
Untitled (Big Bowl), 1998
Cedar and graphite
50 x 60 x 59 inches
Promised gift of Galerie Lelong,Paris/Zurich/New York in honor of Irma Braman
*=Miami Artists