Bio
lance minto-strouse is a Jamaica artist of Afro-Chinese, Anglo and Native American ancestry. His work is primarily focused on themes concerning community, temporary and everyday life through an anthropological lens. Lance first gained interest in using creative tools to address social concerns while participating in the Teen Art Program, an educational incubator for high school students at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami (MOCA), also, Arts 4 Learning, Teen Residency Program and later, Perez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) Perez Teen Council. Lance began to commit more time towards his creative passions by matriculating at the New World School of the Arts, a public high school and college in Downtown, Miami, FL. Currently, lance is in his Junior college year, pursuing studio and sound arts, as well as curatorial studies. He recently accomplished multiple site specific community interventions addressing themes of gentrification, isolation and racism, throughout different South Florida neighborhoods.
Artist Statement
lance minto-strouse is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture, digital art and collage. He explores temporality through the history of reclaimed materials to create dialogue concerning, systematic iniquity, disposability, community and race. Minto-strouse is an alchemist who applies the transformative process to find new and more relatable ways of understanding humanity . He sees the outside world as an extension of his studio. He assembles interactive community based sculptures to generate dialogue that reflect new understandings of the past as a way to build our future. Lance crafts this as a way of honoring and paying homage to rituals rooted in his Afro-spiritual ancestral origins.
“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”
-bell hooks.
CV
ance minto-strouse
Born, Lives/Works In Miami, Florida
Education
New World School of The Arts current BFA.
Residencies
Artist as catalysts at the Peace studio 2022
Arts 4 Learning 2016, 2017, 2018
Exhibitions
2024 What is your relationship to magic , CBI, Miami FL
2023 Lines of Communication, New World School of the Arts, Miami FL
2023 Blue Print, Bridge Red, Miami FL
2022 Provisional Obstruction (Little Haiti II), Dimensions Variable, Miami FL
2022 Art as Alchemy, Museum of Art and Science, Daytona, FL
2022 Reclaimed, Under the Bridge, Miami, FL
2022 Materialization, Edge Zone, Miami, FL
2022 Rising Stars, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2022 Untitled (Tower of Remembrance), North Miami FL
2021 Flag Project, Bridge Red, North Miami FL
2021-2022 The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea, New Orleans African American Museum, LA
2021 Follow Me By The Tracks, North Miami,FL
2021 A Wonder in the Wilderness, Vizcaya Museum, FL
2021 BHM Creative Showcase, Digitally based
2021 Cohesion, New World School of the Arts, FL
2019 Art and Soul, A Warehouse Little Haiti , FL.
2018 Art and Soul, The light box Miami, FL
2018 Untitled, Arts 4 Learning, Miami, FL
2017 Untitled, Arts 4 Learning, Miami, FL
2016 Untitled , Arts 4 Learning, Miami, FL