Join Locust Projects for ARTIST TALKS, inviting past Locust Projects exhibition artists back to Miami to reflect on their experience.

Bethany Collins (b. 1984 Montgomery, AL, lives Chicago, IL) is a multidisciplinary artist whose conceptual practice examines the relationship between race and language. Centering language—its biases, contradictions, and ability to simultaneously forge connections and foster violence—her works illuminate America’s past and offer insight into the development of racial and national identities. Drawing on a wide variety of documents, ranging from nineteenth-century musical scores to US Department of Justice reports, she erases, obscures, excerpts, and rewrites portions of text to bring to the fore issues revolving around race, power, and histories of violence.

Bethany Collins exhibited at Locust Projects in 2018. Learn more here.

Join Locust Projects for the return of its acclaimed CURATOR TALKS speaker series, presented by Vivant.

Rosario Güiraldes is Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center. Born in Buenos Aires, she has over a decade of curatorial experience working across the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Recent exhibitions at the Walker include Ways of Knowing (2025), a thematic group exhibition featuring works by Anna Boghiguian, Petrit Halilaj, Sky Hopinka, and Gala Porras-Kim, among others, and Walter Price: Pearl Lines. In 2027, Güiraldes will organize the first U.S. retrospective of Afro-Brazilian artist, intellectual, and political leader Abdias Nascimento (Brazil, 1914–2011), supported by a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. Prior to joining the Walker, she was a Curator at The Drawing Center (2017–2023), where she organized the contemporary drawing survey Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022); the historic exhibition The Pencil is A Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists (2019), and monographic exhibitions of Xiyadie, Fernanda Laguna, Ebecho Muslimova, and Guo Fengyi, among others.