Luis Armando Colina | The Gardeners | Opening Night at Mad Arts

Join us in person for the exciting opening of Luis Armando Colina's first solo exhibition, The Gardeners, hosted by MAD Arts.

Artist Bio

Luis Colina is a visual artist living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Born in Hialeah, Florida, to Cuban immigrant parents, Colina earned his BFA from the New World School of the Arts with a concentration in painting. Colina’s passion for art began with his love of animation, comics, and video games. Colina has exhibited across multiple institutions in South Florida. At its core, his practice is about invention and adaptation: building worlds where figures, myths, and environments overlap. Through this work, Colina aims to reflect on humanity’s evolving relationship to the natural world and technology, while imagining spaces of resilience and transformation.

The exhibition

This installation is centered around large-scale mixed media paintings and 3D-printed painted figures that embody guardians of a speculative landscape. By combining traditional and digital approaches, the project bridges fine art with contemporary technology, creating a body of work that resonates across different audiences. The Gardeners explores ecological archetypes, surrealism, and the tension between creation and destruction, realized across painting, sculpted figures, and interactive game design — complete with cards, a large-scale game board, and a card display shelf.

Broward County Artist Support Grant

This exhibit was made possible through the support of the Broward County and MAD Arts. The Broward Cultural Division’s Artist Support Grant provides direct funds to individual artists of all disciplines for projects that include a public event. The Artist Support Grant is designed to be flexible and accessible to encourage career advancement through creativity, innovation, and sustained commitment to artistic work.​
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