2025-26
On exhibition
October 18, 2025 – June 28, 2026
Located in the Hayes Hall galleries and Artis—Naples cultural campus
This exhibition presents a select group of notable visual artists practicing in Florida. Highlighting the breadth of artistic approaches to personal, local and global themes, Florida Contemporary invites visitors to celebrate the state’s vibrant art scene. The artists selected for the 13th edition of the exhibition are Mally Khorasantchi (Naples), Boy Kong (Orlando), Jillian Mayer (Miami) and Reginald O’Neal Miami).
As in the past, the exhibition features artists with diverse artistic interests and backgrounds who hail from various locations throughout Florida. This year’s selected artists utilize a variety of media to comment on perspective and constructed realities, sometimes playful and at other times solemn.
Please note that access to Florida Contemporary is limited during ticketed performances in Hayes Hall. Please contact patron services at 239-597-1900 prior to your visit to confirm gallery availability.
Mally Khorasantchi
Mally Khorasantchi (b. 1948) was born in Germany and has lived and worked in southwest Florida since 1992. Her colorful, large-scale collage-based paintings reflect on the dichotomies found in humankind and in nature: beauty and discord, reality and falsehood, or representational and abstract.
Boy Kong
Boy Kong (b. 1993) is a self-taught painter, illustrator, muralist and collage artist whose work is inspired by wide ranging influences including Ukiyo-e, surrealism and animal folklore, among others. Kong is a native of Orlando, where he presently lives and works.
Jillian Mayer
Jillian Mayer (b. 1984) is a visual artist from Miami whose varied practice includes film, performance, sculpture, drawing and installation, with many of her works focused on concerns around the ubiquity of technology in contemporary life.
Reginald O’Neal
Reginald O’Neal (b. 1992) is a Miami-based artist who is active as both a muralist and an easel painter. His figurative paintings use metaphorical subjects to examine dehumanizing systems of commodification, thus expanding and subverting art’s historical traditions of portraiture.
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Associated Events
Panel Discussion
Florida Contemporary 2025-26
Thursday, January 29, 4pm
Ubben Signature Event Space
Join the artists featured in Florida Contemporary 2025-26 for a lively panel discussion celebrating the state’s vibrant art scene. The 13th edition of the annual exhibition highlights diverse approaches to personal, local and global themes.
Past Iterations of Florida Contemporary
Florida Contemporary 2024-25 November 2, 2024 – June 29, 2025 
Florida Contemporary 2023-24 October 14, 2023 – June 30, 2024 
Florida Contemporary 2022-23 October 11, 2022 – June 11, 2023 
Florida Contemporary 2021-22 October 21, 2021 – July 17, 2022 
Florida Contemporary 2020-21 December 2020 – July 25, 2021 
Florida Contemporary 2019-20 December 20, 2019 – April 19, 2020 
Florida Contemporary 2017-18 November 16, 2017 – January 13, 2018
Florida Contemporary 2015-16 January 27 – April 20, 2016
Florida Contemporary 2014-15 January 31 — April 26, 2015
Florida Contemporary 2013-14 February 22 — April 27, 2014
This presentation of Florida Contemporary is organized by Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum, and is curated by Courtney McNeil, museum director and chief curator, and Libby Harrington, director of museum exhibitions and operations.
This exhibition is generously sponsored by Naples Illustrated.
