Opening Day Talk: Maria A. Guzmán Capron

Saturday, April 18, 2026

11 AM - 12 PM

$10 for Museum Members

$20 for Not-Yet Members (includes Museum Admission)

Sarasota High School Alumni Auditorium at SAM

Join us for an artist talk to mark the opening of Maria A. Guzmán Capron’s solo exhibition, Penumbra, at Sarasota Art Museum. Known for her exuberant figurative textile wall hangings and soft sculptures, Capron will discuss how her identity has shaped her interdisciplinary practice, the intricate process behind her original textile designs, and the many sources that inspire her surreal characters.

Maria Guzman Headshot with a painting in the background

Maria A. Guzmán Capron received her Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studio from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Houston in 2004. Select solo exhibitions include UB Center for the Arts in Buffalo, New York (2024); the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2022); and a SECA Art Award Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2022); among others. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including El Museo del Barrio, New York; Boston University, Boston; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; and Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, New York. Her works have been written about in Hyperallergic, Variable West, Bomb Magazine, and Art in America and are in the collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Jorge M. Pérez, Miami; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; and the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky.

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