Collections

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum collection includes over 6,000 objects with a focus in art of the United States and Latin America from the 20th and 21st centuries. Special areas of concentration include Haitian and Cuban painting, and multimedia works by self-taught artists and artists based in Miami.

Beyond the Americas, the collection includes a growing number of non-Western objects from Asia and Africa. In 1989, the museum acquired a portion of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum and Art Center of Coral Gables. The collection included more than 2,300 objects and expanded the Frost Art Museum’s collection of sculptures, photographs, and paintings by major 20th-century artists, and its holdings related to the arts of Asia, including a significant selection of Japanese netsukes.

Access the Digital Collection

Frost Art Museum engages in an ongoing digitization process to make its collections more accessible to students, faculty, and the larger community. In presenting these images, we acknowledge that we must continue to refine our information about each object. We are committed to this process. Currently there are approximately 1,000 images available for viewing. Over time, we continue to add works to this site to increase access to the museum's holdings on a rolling basis. The current selections are rich and varied; including Haitian painting, Japanese netsukes, and modern and contemporary prints and photographs.

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Stroll the Avenue of the Arts

FIU’s Avenue of the Arts, where the Frost Art Museum sits, remains the focal point of the university’s public art program. This well-traveled corridor connects the dynamic Wertheim Performing Arts Center to the Graham Center, a gathering place for students. The landscaped green open space features sculptures by Alexander Liberman, Manuel Mendive, Pablo Atchugarry, and John Henry.

Learn more about public art at FIU