Liene Bosquê: Before Miami Design Preservation League III

Before Miami Design Preservation League III

In cities like Miami, where rapid development continually reshapes the skyline, historic architecture is often lost. Before Miami Design Preservation League III honors Miami Beach’s disappeared buildings, tracing the silhouettes of Art Deco, Mediterranean Revival, and Miami Modern structures through paper and light inspired by South Florida’s sunset skies.

Drawing from archival research, Liene Bosquê translates demolished buildings into luminous forms that preserve their memory. The work takes its title from the Miami Design Preservation League, founded in 1976 to protect Miami Beach’s architectural heritage, and invites reflection on urban change, preservation, and the environmental and cultural costs of continual redevelopment.

About the Artist:

Liene Bosquê is a Miami-based visual artist and educator working across installation, sculpture, site-specific projects, and socially engaged practice. Informed by architecture, urbanism, and collective participation, her work explores how shared spaces and embodied experience shape social relations. 

Her projects have been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including at MoMA PS1 (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami and Centro Cultural Belém (Lisbon). Her work is in collections such as the Pérez Art Museum of Miami (PAMM), the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro, and Miami-Dade Art in Public Places. Bosquê is the recipient of the Ellies Creator Award and the Teaching Artist Grant from the Center for the Craft in 2025 and the Wolfsonian Creative Fellowship in 2024. She received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2023. Bosquê is currently in residence at Dimensions Variable and was a 2023–2024 resident at Oolite Arts; past residencies include Wave Hill, Queens Museum’s ArtBuilt program, and Socrates Sculpture Park. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and degrees in fine arts and architecture from universities in Brazil, and she is a professor at the University of Miami.