JOANNA ROBOTHAM is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Tampa Museum of Art, a position she has held since 2016. Recent exhibitions include Suchitra Mattai: Bodies and Souls (2024) and Pepe Mar: Myth and Magic (2023). She oversees the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art, which includes growing holdings of Caribbean art and work by living artists. She received her M.A. in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and earned B.A.s in art history and political science from the University of Washington, Seattle.

PEPE MAR was born in Mexico and lives and works in Miami. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco, and received his MFA from Florida International University. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire (2026), among others. His work has been exhibited widely and is included in major collections, including the Seattle Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas, City Missouri, among others. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, The Artnewspaper, Bomb, Burnaway, Panorama, and others.