Say goodbye to the ‘Florida Prize’ group exhibition with closing ceremony event at Orlando Museum of Art

Summer whizzed by — what even is time anymore? — and unfortunately that means that Orlando Museum of Art’s signature annual exhibition-cum-competition, The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, closes in a few days.

This week sees the closing ceremony, where the People’s Choice award winner will be revealed amongst this year’s Florida Prize artwork. The 2025 artists were Nathalie Alfonso, Eddie Arroyo, Leo Castañeda, Kelly Joy Ladd, Amanda Linares, Kandy G. Lopez, Jiha Moon, Troy Simmons, Cornelius Tulloch and Lisu Vega.

The winner of this 2025 Prize was South Florida artist Nathalie Alfonso, for her large-scale and site-specific 87-by-17-foot work LineScape — Onset. So make sure to spend some time with that one on the evening. Will the people also choose Alfonso? Or will they go in a different direction? Find out for yourself and take in this impressive collection of emerging Florida creatives one last time.

6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., free.

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This article appears in Aug 13-18, 2025.