Shared Dreams: Celebrating the recent gift of the Stanley and Pearl Goodman Latin American Art Collection
Opens September 21, 2025
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is proud to announce the opening of Shared Dreams, a major exhibition celebrating the extraordinary recent gift of 88 major works of 20th-century Latin American art from renowned collectors Stanley and Pearl Goodman.
This transformative gift, assembled over four decades by the Fort Lauderdale-based couple, reflects a deep commitment to preserving and promoting Latin American artistic heritage. Shared Dreams offers a rare opportunity to experience a dynamic range of works that reflects the richness of Latin American cultural and visual traditions.
These works not only showcase artistic excellence but also trace the circulation of ideas and influences among artists who lived, worked, and dreamed across borders. The exhibition reveals how Latin American artists, as well as European artists who found refuge in Mexico after fleeing World War II and the Spanish Civil War, helped shape and redefine modernism through unique perspectives and deeply personal visions.
The Goodmans furthered the impact of this gift by establishing the Museum’s Dr. Stanley and Pearl Goodman Latin American Art Study Center and the Annual Stanley and Pearl Goodman Lecture on Latin American Art.
This gift greatly contributes to NSU Art Museum’s reputation for its premier permanent collection. With more than 11,000 works, the collection is the cornerstone of the Museum’s scholarly and public engagement. It is uniquely recognized as the home of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Surrounded Islands, holds the largest compilation of works by the American realist William J. Glackens, and boasts the most extensive U.S. museum holdings of work by postwar European artists of the CoBrA Art movement. The Goodman collection of Latin American Art, along with the David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good contemporary art collection, further enriches its global scope as well as augments the significant holdings of artists living and working in South Florida.
