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F*ck Art… And All It Stands For
a museum of sex exhibition
Written By Emily Payton
Feb 19, 2026
Museum of Sex Presents F*ck Art
Recently, Unfaithfools went to support collage artist Manuel Angarita’s installation in the Museum of Sex. You might recognize Manuel from our series, UF Profiles. He invited us to check out his piece, Wild Desire, in the museum’s most recent and daring exhibition, F*ck Art. Blown away by our unexpected experience, we needed to talk with Tam Gryn, curator and managing director of Miami’s Museum of Sex.
Tam greeted us with hugs, cheek kisses, and excitement. Giving us access to the museum before it opened its doors to the public, we sat down on a particularly interactive piece within the exhibition.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
Can you tell me about the piece you're on?
TAM GRYN:
So this piece is an installation by Moki Baby who is a Miami legend… And I love this kind of piece because it's very interactive… It invites people to participate inside the piece… You have videos of different Hollywood productions, but they are edited and remixed with her own personal life.
You have a phone where you can pick it up and you can hear her voice inviting you to leave a message and you can hear (other) messages from lovers, boyfriends, and people in her life. So it's participatory, it's sound art, it's visual art, it's immersive. And that's the kind of piece that I'm very interested in.
“As a curator… I've always been interested in the fringes of the art world…”
The Museum of Sex has been an established institution for 20 years in New York but its Miami location opened a year ago. The museum focuses highly on the history of sexuality and cultural significance of sexuality in art, as well as showcasing tantalizing contemporary art.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
Can you give us a brief history on your art career and how it led you here?
TAM GRYN:
As a curator… I've always been interested in the fringes of the art world… I've worked at the intersection of art and technology for many years. Art and urban planning, working with the city of Miami in different neighborhoods, art and architecture, taking over abandoned historical buildings.
A few years ago, I went into the rabbit hole of art and sexuality and tried to activate Miami and the different museums and artists working in the space. And that's where I stumbled onto the Museum of Sex, which is the leading institution of human sexuality and art. Most of the people that come to this museum don't know what to expect because we can't really advertise any of it since it's so explicit. And that's actually part of the beauty of it that you have to come see for yourself.
‘'We need spaces where we can talk about sex that are elevated, respectful, institutional, academic, fun, funny.”
UNFAITHFOOLS:
Do you think that having it institutionalized within this fine art space kind of shakes up the taboo and the stigma that is around sexuality?
TAM GRYN:
100% right.
We need spaces where we can talk about sex that are elevated, respectful, institutional, academic, fun, funny. We also have a whole aspect of sexual wellness within our retail store. Everyone who works there is an expert on how to create pleasure in the body. It's very important to have a place where it's safe and accurate to have these conversations.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
As a curator, what are your guidelines and boundaries that create safe sexual conversations versus exploitive conversations?
TAM GRYN:
That's a great question.
We try to approach everything from a very academic perspective. We don't judge.
Tam tells us about an exhibition currently running in New York and scheduled to hit Miami around Spring: Utopia, the 300 years of American History of sex, cults, and communes.
TAM GRYN:
When people hear the word "sex cults" they immediately think horrible things that also did happen. But there were also a lot of contributions to society. For example, a lot of what has to do with natural birth in America, the history comes from some of these communes.
That's part of our history, even if it's uncomfortable. But there's also a whole other side that could be positive and each of them are completely different…
We have to navigate this fine line between taboo and positive contributions in a neutral and academic way.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
Sexuality in art has gone through this cycle of exploitation and taboo to now, I would say, it's more metaphorical. Can you speak a little bit about where the conversation is right now in contemporary art and sexuality?
TAM GRYN:
Sexuality has been part of our human history, how life is created everywhere from science to mythology to religion... And art is to me like a language of expression. So it's HOW have we told these stories of human sexuality in a visual way.
In a way, art is one of the areas of life where there are no rules. The artists can create and express however they want.
Now, in the case of F*ck Art Miami, we wanted to show what was Miami in 2026, right now.
“Now, in the case of F*ck Art Miami, we wanted to show what was Miami in 2026, right now.”
Looking around the exhibition, we see the care and detail that went into the design of the space. Spanish moss climbs up the walls to the ceiling. Caustic lighting effects dance across the floor. And swamp sound design completes the Floridian ambience. Spread throughout the exhibition are screens showing provocative images reflecting of the times, glitching and broken in places. Screens in general are a major theme to F*ck Art’s identity.
TAM GRYN:
To me, Miami is a mix of wild, untamed nature. We have these swamps and storms and hurricanes… We also have technology which rules our life. We live in an era where we don't know what's fake and what's real. And in the case of Miami, it also happens with people, with bodies, with technology.
Is it AI? Is it plastic surgery? There's this sort of ambiguity between land and water, between what's true and what's fake. And at the same time, it's one of the most sexual cities in the world.
These artworks are living in the context of this Miami fake and real tech swamp…we work with architects and spatial designers that are also local artists… So the space really is a combination of a lot of people with multidisciplinary skill sets and different mediums. We have artists that are using video, artists that are using chocolate, artists that are using menstrual blood, artists that are using textile, analog technology, painting, photography.
Installations are educational, immersive, fun, challenging, pushing the boundaries of what art is, of what sex is… you can expect the unexpected when you come here.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
Which pieces do you feel particularly represent the goal of F*ck Art?
TAM GRYN:
We have a piece by Fabiola Larios which is a mannequin that in her breasts, she has cameras that are live-feed looking at you inside the gallery.
So it's this idea of surveillance that we are also being surveilled every step we take, whether it's what we look up on our phones or in the buildings that we live in and we're constantly being surveilled.
For me personally, this piece stuck out. As you enter the exhibition, the mannequin is watching you, filming you with her breasts. The camera’s catch your eye AND catch you in the act of staring at a woman’s breasts, bringing the concept of voyeurism to the table.
TAM GRYN:
We have a piece by Moises Sanabria which is two phones and two tongues that are licking each other while the phones are (scrolling) and it's this idea of like our phones are having relationships with each other.
With things like pornographic VR experiences or bot run chat rooms, intimacy through technology is becoming more socially acceptable and problematically socially dividing. A real person becomes scary and this AI influencer says she loves me.
UNFAITHFOOLS:
You have exhibitions to see, and then you get to Super Funland where you're encouraged to touch and interact. Can you talk about sexuality in fine art and sexuality in play?
TAM GRYN:
So I love that you ask this question because to me, the people who define what fine art is, that's a broader question.
There are two rule makers of the art world. You have the art market, what people want to buy, and the institutional market, what people want to talk about usually in a historical or cultural context. That is what defines “fine art.” A museum is the typical setting for fine art to exist and be debated. But this museum has something more tangible to witness.
"…to me, the people who define what fine art is, that's a broader question.”
TAM GRYN:
Now, Super Funland, which is our immersive installation, which is permanent, we don't change that. We have worked with a collaboration of artists, designers, engineers, technicians of all kinds to create intellectual property.
Each one of these installations is their games that are artistic, that are participatory, that are meant to make the topic of sexuality fun and engaging. So after you have seen more of an academic exhibition… Then you come to Super Funland.
Imagine a state fair featuring explicit games like the Sizemologist, Rawhide bull riding, and even a 4D adventure; that’s Super Funland. You can grab a drink at the bar or a couple of dildos through glory holes in a wack-a-mole style game. There are performers and shows, slides, and a selection of carnival games with real prizes. It’s silly. Delightfully crude. It’s meant to make you bashful (I mean, you enter under a giant woman’s skirt–and her bits glow in the dark). It encourages you to be playful.
If you’re a seasoned museum connoisseur or a first time gallery visitor interested in the subject matter, The Museum of Sex is sure to show you a good time.
TAM GRYN:
I love this combination of high and low that we have managed to create in the Museum of Sex and something that I've been pursuing my whole life and my whole career because we want people to come that won't necessarily come to any other museum and they come to the Museum of Sex.
If you’re a seasoned museum connoisseur or a first time gallery visitor interested in the subject matter, The Museum of Sex is sure to show you a good time. Come ready for a stimulating experience and provocative conversation featuring clay porn sets, sex worker poetry, and a very, very tall woman that towers above you as you play kinky carnival games. Oh and there’s a boob bounce house.
F*ck Art opened in February and will be on display for a full year, with other exhibitions in the lineup of the Museum of Sex. It’s a space to experience the intersection of sexuality and fine art brewed in the Miami heat.
TAM GRYN:
We are so lucky in Miami to be able to have a space to have these conversations… the art market and even other museums… up until very recently artists didn't have a platform to express themselves sexually… So it's interesting to be able to challenge these systems and to give people a reason to show up in a physical way, in a physical place… it's good to be in that position of allowing this self expression and continuing the conversation of the importance of sexuality in humanity.
And that's like the larger mission of what we're doing.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Anna Bukhareva
Ana María Caballero
Aaron Lewis
Camilo Rojas
Celina Reboyras
Catherine Yang
Cheryl Pope
Ernesto Gutierrez
Ernesto Kunde
Evelyn Politzer
Fabiola Larios
Francisca Oyhanarte
Jocelyn Flores
John Lark
Justyna Kisielewicz
Karli Evans
Katelyn Kopenhaver
Manuel Angarita
Mateo Seza
Moises Sanabria
MyFi Studio
Philip Lique
Ricky Cohete
Rosa Henriquez
Sara Kurz
Sarah Ferrer
Selene Ashe
Serlian Barreto
Tamir Cohen
We Are Nice’n Easy
Moki Baby aka Veronica Gessa
EXHIBITION CREDITS
Tam Gryn, Curator
Arasay Vazquez, Exhibitions & Curatorial Projects Manager
Eunice Lee, Exhibitions Designer
India Sherman, Spatial Designer
Cletis Chaterton, Chief Preparator
Jordan Salvador, Operations Manager
NIMART Productions, Art Handling
Art Care Solutions, Art Handling & Construction Assistance