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The contemporary art exhibition, Raíces/Roots: Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, will open in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery at University of Tampa on Aug. 29. This solo exhibition, which runs through Oct. 10, showcases a new body of work by St. Petersburg-based visual artist and poet Camilo Loaiza Bonilla (b. 1998, Colombia).

Bonilla, who currently serves as the Eleanor Merritt Fellow at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota and is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at University of South Florida, crafts experimental work that transcends media and genre. This immersive exhibition centers on eight new, experimental video poems by the artist as well as interactive digital games and a curated reading nook. While deeply tethered to the artist’s personal journey as a queer, trans, first-generation immigrant, all the works conjure larger questions about what it means to confront intergenerational trauma; how memory work can engender and complicate forgiveness; and how poetics — digital and analog — can forge a path for authenticity, belonging and healing. This exhibition was curated by art historian and Assistant Professor of Art and Design Lesley Wolff. For more about Camilo Loaiza Bonilla, visit his website at .

The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery will host an opening reception for the exhibition, 6-8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 29. A companion book to the exhibition will be released in early October, with a book launch event to be announced. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery is located at 310 N. Boulevard and is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, contact Jocelyn Boigenzahn, gallery director, at jboigenzahn@ut.edu.