Sergio Cesario Receives Honorable Mention for The Fall of Infamy at MFA’s Celebrate 250 Exhibition
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland | September 2025 — Brazilian artist Sergio Cesario has been awarded an Honorable Mention by the Maryland Federation of Art (MFA) for his work The Fall of Infamy, featured in the Celebrate 250 exhibition commemorating 250 years of U.S. history.
Part of his ongoing series, The Transhuman Tronies of the Latter Days, the diptych offers a stark reflection on the fragility of democracy in times of ideological extremism and algorithmic amplification. With its dual-panel structure—rendered in negative and positive contrast—the piece explores what power looks like when detached from accountability and magnified through technological mythmaking.
The exhibition was juried by Martina Dodd, an art historian and curator with a focus on Black and Afrodiasporic visual cultures. Dodd invited artists to creatively respond to pivotal moments in the American democratic experiment, honoring both its complexity and its contradictions.
“The Fall of Infamy reimagines the figure of leadership through a transhuman lens—illuminating both its seduction and its danger. The diptych operates as both a warning and a mirror: what history remembers, and what it prefers to forget.”
— Sergio Cesario
Another piece by the artist, The Remnant, was also selected for the show. It pays tribute to displaced communities, erased cultures, and fragile ecosystems—serving as a visual elegy for what survives after rupture.
The online exhibition remains open through September 30, 2025, and can be viewed here:
View the full show 👉 here
Join juror Martina Dodd, Art historian and curator, as she hosts MFA’s Celebrate 250 2025 Juror Talk 👉 here.
About the Artist
Sergio Cesario is a Brazilian-American artist, journalist, and author whose work explores the intersections of identity, technology, and speculative futures. His acclaimed series The Transhuman Tronies of the Latter Days has been exhibited internationally, including at the European Cultural Centre in Venice, MIA Curatorial in Miami, and the Pinacothèque in Luxembourg. Merging expanded photography, digital painting, and conceptual portraiture, Cesario’s work invites viewers to rethink the boundaries of human agency in a post-biological age.