Jona Cerwinske at the Museum of Graffiti

Jona Cerwinske Turns Blame into Brilliance in “Dog Ate My Homework”

The Museum of Graffiti in Miami unveils a major moment in contemporary street art with the debut of Jona Cerwinske’s first solo museum exhibition, Dog Ate My Homework, opening June 7, 2025. The exhibition is an irreverent, immersive journey into the cultural psychology of blame, failure, and unfiltered expression. With this exhibition, Jona Cerwinske steps beyond the role of street art phenom to assert his place as a conceptual artist unafraid to wield satire like a scalpel.

Cerwinske has long been one of Miami’s most elusive yet influential creative forces. His signature black-and-white, hand-drawn style—filled with fluid figures, pop-surrealist icons, and esoteric symbolism—has become a recognizable fixture in the collections of Miami tastemakers for over a decade. But Dog Ate My Homework isn’t about greatest hits; it’s about pushing the envelope.

In a transformed gallery space that echoes a schoolhouse gone rogue, Jona Cerwinske reimagines the excuses we all made as kids—and turns them into launchpads for creativity. His new body of work interrogates cultural narratives of accountability, poking holes in our rituals of blame with clever iconography and graffiti-rooted aesthetics. The show’s title may sound familiar, but the visual experience it represents is nothing short of radical.

Jona Cerwinske at Museum of Graffiti: Satire, Subversion, and Storytelling

There’s something mischievous and masterful in the way Jona Cerwinske approaches visual language. Trained by the streets and steeped in a legacy of graphic storytelling—his grandfather a pioneering cartoonist—Cerwinske blends lowbrow iconography with high-art ambition. A founding figure in Wynwood’s transformation into an international art mecca, his career spans canvas, walls, digital media, and large-scale installations. Yet this exhibition at the Museum of Graffiti may be his most personal statement to date.

From chalkboard-style sketches to digital overlays and mythic astronauts drifting through detentions of the mind, the exhibition is alive with contradiction. It’s playful but pointed. Irreverent, yet reflective. Through each piece, Jona Cerwinske challenges us to reconsider the cultural weight we place on perfection, and to instead embrace the artistic freedom that comes from missteps, deflection, and imaginative excuses.

Museum curator Alan Ket perfectly captures the ethos of the show: “In Jona’s hands, those impulses become a new visual language—one that critiques, disarms, and delights.”

Tickets for the opening are available HERE…