Join us for an inspiring conversation featuring philanthropist Jorge Pérez; Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer Director at PAMM, Aldeide Delgado, founder of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), and artist Anastasia Samoylova. Don’t miss this dynamic exchange on art, legacy, and community.
As part of PAMM’s commitment to accessibility live translation for this program will be available in Amercian Sign Language, Spanish and Haitian Creole. The program will also be streamed live, online via PAMM’s Youtube Channel.
Jorge M. Pérez
Jorge M. Pérez is widely recognized as one of the most influential real estate developers, contemporary art collectors, and cultural philanthropists in the United States. As Founding Executive Chairman of Related Group, he has transformed South Florida’s skyline for over 45 years, overseeing a real estate development portfolio exceeding $50 billion. A passionate supporter of the arts, Pérez has built one of the U.S.’s most significant contemporary art collections, highlighting international and Latin American artists, and created El Espacio 23, a contemporary art space dedicated to exhibiting works and engaging the public. Building on this dedication, his lifetime contributions to the arts and broader community now exceed $200 million, including the naming gift for Miami’s Pérez Art Museum, a multimillion-dollar endowment to Tate Modern, and a $1.5 million contribution to Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofía. His work reflects a lifelong commitment to enriching communities, advancing the arts and fostering cultural connections across continents.
About Franklin Sirmans
Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer Director, has led the museum since fall 2015. Since coming to PAMM, he has overseen the acquisition of more than a thousand works of art by donation or purchase. Sirmans has pursued his vision of PAMM as “the people’s museum,” representing a Miami lens, by strengthening existing affiliate groups such as the PAMM Fund for Black Art and creating the International Women’s Committee and the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund. Sirmans has organized Toba Khedoori (2017) and he was co-curator of The World’s Game: Futbol and Contemporary Art (2018). Before his role as the Sandra and Tony Tamer Director at PAMM, Sirmans served as the department head and curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He also served as the Artistic Director of the 2014 Prospect New Orleans biennial exhibition, P3: Notes for Now. As a curator, writer, and editor, Sirmans has established himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary art. At LACMA, he curated Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, as well as Fútbol: The Beautiful Game and oversaw major retrospectives by Glenn Ligon and Blinky Palermo. Previously, he organized exhibitions that originated at the Menil Collection such as Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 and Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death? and NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, which traveled to MoMA PS1 and the Miami Art Museum. He is the former U.S. Editor of Flash Art and Editor-in-Chief of ArtAsiaPacific, and he has written and edited numerous artist and exhibition catalogues.
About Aldeide Delgado
Aldeide Delgado is a Cuban-born, Miami-based independent Latinx art historian and curator, and the founder and director of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). She is a leading voice in writing, curating, and presenting on photography, with lectures delivered at prominent institutions including Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), University of Miami, and The Clark Institute. Delgado’s work mobilizes feminist and decolonial methodologies to center the contributions of women and non-binary individuals in photography. She is the visionary behind the WOPHA Congress, the first-ever global convening of feminist photography collectives, which has brought together nearly 100 leading art historians, curators, and artists, drawing more than 2,000 attendees across its past two editions at PAMM and across South Florida. Her recognitions include 2025-2026 Mellon Foundation grant, 2023 Ellies Creator Award, 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, and fellowships from SAPS – La Tallera (2018) and TEOR/éTica (2017). She is the author of Becoming Sisters: Women Photography Collectives & Organizations (2021) and the creator of the Catalog of Cuban Women Photographers, the first comprehensive survey of women’s contributions to Cuban photography from the nineteenth century to the present. Delgado currently serves on advisory boards and committees at Pérez Art Museum Miami, Frost Art Museum, the Lucie Foundation, the Feminist Art Coalition, and Fast Forward: Women in Photography.
About Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova is an American artist whose practice bridges photography and painting to examine how images construct the cultural imagination of place. Having lived in the United States for half of her life, she approaches visual culture as both insider and outsider, revealing tensions between idealization and lived reality. Her projects, including FloodZone, Floridas, Image Cities and Atlantic Coast, trace the shifting relationships between landscape, architecture and the image in an era shaped by environmental change and media saturation. Working fluidly between documentary observation and studio-based practice, Samoylova explores how photographic seeing becomes both critique and poetic response. Her work, fusing conceptual rigor with a distinctly painterly sensibility, has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, among others.
