Join us for the culminating event of Elliot & Erick Jiménez: El Monte—a conversation between artists Elliot & Erick Jiménez and Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer director at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). From the lush, ethereal landscapes of their latest exhibition to their iconic fashion photography and collaborations with global icons like Bad Bunny, the discussion will center around the creative vision of two of Miami’s most compelling voices.
About Elliot & Erick Jiménez
Elliot & Erick Jiménez (b. 1989, Miami, FL) are identical twins and first-generation Cuban Americans, raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants and now based between New York and Miami. Growing up in a biracial family, they inherited Lucumí customs, an influence that continues to shape their work. Their multidisciplinary practice draws from art history, mythology, Yoruba cosmology, and Catholic syncretism, blurring the boundaries between photography, painting, and sculpture. Through experimental techniques, mixed media, and staged photographs, their work reinterprets Lucumí spirituality within the context of the Western art canon, creating a distinct and evolving visual language.
Their work has been shown in the U.S. and Europe, with solo and group shows at Spinello Projects, Paris Photo, Bass Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Orlando Museum of Art. They are recipients of the CINTAS Foundation Sondra Gilman González-Falla Fellowship in Photography, South Arts Fellowship, Oolite’s Ellies Creator Award, the Florida Prize People’s Choice Award, and the CHANEL Artist Award Program with the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2023, they were commissioned to photograph Bad Bunny for TIME’s first-ever all-Spanish cover in its 100-year history. Their work is held in the permanent collections of PAMM, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Bunker Artspace, and the Orlando Museum of Art. In 2025, they will present their first solo museum exhibition at PAMM.
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, 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, Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death?, and NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, which traveled to MoMA PS1 and 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.
