The museum’s first open call for art commissions expands scholarship and engagement with international digital art and supports artists in the development, realization, and expansion of experimental digital artwork.

(MIAMI, FL — June 9, 2026) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce the 21 recipients of the inaugural open call for digital art, launched in 2025. This marks the museum’s first public open call for artworks and an unparalleled initiative supporting the creation of experimental digital work across South Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora, advancing the museum’s engagement with and support of international contemporary digital art.

The inaugural application cycle received more than 750 submissions from 50 countries, out of which 21 artists were selected through a multi-stage review process led by an interdepartmental cohort of PAMM staff and an external panel of judges, including Casey Baron, Christopher Cozier, Gabriela Munguía, Samantha Ozer, and Monica Uszerowicz. Each artist will receive between $2,500 and $15,000, along with resources and production support, to realize digital art projects by 2027, enabling the development of works that innovate the medium. The initiative underscores PAMM’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists working in time-based media and to fostering new models for access, distribution, and scholarship at the crossroads of the Americas.

“It is an honor to lead PAMM’s first-ever open call for artworks. The incredible response to the open call for digital art commissions in particular showcases the vibrancy of regional digital art ecosystems that remain under-resourced and under-recognized on a global stage,” said Lauren Monzón, New Media Program Manager. “Our team was exhilarated by the quality and quantity of submissions we received from across the globe, ranging from Cuba to Kenya, Martinique to Ghana, Peru to Portugal, and beyond. With generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, PAMM is enormously grateful for the opportunity to invest in these voices and steward urgent discussions around how contemporary technologies are shifting relationships with our environment, agency, and each other.”

Moving between speculative fiction and documentary, PAMM’s digital commissions span video games, 3D models, net art, CGI films, AI-driven animation, virtual reality, 360 video, generative video sculptures, and immersive installations. The selected works explore relationships to place, history, and digital space while addressing questions of identity, migration, memory, and technological mediation. The cohort reflects the initiative’s geographic and cultural scope, with 43% women artists, 24% Haitian or Haitian diaspora artists, and 14% based in South Florida.

Across this diverse range in mediums, themes, regions, and more, one example includes Haitian artist Maksaens Denis’ interactive installation featuring seven video-sculptures that meld archives of rituals from Haitian Vodou, queer testimonies, algorithmic images, and electronic music with Haitian metal-cut structures from the Village of Noailles. Meanwhile, Nestor Siré’s digital sculpture series, NULL PRODUCT, features innovative gaming computers made under conditions of material scarcity across Latin America and the Caribbean, questioning who gets to define digital innovation. In tandem, Dominican artist Angy de la Rosa has created an open-access archive of digital 3D models and environments that preserve Afro-Caribbean everyday cultural heritage, offering field-scanned objects and domestic settings that are freely accessible for reuse, study, and community contribution. Closer to home, Unkle Luc’s MIAMI 2006 video series melds archival footage and AI animation to explore South Florida’s melting pot of spiritual energy.

These projects are a snapshot of the total 21 digital art commissions that can be explored in full here.

FULL LIST OF SELECTED ARTISTS

• Luc Alexandre (Unkle Luc) (b. 1988, Miami, FL; lives and works in Miami)
• Cristóbal Ascencio Ramos (b. 1988, Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Madrid, Spain)
• biarritzzz (b. 1994, Fortaleza, Brazil; lives and works in Salvador, Brazil)
• Juan Covelli (b. 1985, Bogota, Colombia; lives and works in Bogota)
• Vitória Cribb (b. 1996, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; lives and works in Rio de Janeiro)
• Malitzin Cortés (CNDSD) (b. 1986, Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City)
• Maksaens Denis (b. 1968, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; lives and works in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
• Jason Fitzroy Jeffers (b. 1980, Ottawa, Canada; lives and works in San Francisco, CA)
• Pierre-Christophe Gam (b. 1983, Bondy, France; lives and works in Paris, France)
• Intton Godelg (b. 1994, Mexico City, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City) & Bea Millón (b. 1992, Sagunto, Spain; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)
• Lucas Lugarinho (b. 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Martha Maya (b. 1991, Tijuana, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)
• Wendell McShine (b. 1982, Port of Spain, Trinidad; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
• Chelsea Odufu (b. 1993, Newark, NJ; works and lives in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and New York, NY)
• Georine Pierre (b. 1993, Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn)
• Dominick Rabrun (b. 1988, New York, NY; lives and works in Hyattsville, MD)
• Angy de la Rosa (b. 1996, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; lives and works in Santo Domingo)
• Andrew Roberts (b. 1995, Tijuana, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico)
• Jose Sanchez (b. 1980, Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York, NY)
• Nestor Siré (b. 1988, Camagüey, Cuba; lives and works in Havana, Cuba and Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Sofia Valiente (b. 1990, Portland, OR; lives and works in Miami, FL)

PAMM’s digital initiatives are funded in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

ABOUT PAMM

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Franklin Sirmans, Sandra and Tony Tamer Director, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 41-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013, in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.

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