Join us for the Scholl Lecture Series, celebrating the most compelling cultural voices of our time, with acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Zak Ové.
Presented in collaboration with the Miami Design District, this special program brings together Caribbean art, culture, and community as part of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) ongoing commitment to advancing Caribbean art scholarship through the Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute.
A leading force in contemporary art today, and part of the PAMM collection, Ové will discuss his work and practice. In Miami, Ové presents two of his most powerful monumental works, The Mothership Connection and Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, as part of J’OUVERT: Zak Ové in the Miami Design District. The public art project transforms Jungle Plaza into an immersive landscape where Afrofuturist imagination, ancestral memory, ritual, and public space intersect.
On view from January 15 through February 9, the installation invites audiences to experience Ové’s sculptural language at an architectural scale—one that speaks to history, identity, and collective presence.
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.
About Zak Ové
Zak Ové (British-Trinidadian, born London, 1966) is a multidisciplinary visual artist working across sculpture, film, photography, and installation. His practice engages diasporic histories, masquerade traditions, and post-colonial narratives, foregrounding themes of identity, memory, and transformation. Ové has exhibited extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States, creating large-scale public installations that invite audiences to reconsider inherited histories and imagine new futures grounded in shared human experience.
