Pérez Art Museum Miami

This exhibition presents a selection of works by filmmaker and video artist, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz (b. 1972, San Juan), including a new work, Marché Salomon (2015).

Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks is the first major exhibition focused on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s notebooks, filled with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) examines how films and photographs influence our understanding of history. Drawing on intensive research and meticulous attention to detail, the artist utilizes live actors, costumes, props, and sets to render real and imagined scenes from the past with uncanny accuracy.

Including examples of the artist’s works from the 1960s up through the present, this exhibition presents functional designs, works on paper, and ceramics inspired by natural forms by Oka Doner, the multi-disciplinary artist and designer.

Sheela Gowda’s (b.1957, Bhadravati, India) artistic practice engages a diverse range of media and materials. 

The work of Doris Salcedo (b. 1958, Bogotá) is deeply rooted in her country’s social and political landscape, including its long history of civil conflicts. Her sculptures and installations address these fraught circumstances with elegance and a poetic sensibility that balances the gravitas of her subjects with subtle formality.

Romare Bearden features a series of photostat Projections produced by the artist in 1964.

Cristóbal León (b. 1980, Santiago de Chile) and Joaquín Cociña (b. 1980, Concepción, Chile) are an artist collaborative based in Santiago de Chile. Their 2012 film Los Andes was presented as a large-format projection in the Bank of America Project Gallery at PAMM.

Speechless, a new work by the Rotterdam-based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multilayered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world.

Carlos Alfonzo’s prolific works in clay and painted ceramics are inextricably connected to the formal evolution of his large paintings and sculptures.

Báez’s new works embody a provocative investigation on decorative elements, textiles, hair designs, and body ornaments that explores methods of resistance in black communities within the United States and the Caribbean.

In the fall of 2015, Pérez Art Museum Miami will present a mid-career retrospective of Nari Ward (b. 1963, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica; lives in New York).

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents a new project gallery presentation consisting of three photographs by Canadian photographer and art historian Jeff Wall  (b. 1946) , one of which will be presented publically for the first time.

No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting brings together the work of nine Aboriginal Australian artists: Paddy Bedford, Janangoo Butcher Cherel, Tommy Mitchell, Ngarra, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Tjumpo Tjapanangvka, Billy Joongoorra Thomas, and Prince of Wales (Midpul). Each of these men is a leader within their community and while…

Pérez Art Museum Miami presents a new series of works by Nicolas Lobo (b. 1979, Los Angeles; lives in Miami). Lobo’s research-intensive, process-oriented production begins with deep immersion in a broad spectrum of topics, from fringe subcultures and hidden networks—the Raëlian movement, the Go-Go dance scene, illicit pirate radio—to points…

Inspired by the writings of author and philosopher Édouard Glissant (1928 – 2011), this exhibition responds to Miami as a site defined culturally by its diasporic communities and it looks to place these local dynamics in dialogue with more distant contexts that share similar histories.

The interdisciplinary work of Marjetica Potrč (b. 1953, Ljubljana, Slovenia; lives in Berlin and Ljubljana) encompasses community-based, participatory projects, as well as gallery installations referencing architectural conditions that she has observed around the world—from informal settlements in Caracas to experimental housing units in Jerusalem. These installations, which Potrč refers to…

Pérez Art Museum Miami has commissioned Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York) to create an ambitious new work for the museum’s stunning double-height project gallery. The New York-based artist created a large, ephemeral mural painting directly on the gallery’s back wall, which measures 30 feet high by 29 feet wide.

Iman Issa’s multimedia works explore the relationship between history, memory, language, and objects. Her projects typically incorporate multiple pieces that are themselves comprised of multiple forms.

Since 2012, Shana Lutker (b. 1978, Northport, New York; lives in Los Angeles) has been researching the Surrealist movement. Among the most important European avant-garde groups of the 20th century, the Surrealists explored the unconscious mind and creative expressions that were tied to the irrational.