Open to artists, cultural practitioners, and scholars from the Caribbean and its diasporas, the program catalyzes creative projects and research advancing Caribbean art and scholarship.

(MIAMI, FL — August 24, 2026) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 cycle of the Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship Program. Now in its seventh iteration and newly expanded by a landmark partnership with the Green Family Foundation, the program is aimed at advancing the study of Caribbean art while providing opportunities for exchange and collaboration across the region and its diasporic communities. The 2026 Green Family Foundation CCI Fellowship recipients are Noa Battle, Theresa Chromati, and Karina Moret-Miranda. The self-directed program takes place from September to December 2026 and includes the CCI Research Fellowship, CCI Artist Fellowship, and CCI + Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Fellowship.

The 2026 fellows were selected through an open call by Iberia Pérez Gonzalez, Andrew W. Mellon CCI curatorial associate at PAMM, and José Carlos Diaz, PAMM senior director of curatorial affairs and chief curator, alongside a distinguished group of external partners and collaborators that include: Aldeide Delgado, founder and director of WOPHA; Krys Ortega, curatorial and public programs manager at Bakehouse Art Complex; Barbadian art historian, writer, and curator Allison Thompson; and Deborah Willis, professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

“This year’s fellows share a commitment to rethinking the ways histories are embodied, remembered, and transmitted,” said Iberia Pérez Gonzalez, PAMM’s Andrew W. Mellon CCI curatorial associate. “Across painting, photography, and archival research, each project proposes new ways of understanding identity through the lens of migration, spirituality, ancestry, and the body. Together, they exemplify the interdisciplinary and research-driven practices that are shaping contemporary Caribbean art today.”

The CCI Fellowship Program fosters art projects and research that advance cultural development and scholarship in the Caribbean and its diaspora. Through research- and production-based fellowships, the program cultivates new ideas, challenges traditional conceptions of Caribbean art, and supports interdisciplinary approaches to cultural production. Fellows benefit from access to PAMM’s institutional resources, as well as newly expanded opportunities through Florida International University and Green Space Miami.

Noa Batlle
2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow

In collaboration with WOPHA and El Espacio 23, 2026 CCI + WOPHA Fellow Noa Batlle will take on a month-long residency in Miami to develop Pendientes, Study II: Photography-Based Study of Kinetic Normativity, Miami, 2026, expanding on a performance-based project initiated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Throughout the city, Batlle will photograph accessibility ramps, examining the visual construction of access across sites of tourism, luxury development, and Caribbean diasporic neighborhoods. By tracing the relationship between mobility, migration, labor, and inequality, the project investigates accessibility not as a technical issue but as a political and cultural condition that shapes who is permitted to move freely through public space.

Theresa Chromati
2026 CCI Artist Fellow

2026 CCI Artist Fellow Theresa Chromati will spend two months in Miami developing I Met You in the Haze, a new body of work comprising two large-scale paintings presented within custom-built sculptural frameworks. The project marks a new direction in Chromati’s practice through an engagement with her Guyanese heritage and the literary legacy of her great-uncle, poet Martin Carter. Drawing from Carter’s writings alongside her own affirmations, Chromati creates an intergenerational dialogue that transforms inherited language into a contemporary meditation on ancestry, cultural memory, and the ongoing formation of self. During her fellowship, Chromati will work from a dedicated studio at Bakehouse Art Complex, continuing the partnership between PAMM and Bakehouse launched in 2021.

Karina Moret-Miranda
2026 CCI Research Fellow

As the 2026 CCI Research Fellow, Karina Moret-Miranda will conduct archival research for IYAMI: Inscriptions of Yorùbá and Afro-Cuban Memory and Imago; The Making of the Afro-Cuban Feminine in Cuban Art and Its Diasporas. Through research at local collections and archives, Moret-Miranda will examine how Cuban women artists have reimagined representations of Black womanhood through Yorùbá cosmologies, Afro-Cuban spiritual traditions, ritual, and embodied memory. Her research argues that these artists have constructed alternative visual archives that challenge colonial narratives while positioning Black women as creators, ancestors, spiritual authorities, and agents of historical transformation.

ABOUT NOA BATLLE

Noa Batlle (b. 1983, Dominican Republic) is a self-taught artist, living and working in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Their practice moves between artistic research, public education, and structural interventions, centering experimentation and collaboration to explore how systems organize access, belonging, and perception. Through projects like The Interventions (2020–present), they have contributed to reconfiguring how accessibility is understood and implemented in Dominican public life, including through the creation of the first municipal Department of Inclusion and Accessibility and initiatives leading to the most inclusive electoral process in the country’s history during the 2024 elections.

Batlle approaches accessibility not as accommodation but rather as a critical lens through which to challenge dominant sensory and social orders. Recent work includes La Ocupación (The Occupation) (2026), developed with curator José Roca for the Concurso de Arte Eduardo León Jimenes, and an ongoing nationwide intervention with the Dominican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources to advance accessibility across the country’s protected areas. Their work has been presented on international platforms including the 19th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates (2024) and the United Nations General Assembly (2023).

ABOUT THERESA CHROMATI

Theresa Chromati (b. 1992, United States) is a Guyanese American artist born and based in Baltimore, Maryland. Her figurative abstract paintings explore the complexities of the feminine experience, addressing emotional resilience, sensuality, vulnerability, and strength. Extending into sculpture, Chromati incorporates symbolic “scrotum flowers” that represent spiritual balance and support within shared realms. Her multidisciplinary practice is recognized for its vibrant color, movement, controlled chaos, and sensuous textures. Chromati has presented solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman (San Francisco), VETA by Fer Francés (Madrid), and Tureen (Dallas). Her first European institutional exhibition was held at CAC Málaga in 2024 and followed by a solo exhibition at Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique (Paris) in 2025. Chromati’s group exhibitions include Frieze Sculpture at Regent’s Park in London; collaborations with David Zwirner and Performance Space; and The Extreme Present, co-organized by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian. Chromati’s work is held in the collections of major institutions including Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Rubell Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

ABOUT KARINA MORET-MIRANDA Karina Moret-Miranda (b. 1975, Cuba) is an Afro-Cuban historian, visual artist, and museum practitioner whose research examines the intersections of Afro diasporic visual cultures, race, gender, spirituality, and memory across the Black Atlantic.

She is a research fellow at the University of Canberra, a curatorial intern at the National Gallery of Australia, and a visiting professor at Middlebury College. Her work combines archival research, the study of museum collections, conservation, and artistic practice to investigate how African diasporic communities have preserved and transformed cultural knowledge. As both a scholar and artist, she works across history, visual culture, heritage, and contemporary art, with a particular focus on Yorùbá cosmologies, Afro-Cuban religions, and decolonial approaches to museums and collections. Through interdisciplinary research, she seeks to recover overlooked histories while contributing new perspectives to Caribbean art history, museum studies, and the visual cultures of the African diaspora.

ABOUT THE GREEN FAMILY FOUNDATION CARIBBEAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE

The Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) is a curatorial and research platform at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) dedicated to promoting and supporting the artistic and cultural production of the Caribbean and its diasporas through exhibitions, research, fellowships, public programs, and collection building.

ABOUT PAMM

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Sandra and Tony Tamer Director Franklin Sirmans, 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 42-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.