The full-length premiere of the video installation marks the artist’s first museum solo exhibition. On view from October 1, 2026–May 16, 2027
(MIAMI, FL — August 4, 2026) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to present Zoë Buckman: Show You Me Your Bruises, Then, on view from October 1, 2026–May 16, 2027. The exhibition marks the British, Jewish multidisciplinary artist’s first museum solo exhibition and takes its name from a poem and video installation of the same title, showcased for the first time in its entirety.
The exhibition spotlights Show Me Your Bruises, Then (2021–22), a three-channel video installation written, performed, and directed by Buckman featuring the artist alongside actors Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller. The 17-minute video performance is based on the artist’s free-flowing poem of the same name and builds a portrait of the multigenerational experience of bleeding, bruising, power, and domestic violence, exploring the shame and stigma prescribed to the female body.
The film depicts three women, each seated at the end of a wooden table, reciting the poem that Buckman began in 2018. While excerpts of the text have previously appeared in artwork titles and embroidery pieces, a few of which will also be on view in the galleries, this installation of Show Me Your Bruises, Then at PAMM features the full recitation of the poem for the first time. The video’s rhythmic pattern and three-channel structure reinforces the notion of the power in sharing one’s voice and story.
This collection of work is emblematic of Buckman’s commitment to addressing important social issues and fostering nuanced conversations around consent, power, and violence. Globally, an estimated one in three women suffers from violence at the hands of an intimate partner. Show Me Your Bruises, Then examines how this pattern can echo within families for generations, creating a harmful cycle that is often overlooked. Buckman’s work serves to generate increasing public awareness of a dangerous epidemic.
ABOUT ZOË BUCKMAN
Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a British, Jewish multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, textiles, lens-based media, ceramics, neon, and painting, exploring themes of Intersectional Feminism, mortality, and equality.
Notable solo shows include Who By Fire at Mindy Solomon (2025); TENDED at Lyles & King (2023); BLOODWORK at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (2022); No bleach thick enough at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (2020); Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort (2019); Let her Rave at Gavlak Gallery (2018); Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space (2017); Every Curve at Papillion Art (2016); and Present Life at Garis & Hahn (2015).
Group shows include presentations at Pérez Art Museum Miami, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Jewish Museum; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; The Broad, Los Angeles; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Public artworks include a MENDED, a Times Square Arts Midnight Moment; We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident, a mural in collaboration with Natalie Frank at the Ford Foundation Gallery and New York Live Arts; Champ in Los Angeles, commissioned by Art Production Fund; and various billboard projects with For Freedoms.
Buckman studied at the International Center of Photography and has been awarded the Social Impact Award from Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York (2020), the Art Changemaker Award from the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (2019), and the Art Matters Grant (2017). She completed a residency at Mana Contemporary in 2017.
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 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.
