El Espacio 23

Applications are now open for this year’s Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowships at PAMM. Designed to support artists, researchers, and women photographers across the Caribbean and its diaspora, the program provides resources, mentorship, and time to develop new work and ideas in dialogue with PAMM’s collection and Miami’s broader cultural community. Fellowships include research, artist, and photography tracks, each offering stipends, travel support, and access to institutional networks. Apply by June 1, 2026. Click the link in bio to apply and learn more. Join a virtual information session to learn more: CCI + WOPHA: April 17, 12pm Artist Fellowship: April 24, 12pm Research Fellowship: May 1, 12pm

Legenda em português nos comentários 🇧🇷 Applications are now open for the 2026 WOPHA Artist-in-Residence Program ✨ Since 2020, the WOPHA Artist-in-Residence Program has supported lens-based women and nonbinary artists through a month-long residency focused on research, experimentation, and creative development in Miami. Hosted in partnership with El Espacio 23 (@elespacio23 ), the residency offers artists dedicated time and space to develop new or ongoing projects while engaging with Miami’s vibrant cultural landscape. As part of the 2026 open call, WOPHA will also select one artist from Brazil through a special partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles (@imoreirasalles ), with additional support from The55Project Art Foundation (@the55project ). 🗓 Deadline: June 14, 2026 🔗 Apply at the link in bio 💡 Questions? [email protected] #WOPHAFoundation #ArtistResidency #OpenCall #WomenPhotographers #PhotographyResidency

Applications are still open for the 2026 Green Family Foundation Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowships at PAMM. Supporting artists, researchers, and women photographers across the Caribbean and its diaspora, the fellowships provide time, resources, mentorship, and institutional support to help develop new work and research in dialogue with PAMM’s collection and Miami’s cultural community. Applications close June 1, 2026. There’s still time to apply or share with someone who should. Link in bio for details and application information. Info sessions have been posted on PAMM’s YouTube channel.

It is impossible to think of territory as merely a layering of sediment. While we may name and see its tangible elements—trees, open spaces, valleys, lakes, rocks, and a vast tectonic mass—each contains invisible forces that elude the eye. Geology speaks to what preceded us, to that which sustains life and shapes the world we inhabit. Everything operates in synchrony, in a harmonic tension that makes possible the existence of the earth’s diverse organisms. This section brings together works that explore both the raw force of the earth and its biological vitality, as well as those invisible energies that grant territory its own agency. Through these forces, a dense web of balances, energies, and ancient rhythms is woven— a field that reveals a porous boundary between the symbolic and the organic. In this reading, territory becomes a gateway to a more primordial state: a space of genesis and world-making, a realm of imaginative speculation that invites us to pause, to slow our rhythm, and to feel—if only for a moment—the way the mountains breathe. Come see “A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection” on view through August 2026.

Welcoming Victor Ehikhamenor to the El Espacio 23 residency. Victor Ehikhamenor is a Nigerian-American multidisciplinary visual artist and writer whose work explores African cultural heritage, postcolonial politics, and the complexities of contemporary Nigeria. Born in Uwessan village, Edo State, he was steeped in the visual/ritual traditions of the Benin Kingdom, which continue to shape his practice. His art falls into three main categories: works featuring abstracted iconography across paintings, sculptures, and installations; pieces using prayer rosaries and bronze statuettes sewn onto lace/canvas to form intricate royal figures and monumental landscapes; and perforated works on handmade paper. Ehikhamenor is a 2026 Apollo 40 Patrons and Advocates awardee, 2025 Open Society’s Public Intellectual Fellow, 2020 National Artist in Residence at the Neon Museum, Las Vegas, and 2016 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. He has exhibited internationally, including representing Nigeria national pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), Dak ‘Art Biennale (2016), and Biennale Jogja XIII (2015). His writings appear in The New York Times, Guernica magazine, AGNI magazine, BBC, and CNN. He founded Angels and Muse, a Lagos and Benin City residency supporting multidisciplinary art, literature, and cultural practices. Ehikhamenor is the convener of the annual Black Muse Art Festival in Benin City, Nigeria.

Excited to welcome artist Jozua Gerrard @jozuagerrard to our artist residency at El Espacio 23. Contemporary South African artist Jozua Gerrard’s figurative paintings capture states of intimacy, unease, vulnerability and contemplation in our post-internet world. With their smooth consistency and saturated lacquer of enamel paint beneath glass, his paintings deftly recall the screens we interact with daily. Born in Cape Town in 2001, Gerrard forms part of a generation conditioned to pay rapt attention to the experiences that give them pleasure, turning them into stylised rituals for virtual display. Both observed and imagined, his subject matter is drawn from his immediate environment, offering “little windows into people’s existence”. The figures’ solitude within each work echoes the singular nature of the artist’s own commitment to the act of self-enquiry. Gerrard’s practice is permeated by processes of digital image-making, with photography forming the foundation of his inquiry. His tightly cropped compositions evoke a sense of voyeurism, drawing the viewer into stylised scenes often constructed using friends as models. Through these tableaux, he interrogates the role of fashion, styling, and curated interiors in shaping identity. The resulting photographs are digitised, then translated on to large glass panels, becoming physical simulacra of virtual spaces, grounded in real-life encounters.

Maravillosa experiencia en la residencia de el espacio 23 hace unas semanas donde adaptamos el espacio para convertirlo en un estudio y laboratorio totalmente oscurecido pudiendo así trabajar a cualquier hora del día. Aqui algunas imágenes del proceso y algunas piezas finales. Gracias @elespacio23

Don’t miss this one—our director Patricia Hanna (Jorge M. Pérez Collection / El Espacio 23) joins a great lineup at @elmuseo x @aspenconexion for a conversation on the Latino art market. May 12, 2–5 PM El Museo del Barrio, New York

Some moments from last week Open Studio with artists in residence Madeline Jiménez @madelinesantil and Verónica Vázquez @veronicavazquezart Stayed tuned for future events! Thank you @neutralroomstudio for capturing these.

Our founder, Jorge M. Pérez, visiting resident artists Madeline Jiménez and Verónica Vázquez. Thank you to everyone who stopped by yesterday’s open studio!

🇦🇷🇺🇸 ÚLTIMOS DÍAS | LAST CALL Quedan pocos días para el cierre de la convocatoria de @fundacionamaamoedo en alianza con @elespacio23 destinada a artistas visuales y curadores/as de Argentina. Dos plazas disponibles para un artista y un curador de Argentina: 〰️ Curador: julio–agosto 2026 〰️ Artista: febrero–marzo 2027 📅 Fecha límite: 26 de abril de 2026 🌐 Bases y condiciones: fundacionamaamoedo.org | elespacio23.org ➡️Al ingresar, haz click en PROGRAMAS, y luego en FAARA CONECTA 📋Para aplicar: completar el formulario y enviar a [email protected] en un único PDF. ______ Only a few days left of the Open Call from Fundación Ama Amoedo in partnership with El Espacio 23. The call is intended for two spots available for one visual artist and one curator from Argentina: 〰️ Curator: July–August 2026 〰️ Artist: February–March 2027 📅 Deadline: April 26, 2026. 🌐 Terms and conditions atfundacionamaamoedo.org | elespacio23.org ➡️ When entering, click on PROGRAMS, then on FAARA CONECTA. 📋To apply: Complete the form and send a single PDF by email to [email protected] #FundacionAmaAmoedo #ElEspacio23 #OpenCall #FAARAConecta #Argentina

Happy Earth Day from El Espacio 23! 🌎 Today, we are celebrating by highlighting local Miami artist Jennifer Basile (b. 1973), whose practice is rooted in depicting natural landscapes that open dialogues around environmental appreciation and protection. Jennifer Basile’s Loop Road illustrates the landscape of the Big Cypress Natural Reserve, an area in South Florida’s Everglades. Reflecting on her connection to endangered habitats, Basile captures the qualities of Florida’s disappearing wetlands through multiple methodically laid layers of color—all printed from a single block, which is reduced after each layer until the block is destroyed. Split into four sections, each piece of Japanese rice paper is a one-of-a-kind “form of preservation and a warning” that together construct the sprawling Cypress wetlands. “If someone sees the work and asks, ‘Where is this? Can we go?’ That is the beginning of protection.” -Jennifer Basile Come see “A World Far Away, Nearby, and Invisible: Territory Narratives in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection” on view through August 2026.