El Espacio 23 houses three apartments and a shared work space reserved for residency programs. The residency includes living space, shared studio space, and a production budget for artists and curators across various stages in their career, with a diverse range of disciplines and ethnic backgrounds. Programming is year-round and the length of the stay depends on the interest of the curator or the complexity of the artists’ projects. Residents are selected by El Espacio 23’s curatorial team within the context of the space’s exhibition program, the city of Miami and the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
Nathyfa Michel is a Caribbean photographer born in 1994 in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her childhood, shaped by movements between France and French Guiana, heightened her awareness of issues related to mixed heritage and diasporic trajectories. She returned to...
Celia Irina González lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and a Masters in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO, Ecuador. She has participated in the exhibitions “Emergent/cy”, Entre Vienna, Austria; Cuba Dispersa, Cranbrook Art...
Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Virginia. She holds an MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Photography from George Mason University. Rooted in her Jamaican heritage, Thompson’s lens-based practice spans photography, textiles, sculptural collage, and...
Simonette Quamina was born in Ontario, Canada, and spent her early childhood living between the Caribbean, South America, and New York City. Her diverse upbringing is constantly woven into the narratives of her work and through the reconstruction of personal and collective histories she creates...
The work of Laura Lis (Havana, Cuba, 1983) can always be understood from an anthropological point of view, since one of her major ideo-aesthetic concerns is to inquire into the human condition of her contemporaries. Of course, her own life and history do not escape...
The search, study and experimentation of different materials and media to develop her work has been a constant since the beginning of her artistic life. Recent milestones in her career include her participation in the Malta Biennial (2024) with her work "Mi cuerpo dice la...
Javier Castro, (born in Havana. 1984) is a Cuban artist who produces a multifaceted array of creative works, including video and video installations, environments, photographs, sculptures, and drawings intertwining with concepts of marginality, religion and broken paradigms. His work focuses on the human experience and...
Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is a photographer based in Lawley, Johannesburg. He uses his family run shebeen as a studio in which to investigate themes of first-hand and generational trauma, violence and memory. Hlatshwayo has been growing increasingly curious in various materialities as a medium of expression....
Labinjo’s large-scale figurative paintings often depict intimate scenes of historical and contemporary life, both real and imagined. Figures appear from personal and archival imagery that include family photographs, found images and historical material. She explores themes including but not limited to identity, power, Blackness, race,...
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros explores the intersections of identification, diaspora, and Black consciousness as both writer and scholar. A professor of Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is the author of Utopía, distopía e ingravidez, a critical study of post-Soviet Cuban narratives,...
Carla Chaim (b. 1983, Brazil) Lives and works in São Paulo. Both in her works on paper as well as in her photographs and actions recorded on video, Carla Chaim seeks to go beyond the bounds of the traditional conception of drawing. More than a...
Los Bravú, an artistic duo formed by Dea Gómez and Diego Omil, who have been working together since 2012 on a multidisciplinary body of work that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, installation, and graphic novels. Their name comes from a Galician term that refers to...
Paola Fiterre Cuban artist based in New York, whose practice focuses on the representation of the female body as shaped by the migratory experience. She studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana and graduated from the International Center of Photography in 2019, where...
Jorge Ribalta, artist, researcher, editor and independent curator, based in Barcelona, Spain. In the last years, has shown his work at the CRP Nord-Pas de Calais (Douchy-les-Mines, France), Linea di Confine (Rubiera, Italy), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany), La Virreina (Barcelona, Spain), Fundación Mapfre (Madrid, Spain)...
Vinicius Gerheim Born in 1992 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Vinicius Gerheim is an artist whose work touches on intersections between sexuality and faith, in the field of children's memories and their multiform narratives. In his work, the artist materializes images that come from the...
Christian Vinck is a Venezuelan artist who defines himself as belonging to a long tradition of amateur painters. Christian generates rhythms that make his brush a drumstick that taps upon the tension of the frame and grants a glimpse of an emotive, explosive pulse. As...
Emilia Azcarate studied Fine Art at the Central Saint Martins School of Art in London in the eighties. She participated in the La Llama International Artists Workshop in Venezuela and in the Artist-in-Residence program CCA7 in Trinidad. She won the first National Prize for Visual...
The universe presented by Mariana Bunimov places the viewer in the middle of a crossroad were, without hierarchy or apparent connection, thousands of images hailing as much from her imaginary as from her daily life, cross paths. Defying any kind of criteria or absolute, the...
Carlos Motta’s (b. 1978, Colombia) multi-disciplinary art practice documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge normative discourses through acts of self-representation. As a historian of untold narratives, Motta is committed to in-depth research on...
The work of La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989) includes watercolor paintings, oil landscapes, bread sculptures and iron structures, which build, not without tension and violence, a multi-part bidimensional installation that reproduces, in a key of denunciation and vindication, the dynamics of the cult. Taking up again...