2270 NW 23rd St.
Miami, Florida
33142

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.

Past Residents

Cheen Maya Tz'utujil poet and visual artist, Cheen, lives and works in San Pedro la Laguna on the shores of Lake Atitlán. Her practice is directly engaged with her community, reviving ancient thoughts and applying them in our current contexts, which undergo several ruptures. In resistance,...

Orestes Hernández Ideas related to banality, mundane approaches to our perception, and a keen interest in the very act of showing things are essential to Orestes Hernández’s work. Objects, spaces, ideas and images are concepts that are absurd to each other, at the same time their...

Alina Aguila’s work exposes a withdrawal, manipulation and concern for the minute details of the object and its perception. Her work tends to distort the relationship of individual matter and space, altering the scales both physically and psychologically. The scene that is before the viewer...

Yanelis Mora Morales was born in Holguín (Cuba) in 1984. She studied music in Havana and graduated with a specialization in Choral Conducting and Dramatic Art. From 2003 to 2019 she worked as a theater, radio, and television actress and was awarded “Best Female Performance”...

Irene Infantes graduated from the University of the Arts in London with a degree in Surface Design and later received her degree in Textile Design from Central Saint Martins. Bridging the gap between art and design, her practice is mostly in the textile field. Focusing...

Belén Rodríguez holds a Master's Degree in Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she studied with Professor Heimo Zobernig. She also received a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her training has been enriched by different experiences...

Pepe López is a multimedia artist whose work addresses problems of contemporary life based on a trajectory of constant transformations. López explores the map of the social spectrum through the translation of aesthetic codes, while developing his perception and concepts in a prolific variety of...

Wagner studied at the Escuela de Arte Corriente Alterna, from which she graduated with the Gold and Silver Medal of her class. She holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the Complementary Baccalaureate Program of UNMSM. In 2005, she received the Pollock Krasner Scholarship...

André Azevedo develops a continuous investigation into textile and linguistic construction techniques, manipulating the ordinary matter of the world. His research with fabrics is part of his personal and familiar experience with this materiality. From this intimate connection, the artist began to understand textiles simultaneously...

Keisha Scarville weaves together themes dealing with transformation, place, latencies, and the elusive body. Her work has been widely exhibited, including the Studio Museum of Harlem, Huxley-Parlour Gallery in London, ICA Philadelphia, Contact Gallery in Toronto, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, The Caribbean Cultural Center...

Kosisochukwu Nnebe is a Nigerian-Canadian conceptual artist, curator and writer whose practice draws inspiration from postcolonial and Black feminist thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, bell hooks, and Sylvia Wynter. Working across installation, lens-based media and sculpture, Nnebe engages with topics that range from...

Maria A. Guzmán Capron (b. 1981, Lives and works in Oakland, CA) was born in Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Select solo...

Patrick Dean Hubbell (Dine’, b. 1986) received his BFA in 2010 from Arizona State University and his MFA in 2021 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is originally from Navajo, New Mexico, located near the Northeast region of the Arizona, New...

Karina Peisajovich studied at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano, Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also participated in the Guillermo Kuitca Studio Program in Fundación Proa, also in Buenos Aires and in ART/ OMI in New York. By 2001, she was a recipient...

Antonyo Marest, born and raised in Alicante, Spain, in 1987, is an international multidisciplinary artist who studied architecture and art in various European universities. His work, ranging in media from sculpture to design to painting, is deeply rooted in his personal environment. He grew up...

Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (Havana) in 2009 and from the Cátedra Arte de Conducta led by artist Tania Bruguera in 2008. He also studied Professional Photography at EFTI-International Center of Photography and Film in Madrid (2018-2019). His practice spans different languages—from photography...

A lawyer turned journalist, Kiro Urdin studied art and cinema in Paris in the seventies and has been painting since 1985. He is known for his energetic paintings which have been exhibited worldwide since 1986, in cities like Paris, Yokohama, Los Angeles, London, Stockholm and...

A graduate of the Instituto Superior de Arte, Sánchez works primarily in photography, video, drawing and sculpture. Her work focuses on architecture and its connection to memory. She has been exhibited at CC Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium in 2022; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, United...

Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in 2018, Perera works with diverse media such as sculpture, installation, photography, drawing. Influenced by literature, the artist has developed a poetics of objects and fragments, in which everyday artifacts —often interwoven or threaded together— refer to various...

Elizabeth Ransom is the Founder and Director of Women Alternative Photography Group (WAPG) and works for the Fast Forward: Women in Photography as Assistant Researcher. As an artist, Ransom takes from her own lived experiences of migration to explore homesickness and transnationality. She experiments...