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.
Sebastián Vidal Mackinson (Argentina, 1977) is a curator, researcher, and educator working in contemporary art. During his residency at El Espacio 23, he will focus on works from the collection by artists born during the 1970s who live abroad or have spent several years outside...
Nicolás Robbio (Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1975) lives and works between Buenos Aires and São Paulo. His multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation, artist books, and editions, exploring the structures of everyday objects and examining how systems of representation shape our perception of the world. “Using...
Verovcha (b. 1994, Lima, Peru) is an artist working across painting, textile, embroidery, and ritual-based actions. Her practice explores the body as a fertile threshold, investigating permeability, material memory, and the relational dimensions of embodiment. Drawing from tantric geometry, textile knowledge, and processes of collective...
Cachito Vallés (Seville, Spain, 1986) is a visual artist whose artistic research focuses on the concepts of space and time, approaching them from different perspectives grounded in two fundamental principles: the scientific and the philosophical. His work is developed through experience, allowing him to expand...
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...
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 1970 in Treinta y Tres, Uruguay, Vázquez is a self-taught artist, having studied the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Engraving, Ceramics, Tapestry and History of Art. Her education indicates various interests that blossom and are evident in her current work, in an integrated...
Madeline Jiménez (Santo Domingo, 1986) lives and works between Mexico City and Santo Domingo. Through her practice, she imagines the transformations that both objects and the conventions of art should undergo when they are traversed by a body with another history. By recoding representation and...
Roberto Huarcaya (Lima, 1959) is a Peruvian photographer and visual artist. Founder and former director of the Centro de la Imagen in Lima, his career spans teaching and artistic practice. He studied Psychology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, as well as film and...
Laura Castro is an artist, researcher, and independent curator who lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Through her practice, she examines notions of identity and the relationship with the past produced by historical discourses from the Caribbean territory. Her work is rooted in...
Sofía del Mar Collins (b. 1995, San Juan, Puerto Rico) considers painting an alchemical process of flood and surrender from which worldmaking unfolds. Blurring differences between craft and fine art mediums, textile processes, such as sewing, embroidery, dyeing with natural pigments, and weaving make their...
Manuel Brandazza (b. 1975, Rosario, Argentina) graduated in textile and clothing design from the University of Buenos Aires, and was part of the Rojas-UBA/Kuitca Visual Arts Programme 2003-2005. After numerous fashion shows and performative experiences linked to design, in June 2021 he exhibits "Muchacho del Paraná"...
Violeta Maya (b. 1993, Madrid, Spain) lives and works in Madrid, and received her BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2015. Recent solo exhibitions include, “La Santísima Brocha del Divino Descontrol” (2025) at Palau de Casavells, Girona, “Me atrevería a...
Renata Cruz lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. In her work she seeks to create open and non-linear narratives, where diverse visions, voices and other manifestations of life are present. She appropriates clippings from literary texts, listens to personal stories and organizes them with collected...
Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. Starting with her hometown, São Paulo, she’s worked to understand how contemporary constructed landscapes (mis)represent the diverse layers of presence that constitute a place and how that affects those who inhabit them. In...
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...