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.
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...
Moris has a BA in Plastic Arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" (INBA, Mexico City). His work has been exhibited in outstanding institutions such as the Museum Tamayo of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, the Museum of...
Andrea Chung (b. 1978, Newark, NJ) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her work has been included in biennale and museum exhibitions including...
Panmela Castro is a visual artist whose artistic practice is driven by relationships of affection and otherness. Based on the idea of “affective drift”, she proposes chance as the subject of an incessant search for a sense of belonging. Based on the thought of performance,...
Claudia Claremi is an artist and filmmaker. Her work combines video, analogue film, photography, installation, sound, and text. She graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and the University of the Arts London (UK). Claremi has been an artist-in-residence...
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...