Miami Artists
Motivated by the opportunity to explore what Cuba means for us on our own terms
B. 1963, HAVANA As a multi-disciplinary artist Juana Valdes’ work traces, recollects, and records her own personal experience of migration. Her artwork is informed by her Afro-Cuban ethnicity and the experience of growing up in America. Throughout her career, Valdes has participated in a range of exhibitions and residencies most currently at the European Keramic Work Center…
B. 1975, MIAMI Born + raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants, Norberto Rodriguez (b. 1975 Miami, FL) began his career at 18 as a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist known for his disruptive + innovative practice. He works in all media + genre including installation, performance, photography, sculpture, digital, music, film, text + tenderness. In 1995 he performed Lookin’ For…
B. 1980, MIAMI Antonia Wright is a multidisciplinary artist based in Miami, FL. Wright creates aestheticized extreme gestures using her own body as an artistic tool. Her works negotiate the boundary between performance, video art, photography, and poetry, questioning social norms through physical actions combining danger with beauty, aggression with vulnerability. Her ultimate goal is to…
Nahela Hechavarría Pouymiró (Santiago de Cuba, 1980) is Curator of Visual Art at Casa de las Americas, where she is also the Chief Editor of the online magazine, Arteamérica, (www.arteamerica.cu). She holds Masters Degrees in Art History from the University of Havana and in Museum Studies from Valladolid University in Spain, and specializes in Latin American and Cuban art…
Ibis Hernández Abascal is a Havana based curator, researcher, and art critic who earned her M.A. degree in Art History from the University of Havana, Cuba. She is one of the founding members of the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam, created in 1985, and has been a member of its research team, as well…
Ana Clara Silva graduated from Tulane University in 2007 and moved back to Miami to begin her career just as the redevelopment of neighborhoods like Wynwood and the Design District were beginning to shape the city as we experience it today. While pursuing a master’s degree in Arts Administration & Policy (SAIC / MA, 2011), she focused on what kind…
Iryna Kanishcheva, MBA is the founder and curator of several groundbreaking urban art projects. Among them the first urban art initiative in North Central Florida, 352walls; one of the biggest mural projects in the world, Art United Us, well-known for its row of significant artworks from 6 to 26-stories tall and focus on the problem…
Carlos Ochoa is a photographer, journalist and musician. Born in Peru, Ochoa graduated from San Marcos University in Lima with a degree in audio visual and social communications. He is also trained in classic and Andean guitar and other instruments native to Peru. Since 1991 he has been living in Miami where he has performed with…
Dr. Lillian Manzor is Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive at the University of Miami, and curator of Cuban Culture on the Edge. Selected publications include: Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en Estados Unidos (La Habana, 2005 – the first anthology on US Cuban theater…