Antonia Wright, I Scream, Therefore I Exist, 2011, HD video, 4 minutes and 2 seconds
Bio

Antonia Wright is a Cuban-American artist born in Miami, Florida. Through a multimedia practice of video, coding, performance, photography, sound, light, and sculpture, Wright explores systems of power. The body is a principal element in her work.

Wright received her MFA in Poetry from The New School in New York City in 2004; she earned a postgraduate degree in photography from the International Center of Photography (ICP) in 2008 and has recently earned a second MFA in Art Practice from the School of Visual Arts in 2024.

Her work has been shown at The Pérez Art Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Locust Projects, The Margulies Collection (Miami, FL), The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), The Frist Art Museum (Nashville, TN), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans, Louisiana), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Arizona), The Havana Biennial 2019, and Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. She has participated in artistic residencies at Pioneer Works (NY) and Leipzig International Art Program (Germany).

Wright’s work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, i-D, New York Magazine, Gotham, the Miami Herald, and El Nuevo Herald.

Wright is the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Award, the 2024 Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Award from Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, 2023 Corral & Cathers Artist Award, the No Vacancy 2022 Juror’s Choice Award, Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award, Locust Projects Wavemaker Grant, CINTAS Foundation finalist award to artists with Cuban heritage.

Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares were the winners of the No Vacancy Juror’s Choice Award for their public artwork installed on the beach outside the Faena Hotel during Art Basel/Miami Art Week 2022.

Wright gives voice to issues of bodily autonomy and social justice, and her art practice is linked to community involvement and activism. She has been on the board of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter for almost 10 years. In 2012, she founded its artist residency program. She also served on the boards of directors of Locust Projects and Planned Parenthood (Florida). 

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EDUCATION 

School of Visual Arts, MFA Art Practice, New York, NY, 2024

International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, NY, 2008.

The New School, MFA in Creative Writing, concentration in Poetry. New York, NY, 2005.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024    State of Labor, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), (current)

2024   What goes up must come down, Lowe Art Museum, Miami (current)

2024    And now you do what they told you, The Caboose Hudson, Upstate Art Weekend, Hudson, NY

2022    Patria y Vida, commissioned by No Vacancy, at the Faena Hotel, Miami Beach, FL 

2022    I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail, Spinello Projects, Miami 

2021    And so with ends comes beginnings, UNTITLED, Art Fair, special project, Miami Beach, FL

2021    Not Yet Paved, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida 

2021    Opposition Camp, Art Kiosk, San Francisco, CA 

2021    YES/NO, Illuminate Coral Gables, FL 

2020    MAP, DACRA special project curated by Claire Breukel, Design District, Miami, FL 

2020    It is Not Down On Any Map, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

2019   It is Not Down On Any Map; True Places Never Are, Monuments, UNTITLED, ART Fair, Miami Beach

2018    America Stands Behind Us, public artwork commission by Fringe Projects, Government Center, Miami

2018    Double Dutch #7: Hot Water, National Gallery of Art (NAGB), Nassau, Bahamas

2018    If I had to Perish Twice, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY

2017    CONTROL, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

2017    Under the Water Was Sand, Then Rocks, Miles of Rocks, Then Fire, Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2016    Under the Water Was Sand, Then Rocks, Miles of Rocks, Then Fire, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2015    Video: Poems, The Screening Room, Miami, FL

2014    Suddenly We Jumped, Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014    You Make Me Sick: I Love You, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL 

2014    Be, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, CA

2014    Copyright Infringement, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC

2012    Trading Places II, MOCA, N. Miami, FL

2012    Love on an Escalator, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL

2011    Where All of Your Dreams Come True, Mosquera Collection, Miami, FL

2011    Are You OK?, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL 

2010    A Great Disorder is An Order, 777 Gallery, Miami, FL

2009    At The Ventanita, Salon Adelphi VI, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Environmental Futures III, curated by Aldeide Delgado, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood Fl  

2024    You Are Here-, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL

2023    Making Miami, special project for Miami Art Week, Miami Design District (DACRA) 

2023    Biscayne, curated by Kate Flemming, The Kampong, Coconut Grove 

2023    Sinking Feeling, curated by Heather Diack, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 

2023    Rinse and Repeat, The Girls’ Club Collection, Girls’ Club by the River, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 

2022    Animation Generation, film and videos from the NSU Art Museum Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 

2022    You Know Who You Are: Recent Acquisitions of Cuban Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, FL  

2022    GOOD TO KNOW.FYI presents BETA FISH at Beaches, Miami Beach, FL 

2022    Are You OK?, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna 

2022    And so with ends comes beginnings, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, CA 

2022    #fail, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA 

2022    On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN 

2021    Where there is power, curated by Rene Morales, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL

2021    Natural Transcendence, curated by Rhonda Mirtrani, Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL

2021    Artists + Identity: Portraiture, Performance, Doppelgangers and Disguise, Art & Culture Center, FL

2020    South Florida Cultural Consortium winners’ exhibition, NSU Art Museum Ft. Lauderdale, FL 

2020    Infinite Seed, curated by GOOD TO KNOW.FYI + Jess Hodin Levy, Bhumi Farms, NY

2020    Grounded, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

2019   Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from 1970s – now, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

2019    Faena Festival: The Last Supper, LED Billboard Boat, 34th and Miami Beach

2019    GOOD TO KNOW presents WE BUY GOLD, Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL

2019   The Havana Biennial 2019, Detrás del Muro, curated by Juan Delgado and Luis Enrique Padrón Pérez

2019    Cantos Comunes, Blockhouse, Havana, Cuba curated by Diaz Lewis

2019    Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art 

2019    I Scream, Therefore I Exist screened at 10 Times Square Billboard (10TS) NY, NY

2018    Free Art Fair curated by Anthony Spinello, Brickell City Center, Miami, FL

2018    Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2018    On Archipelagos and Other Imaginaries–, Creative Time Summit, Miami

2018   La NO Comunidad, CentroCentro, Curated by Blanca de la Torre and Ricardo Ramón Jarne,  Madrid, Spain

2018    10,000 Fahrenheit, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (SFAC Galleries), SF, CA

2018   Women Who Stand on the Sun, Lotus Village, permanent installation at the homeless shelter facility, Miami, FL 

2017    Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Pacific Standard Time, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA

2017    Count/Recount: Feminist Film and Video, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2017   On The Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Art Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami, PAMM), Miami, FL, organized by Tobias Ostrander

2017    Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Contemporary  Art, AZ

2017    The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT

2016    Energy Charge: Connecting to Ana Mendieta, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2016    La suspensión del deseo, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba

2016    Youniverse, Apexart, New York, NY

2016    Working Worlds, LIA, Leipzig, Germany, Curated by Anna-Louise Rolland

2015    Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, FL

2015    Ping Pong, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland

2015    Auto Body, Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2015    Projector Unicorn, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2014    Auto Body, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL

2014    The Remarkable Lightness of Being, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

2014    Ping Pong, Projektraum M54, Basel, Switzerland

2014    Between You and Me, Vanity Projects, New York, NY, curated by Grela Orihuela

2014    Plastic(o) Fantastic(o), Central Bank of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas

2013    Suddenly We Jumped, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL.

2013    Deep Water Horizon, Site95, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.

2012    Inside the Moment, Crane Art Space, Philadelphia, PA

2012    Perfect Lovers, White Box Gallery, New York, NY

2012    New Exhibition, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL

2011    MOCA Optic Nerve XIII Finalists, The De la Cruz Collection and MOCA, N. Miami, FL

2011    The Martin Hadley Fisher Collection: Syntax, Tampa Museum of Art, FL 

2011    Obstacle, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY, curated by William and Steven Ladd

2010    Littlest Sister Art Fair, Spinello Projects, Miami FL

2010    Base Paint, shelters painted by international artists for children in Haiti, Cite Soleil, Haiti, L’Athletique d’Haiti

2010    Heart Happening, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL

2009    Hope Blossoms, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL

2009    The Nature of Things, The Cisneros Foundation, Miami, FL

2008    The Art Under the Bridge Festival, D.U.M.B.O. Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

2008    You Make Me Sick, Envoy Gallery, New York, NY

2008    Slideluck Potshow XII, McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY

2008    Reflect, International Center of Photography Gallery, New York, NY

AWARDS

2024    CINTAS Foundation Fellowship finalist awarded to artists of Cuban heritage 

2024    Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Award, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs 

2024    School of Visual Arts (SVA) Alumni Scholarship Award

2023    Corral & Cathers Artist Award Grantee, Coral Gables Community Foundation

2023    Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Award, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

2022   Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, winners of the No Vacancy Juror’s Choice Award for their public artwork installed on the beach outside the Faena Hotel during Art Basel/Miami Art Week 2022

2022    Winner, The Ellies Creator Award, Oolite Arts 

2022    Miami Individual Artist (MIA) Award, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs

2021    CINTAS Foundation Fellowship finalist awarded to artists of Cuban heritage

2020    Winner, The Ellies Creator Award, Oolite Arts

2020    Winner, 2020 South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant

2019    CINTAS Foundation Fellowship finalist awarded to artists of Cuban heritage

2019    Oolite Arts Direct Support For Artists Grant

2013-2018  Art Basel Miami Beach Artist Studio visits, Miami FL

2018    Wavemaker Grant Recipient Award

2017    Best Artist of 2017, The Miami New Times

2017    Winner, Village Voice Media, MasterMind Genius Grant

2016    Ernst & Young Artist Award, Grant, Leipzig, Germany

2015    Dialogues in Cuban Art, Grant, Havana, Cuba, Miami, FL

2015    Finalist, Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, FL

2012    MOCA Optic Nerve XIII Finalist, MOCA, N. Miami, FL

COMMISSIONS

2024    What goes up must come down, Lowe Art Museum, Miami (current)

2024    Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places commission of 9 unique artworks.

2022    Patria y Vida, commissioned by No Vacancy, at the Faena Hotel, Miami Beach, FL 

2021    MAP, #fail, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA 

2021    Opposition Camp, Art Kiosk, San Francisco, CA 

2021    YES/NO, Illuminate Coral Gables, FL 

2020    MAP, DACRA site-specific project curated by Claire Breukel, Design District, Miami, FL 

2018    America Stands Behind Us, public artwork commission by Fringe Projects, Government Center, Miami

2016    Locust Projects Open Call for Artist’s Exhibition Proposals

2014    Vizcaya Museum and Gardens Contemporary Art Commission

RESIDENCIES

2022     The Pittsburgh Glass Center 

2018-2013    Plastic(o) Fantastic(o), New Providence, Bahamas, International artist collective and residency in which Wright is a founding member.

2016    Leipzig International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany

2015    Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2014    Performing Arts Forum (PAF), St. Erme, France

2012    Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC

2010    ArtCenter South Florida, Residency, Miami Beach, FL

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