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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