By Carolina Del Busto, May 28, 2025.
Tucked underneath the overpass and adjacent to the Miami River is artist Antonia Wright’s studio. She shares the space with longtime collaborator Ruben Millares; its exposed concrete floors and tall ceilings housing treasures upon treasures of art, both past and future.
The multidisciplinary Miami artist works with everything from photography to sculptures to print to performance, and now, technology. “In the last few years, my practice has gotten very involved in art and tech, and I’ve just been learning how to keep doing it,” she tells New Times.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and United States Artists have taken notice of those efforts. The organizations recently announced Wright as a recipient of the Knight Arts + Tech fellowship, which awards $50,000 to five artists who experiment and create with technology and new media. Wright is the only Miami-based artist on this year’s list of recipients.
Although she won a grant for her work with technology, the Cuban-American’s first love is poetry. She holds a master’s degree in the field and makes sure to write something — anything — every day. Much of her art process also involves pen and paper. When she has an idea for a piece, she works through the puzzle in her mind by writing through it.