Pérez Art Museum Miami / PAMM

June 13, 2024 – March 30, 2025

Xican-a.o.x. Body

Xican-a.o.x. Body is the first exhibition to focus on the conceptual, experimental, and performative practices of Xicanx art and brings together over 150 multimedia works by over 70 artists and collectives. A term originally used to describe Mexican-American heritage, Xicanx has come to transcend borders and genders to speak to an embrace of indigenous roots and a rejection of colonial culture at large. The exhibition at PAMM is proud to include the work of artists who identify in myriad ways—including Mexican American, Chicana/o, Xicanx, Indigenous, Latinx, Black, and Brown—and contextualizes and celebrates an intergenerational community of artists whose lived experiences go as far back as the Civil Rights Movement within the present-day political, social, and cultural environment.

This exhibition at PAMM—the premier venue for presenting work by Latin American and American Latino artists—is particularly relevant within the context of Miami, a city where 72% of the population identifies as Latino. Even more so, the exhibition directly confronts the county’s rising conservative politics by representing and celebrating artists of which 60% identify as queer.

This exhibition is also the first curated by the museum’s Chief Curator Gilbert Vicario at PAMM. Xican-a.o.x Body is an exciting curatorial debut for Gilbert, who is known for his extensive expertise on Latin American art and his dedication to representing Latin American artists and art history.

August 8, 2024 – March 16, 2025

Every Sound Is a Shape of Time: Selections from PAMM’s Collection

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents “Every Sound Is a Shape of Time,” an exhibition exploring humanism and beauty through a diverse selection of works from its collection. Drawing inspiration from Cuban artist Glenda León, the exhibition reflects on our shared humanity in an era of rapid change. Featuring over 20 pieces by 17 artists, including abstract paintings and conceptual works, the show highlights PAMM’s 30-year commitment to modern and contemporary art, particularly from the post-World War II period, inviting viewers to contemplate our collective future.

June 27, 2024 – February 2, 2025

Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides

Calida Rawles reimagines water as a space for Black healing, merging hyperrealism and poetic abstraction to create portraits of Black bodies in luminous, enigmatic waters. In her first solo museum exhibition, “Away With The Tides” (2024), she explores Miami’s overlooked history by focusing on Overtown, a once-thriving Black community dismantled by gentrification and racism. The exhibition features Overtown residents, photographed in natural waters at the historic Virginia Key Beach, probing the Atlantic’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade. Rawles’s work engages with themes of beauty, oppression, and resilience in Miami’s water-centric landscape.

May 18, 2023 – January 12, 2025

Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition

Seife, a Miami native of Cuban and Syrian descent, draws on his Middle Eastern heritage in his art practice, incorporating elements of Persian carpets and traditional Islamic art. He digitally designs intricate patterns, reflecting the connection between specific motifs and cultural locations, which he then meticulously hand-paints onto concrete slabs or canvases. In his site-specific exhibition “Coming to Fruition,” Seife blurs the line between artistic process and finished product, showcasing triptychs that reveal his work’s progression from initial stages to completion. These works, enriched with symbols from his Cuban and Syrian backgrounds, are framed by labyrinthine wooden structures that evoke mosque ornamentation and recall the deteriorating yet beautiful architecture common to both Cuba and Syria. The exhibition creates a secular sanctuary, inviting reflection on themes of human desecration, community-building, and complex identities.

February 22, 2024 – September 22, 2024

Tania Candiani: Pulso

Tania Candiani, a Mexico City–based artist, is known for her multimedia, research-based installations that blend literature, history, science, and nature to create compelling narratives. Her video installation Pulso (Pulse) conceptually intertwines the underground rivers of the Mexico City basin with the subway transit lines, creating a metaphoric and acoustic flow through a performance by 200 women on October 23, 2016. These women, traveling along the subway lines and playing the pre-Hispanic teponaztli drum, harness the instrument’s ancestral power to explore contemporary expressions of feminine power, spirituality, and collective action.

March 21, 2024 – September 8, 2024

Spirit in the Land

“Spirit in the Land” is a contemporary art exhibition exploring urgent ecological concerns through a cultural lens, revealing the deep connection between our identities and natural environments. Featuring works by thirty artists, the exhibition highlights how our relationship with land and water shapes both individuals and communities, emphasizing the essential role of biodiversity and cultural diversity in our survival. The artists celebrate the beauty of the natural world while mourning its loss, centering the voices of marginalized communities most affected by climate change. The exhibition portrays nature as a repository of cultural memory, a site of resistance, and a source of spiritual healing, illustrating our interdependence with all life on Earth and the potential for regeneration.

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